Phillip Dampier said:
evnlee said:
there's scores of material on both sides, TJ. You don't think Savage got angry death letters for saying a gay man should just 'go die of aids', or Rush didn't get a bucketload after this MJFox impersonation? Please. Go do your own homework, son.
Telling someone else to do homework when you make an allegation and then don't bother to back it up yourself is richly ironic. If these hosts got death threats, show us the letters. We can read the one to Stephanie. So far, all we have from you is guesswork. Show us the evidence.
Now, Phillip, you know that anyone who stakes a position on the air in a major market that is controversial get's death threats. They are well documented!
Hell, Stern, Imus, and even Paul ( yes I said that ) Harvey got death threats ( Paul's came after a controversial monologue where he claimed "Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving small pox infected blankets to native Americans.Yes, that was biological warfare! And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous.)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/audio/050705harvey.mp3
You guys ALWAYS ask for proof of the obvious ( media bias anyone? ) Then, when it's provided, you discount it. Time and again!
Ok, how about this: when the DaVinci Code broke, Neal Boortz went on the air, and said he enjoyed the book, and couldn't understand what the Catholics were so up in arms about. The DaVinci Code, for chrissakes! The
FBI was called in to investigate death threats he received, and the local media was well aware of it.
""I've said this many times before ... so why not go ahead and say it again. In my 37 years of experience in doing talk radio shows there is nothing --- not one thing --- that I have seen or experienced that can compare to the viciousness of letters and emails that come from people who hold themselves up to be Christians when they think I've done something to question their religious beliefs.
Death threats, nasty comments about my family, threats of hellfire and damnation --- it's all there in those emails I've received from these devout, and apparently very frightened, people.""
Neal Boortz:
http://boortz.com/nuze/200605/05162006.html
Now, go ahead, and ignore the obvious. Anyone that stakes out a controversial opinion on the air can expect death threats. 8)
I figured someone would reply as you did. And predictably you have left out the obvious. This stuff happens all across the spectrum as pointed out by evnlee. The insinuation by you and the original poster that this kind of behavior is somehow characteristic of mainly conservative Fox viewers is just plain silly.