Sunday, December 16, 2012

A bit more about restraint and common sense; media coverage of Newtown, Conn.

We talked on Saturday night about the news coverage of the Newtown, Conn. shooting massacre. Tonight in the first hour, we'll expound on it further.

What do you think of the coverage? Join me on the show from 8-9PM PT to discuss the topic.

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47 comments:

  1. Too much coverage, its working for Clinton though. Mysterious fainting and concussion prohibit Benghazi testimony. What a scumbag.

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    1. Shut your mouth. The election is over and you lost. Where were you when GW and Cheney were running wild breaking laws left and right?

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    2. What's any of this talk about HRC got to do with Rich and tonight's program???

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    3. Has to be Drudge groupies, my best guess, but thanks.

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    4. 10:44, clinton didn't win anything and is bailing. She's manuvering to protect her legacy and ability to run in '16...niave to think differently.

      Allow me to reframe my initial remark to suit you so you don't have to carry on like a toddler. The coverage has been excessive and clinton has brilliantly slipped beneath the news radar with her concocted "emergency". Very Cintonesque!!


      BTW, DC is full of scumbags. This time it happens to be a dem . Swallow your medicine you colicky crybaby.

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    5. 6:44 where is your evidence that Clinton is faking her concussion? 26 people are murdered and your pea brain concocts a media conspiracy and fake fall by Clinton!!?? You're even crazier than Christine Craft.

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    6. Specifically, what have I said about either guns or aspergers that you find crazy?
      I've said most guns in America are semi-automatic weapons. Is that incorrect? how?
      I've said aspergers is characterized by high academic intelligence coupled with inability to cope with other humans. How is that incorrect?
      specifics please.

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    7. Christine, you are a lawyer, you are not a clinical psychologist. I've heard clinical psychologists interviewed about the shooting and even they do not delve into the shooter's aspergers. People with aspergers are not prone to violence. Bringing up his aspergers is irresponsible. What next? He had asthma and hemorrhoids? Stop trying to rationalize your gun ownership. It is very tiresome.

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    8. well that's your emotional response, but not a specific example of why I was called "crazy". I have had many clients with aspergers and have helped many get supportive benefits because they are not empathic and cannot work in a normal social setting. I have held and comforted the mothers of aspergers patients who are at their wit's end, with good reason. Did you think that lawyers who do disability law and wills and trusts for the families of such kids had no knowledge of the realities of the condition? You'd be wrong. I have reviewed thousands of documents from real doctors(psychiatrists) and non-physician clinical psychologists. I have deposed many of them. Aspergers was just de-listed, and now is categorized as just part of autism spectrum. This means that LESS help..not more will not be available to aspergers patients and their parents. You say that bringing up aspergers is irresponsible? really? You don't want to know that the shooter had a condition which made him academically brilliant(in college at age 16), but utterly unable to deal with social settings? You don't want to know that he was not capable of empathy or of having normal pain thresholds? Your bald statement that people with aspergers aren't prone to violence, is nonsensical. Read about the lives of parents whose children are burdened with aspergers syndrome. There are frequent, violent outbursts that are unmanageable. the mothers are often terrified that their own children will harm them, though most don't,mercifully. The fathers typically leave the scene...leaving the mothers to nurture their wounded kids. As they move into adulthood, some of the problem typically dissipates, but not all of it. I guess I'll believe you when you say aspergers is to your mind like asthma or hemorrhoids, but it's not. I don't need to "rationalize" gun ownership. I'm an American. I'd be willing to bet that most of the people, except you of course, who post on this site have semi-automatic weapons, which is what the vast majority of self-defense handguns are in this country. I have always taken death threats seriously. So seriously that I go regularly to the gun range and shoot at targets. It looks easy, but it isn't. I think your naivete and lack of any interest in researching aspergers is unimpressive.

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  2. I think Clinton has been doing a great job. Sorry to hear about her fainting spell. Hope she is better soon.

