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DePetro Pulled Off Air For Slur

Neanderpaul said:
Where I come from (Southie) there's huge difference between calling someone a "------" and calling them a "******".
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Another example of words being kidnapped by the agenda-impaired!

A common term for a cigarette was, until recently, "f*a*g". It's even in a World War One popular song titled: "Pack Up Your Troubles".

"Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
and smile, smile, smile."
"While you've a lucifer* to light your f*a*g....."

*lucifer: Common term at the time for what we call a "match"

But I guess anybody who dragged out a 78 of that song and played it today would be accused of inciting folks to immolate people of "different" sexual orientation.

And then there was: "Blazing ******", originally meaning a flame-engulfed moderate sized piece of wood carried as a sort of torch.

Once upon time it was appropriate for a really tired person to say that he/she/whatever was really "fagged out". AND it really did mean not just a little tired, more like "about to collapse tired".

But I digress....

Now, who dares play "Deck The Halls" at Christmas time? I mean the vocal...the instrumental still passes PC muster: "Don we, now, our gay apparel....." You
can tweak TWO classes with THAT! The obvious one and also every person whose
parents had the lack of grace to name their offspring "Donald". I guess it's not so
bad now, but at one time it would have been equally poor form to name a child
"Bruce".

And worse, the prominent landmark on Martha's Vineyard Island once known as "Gay
Head" because of the bright multi-colored clay. Now condemned on TWO counts. Worse,
re-named to some unpronouncable Native American (none dare say "Indian) word in honor of somebody nobody outside his immediate family (tribe) has ever heard.

"Once we had a language, now it's gone..."

Gee, how about a contest to see how many politically unacceptable words are contained in that Great Depression era song, "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?"

For example, "Brother"! Is that an ethnic slur? Is it meant to minimize the suffering of women during that trying time?

Give it a whirl....you'll easily find the complete lyrics on the web. C'mon...I know there are pros at taking offense lurking on this board.


Oh, I DO know how to spell "f*a*g" but the automatic censor doesn't understand English, only letter combinations so the word becomes "------". Ya gotta love it!
 
>>"Brother"

Considered acceptable in unions (along with sister). You might see a posting at work, "Brother (Name) has
passed away. The funeral will be held at..."
 
Insert Stan Freberg's "Elderly Man River" here

"Old man river, that old man..." Bzzzzzt!
Stan: Okay Tweedly, politeness I dig, but what is wrong with "old man river"?
Tweedly: The word "old" has a connotation that some of the more elderly people find offensive. I suggest you make the substitution...
"...Body's all aching and wracked with pain." Well, we got by with that one.
"Tote that barge, lift that bail. You get a little..." [Stan slows down and stops here, since the rest of it is "drunk and land in jail".]
Stan: Okay, Tweedly, you can take your finger off the buzzer.
 
I didn't get to read the entire Globe article because last night when I saw all this (4 am or so), the Globe's
site was down. (All of boston.com must have been, as BostonDirtDogs also didn't show up)

>>Wolfe said he purposely chose the word ``racial" because ``people will lump everything in together."

oh ok.

The article mentions some of WRKO's hosts and the name of a certain Herald writer who does an afternoon show is absent. (Hmm.)
 
Speaking of Howie, here's a pic of Howie and his crew from several years ago

http://www.maine.rr.com/around_town/features/howiecarr/howiecarr.jpg

Listo Fisher, Doug "VB" Goudie, Giles Threadgold, unknown ("Trish"?), Howie, Nancy "Sandy" Shack

also found a page with info on Howie: his name is said to be Howard Louis Carr, Jr. I had heard him say before
that his middle name is Louis, though VB or others started saying "Lawrence", and the intro Dana Hersey
is currently using says "Howard Lawrence Cahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"...The page says his dad (now in his 90s I believe,
maybe even close to 100) is Howard Louis Carr, Sr, though I thought Howie was calling him "Del". Maybe Del
is his nickname.
oh well
 
Neanderpaul, exactly what I was thinking. It's summer, Depetro gets a couple of days off now that we have such beautiful weather. It's a vacation, nothing more. Suspension in name only.

Raccoon - you are correct, it is "glad I'm a man, and so's Lola" - wonderful double entendre. She's glad that he (Ray) is a man too. Too meaning - she's as glad as Ray is...or, she's a man as well. That's the misheard lyric - "Glad", "bed", "bet" - but the original is probably glad.
 
oops--may have said earlier that Howie's name wasn't mentioned in Globe article. Just re-read it (via an actual paper, not online) and he's mentioned in the middle. His name doesn't come up at the end where various host names are mentioned.

