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RADIO LEGEND BOB GRANT DEAD
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Posted on 01/02/2014 9:51:35 AM PST by fatboy

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bobgrant; getoffmyphone; goodnightbob; howyadoinbob; letsbeheard; obituary; talkradio
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To: fatboy

I was a guest on Bob’s show many times. I spoke of the murder of Donald Young, the openly gay choir director of Rev, Jeremiah Wright’s church. I wonder if that got him into trouble at the end of his career. I wrote to the President often, and Bob admired my letters and was so supportive of me. He was kind, he had his heart in the right place, and he paid dearly for exercising his free speech. He invented talk radio as we know it, and his listeners adored him. May he rest in peace.


41 posted on 01/02/2014 10:33:33 AM PST by mo up in the northeast
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To: JohnG45

Mark Levin, love em, or hate em, he is the most knowledgeable constitutional lawyer type on the radio....


42 posted on 01/02/2014 10:33:52 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: AzSteven; xzins

Bob Grant will be forever remembered for his colorful quotes...

“Get out of my phone you fake, phony fraud!”

“And Let’s be Heard...”

“Straight Ahead.” ( When he’s about to go on a commercial break)

“This is Bob Grant reminding you... Your influence counts... USE IT !” ( his famous sign off ).

“This is Bob Grant reminding you... Somebody’s got to say these things.. it might as well be me.” ( Another famous sign off ).

“I don’t mind being friends with gays, as long as they don’t go sweet on me...”

“I hope you get better, I really do...” ( To callers whose opinions he find strange).

He would also be vicious against people he dislike.

On then mayor John Lindsay : “the tower of jelly”

On then Mayor Ed Koch : “the arrogant emperor,”

On Ted Kennedy : The SWIMMER

On then Mayor David Dinkins — The men’s washroom attendant (He said Mr. Dinkins was “a nice man, I just felt he wasn’t up to the job.”)

On Bill Clinton — The great stain maker

On Mario Cuomo - The Sfaccim

What made Grant so famous his occasionally being admonished or suspended for short periods by station management, typically with a bluster of controversial, but possibly welcome, publicity.

The main thing is this — HE DID HIS JOB FOR OVER 50 YEARS UNTIL HE SLOWLY FADED AWAY ( He was still occasionally short radio stints on Sundays until 2011 ).


43 posted on 01/02/2014 10:35:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: newnhdad

“Mario azende me tuzeprovenos sfachim... Mario listen to me you are a low life..”

The Italian is: “Mario, assenza me! Tu sei profano sfaccim’!

Your translation is pretty good, although the literal meaning of sfaccimma (written as “sfaccim’” in the Neopolitan dialect, and pronounced as you have written it) is a bit more earthy ... it literally means “semen”


44 posted on 01/02/2014 10:35:21 AM PST by paterfamilias
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To: fatboy

RIP.


45 posted on 01/02/2014 10:37:08 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fatboy
Wow, I liked him too.

I just was on Rush Limbaugh's show making a comment on "Soviet Bloc Housing" in NYC compared to when GOP were in office and people building McMasions.

46 posted on 01/02/2014 10:37:46 AM PST by Citizen Soldier ("You care far too much what is written and said about you." Axelrod to Obama 2006)
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To: newnhdad

I’ll never forget his salute to the head of the Cuomo crime family.

Mario azende me tuzeprovenos sfachim... Mario listen to me you are a low life..

A classic!!! I would crack up every time he said that. God bless Bob.


47 posted on 01/02/2014 10:38:49 AM PST by NY Cajun
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To: GeronL

Broadcast out of NYC and was better than Rush. Wow. This one hurts.


48 posted on 01/02/2014 10:41:17 AM PST by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: fatboy

RIP Bob

That dude was legend


49 posted on 01/02/2014 10:42:04 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: NY Cajun

RE: A classic!!! I would crack up every time he said that. God bless Bob.

I crack up every time he invokes the Kabala Seven.

I am also amazed at his ability to detect the voice of someone who calls and violates his “once a week call only” rule.

Then of course, I’ll miss the folks who would call him on their cars and Honk their horns to indicate that “The Honk to become a member of his Horny Brigade.”


50 posted on 01/02/2014 10:45:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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God Bless you Bob, although I don't think you believe in any of that...

A pioneer, a fighter, a target...

I thank you for all those years of entertainment and enlightenment!

Strrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-aight A-head!

51 posted on 01/02/2014 10:48:50 AM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: fatboy

I liked him.
May he Rest in Peace.


52 posted on 01/02/2014 10:48:57 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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We already know what John from Oyster Bay (I think that was the place) thinks...

JIMMY FROM BROOKLYN...DAVID FROM NEWARK...HARMONICA GUY...CALLING ALL BOB GRANT REGULARS...WHAT SAY YOU?!?!?!?!

53 posted on 01/02/2014 10:52:23 AM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: newnhdad

“Mario azende me tuzeprovenos sfachim... “

He would conclude with, “And he is!”


54 posted on 01/02/2014 10:52:32 AM PST by MarDav
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To: fatboy

That’s sad.

I always enjoyed listening to Bob Grant, even though I didn’t agree with him on certain topics.

No one - NO ONE - could beat up a ditzy caller better than Bob Grant.


55 posted on 01/02/2014 10:56:27 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler
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To: Captainpaintball

Frank from Queens ended up with his own radio show on short wave ...


56 posted on 01/02/2014 11:02:21 AM PST by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: fatboy

I remember the days when it was “Hannity this, Hannity that, I despise Sean Hannity”!


57 posted on 01/02/2014 11:04:54 AM PST by McGruff (I stand with Phil.)
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To: Revel
And he can heard shouting: “GET OFF MY PHONE”

Then there was these classics:

"Mario, ma senta a me: Tu sei propio une SFACIM."

"Your influence counts. Use it."

"cacazote."

58 posted on 01/02/2014 11:09:49 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: JohnG45
There's copying someone and there's using someone's signature line as a tribute. Levin uses Bob Grant's signature dismissal line as a tribute. Hannity, who replaced Grant on WABC, does the same with, "Straight ahead," to go into breaks.

The Great One is what Hannity calls Levin and the name stuck so he uses the Gleason music.

Meanwhile, Levin is out there night after night pounding the other side with original thinking and tremendous knowledge.
59 posted on 01/02/2014 11:12:50 AM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Before relaying “shocking” news he would say, “...get your digitalis...”


60 posted on 01/02/2014 11:15:33 AM PST by folkquest (I plan on being cranky for the next 4 years. Hope to crack a political smile at the midterms!)
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