The "Grim Reaper of Radio", Bob Romanik Says He Won't Quit, Drops More Racial Slurs
ST. LOUIS -- The "Grim Reaper of Radio" says it's time to hang up his scythe.
"We’re going to go back to country music," shock jock Bob Romanik said during his 10 a.m. broadcast yesterday on KQQZ (1190 AM). "We tried this format, but see with this format you have to get in step with everybody else. You can’t be your own person, you can’t tell the truth, you gotta be politically correct."
In other words: If he's going to face blowback for saying "n*gger" on the air, he quits.
Earlier this week, the RFT reported that Romanik had called the rapper Waka Flaka Flame a "greasy black n*gger son-of-a-bitch" during an on-air tirade last month. That story drew calls for FCC intervention, as well as a campaign to target his advertisers.
A conservative firebrand in the mold of Rush Limbaugh, Romanik subsequently dedicated much his airtime to defending — and repeating, over and over and over again — the N-word. "I’m going to take that First Amendment right and I’m going to exercise that sumbitch, I’m going to exercise that First Amendment right until it looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger," Romanik thundered to his listeners.
Read more: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2017/02/09/bob-romanik-announces-end-to-radio-show-under-fire-for-racial-slurs
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