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...second story Singer read. "A Piece Of Advice," was a more serious and religious piece that featured a man trying to control his wild temper. The man learned from a Hasidic holy man to flatter even those people he really wanted to insult...
Through his column, Mr. Feinberg has insulted virtually all groups in Dallas. His portrayal of the city's leadership as "patronizing rich white men" insults men and women who have worked virtually all their lives to make Dallas a better city. The leaders of Dallas have done infinitely more for their city than Mr. Feinberg will ever do for anyone, save maybe himself. His portrayal of the Dallas police force as a group of trigger-happy rednecks is an insult to the hundreds of fine men and women of all races who have served their city with pride and honor...
These past few days of campaign charge and countercharge have been an insult to almost any U.S. citizen's intelligence. Reagan saw Democrats as "a pack of pessimists" dragging us into the valley of fear. Mondale warned that the average American will "get poorer" under Reagan. Both contentions are provably false...
...utmost respect for each other, because when a firefight is going on and everybody is facing north, you don't want to see nobody looking around south." Away from the fighting, relations got stickier. The sight of Confederate flags brandished by some white servicemen still rankles: "An insult to any person that's of color on this planet." But the enforced isolation in a strange and dangerous country seems to have made both sides from the U.S. try harder: "See, when the rednecks got together and started to stomp and holler, you either had to go over there...
...insult-artist school of broadcasting traces its roots to Joe Pyne, an ex-Marine who liked to tell his guest victims to "go gargle with razor blades." He perfected his brand of radio ridicule in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, then carried it to syndicated television later in the decade, when hippies and antiwar protesters offered him a steady flow of irresistible targets. A generation of Pyne clones were soon imitating his snarl at other stations around the country, and for a time the style flourished. But Pyne died in 1970, and the popularity of his percussive style declined...