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Monday Jan 13, 2013 North Kingstown, RI – Good morning, Ocean State. This is Bob Plain, editor and publisher of the RI Future blog podcasting to you from The Hideaway on the banks of the Mattatuxet...
View ArticleAnti-Depetro group gets 14 politicians to boycott advertising on WPRO
Initially the campaign targeting shock jock John DePetro focused on one advertiser. But now the group has organized at least 14 high-level politicians who say they won’t spend their campaign dollars on...
View ArticleRNC takes page from For Our Daughters playbook
At right is a tweet sent out from a MSNBC staffer poking the “rightwing” over a Cheerios ad because the last time Cheerios ran such an ad the company’s YouTube channel was swamped by disgusting racist...
View ArticleDefending Donald Sterling: John DePetro’s race-baiting
The racist comments allegedly made by Clipper’s basketball team owner Donald Sterling to his girlfriend V. Stiviano provided local talk radio jerk wad John DePetro the perfect opportunity to...
View ArticleFan mail and more tacit racism from John DePetro
I got a piece of fan mail from John DePetro yesterday. Here it is, in its entirety: You are a pathetic individual . There was nothing racist regarding my comments or conversation on the radio. You seem...
View ArticleJohn DePetro’s tacit antisemitism
“The people have won. The atheists have lost! The people have won. The atheists have lost,” crowed John DePetro as he began broadcasting last Tuesday, May 6th, about the Supreme Court decision Greece...
View Article‘History of Hate’: New video shows DePetro’s worst transgressions
In case you are fortunate enough to not be familiar with John DePetro, the For Our Daughters campaign produced a video of the WPRO shock jocks most famous indiscretions. They range from rigging...
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