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    1. Rich is doing a helluva job. Kudos to the man!

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  3. Way too much coverage, including on Lieberman Live.

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    1. Rich's indictment of the media for its exploitative coverage of the shooting spree in Newtown is spot-on. Too bad he peddled NBC 11's Raj softball questions and didn't really take him to task.

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  4. "I'm at the top. I'm the conductor. It's my train and I'm extremely comfortable riding my train. So I don't need callers."

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    1. You tell 'em baby! It's your f*#$ing show! They can go straight to the pits of he@% if they don't like it.

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    2. Fine. Don't go off the rails, though. You came pretty close tonight.

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    3. He don't need CALLERS! Nope. Not a one. This is HIS show. A show about HIM. For HIM, by HIM, to HIM. It's all about Rich.

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    4. 11:18: How long has it taken you to realize what most of us have known about Rich from the very first show?

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  5. Chill out, dude! You're losing it big-time tonight.

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    1. And your listening, ain't that a bitch?

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    2. Au contraire! Kay Zwerling and her son Michael, the radio broadcasting denizens of the Monterey Bay, are quite pleased with their decision to give Rich a slot on KOMY.

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    3. Love "Em Zee" for his programming acumen and his mom Kay for her briliant commentaries.

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  6. You're losing it bud! "I don't need callers!" What's coming up next: "I don't need an audience!"

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  7. Love you! Love your show! Who cares if Len Tillem hung up on you? Not me.

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    1. You and Len didn't hit it off at all.

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    2. Very insightful of you to mention..any stock tips?

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    3. Who cares about Tillem getting testy with you and hanging up? You got one of his sponsors, Pat Vitucci, to support your show. You won.

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    4. Tillem is a jerk.

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    5. So was Rich intimating tonight that the conversation with Len Tillem went south because "The Loyah" had been drinking a little too much?

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    6. I wonder if Rich and Gil Gross would hit it off?

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  8. When are you going national?

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    1. As soon as I get a call from my agent, bombastic Bushkin's ghost.

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    2. I wouldn't be surprised, frankly, if Rich isn't picked up by Clear Channel's KNEW 910 in Oakland and KSTE 650 in Sacramento, with a Monday through Friday night gig. If he pulls decent ratings, national syndication is a real possibility. Look for him eventually to make it to the "Talkers" top 100 list.

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  9. Your last hour tonight has been your best yet!

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    1. Eh... Not so much.

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    2. Rich's best hour was his interview with the sports guy on Saturday night. Rich's comfort zone is talking about sports.

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  10. Rich: You've definitely developed your nuance and your brand. Thoughtful, extended, contextual questions.

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    1. This is talk radio at is best!

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    2. Indeed, Rich is the penultimate persona of talk radio!

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    3. I have seen the face of God! Rich Lieberman ... a rude, egotistical, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the criticism that surrounds his program ...

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  11. Your friend on KSFO, Melanie The Meanie Morgan, and Brian Sussman were questioning whether President Obama had tears in his eyes on their broadcast this morning, saying that you don't wipe tears from the corner of your eyes.

    I do.

    Can you believe they went to Google images in their lame attempt to prove that President Obama didn't have tears?

    Sometimes, when one feels like they will have tears, there is an automatic response to wipe it, usually from the corner in my case.

    Even the traffic gal this morning told the two haters that on Friday, it wasn't fake tears, as they claimed.

    Stupid Sussman even said "the skinny socialist" has no empathy in his body.

    I would like to know why these two "Christians" are such haters? Both Melanie Morgan and Brian Sussman claim to be Christians. Yet, they spew vile hatred every morning against all kinds of people, especially our president.

    What happened to love thy neighbor? Not judging?

    I hope you print this Rich. I don't think that KSFO receives enough criticism here. In comparison to Ronn Owens, these two haters escape much critique that should be coming their way.

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  12. Podcasts? For the folks that can't listen live...

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