"Riot in the Streets" RW Radio Host Jim Quinn Tells Listeners

[RamboLiberal]

During unhinged health reform rant, Quinn says "if they push this through, you need to riot in the streets"
September 10, 2009 3:54 pm ET

From the September 10 edition of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose:

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909100037

I saw this referenced originally in local liberal Pittsburgh columnist Tony Norman's column today.

We used to be Prozac Nation -- all mellow and self-satisfied, even when we knew our leaders were lying to us about the invasion of Iraq, an overleveraged economy and the steady loss of our civil liberties.

Now we gladly conform to the gun-toting, rally-attending, finger-biting, line-judge-threatening, Nazi-comparing, irony-missing, immigrant-bashing, Van Jones-hating, Ugly American caricature of North Korean propaganda.

You could hear fear in the rebel-yell of an obscure South Carolina congressman who shouted "you lie" at the president of the United States during his nationally televised speech before a joint session of Congress about health care.

You could hear it in the paranoid monologue of Pittsburgh's syndicated talk radio host Jim Quinn the next morning when he told his listeners to "riot in the streets" if President Barack Obama succeeds in pushing his health care initiative through Congress.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09258/998031-153.stm?cmpid=bcpanel1#ixzz0RCfKDOOG

[BOSSHOG]

1. And when someone dies

from rioting "patriots" Quinn will opine that he's only a comedian.

[Downtown Hound]

2. So will he be charged with "Conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism"

like the RNC 8 were? Or is that something that only happens to those on the left?

[gatorboy]

3. Most of them will have to be back indoors by 8:30 for "Murder She Wrote."

Just sayin...

[Renew Deal]

4. If they riot the unionized cops will gladly collect OT while smashing them.

:shrug: But knowing these guys, they'll run home and cry.

[Bunny]

5. Quinn. What a dick.

He hasn't been the same since he lost that sexual harrassment lawsuit so many years ago.

http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/tribreviewquinn.html

<snip> He and sidekick Banana Don Jefferson had started doing their wild and wacky weekday morning show on WBZZ (93.7 FM) in 1984. Quinn had been offered a $75,000 salary and another $25,000 to $30,000 in talent fees to work there. It was a far cry from the roughly $51,000 he had been making annually at WTAE (1250 AM) while also working at WPGH (Channel 53) from 1979 to 1983.

The "B-94" money and ratings were great. Life was good, until things became too wacky. During a 1988 "Friday Morning Joke-off," when listeners called to air jokes, one caller included a very risque punch line about Liz Randolph, the show's newscaster.

She sued the morning duo and the station. A Common Pleas Court jury found in 1990 that Randolph had been subjected to the infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and defamation. The station's company was also named in a second suit. Both suits were settled in 1991 for an undisclosed amount.

Quinn leaves no doubt about his opinion on the controversy that followed the lawsuit: "Having been sued for doing what I was paid to do -- off-the-cuff humor -- and after a feminist firestorm in the media in which facts and evidence took a back seat to political correctness, my formerly liberal eyes were opened to the agenda of the feminists, their friends and supporters in the media," he says. <snip>

[KatyMan]

6. Perhaps people need to be reminded

that the The Smith Act has never been repealed or overturned... :evilgrin:

[KamaAina]

7. Incitement to riot

That's a crime, dumbass.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. "YOU" need to riot in the streets.

Jim will be lounging by the pool nursing a Mai Tai.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. And this is what is accelerating

the language of the other...