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Username: Harpernottingham
Post Number: 180
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 7:50 pm: |    |
Any contest?
I say no.
Not by a longshot.
I think George W. Bush would be better than Paul W. Smith. |
Gplimpton
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Username: Gplimpton
Post Number: 5
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 8:15 pm: | |
Paul looooooves to kiss ass. |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 20
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 8:28 pm: | |
PW is a JP wanabee. He seems too staged. In all fairness to PW, he was groomed to replace one of the top radio personalities in Detroit radio history...a daunting task for anyone. What other radio personality in Detroit comes close to JP? Dick Purtan maybe, but he is more of an entertainer rather than a great interviewer/host. |
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 119
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 8:30 pm: | |
J.P. did his share too.
Both seem to be Republican and
conservative.
I did like J.P. more though. He was
WJR's main man. Although he was
main stream, I enjoyed his interviews
with personalities on his show. He didn't
make it on TV and that hairpiece (a la Lou Gordon)
didn't help. |
Karl
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Username: Karl
Post Number: 7394
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 9:10 pm: | |
JP had local appeal for many years - but the AM radiowaves, once thought to be dying or dead, had new life breathed in with talk radio. It's a whole new ballgame today.
Now, Paul is a fairly regular sub for Limbaugh, giving him national exposure. |
Bob_cosgrove
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Username: Bob_cosgrove
Post Number: 521
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 9:15 pm: | |
What's the purpose of this thread - J. P. is dead and gone and Paul W. is doing a good job. Both are locals, J. P. grew up on Parker on Detroit's East Side and Paul W. in Monroe. Both are excellent interviewers as is Frank Beckmann in the 9 to 11:30 a.m. slot.
Bob Cosgrove |
65memories
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Username: 65memories
Post Number: 395
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 9:55 pm: | |
Sorry, Bob...it's no contest. Paul and Frank are not in the same league as J.P. J.P., while I believe a Republican, never allowed his personal viewpoint to overwhelm an interview,no matter who he was interviewing. Paul and Frank, on the other hand, flaunt their conservative right-wing ideology everyday and allow their conceit to get in the way. |
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 124
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 12:24 pm: | |
Amen to that 65 memories!!! |
Mikeg
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Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 846
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 12:37 pm: | |
quote:Paul and Frank, on the other hand, flaunt their conservative right-wing ideology everyday...
AM Radio isn't what it used to be and J.P. rode the tail end of its hey-day.
Apparently enough AM radio listeners like what they hear on Paul and Frank's shows or their ratings wouldn't be sufficient to sell the advertising.
Besides, there are plenty of writers and pretty faces in the other media who flaunt their liberal left-wing ideology everyday and allow their conceit to get in the way. |
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 125
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 4:04 pm: | |
Well at least you can say those guys don't have pretty faces! |
Newport1128
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Username: Newport1128
Post Number: 10
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 4:21 pm: | |
Neither. Both are suckups to the fat cats, and both are (or were, in JP's case) way too full of themselves. |
Jelk
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Username: Jelk
Post Number: 4394
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 4:29 pm: | |
J.P. McCarthy was certainly not a Republican. He was a straight arrow with politicians of either ilk on the air and I have it on good authority he was basically a Scoop Jackson Democrat. I'm sure like many people he became more conservative as he aged but he was not a Republican. |
Burnsie
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Username: Burnsie
Post Number: 987
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 4:38 pm: | |
JP definitely was a talented interviewer. Paul W is a bland, mediocre kiss-up who doesn't have any of the personable, genuine connection with the listeners that JP had. |
Livernoisyard
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Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 3186
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 4:55 pm: | |
Lots of conservatives are neither Republicans or Democrats. However, it would stand to reason that most of them would lean GOP in a strict two-party political landscape.
There are some 59 Blue-dog Democrats in the current Democrat-controlled Congress who would probably vote more conservative than their GOP counterparts--the RINOs. That's the result for the socialist radiclibs not having their way after the past November election. Many conservative voters back then sat on their hands and didn't turn out to vote GOP when they felt there wasn't much sense in voting for a number of GOP incumbents who were not conservatives.
As a result, a fairly significant percentage of the Democrats in Congress are keeping the leftist Democrat leadership in check now instead of the Republicans. Evidence of this will be felt when any pro-immigration legislation hits the House.
And most of those Blue-dog seats are in swing districts and could easily go Republican--if the GOP would turn out some meaningful conservative candidates themselves. |
Gplimpton
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Username: Gplimpton
Post Number: 22
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 3:01 pm: | |
Paul W. Smith should be replaced by a goat. |
Conman
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Username: Conman
Post Number: 24
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 5:26 pm: | |
J.P. on JR in the a.m. |
Al_t_publican
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Username: Al_t_publican
Post Number: 197
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 6:13 pm: | |
David Newman was probably the most interesting Detroit talk show host. When WXYT let him go saying he was "too NPRish" I thought that was a high compliment. I had some issues with the late Mark Scott of WXYT, but he helped turn me away from the group-think of the Left with his takes on libertarianism, Ayn Rand, and the benefits of capitalism over socialism.
J.P. McCarthy and Paul W. Smith are too la-di-da for me. Mashed potatoes versus cottage cheese. |
Ordinary
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Username: Ordinary
Post Number: 234
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 7:24 pm: | |
Newport1128,
I have to agree about JP. I thought the guy was a totally pompous ass. |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1431
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 10:44 pm: | |
I don't know, I'm not 65+ and my radio only goes on the AM band when I need to know about traffic jams (on the 8s) the minute I find out about traffic I'm back on the FM band. |
Newport1128
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Username: Newport1128
Post Number: 61
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 3:47 pm: | |
56packman, I listen to WWJ AM 950 for "traffic and weather together on the 8's". I switched to them while JP was still alive because they don't try to make celebrities out of their announcers. |
Kenp
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Username: Kenp
Post Number: 550
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 4:01 pm: | |
I grew up listening to JP, he was as good as they get for radio. He did get a little short with people late in his career which I didnt care for.
I recall he was a finalist for the TV's Good Morning America, which was given to Charles Gibson. |
Craggy
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Username: Craggy
Post Number: 254
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 29, 2007 - 1:26 pm: | |
JP McCarthy is why I got into radio. My parents had him on every morning. I still remember the commercials that came on every day during that show.
He was good. Really good. |
Al_t_publican
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Username: Al_t_publican
Post Number: 201
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 1:44 pm: | |
Memo to 56packman:
Think about satellite radio. I got it last summer for the return drive back to San Diego. I went with Sirius as it has NPR and XM doesn't. If you listen to FM for music satellite radio will hit the spot as it isn't filled with commercials. Sirius now has a Sinatra channel as an alternative to its Elvis channel. |
Tiberius
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Username: Tiberius
Post Number: 11
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 8:58 pm: | |
If we didn't have someone to compare him to, Paul W would probably be "ok", but JP was good, and a decent interviewer. Recall he had influence too, in that he got the bell ringers back to one of the big stores at Christmas.
Paul W does way too much fawning and has no credibility. We need Lou Gordon eh? |