And Herald, please, a talk show host is NOT a DJ! I know it's a convenient two letter shorthand, but a talk
host does not play songs (I don't consider bumper music). Disk jockey does not equal talk host

ok on Lola lyric!

Don't want to get into conspiracy theories, but I wonder how many people will tune in Fri at 9 am, people who never heard DePetro before, just to check him out and see what a "shock jock" (Herald) like him will do?
Surely people will want to hear his apology.
 
With all the talk of WRKO's poor signal strength, I'm surprised that reception is so clear inside of the bath houses? ;D

Relax, it's just a joke.

Depetro was just making a comment. He won't be fired, nor should he be. He used common slang that is part of most people's everyday vocabulary. You know what you do when you take offense at something that someone says? You get over it.
 
Lucylu said:
It's sad that AMORELLO and his corruption had a hand in killing a woman...
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...and it's too bad that the revisionists are out in such force. The RECORD clearly indicates that Fat Matt, although probably guilty of mismanagement, had nothing whatsoever to do with this, although if there's a way to get him out, he'll be the fall guy anyhow. He became Turnpike Authority chairman relatively late in the Big Dig building process, and well AFTER the design process. If you want to blame someone, blame James "Weaver of Fantasies" Kerasiotes, the guy who repeatedly denied that the cost of the project was steadily climbing even as Congress was considering the bills to appropriate money for the cost overruns. Blame our two outstanding US Senators, who worked behind the scenes to get the project sped up...never mind doing the proper testing on the materials and construction, that might have held things up.

Even Mitt drank the Kool-Aid. Almost the first words out of his mouth on Tuesday of last week were "we have to get rid of Matt Amorello." I'm beginning to think that Massachusetts politicians, once they're elected to office, take a mandatory course in finger-pointing.
 
Whatever happen to 'The Buck Stops Here"? Fat/*** Matt needs to stand up and take his whupping. It happened on his watch. You want to duck blame, go watch Oprah.
 
Lucylu said:
Whatever happen to 'The Buck Stops Here"? Fat/------ Matt needs to stand up and take his whupping. It happened on his watch. You want to duck blame, go watch Oprah.
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And again, you miss the point. The events leading to this tragedy started years before he was even on the Turnpike Authority. Why should he take the fall for mistakes made when others were in charge? Did you take that course in finger-pointing too?

There's plenty of blame to go around, but Fat Matt is not the one to blame. One problem he does seem to have, however, is that he shows very little interest in getting to the bottom of this. It's just as much in his interest as it is in anyone else's interest to find out why this happened and who is really to blame.
 
The point is, he was in charge. It happened on his watch. He/you can blame those that came before him, but he took the job. HE WAS IN CHARGE. Can I make it more clear for you or do you want to blame the woman that got crushed because she was brown and may or may not have been in this country with the proper papers too? ::)
 
>>It happened on his watch.

Exactly. Even if the tunnel that collapsed was built well before he started as Chairman of the Pike, he takes
charge for everything--including what was built before. "The tunnels are safe." Well, if they're safe, why are they still closed while you remove all the other tiles? While you replace all the bolts? If they're safe, then traffic
should be going through there right now.

There should be inspections of every part of that project, INCLUDING what was built before. Amorello takes
charge of it. Did he get his job because he was qualified as a manager? Or because he was pals in the legislature
with Jane Maria Swift?

>>Almost the first words out of his mouth on Tuesday of last week were "we have to get rid of Matt Amorello."

He was trying to get rid of him before, and for just cause. What happened a couple weeks back, when a couple Board members' terms were expiring--a power grab where Matt extended terms and gave himself
even more power in this, his last year, was inexcusable. That, together with his moronic "The Tunnels
Are Safe" comment, shows he is unfit to command. (If that had gone through, he could have been able to
continue his dominance of the Turnpike board...HE could have control despite the appointment of Romney-
chosen members...etc.)
 
There was an updated/"Developing" story by Jessica Heslam on the Herald's site but I believe the link expired; you can see it however at Radio Equalizer below:

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/07/john-depetro-wrko-boston.html

excerpt:
“We discuss topics very passionately on this show, but we should never allow, and I should never allow, offensive language to enter into our discussion no matter how intense that it gets,” DePetro said.

At least one caller today tried to bring up the incident, telling DePetro he was the “second best” at WRKO-AM (680) and “what they did to you was disgusting.”
 
The Radio "Equalizer"! Ha - the equivalent of Baghdad Bob!

"O'Reilly Factor guest" - you really want THAT on your resume!

Baghdad Brian pats DePetro on the head - "job well done."

Now that's revulsion.
 
And I love how the so-called equalizer is a crappy on-air host and has been fired numerous times.

Those who can't do ... blog!
 
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