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I was listening to morning AM DJ Al Kulas, a conservative commentator who runs the Saturday and Sunday early morn shows on WKBK talk radio in Keene.
On the eve of the Sunday vote for healthcare, the phone line was heating up from conservative callers... Anger and frustration... Within bounds.
But one regular called in. "I have a gun" he warned... And then words to the effect "shoot the bastard." As we were taking about Obama and healthcare, the context pointed to a threat at the O-man.
I called in to Al Kulas, calling on him the step on such calls. It was what we in the radio see as "a call to action," a big no-no.
Yes, the seven second delay or "kill" switch is useful against F-bombs and George Carlin's other six bad words, but contextual stuff does get through the best of us... So a disavowal is necessary...
Al and his engineer said they heard the gun part but not the second... Other callers backed my version of events... Including a gun guy who said this kind of talk discredits gun-ownership...The mayor praised my calling them out on this...
Today, the General Manager told me, on air, that the angry caller was not targeting Obama but a previous caller, a local Gay liberal, who was happy about the upcoming healthcare vote.
So I guess that makes all the difference... But makes me feel actually, for some reason, worse...
---TaxManSteve
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