calimary
calimary's JournalI remember staring, mouth agape, at my radio when I heard that.
Thank goodness I was stopped at a red light. I would have been frozen in my tracks for several seconds if the light had turned green. I don't even know who or what I might have accidentally driven into, if I'd been moving at that moment. I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EARS. But by God he said that. I was shocked, stunned, and utterly stupefied! I literally couldn't believe what I was hearing. That poor woman had been the victim of the most horrible, grisly slasher-murder in local history, and this was all paul harvey could say about her. This was all that grabbed his attention, or made an impression on him. That she said some swear words on the line to 911, when this violent, wife-beating beast was in a full-lather, top-of-his-lungs rage just a few steps away, about to break her door down?!??!!?!? And that's ALL he could say???????????
And that tape was chilling as hell, especially since we all knew how that story ended. You could HEAR him. You could hear his voice in the background, bellowing and raging, screaming obscenities at her at full volume, pounding on her door trying to break it open, and she's cowering in the corner, trying to call 911. And there was ol' paul harvey on the radio, moralizing in his holier-than-thou way about how dreadful it was that she uttered a couple of swear words.
I developed a seething hatred and revulsion for paul harvey on that day, and I've never gotten over it.
Oh yes indeed, MANY of us are VERY familiar with paul harvey.
I thought he was fairly harmless until the whole OJ calamity in 1994.
Then one afternoon he was on, and he focused on the 911 call Nicole Simpson had made when OJ was outside her house (after they'd split up), raging, bellowing, and banging on the door, trying to break the door down and get in at her. You could hear him in the background as she struggled to keep her composure while talking to the 911 operator. You could hear the fear and desperation in her voice. And she said a couple of four-letter words in her panic and terror.
So guess what paul harvey had to say about that?????????
He carried on, describing it, didn't play any excerpt or part of the 911 recording - that by then had become famous.
And his comment at the end of it was - "what a shame that such a beautiful young woman should use such foul language!"
WTF?????????????????????????????????????????????
MAN! I remember sitting there at a stoplight just gaping at my car radio!!!! I couldn't believe what I'd just heard!!!!!!
Then and there, I signed off of paul harvey for life. That's ALL he could come up with? What a shame that SHE used foul language???????
OMG!!!!! He was worth LESS-THAN-NOTHING to me after that, and ever since.
Profile Information
Gender: FemaleHome country: USA
Current location: Oregon
Member since: 2001
Number of posts: 81,260
