Conservative talk show host points out conservative hypocrisy

[MrsSmith]

Onlooker  (1000+ posts)      Sat Sep-06-08 07:41 PM
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Conservative talk show host points out conservative hypocrisy
 
 Advertisements [?]This has probably been posted already today, but it's worth seeing for anyone who hasn't seen it earlier.

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/09/06/... /

A funny thing happened when WRKO conservative talk host Reese Hopkins told listeners 17-year-old Bristol Palin's pregnancy makes him question VP hopeful Sarah Palin's parenting skills. Angry Republican listeners blew up his e-mail box, claiming Bristol's condition is family business. And Hopkins, who talked extensively on-air about the suspicious Gloucester teen pregnancy pact, was a little shocked. "You called these girls sluts, you said their parents were horrible," he said of his listeners. "But in 125 e-mails I have stacked in front of me, you're telling me is not a big deal." Hopkins went back to the e-mails he received on the Gloucester story and compared them to his Palin e-mails. He found 70 listeners who flip-flopped on the teen pregnancy issue and invited them to explain. On Monday, Hopkins will broadcast live from George's Coffee Shop in Gloucester with Gloucester Daily Times reporter Patrick Anderson and editor Raymond Lamont.
 

I find this story quite interesting and I'd love to look for the "catch."  Unfortunately, I can't find anything about it on the WRKO site.  Reese's last couple posts are about the DNC...and a search brings up audio clips of someone else, and not related to this story at all.  I guess this falls under "Things that make you go Hmmmmm..."

[Crazy Horse]

17 year old girl gets pregnant and intends to marry............mistake
A bunch of teenage girls make a pact to get pregnant and do.............not a mistake

Nope can't find any difference at all

Oh and don't forget Barry 6 states

18 year old girl get pregnant and marries months later..................the virgin mary of Obama

[formerlurker]

Gloucester Massachusetts and Wasilla Alaska are about as night and day as you can possibly get.  The chances of a 17 year old marrying her high school sweetheart is pretty high in Wasilla.   Not so much in Gloucester.

I am willing to bet that Palin's daughter wasn't involved in a pact to get pregnant either.    Stuff happens.  You deal with it as a family the best you can.   Palin is doing that.   

   

[jinxmchue]

17 year old girl gets pregnant and intends to marry............mistake
A bunch of teenage girls make a pact to get pregnant and do.............not a mistake

Exactly.  There's no flip-flopping going on.

Oh, and didn't the pregnancy pact happen in a school with comprehensive, non-abstinence based sex-ed?  So that's 1 girl getting pregnant on our side vs. 17 on their side.  Yeah, I think I'll take the abstinence-based sex-ed (even though I think I heard Bristol went to public school).

[Uhhuh35]

The fact that she came to her parents and told them the truth rather than lie and suck it into a sink shows that Gov. Palin and the "First Dude" have exceptional parenting skills.

[MrsSmith]

The fact that she came to her parents and told them the truth rather than lie and suck it into a sink shows that Gov. Palin and the "First Dude" have exceptional parenting skills.

I believe that you are forgetting something...to the DUmp, sucking "it" into a bio-hazard bag would have been the correct answer.  We have no right to add to our carbon footprint by bringing children into the world.   

[Airwolf]

The problem for Mr. Radio Host is that Bristol didn't join several of her friends to get pregnant just so they can feel like they were wanted by someone. Some peoples Iswear are no better then their own kids when it comes to logical thought.

[AllosaursRus]

17 year old girl gets pregnant and intends to marry............mistake
A bunch of teenage girls make a pact to get pregnant and do.............not a mistake

Nope can't find any difference at all

Oh and don't forget Barry 6 states

18 year old girl get pregnant and marries months later..................the virgin mary of Obama

Ya know, I have been married for 35 years. WE, and I repeat WE; got pregnant when "Toots" was 16 and I was 19! We got pregnant so we COULD get married! Seems to have worked out pretty well. I will die being married to my SOUL MATE, and the LOVE OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eat shit and die DUmmies! You idiots think abortion and divorce are constitutionally protected.

