CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Radio talk show host Bill Cunningham -- known for provocative comments -- may have finally slid over the line by saying on the air Reds outfielder Adam Dunn was playing drunk. The Reds are looking for a tape of Cunningham's comments, and the possibility of a libel lawsuit hangs in the air like a long fly ball. Cunningham is a conservative talker who is rumored to be in line as a successor to Matt Drudge on Sunday nights.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has a nice account of the rhubarb today. Cunningham and other talkers have often pushed the envelope to hold listeners and prop up ratings. Is this his Don Imus moment? Ballplayers are millionaires and left fielder Dunn has the dough to find a lawyer who can make life miserable for Cunningham and his broadcast outlet. And Clear Channel, the media giant that owns WLW-AM, 700, may not have the stomach for a protracted court battle. Dunn may have made a costly error, but that doesn't mean he was soused. Cunningham may have swung and missed. The question: Is he out?
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Ohio Trash Talker Bill Cunningham: A Peeping Willie?
CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Usually, WLW's Bill Cunningham is on the dishing end, reliably spouting conservative causes like a human geyser on his radio talk show that emanates each weekday in Cincinnati. Now he's managed to p.o the Christian Right, and one evangelical commentator has sprayed back with a dose of skunk juice, implying that Willie likes to leer at young women through their unshaded windows.
Definitely titillating. But that's really hard to believe, isn't it?
A lengthy commentary that mentions the ogling is online at Citizen USA, the web-version of a newspaper that circulates in many Ohio churches. There is no fairness doctrine that covers newspapers or online sites -- or radio talk shows for that matter -- so there is nothing showing Clear Channel talker Cunningham has responded to the commentary. Citizen USA says about itself that it is a "newspaper that represents the worldview of the Values Voter" and "challenges the liberal bias found is most hometown daily newspapers."
The passage that gut-punched Cunningham reads as follows:
"So why was Willie, usually the Conservative's conservative, blasting Phil Burress, David Miller, Bill Seitz and others? While eating lunch at (irony of all ironies) the West Chester location of the restaurant that bears Willies name, I overheard diners ate (sic) the table next door speculating that Willie had to be rescued from his roof not for inspecting dryer lint, but for inspecting the navels of young women in the neighborhood through their open windows. (Cunningham recently had to be rescued from the roof of his home, placing a famous but embarrassing 911 call to the Madeira Fire Department after climbing up a too-short ladder to inspect a dryer vent installation on his roof and becoming frightened he would injure himself getting down.)"
Maybe Cunningham just got Swiftboated by the right? After all, it was a navel attack.
UPDATE: 10:25 am EDT -- Just discovered that Right Angle Blog is conducting a poll to determine the most influential/popular conservative talker in Ohio. Cunningham is the first name on the ballot. He's definitely a force. But some people in Cincinnati have another nickmane for Willie. They call him the cunning ham. It will be very interesting to see who wins the RAB poll. Guess here -- Willie zips past all comers.
Definitely titillating. But that's really hard to believe, isn't it?
A lengthy commentary that mentions the ogling is online at Citizen USA, the web-version of a newspaper that circulates in many Ohio churches. There is no fairness doctrine that covers newspapers or online sites -- or radio talk shows for that matter -- so there is nothing showing Clear Channel talker Cunningham has responded to the commentary. Citizen USA says about itself that it is a "newspaper that represents the worldview of the Values Voter" and "challenges the liberal bias found is most hometown daily newspapers."
The passage that gut-punched Cunningham reads as follows:
"So why was Willie, usually the Conservative's conservative, blasting Phil Burress, David Miller, Bill Seitz and others? While eating lunch at (irony of all ironies) the West Chester location of the restaurant that bears Willies name, I overheard diners ate (sic) the table next door speculating that Willie had to be rescued from his roof not for inspecting dryer lint, but for inspecting the navels of young women in the neighborhood through their open windows. (Cunningham recently had to be rescued from the roof of his home, placing a famous but embarrassing 911 call to the Madeira Fire Department after climbing up a too-short ladder to inspect a dryer vent installation on his roof and becoming frightened he would injure himself getting down.)"
Maybe Cunningham just got Swiftboated by the right? After all, it was a navel attack.
UPDATE: 10:25 am EDT -- Just discovered that Right Angle Blog is conducting a poll to determine the most influential/popular conservative talker in Ohio. Cunningham is the first name on the ballot. He's definitely a force. But some people in Cincinnati have another nickmane for Willie. They call him the cunning ham. It will be very interesting to see who wins the RAB poll. Guess here -- Willie zips past all comers.
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