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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: 50,000 Watts of Hate By Jim Naureckas Would it surprise you that the most listened-to talk radio station in the country, owned by one of the most important media companies, has as its highest rated host a man who sounds like a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan? The station is New York City's WABC, flagship of the ABC Radio Network, and the host is Bob Grant. Grant is an important player in regional politics; conservative politicians like U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato, New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Governor-elect George Pataki have called in to Grant's show to thank him for his support, often saying that it made a crucial difference in their elections. Grant's embrace of a candidate became an issue in New Jersey's U.S. Senate race, with Democratic incumbent Frank Lautenberg running ads criticizing Republican challenger Chuck Haytaian for accepting the support of a racist. While Governor Whitman briefly distanced herself from Grant, other political allies rallied around him, denying that the talkshow host was bigoted. But Grant's racism is not particularly hard to decode. "Minorities are the Big Apple's majority, you don't need the papers to tell you that, walk around and you know it," he has declared (quoted in Newsday, 6/2/92). "To me, that's a bad thing. I'm a white person." Grant repeatedly expresses his belief in the scientific form of racism called eugenics, and frequently promotes the "Bob Grant Mandatory Sterilization Program." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1272 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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