Alan Berg

[ck4829]

Sean Hannity, Rush Limbo, Glenn Beck, etc. could never be 1 tenth the radio host Alan Berg was.

I know that he was a radio host.

I bet he was good.

He was controversial.

He was Liberal.

And I bet the worst thing that those 3 have ever had done to them was that they were yelled at or got coffee spilled on their laps.

Mr. Berg was gunned down by the Far Right and White Supremacist group known as the Order.

I hope you're watching down on America now, Mr. Berg, seeing what a sad place America has become and how right wing our radio waves have become.

I wonder what he would think about Air America Radio.

[SmokingJacket]

1. You said Nick...

Any connection, I wonder?

No one was ever convicted of that crime (this post made me go read about it).

Why do rightwingers so often kill -- or threaten to kill -- those who disagree with them?

[ck4829]

2. Oh my...

I was thinking so much that I would confuse Nick Berg with Alan Berg that I ended up doing just that.

I didn't mean to do that.

[benburch]

3. He would think Air America was a bit tepid...

Except maybe for Malloy and sometimes Randi.

A friend of mine, Jay Marvin, is now broadcasting in Alan Berg's market... I wonder if he, being both jewish and liberal, doesn't still get a chill down his spine when he thinks about that?

I would.

[NanciNice]

4. Alan Berg

We lived 2 blocks away from Mr. Berg when he was gunned down by those awful people. We had just seen him in the 7-11 the day before buying dogfood, I think it was. We, of course, did not hear the shots (they used a silencer, I believe) but we were out walking our dog for his final time that night, kinda late, and we heard all the sirens of the answering police and ambulances etc. I remember it was such an awful thing. (And it certainly didn't help to think that those people had been casing his place, his neighborhood--which was ours too--for days before it happened.)

Alan Berg R.I.P.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. He was unlistenable

He was obnoxious without being interesting.

He insulted callers without reason. When I heard he'd been shot, I assumed it was one of those callers who had done it.

I have no idea what he was like in person, only what he was like on the radio: repellent.

[LiviaOlivia]

7. I loved him.

I moved up to Wyoming and frequently returned to Denver to see my folks. I couldn't wait to pass thru Cheyenne on weekday afternoon so I could pick up KOA and Alan Berg. And to think I thought that the USA was doomed to a quick extinction because of Reagan & co. The 1980's..ah the good old days...the horror was yet to come.

[Stanchetalarooni]

8. Only to the helplessly ignorant and those asleep

He was far brighter than most and that may have been his downfall.

[NYCGirl]

6. There is an Oliver Stone film inspired by Berg:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630133809X/002-4763989-5681634?v=glance

[mitchum]

9. I just reread Stephen Singular's "Talked To Death" earlier this week...

Berg was a true iconoclast. Despite all of their posturing, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Beck, etc... are just loyal little lick spittles to the powerful.