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Your talk here at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs last Wednesday, just before the Monica Lewinsky two-hour special interview, was very inspiring to me. So I thought I would go ahead and share with you some of my thoughts on Greaseman, a different kind of talk-show host from the big fat one you wrote about...
...probably know, Greaseman, a Washington-based talk-show host, recently made a real strategic blunder. On his national radio show two weeks ago, which is pretty distasteful ("greasy") to begin with, he said this of black people after playing a clip from Lauryn Hill's 5-grammy winning album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: "No wonder people drag them behind trucks...
Just seven words and-poof!-an incalculable amount of damage done. WARW, Greaseman's employer, quickly suspended Greaseman after he made this remark and has subsequently fired him. But there have been rumblings, as Greaseman makes his groveling rounds in such reputable are-nas as Nightline, that the radio man will soon be back...
...Greaseman says (at least he told Ted Koppel so) that he doesn't know from where in the depths of his soul this awful comment came; he says he doesn't know if deep down there is a kernel of racism in him that he needs to find and deal with. At Mr. Koppel's prodding, Greaseman even said he would seek counseling (a suggestion he said basketball coach John Thompson made...
...GREASEMAN Builds d.j. career on scatology, kills it with racist remark. Makes Marv Albert look like a swell...