Twin Cities radio host gets called out for his "go to hell" comment

[mac56]

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/203852021.html?refer=y

The 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]

1. Excellent challenge. k&r n/t

-Laelth

[LeftofObama]

2. Just like Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.

Big tough guys behind a microphone, but call them on it and you are threatening them.

[radiclib]

39. Hannity offered to be waterboarded

Still waiting...

[BainsBane]

4. true

as are the trolls who carry their water online.

[southernyankeebelle]

5. These are the same kind of chicken shit republicans who are willing to send someoneelses

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]

6. Neocon Chicken Hawks

[The Wizard]

7. No balls/short pecker (NT)

[freshwest]

8. k&r

[Bully Taw]

9. truly...

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.

[SunSeeker]

10. K&R

[Harriety]

11. I just read this in the left hand corner of the opinion page...

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]

12. what a compassionate motherfucking asshole

[titanicdave]

13. Sure, It is Safe

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]

14. This jackhole'$ co-host is...

Tom Emmer, the homophobic GOP candidate from the last gubernatorial election.

[mac56]

15. Yup

The one who proposed dumping minimum wage laws - because - waiters and waitresses are earning $100,000 a year!

[geardaddy]

17. yup, I remember that!

[mac56]

18. IIRC he referred to the St. Clair Broiler in St. Paul.

The owner was inundated by calls, asking to hire on for those $100K waiter/waitress gigs!

[geardaddy]

47. haha!

Wonderful!

[riverwalker]

16. contact info

http://www.twincitiesnewstalk.com/pages/davisandemmer.html

On air: Weekdays, 6:00-9:00am
Call: 651-989-5855
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Email Bob: [e-mail]

Read more: http://www.twincitiesnewstalk.com/pages/davisandemmer.html#ixzz2RCe8IpME

[jwirr]

19. Good for them. He needed to be challenged.

[frylock]

20. we need a list of sponsors..

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]

21. Yes, who are the sponsors

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]

31. According to today's Star Trib

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]

22. Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. Mencken

[MisterP]

23. what, he hasn't compared himself to the Europeans who risked everything to hide Jews from the SS?

or was that just a trial balloon?

[just1voice]

24. Propagandists try to get emotional responses from people, looks like it worked

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]

25. Your point?

[just1voice]

28. Your point?

Your point?

[mac56]

29. Is there an echo in here?

[Melinda]

38. You're trying to blame the Sandy Hook victims responses?

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]

26. gun nuts are cowards

[Blue Owl]

27. Run and hide in shame, you weasely little runt.

And please don't come back.

[sylvi]

30. That's about as likely

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.

[47of74]

45. Grab nut?

[DirtyDawg]

32. His 'perceived'...

...infringement on his 'liberty' to have guns. Nobody's talking about taking their damned guns away - other than them of course.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. Have his sponsors left?

[mac56]

34. One so far.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. They should do this BEFORE the public asks them to.

[mac56]

41. Maybe, but

sponsors don't like controversy. If they can ignore it, they will. If they can't, they can't.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

44. Why do I get the feeling Right Wing Hate Radio is on the way out?

[mac56]

46. From your keyboard to God's ear.

[TRoN33]

36. The far-right style of coward!

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]

37. If the coward won't go to Mass.

Can you imagine if Sandy Hook went to the coward.

Must see TV!

I wonder if he has a concealed permit?

[mountain grammy]

40. was a time when these hate mongers were marginalized with only the

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]

42. Bngo, mountain grammy, K & R..

for the OP and for your response.

[B Stieg]

43. Don't hold your breath waiting...