And Then There's This POV
> What the time line is
> in terms of when indictments were handed out and who got
> them is not clear to me (or my source) at this time.
>
DB. You are much too kind. DU was wheeling and dealing like he was playing a part on the Sopranos. It's all there, as far as we can see, on the AG's website.
Maybe he was right when he said he was just doing what needed to be done for the benefit of the station, what had always been done and what his bosses, Slick Greg and Smooth Larry knew he was doing from day one.
The point is, he was doing it.
Bad move.
Worse move? He started yapping about it. 'Dude ran his mouth in the local fish wrap and the national radio cheerleading rags and acted like he was above the law. This is just plain stoopid. Anybody who's been in a jam, whether it's with the local cops, the IRS, or the friggin' dog catcher KNOWs you get more flies with honey and you keep your trap shut. "No comment" isn't hard to memorize. Or, you could be a bit more erudite and say something like, "my lawyer advises me not to comment, thank you very much..."
But noooooooooooooo! (To quote Steve Martin)
Davey Boy goes nuts, runs his mouth, says he's being scape-goated and then, the ultimate brass balls move, takes on Eliot Spitzer in his latest screed in The Buffalo News.
Dave. We love ya'. But if you keep this up, you could become Bubba's Cigarette Boy in the slam.
Eliot Spitzer's a legal mongoose (background, a mongoose is an animal that is a fearless hunter of rats and poisonous snakes.) You programmed a friggin' radio station.
You're in radio Dave... there's a reason you're in radio... it's a lot more glamorous than being holed up in the law library at Harvard, Princeton, Cornell or Yale Law for three years, not having a life. And you don't have to pass a bar exam to prove you remembered half the crap you crammed into your head during those three years.
Dave v. Spitzer
Who would you put your money on DB?
But there's more.
Had Dave laid low, he might have come to understand that HE wasn't in Spitzer's sites. Oh, no. Exiled PD's are chump change, small game. Mr. Spitzer couldn't care less. Let the IRS and FCC feed on guys like DU. What Spitzer wants are the radio corporations. That's what gets headlines, that's where the juice is. You hang Clear Channel, Entercom, Cox, Infinity and Citadel out to dry and you go to the payout window with mega chips.
Too bad for Dave. He was too arrogant to understand that he was a bit player in this drama and would have nothing to worry about had he laid low. Now, he's become high profile and has a target on his back. He, to the gunslingers in the AG's office, has become 'that twerp in Buffalo who can't keep his mouth shut.'
Even if he is totally without blame, which we presume he is, he's made things more difficult for himself and his attorney, who by the way, probably gets paid a sweet hourly rate, on top of the retainer.
> What the time line is
> in terms of when indictments were handed out and who got
> them is not clear to me (or my source) at this time.
>
DB. You are much too kind. DU was wheeling and dealing like he was playing a part on the Sopranos. It's all there, as far as we can see, on the AG's website.
Maybe he was right when he said he was just doing what needed to be done for the benefit of the station, what had always been done and what his bosses, Slick Greg and Smooth Larry knew he was doing from day one.
The point is, he was doing it.
Bad move.
Worse move? He started yapping about it. 'Dude ran his mouth in the local fish wrap and the national radio cheerleading rags and acted like he was above the law. This is just plain stoopid. Anybody who's been in a jam, whether it's with the local cops, the IRS, or the friggin' dog catcher KNOWs you get more flies with honey and you keep your trap shut. "No comment" isn't hard to memorize. Or, you could be a bit more erudite and say something like, "my lawyer advises me not to comment, thank you very much..."
But noooooooooooooo! (To quote Steve Martin)
Davey Boy goes nuts, runs his mouth, says he's being scape-goated and then, the ultimate brass balls move, takes on Eliot Spitzer in his latest screed in The Buffalo News.
Dave. We love ya'. But if you keep this up, you could become Bubba's Cigarette Boy in the slam.
Eliot Spitzer's a legal mongoose (background, a mongoose is an animal that is a fearless hunter of rats and poisonous snakes.) You programmed a friggin' radio station.
You're in radio Dave... there's a reason you're in radio... it's a lot more glamorous than being holed up in the law library at Harvard, Princeton, Cornell or Yale Law for three years, not having a life. And you don't have to pass a bar exam to prove you remembered half the crap you crammed into your head during those three years.
Dave v. Spitzer
Who would you put your money on DB?
But there's more.
Had Dave laid low, he might have come to understand that HE wasn't in Spitzer's sites. Oh, no. Exiled PD's are chump change, small game. Mr. Spitzer couldn't care less. Let the IRS and FCC feed on guys like DU. What Spitzer wants are the radio corporations. That's what gets headlines, that's where the juice is. You hang Clear Channel, Entercom, Cox, Infinity and Citadel out to dry and you go to the payout window with mega chips.
Too bad for Dave. He was too arrogant to understand that he was a bit player in this drama and would have nothing to worry about had he laid low. Now, he's become high profile and has a target on his back. He, to the gunslingers in the AG's office, has become 'that twerp in Buffalo who can't keep his mouth shut.'
Even if he is totally without blame, which we presume he is, he's made things more difficult for himself and his attorney, who by the way, probably gets paid a sweet hourly rate, on top of the retainer.