Putting this in the Pit because the man, his life and his legacy are vile, malignant humours whose greasy effects gave rise to the careers of Limbaugh, Hannity, Oreily, etc.
I’d started listening to him in the late 80s/early 90s when he was a NY mainstay. An eloquent skullfucker of logic, it wasn’t too long before becoming aware of and repulsed by unabashed use of stereotypes, warped generalizations, and, well, fuck, every rhetorical evil that’s unfortunately commonplace with today’s talk radio and fox news. It was mildly entertaining in a hate radio sort of way, and since evil was still in its infancy at the time, there was still a sliver of basic entertainment and not so heavily linked partisanship (not that evil isn’t perpetual, just that the current flood of santorum drinkers has had ~20–30 years to improve on it).
He was a horrible human being who did great harm to the country and the world.
He really was a pioneer in broadcasting. He was really one of the creators of the modern political talk radio genre. He wasn’t the first, obviously, but he sort of turned talk radio into what it is today. Well, he and Joe Pyne.
Rest in pieces, Bob Grant, you miserable little miscreant, and finally… get off my phone!! Those who’ve ever listened to Bob Grant will get the reference.
If you had managed to sneak your furry freaky ass all the way across the Null Zone, and the veedub bus still holding together, and not attracting any undue attention, at a certain point suddenly you could hear the Wolfman’s sandpapered baritone and you would know: We’re gonna fucking make it!