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Question About Florida Squawk Hosts

J

jimwalsh2001

Here's a story I came across today:

Florida pain patient Richard Paey, who is serving a 25-year sentence for drug trafficking even though he never trafficked in drugs, seems to have been punished for seeking media attention. After he gave an interview to New York Times columnist John Tierney, he was transferred to a prison farther from his family and threatened with loss of the pain treatment he is receiving through a morphine pump. Paey's supporters are hoping publicity will pressure Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to pardon him.


I'm just curious: what are the squawk hosts in Florida doing with this story? (If I were a Florida host, I'd be all over it.)

It's a powerful story with the potential for some compelling and stimulating conversation. My guess is that no host will touch it...
 
> Here's a story I came across today:
>
> Florida pain patient Richard Paey, who is serving a 25-year
> sentence for drug trafficking even though he never
> trafficked in drugs, seems to have been punished for seeking
> media attention. After he gave an interview to New York
> Times columnist John Tierney, he was transferred to a prison
> farther from his family and threatened with loss of the pain
> treatment he is receiving through a morphine pump. Paey's
> supporters are hoping publicity will pressure Florida Gov.
> Jeb Bush to pardon him.
>
>
> I'm just curious: what are the squawk hosts in Florida doing
> with this story? (If I were a Florida host, I'd be all over
> it.)
>
> It's a powerful story with the potential for some compelling
> and stimulating conversation. My guess is that no host will
> touch it...
>

Now that Randi Rhodes is national, there are no liberal talk show hosts on the local level in Florida, with the exception of one who buys his time on a small Bradenton station.

The conservative talk show hosts with local shows in Florida rarely touch local politics. When they do they are squarely in the pocket of Jeb and the Republican Legislature.

Your guess is right, they won't get near this story, unless they can use it
to bash the subject and "soft on crime" liberals...
 
Yeah...they'll keep on banging away at Libby, Sheehan, DeLay, etc. because god knows we can't get enough of those stories. (sigh)

> Your guess is right, they won't get near this story, unless
> they can use it
> to bash the subject and "soft on crime" liberals...
>
 
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