The Continued Decline of WRKO

This morning I read the disturbing news that the potential exists for Marjorie Claprood (D-Hell) to return to the airwaves. Save WRKO (http://www.savewrko.com/) is reporting that its no secret that Ruth Buzzi Claprood was in extended meetings there. I'm sure she and Jason Wolfe, Julie Kahn's personal version of the Travelocity Roving Gnome, weren't discussing their favorite shoe styles.

The return of this screechy harridan to talk radio would further contribute to WRKO's dreadful slide past mediocrity into ... well I can't quite find the word. Appaling, disgusting, grotesque...you pick.

This washed up retread of liberal trash would be the second biggest mistake WRKO could make. The first being the unlistenable Felon.

I had the displeasure of listening to her when she dirtied the Claprood & Whitley Show. Then she did a weekend stint once in a while. Then she subbed for Scott Allen Miller recently during the Gay Union Constitutional Convention. During that time she made the idiotic distinction that anyone opposed to gay unions was a bigot. That's right, a bigot. No wiggle room. You're right up there with the KKK if you don't believe in gay unions.

A woman called her on it stating that her stance on gay unions was her opinion and that in no way was she a bigot. Cancer Throat Claprood then spent 5 minutes berating her telling her she needs to wake up, she is a bigot and then hung up on her.

Is this what Boston Radio needs? A political retread, who we all thought and hoped had ridden off into the sunset resurrected to make WRKO even more unlistenable.

Save WRKO brought up the point of "Why are we bringing these retreads back? " and its a good one. Conservative listeners hold their stations accountable, even if they're spewing liberal diarrhea. Callers will offer thier opinions if they disagree, but someone needs to be listening to the host to begin with. As Todd Fienburg waffles to whichever way the wind is blowing, people care less and less about what his opinion means as he's pbraceted by hosts that tow the company line. Someday someone will realize that Soylent Green is people. But as long as you pepper the lineup with hosts that spew the check signers liberal political agenda, I have no desire to even listen much less call.

Hows Finnerian's show doing? From the blogosphere it seems that his listenership isn't what was expected. And his show itself is unlistenable. The uhhhs and dead air and boring subjects it seems aren't attracting the listeners WRKO thought they would get. No surprise there. Weak co-hosts and just bad programming are not a formula for success. Carry this over to potentially hiring another washed up hack, and how long can this boat float before they realize that's water rising around thier ankles? Claprood would be the second iceberg floating towards the Titanic thet is WRKO now.