Bob Grant, a Combative Personality on New York Talk Radio, Dies at 84
Source: NY Times
Bob Grant, the right-wing talk radio host whose testy, confrontational manner made him a dominant voice during the drive-time hours in New York for decades, died on Tuesday in Hillsborough, N.J. He was 84.
His death was announced by the New York radio station WABC, where he attracted his biggest audiences.
Mr. Grant thrived on the radio despite being boycotted for racist remarks, and despite a trademark habit of hanging up on his own callers.
But his sharp tongue also proved his undoing. In 1996, WABC fired him over a remark he made after news reports said a plane carrying Ronald H. Brown, the commerce secretary in the Clinton administration, had crashed in Croatia. In a comment on the air following the news bulletin, Mr. Grant seemed to express the hope that Mr. Brown, an African-American and a perennial target of his scorn, had not survived. All 35 people aboard the plane were killed.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/nyregion/bob-grant-a-pioneer-of-right-wing-talk-radio-dies-at-84.html?pagewanted=all
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Hard not to listen to at the same time.
Sort of like passing a nasty car wreck: you can't look but you can't NOT look.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He spawned quite an industry.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)He won't be missed.
BumRushDaShow
(129,459 posts)and other hostile and rude talk hosts. Listened to him for decades on both WABC and the place he fled to until recently returning to WABC - WOR.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)One less today
armed_and_liberal
(246 posts)So I can piss on his grave.