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The story of the withdrawal of UBD advertisement from Ray Hadley's program because of the "getting routed" remark reminds me of the radio comedy series "The Naked Vicar Show". The show featured a regular gardening segment "Getting Rooted" where the two hosts 'Cec' and 'Cyril' spoke like Alan Seale (RIP) the host of the ABC's "In Your Garden". I don't know if Mr Seale was offended by the take takeoff of his voice. Here's a sample of the regular segment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XVxKgFpgb4 . Obviously comedy exaggerates the traits of a real life character, and the Naked Vicar Show's "Getting Rooted" segment exaggerated Alan Seale's whistling 's'. Here is Alan Seale selling Mortein where he says with a whistling 's' "...aphids, lacebugs, even caterpillars....", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EBWmNQNko.
The Naked Vicar Show was comedy, not a morning talk show where the audience of consisting of stay-at-home parents may well be offended to to hear an advertisement encouraging their partners to "....get routed..." , reference, https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/youre-wrong-you-half-wit-you-know-nothing-about-talk-radio.
While I wouldn't call the exchange or the dressing down of a person by Mr Hadley as shocking. Generally, the 'dressing down' of a person whether a marketing director or CEO or government minister occurs if the policy is wrong. The late Stan Zemanek's insults included "numbnut", "you moron" and "socialist criminal" to callers including regulars as Bruce The Goose (RIP) who did not agree with Stan's view of the world.
Despite Kyle Sandilands' vulgar language and despite the apologies by the particular radio network, https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/kyle-sandilands-has-finally-issued-an-apology-for-vile-rant-about-news-ltd-journalist-ali-stephenson/news-story/87335dc524fbd2aaabdd99f438258745?sv=1eebb42ced5fc8feb75353f5589ba466, he's still employed.
Ironically, 2UE's Arch Tambakis was dismissed within one week of calling the then Opposition Leader Mr Howard a liar. That never happened when Alan Jones referred to PM Julia Gillard as "Juliar". It was also below the belt when asking the NZ PM Julia Ardern to "...put a sock in it..."
Could Mr Trump be a shock jock? He may well be. He and US shock jocks tried to portray presidential candidate Mr Obama as being ineligible because he was not an American citizen when in fact he was by dint of being born in Hawaii in 1963 long after Hawaii became a state in 1959.
Then there's the REPEATED MISREPRESENTATION by Mr Trump and US shock jocks of the citizens of Kenya uttering "...he's one of us..." as being evidenced of not being a US citizen. The repetition of the misrepresentation went for months. Reference of "...he's one of us..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/26/for-obama-a-kenyan-homecoming-and-a-pointed-message/
Mr Obama's ancestry, when the citizens .
This is not a discussion of Mr Trump's successes and failures as President, but if Mr Trump was to repeat and misrepresent a fact such as Mr Obama's citizenry to fit a political agenda, then what if any shock jock was to misrepresent Kamala Harris's citizenry because the citizen's of her mother's Indian village's were celebrating "one of their own" to the second highest position in the US.
It would not surprise me if the US shock jocks would impute ineligibility of office by a promotion to the presidency by misrepresentation of "she's one us" as being evidence of non-citizenry.
Consequently, a US-style shock jock should NOT be relied on as a source of news and current affairs. In contrast, the 'shock' element in Australian presenters goes to the attacking character as the result of and their views and policies as exemplified by Mr Hadley and Mr Zemanek.
Thank you,
Anthony of critical Belfield