[jinxmchue]

I was right.  Bristol didn't get abstinence-only sex ed.  That's just yet another left-wing lie.

[BEG]

I have never heard of this talk show host.  Not that that means anything.

[MrsSmith]

I have never heard of this talk show host.  Not that that means anything.

I guess I was mostly curious because a conservative talk show host was going to call his conservative audience on their hypocrisy...but the whole thing doesn't appear on the website of the radio station in any form.  I would have just labeled it a bouncy, but the original story does appear in the Boston paper.   

Well, maybe it'll show up in a couple days.   

[NHSparky]

I have never heard of this talk show host.  Not that that means anything.

http://wrko.com/pages/1424651.php

Doesn't look all that conservative to me.  Howie Carr, OTOH, is awesome.

[NHSparky]

I have never heard of this talk show host.  Not that that means anything.

I guess I was mostly curious because a conservative talk show host was going to call his conservative audience on their hypocrisy...but the whole thing doesn't appear on the website of the radio station in any form.  I would have just labeled it a bouncy, but the original story does appear in the Boston paper.   

Well, maybe it'll show up in a couple days.   

Within the confines of Boston (oh, hell--anything inside 495), Stalin himself is considered "moderate".

[BEG]

I have never heard of this talk show host.  Not that that means anything.

http://wrko.com/pages/1424651.php

Doesn't look all that conservative to me.  Howie Carr, OTOH, is awesome.

No he doesn't:

E. Reese Hopkins established his career in radio via the scenic route. Upon graduation from New York’s Fordham University in 1991, (Under a different name.) Reese moved from his Queens neighborhood to the East Village in Manhattan to pursue a career in dance and music. Soon, he auditioned and landed a coveted spot on the popular MTV program “Club MTV” with host Downtown Julie Brown.

After a two year stint with the MTV show Reese moved on to dance in music videos that included Young MC’s Grammy award winning, “Bust a Move” and LL Cool J’s, “This is How I’m Coming.” With four years under his belt in music videos, in 1995 Reese began to write and produce with his own Hip-Hop group, “Beatmarket” formed with his younger brother and two best friends. The group toured across the US and opened for established Hip-Hop acts that included KRS-One and Digable Planets. Beatmarket later released their independent debut, “Industry Rule #4,080.”

In 1999, the group disbanded amicably and Reese began a career as a logistics consultant for a large New York firm. (Logistechs Worldwide was purchased by a Canadian company called DYNAMEX. DYNAMEX sold Logistechs Worldwide to its competitor Choice Logistechs) )In 2000 Reese became the news anchor and personality on the Star & Buc Wild Morning Show on New York's Hot 97.1FM. Reese established himself as a credible journalist and co-host tackling news stories with newsmakers, politicians and community leaders alike.

Reese’s abilities were ultimately challenged on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 when during a live broadcast, terrorists hijacked four (4) commuter airliners crashing two into the World Trade Center Towers one mile south of the broadcast studio in New York City. Reese was trusted into covering the events as they unfolded. The station soon recognized him as the lead news correspondent for the station. A title never again held at the station.

With the growing popularity of Morning Show, Reese was soon featured in articles in the New York Daily News and The Washington Post, the nationally televised, Extra, CNN, MSNBC and as a panelist on The John Walsh Show (America’s Most Wanted) and BET Tonight with Ed Gordon.

In October of 2005, Reese left the Star & Buc Wild Show to pursue other interest and possibly his own show in a talk oriented format. Reese has produced shows on Howard Stern's, Howard 100 station on Sirius. He has also freelanced for established variety programing like MAD TV and SNL.

[MrsSmith]

Wow, this is starting to look like the newspapers are generating their own bouncies.