Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Radio loses a great voice

I listened to Neil Rogers for about five years when I lived in Florida. He was great. Acerbic, outspoken and fiercely independent. During that time period the old Miami Dolphin guard Larry Little, an employee of the radio station, brought is pal O.J. Simpson to a station-sponsored event. Rogers went nuclear on Little and the station for letting it happen. It was great radio.
Rogers also loved to tell his conservative Cuban listeners that he was homosexual, which he was, and then listen as they erupted. He was priceless, never more so than when he took the government's side in the Elian Gonzalez mess. Not a popular view in Ol' Miami.
Boortz wishes he was as funny and iconoclastic as Neil Rogers.
Here's the story.

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