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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwin Cities radio host gets called out for his "go to hell" comment
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/203852021.html?refer=yThe other day we read that Twin Cities radio host Bob Davis went live on the air, said he would like to tell the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims to go to hell for infringing on his gun rights.
Turns out that a resident of Sandy Hook has contacted Davis. He offered to pay Davis's travel expenses to come out to Connecticut and do just that.
"My question is whether he has the courage to crawl out from behind the safety of his studio and microphone and repeat his words in front of victims of gun violence. Would he have the courage to look people in the eye, tell them to deal with their tragedy, tell them that his liberty is more important than their loss, and tell them to go to hell?"
Guess what? No response.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Big tough guys behind a microphone, but call them on it and you are threatening them.
radiclib
(1,811 posts)Still waiting...
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BainsBane
(53,066 posts)as are the trolls who carry their water online.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)children off to war. I am willing to bet he never saw a battle zone except in his mind. He is an idiot. He should be called out on it. Chicken shit republicans. Good at saying do as I say, not as I do.
watoos
(7,142 posts)The Wizard
(12,547 posts)Bully Taw
(194 posts)a complete idiot. I do not understand the gun nut mentality.
I do not own a gun, I will never own a gun, and I do not wish to stop others from owning a gun (responsibly and with regulations, background checks and restrictions on certain kinds of weaponry). but, gun nuts always need to take things to the next level. They always need to make sure that they do not offer a compromise.
I am sure that this idiot would never stand in front of those poor people and tell them all that they can go to hell. gun nuts are not as brave without their guns.
Harriety
(298 posts)It being a fact that this radio host said this I think it should have be front and center. Another thing on that opinion page was a cartoon that I am appalled at. It compares gun deaths to abortion. The Minneapolis Tribune just won some awards for it's journalism but now I see things like this and I wonder if the Kochs have already bought the paper.
spanone
(135,875 posts)titanicdave
(429 posts)behind a microphone, but try to get the scumbag to come out to say it is person, he is a total microphony.......what a jerk
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Tom Emmer, the homophobic GOP candidate from the last gubernatorial election.
The one who proposed dumping minimum wage laws - because - waiters and waitresses are earning $100,000 a year!
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)The owner was inundated by calls, asking to hire on for those $100K waiter/waitress gigs!
Wonderful!
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)On air: Weekdays, 6:00-9:00am
Call: 651-989-5855
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Email Bob: bob@twincitiesnewstalk.com
Read more: http://www.twincitiesnewstalk.com/pages/davisandemmer.html#ixzz2RCe8IpME
jwirr
(39,215 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)this dick works for a Clear Channel station. they're already hemorrhaging cash and sponsors, so maybe we should give this fool the Flush Rush treatment.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)I am all for this. I would not buy any product or service that advertises on his show. The only way to shut these right wing crazies up is to hit them in the pocket book, all of them with Limbaugh at the top of the list.
mac56
(17,574 posts)He's lost one sponsor already.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/tv/204097941.html
Clear Channel can ill afford to lose many more.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)or was that just a trial balloon?
just1voice
(1,362 posts)Who's fault is that: the low-life propagandists who will say anything at anytime or the people who give him lots of attention?
mac56
(17,574 posts)just1voice
(1,362 posts)Your point?
mac56
(17,574 posts)Melinda
(5,465 posts)Blaming them because they responded to his hate filled rant? So by responding to the propagandist (radio dude), the Sandy Hook victims are at FAULT for his actions? Is that it? If not, what IS your point?
Is there no such thing as personal responsibility in your world?
Skittles
(153,193 posts)Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)And please don't come back.
sylvi
(813 posts)That's about as likely to happen as a grab nut going up to someone who defended themselves or their family with a gun and telling them their firearm is nothing but a penis extender.
Games of emotional one-upmanship prove nothing to either side.
DirtyDawg
(802 posts)...infringement on his 'liberty' to have guns. Nobody's talking about taking their damned guns away - other than them of course.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)sponsors don't like controversy. If they can ignore it, they will. If they can't, they can't.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)mac56
(17,574 posts)TRoN33
(769 posts)This guy can't face the reality! Due to too many rambles from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and now this Bob Davis, there are plenty of the reasons that far-right radio hosts need to be micromanaged and marionette by common sense right-wing person!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Can you imagine if Sandy Hook went to the coward.
Must see TV!
I wonder if he has a concealed permit?
mountain grammy
(26,650 posts)50 or so people who listened to them caring about what they said. Then, I would say, ignore them, don't give them a bigger platform. Now, however, they've become much too mainstream to ignore. One of them ran for vice president of the US, for God's sake. Several are serving in Congress and on the Supreme Court! Call them out, every chance we get! Show them for the cowardly idiots they are. They've gotten away with this shit for too long.
Today the idiot talking head says it, tomorrow Scalia says it.
Permanut
(5,637 posts)for the OP and for your response.