The Herald has the details: Tom Finneran’s new career as a drive-time radio host begins February 12. He’ll be on-air from 6 to 10 am. Scott Allen Miller “will move to another Entercom-owned station outside Boston.” Miller confirms the change in his employment status on his blog.
Also, Finneran apparently decided he’d had enough of that whole remorse thing. More from the Herald story:
But Finneran said he was “immensely proud” of the years he served in the Legislature and “wouldn’t change a thing.” “Even with the events of last week and the plea that I entered in court to the obstruction of justice charge, I can look you square in the eye. I would not change a thing,” Finneran said.
All righty, then!
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What a lack of class, but I expected no less from ‘RKO. The man pleaded guilty in court to obstruction of justice, and really should have taken a hit for perjury, and their response is ‘he’ll be a great addition to our morning lineup’. At least the Biotech Council showed some class and dumped him. Next, the state should strip him of his Legislative pension, less any cash he has put into it, of course. And how do the main street media treat him, they interview him like he’s a hero.
I haven’t listened to that censoring station since they fired DePitro for saying something that was demonstrably true. Doesn’t really matter though, Tommy Taxes will fail just like every other liberal on private radio. The only funny, interesting liberal on any of the radio stations in Boston is Jim Braude.
One thing slightly annoying about this whole debate is the claim that liberals could only exist in talk radio. I’ve found that any real rock format — classical or modern — attracts liberal DJs almost exclusively. And in a morning drive time, that is a lot of jabber. Anyone in the vicinity of Providence knows that the entire line-up of 94 HJY is liberal to some extent. Frankly, on many days Charles gets off better shots at Bush between songs of an hourlong set than most of the yappers on AirAmerica manage in an entire show.
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And that Howard Stern guy…total failure on private radio.
Howard Stern support Bush through the first election and most of his first term. He only turned on Bush when Howard started recieving large fines for the crap he says. I know because unfortunately I used to listen to him back then.
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And in my comment I was talking about talk radio hosts only because if you are getting political information for the guy playing Stairway to Heaven then you’re likely a lost cause.
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I’ll take someone who knows politics and music and talks about both (Charles) over someone who doesn’t know either and talks about one (Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity)
Charles Laquidera spent 30 years doing the Big Mattress on BCN and then moved to ZLX for a few years before retiring to Maui. He came back last year to do an hour long show (taped in the South Pacific) on WBOS but they canned him for injecting politics into the show. To be fair, it wasn’t his far left perspective that was the problem, it was that BOS doesn’t do politics, or even news. They just play music, and Charles wouldn’t play by their rules.
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He still keeps a blog at BigMattress.com if you are interested in seeing just how far left the left can get.
Heh.
Just a few notes from his website on his positions.
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1. Voted for every affordable house bill that passed by him while on the Hill.
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2. Is against the death penalty.
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3. Voted for every social services program or budget include three over rides of governor’s vetos.
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4. His position on jobs is that “It’s more important to support a drug industry that creates local jobs than to save the state money”
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I will admit that he is more towards the center then say Ted Kennedy, but he is still on the left side of the political spectrum.
Finneran can be saracastic, an omnivorous reader who has an unusually broad data set, and a fast and funny talker [who doesn’t DO things he regrets, one gathers, only SAYS things before he thinks first if he is in a bad mood.] Betcha he turns out to be a MOUTH and funny on radio. And of course media treat Finneran like a hero – LOL – he made news and he talks as much as they do. He is a funny guy in person, actually.
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And I am no longer sure what a “liberal” is – or when the word “liberal” stopped being a word that meant the person so described cared about the future, took responsibility for the less fortunate, and believed that the purpose of government was to create a clean, healthy, and civilized society and somehow morphed into an insult. Very strange.
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CS Lewis described the process of changing the meaning of words as a form of demonic propagandizing. One wonders. see http://en.wikipedia….
I might call in and thank Tom Finneran (who I have never considered to be a liberal) for saving the massachusetts taxpayers from having to foot the bill for Kraft’s Stadium…every time I see a pat’s game, I think of how much we all could be paying had not Finneran said no way.
…means there are any number of “demonstrably true” things you don’t get to say on the job.
Applies to talk radio hosts too.
You’re welcome to boycott RKO if you want, but your reason for doing so carries zero persuasion value with me, and I’d venture, with most anyone else who has to work in a “professional” environment daily.
Of Howie Carr interviewing Finneran on his show Thursday.
Do you think he’ll have his lawyer appear as his sidekick on the radio show too?
I always thought he was talented and smarter by half than the rest of the field, but he needed to take a big dose of friggin-relax-goddammit. And/or, spend a few hours listening to Rush and pondering why talk radio hosts aren’t necessarily required to sound like that whiny kid on the debate team.