Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play well after eight years of Reagan and the recent campaign of George "Read My Lips" Bush and his spate of media advisers. (This plain campaign style could help Rudy Giuliani, the well-known former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, become the city's next mayor...
...show has brought Rizzo national recognition. The former mayor earned a blurb in Time magazine. And earlier this week Rizzo found his way onto the front page of the Boston Globes's Living/Arts section in a full-page feature article...
...starters, the ex-Mayor isn't one of the most eloquent guys around. One Temple University communications professor claims that Rizzo "murders the English language." Rizzo punctuates his show with lots of South Philly "Yos," and the 68-year-old has little problem using his loud voice to over-power callers and ram his points home. Often he sounds like he'd silence his critics with a night stick if he had the chance...
RIZZO has so little interesting to say that he spends most of his time taking cheap shots at Goode, his current political nemesis. He has called the mayor an "ingrate" and says he can't tell the "truth." Rizzo ends every single show with the threatening line, "And good night, Wilson, wherever...
...professional repsonsibility to give the public programs of quality and should make Rizzo find another way to reach what he calls the "rowhouse people, the little people." Rizzo's show amounts to little more than a bully pulpit from which this incessant politician can launch another bid for the mayor's office and embarrass Philadelphia more...