As Jay Bush would say . . . ROLL THAT BEAUTIFUL BEAN FOOTAGE!
(Source: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=264)
His "listeners"
. . . local radio talk-show host Rick Driver was bantering amiably with a regular caller. The subject turned to County Council meetings, and the caller — identified only as "Ginger" — casually vowed that the next time the council convened, "I'll come with Bible in one hand and a gun in the other."
Ricky Dribble himself
"In 1999, Driver recommended a "constitutional amendment" against legislative bodies "meeting more than 15 minutes out of every year." If they exceed the limit, Driver quipped, "we'll line them up and shoot them out back." Driver, who denies any militia or hate-group affiliations, welcomed the NAACP boycott of South Carolina because there would be a "drop in crime as leftists and blacks stay away."
The nutjobs that support him
Sheriff Taylor sued Driver and WAIM for slander in 2000, after being called everything from a cross-dresser to a wife-beater to a burglar. Since Driver agreed to settle the suit out of court, Joey Preston, named national County Administrator of the Year in 2002, has been the prime target.
"They call me Little Hitler, Little Castro, you name it," says Preston. "They track where I eat, who I'm seen with, what I drive, when I come and go. They've done everything but lay down in front of cars to stop progress here."
Just a reminder: WAIM pulled a 0.7 share in the latest Arbitron numbers . . . WRIX pulled a 1.2 share. The better question to ask here is this: Who is really listening to Ricky anymore?
- SSHM