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 So... Desi's gone.

Damn.

I swear I must be cursed.

I apparently have this thing about picking the losers of radio and following them into the ground. Ironically, the last guy I really liked on talk radio was Tim Dunbar. Hell, no-one even knows that Dunbar ever did talk radio, much less had AM talk fans. Boy, Tim crashed and burned Big Time, but that's another story...

When they axed Dunbar and replaced him with Desi, I gave Desi a chance and actually liked him after a while.

For a left-winger with a chip on his shoulder, Desi was actually OK, Desi does no homework, has no idea what is going on in the world, likely prepares for his show while sitting on the toilet before coming to work, and has less than no idea how to syllogistically work his way out of the simplest of problems, but he *is* entertaining. For an average off-the-street guy, this is a pretty good trick.

Another thing I liked about Desi was how he stomped KOA after the station sent him to cover the Jamaal X speech at Montbello High School circa 1995.

Note:
Jamaal X had been called into the school to try to bring order into the system. Apparently the young men of the school were out of control and needed a pep-talk of some sort. Jamaal X told the student body that white people invented nothing and that African natives had invented powered flight, mathematics, plastics, nuclear power, ect. all before the birth of Christ. He thought that this would somehow bring the school back from the brink. And, apparently, it did. I haven't heard a thing about the problem since.

Desi returned to the station and was expected to toe the line politically and report that Jamaal X was a crackpot. Desi's response was an out-of-left-field shock to the morning crew as Desi stated that Jamaal did a fine job of shaking up the kids, that SOMEthing needed to be done and he didn't see anyone else tackling the problem. Gus and the rest of the news team were left stammering as they tried to recover from the blow. The news team was trying to get Desi to state that Jamaal X's comments were inaccurate, inflammatory, and frightening but Desi stuck to his guns and defended Jamaal X's actions.

I must say that I was also angry with Desi and his idiotic stand but, damn, what a stand it was. To say that I disagreed with Desi is an understatement of lunatic proportions but he stayed the course and found himself relegated to the back of the bus forever.

For this, I admired him.

While others are out protesting the big corporate monsters by marching around in the streets with signs and yelling stupid slogans, guys like Desi are walking into drive time radio and slapping the crap out of Big Money right in front of the listeners.

Another Note:
As a (gak!) "Randian" type, I disagree with nearly all of Desi's ideas on sex, drugs, money, politics, and food almost to the point of spontaneous combustion, but I liked him anyway.

Desi was the last guy I was listening to in talk radio.

I guess I am not listening talk radio any more.

Damn.

 
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