Word: rizzo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
During the rare times he doesn't criticize Goode, Rizzo takes aim at some of the other liberals he so dislikes. He interviewed author Leo Damore about his book on Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Chappaquiddick and afterwards called the work "one of the best books I ever read." One can only imagine what other good literature Rizzo has taken in lately...
WCAU, usually a quality station, has stooped to the lowest levels by giving Rizzo access to the airwaves. While talk radio is quickly becoming a legitimate and potent political force, Rizzo's tough talk and thinly disguised bigotry adds nearly nothing to the city's political dialogue. The little it does add convincingly demonstrates why Rizzo lost the election to Goode, who was widely perceived as ineffective and incompetent...
...course, even though Rizzo is a demagogic liberal basher, he deserves his freedom of speech. And WCAU, as a business, can do whatever it wants to bring the station what recently hired station manager Gregory Tantum termed a needed "higher profile...
...WCAU should recognize its 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...