Posted on 10/15/2007 5:42:11 PM PDT by rawhide
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, a programming note: Mr. Snerdley has been suspended for the day. He is, as you know, our call screener. Snerdley was sent home for the day earlier this morning. He will be back tomorrow if everything goes according to plan. There were two problems. He presented a call to me on the program last Friday involving human waste movements, clearly beneath the quality and decorum of this program. Snerdley thought it would be funny because it was about a South Park incident in which the measurements were said to be in Courics. But the caller never got there because I, maintaining the class and decorum known for this program, interceded.
Secondly, you might remember the call from Lynn last Friday. How would you describe it, H.R.? What was she doing? She made a play for me; she was coming on to me, make no bones about it. I learned, ladies and gentlemen, over the weekend, that Snerdley gave her a call. This is just intolerable. It's funny, but I have to put my foot down on this. This is the second time we've had to suspend him in the course of this program, which is not too many times. The first time was when I saw him shouting, and arguing, and yelling with a caller in there. You have to nip these things in the bud when you see them happening. You gotta lay down the law. You can't let the line get crossed, because then the line gets blurred, and then the line gets invisible.
I assume you speak from experience about the call screening protocols, the rejected and accepted calls and the definition of "entertaining"
While Rush has made significant inroads into the total radio audience, it is a large audience and his share remains a fraction, albeit a significant fraction.
Rush will be the first to admit there is always room for growth and improvement.
Best regards,
Barney Fife: "Nip it in the bud! You got to nip it in the bud! ... Nip it! You go read any book you want on the subject of child discipline, and you'll find that every one of 'em is in favor of bud-nippin'... Only one way to take care of it."
Andy Taylor: "Nip it."
Fife: "In the bud."
I have to believe so, but I too didn't see the episode.
After he hung up he was thinking: "Man, I hope they get the straight jacket back on that guy."
The call from the woman was classic. She was after Rush’s body and made no bones about it. It was amazing.
How could Snerdly know what was on her mind? She certainly wouldn’t have said she was calling to get Rush in her clutches
They specifically said that a “Katie Couric” is about 2 lbs. when discussing the method of measurement.
LOL!
No problem, I have some better shots of him at our barbeque with the late FReeper Pretty in Pink. I have them on a server somewhere.
I speak from the perspective of listening to his show and most of the other shows; the others generally do a poor job of screening in that they let boring, unfocused callers on the air. I also note that Rush’s “fraction” of an audience is larger than that of anyone else in radio.
I’m sure there’s room for growth and improvement somewhere, but I don’t think it’s going to happen by loosening the call screening, and quite frankly as a listener I don’t care if rejected callers feel like the screener was rude or dismissive.
I wish I had seen that episode of South Park.
I was walking my dogs listening to a Rush podcast during the Sheryl Crow incident. A guy from Texas called and got Rush into an absolutely uproarious demonstration of how it was possible to adhere to Crow’s prescribed quantity of TP. Oh, to have been watching on the Dittocam! I was laughing uncontrollably at it; I’m sure the neighbors thought I was quite stoned, as my iPod is one of the teensy Nano models and was probably invisible to anyone peering out their window at the man walking down the street cackling hysterically for no apparent reason.
I think Rush said he was going to dock Snerdley’s pay over that one. Might’ve happened the first time I called his program, too, when I concluded my commentary with a rather funny joke that left Rush speechless with mortification. Snerdley seems to live for those punishments... I’d love to meet him someday.
No kidding. And not just there, I see alot of it here on Free Republic too.
I'm sure he will be reinstated and everything will be business as usual.
Best regards,
Understood. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Best regards,
Thank you rawhide.
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