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"Gunny Bob" assails Muslims after Fort Dix attack
By Dick Kreck
Denver Post Staff Columnist
Article Last Updated: 05/13/2007 09:14:58 PM MDT
Don Imus paid the price for his crude remark about Rutgers female basketball players, but "Gunny Bob" Newman has defamed an entire religion and, so far, gotten away with it.
Newman, whose conservative talk show airs on KOA 850-AM, is a man to whom rash, rude and inflammatory statements are common. But he unleashed a scabrous beauty last week.
Here's what he said on the air after the alleged terrorist plot to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey was uncovered: "I want every Muslim immigrant to America who holds a green card, a visa, or who is a naturalized citizen to be required by law to wear a GPS tracking bracelet at all times."
He also proposed that the government "bug their places of work and their residences" and "monitor all mosques and community centers. If they don't like the idea ... throw their (expletive) out."
He would have given the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II a standing ovation.
He won't get a spanking, says his Clear Channel boss, Kris Olinger. "I think 'Gunny' was expressing an opinion, an extreme one, but his opinion. (Hosts) are paid to express opinions. That's the nature of what we do."
Colorado Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group that keeps a critical eye on Newman and his fellow conservatives, has been peppering local media with complaints about his misstatements of fact and his virulent attacks on those who disagree with him, to no avail.
A spokeswoman for CMM said, "We sent numerous e-mails, but we've had no dialogue with Clear Channel." Newman didn't answer my e-mails asking for comment.
The reaction has been heated. One CMM blogger wrote, "Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were Christians and they plotted the Oklahoma City bombing. Does 'Gunny Bob' also want all Christians fitted with GPS tracking devices?"
He's got a point.
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SEE ALSO:
Gunny Bob Newman--Wikipedia
GyBob Background, Lins, History, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Newman
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