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Part One Joe Pyne: The Man Who Invented Right Wing Talk Radio

Behind the Bastards

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The First on Air Figh Bringer

Pine was the medium's first shock jock. Invited hippies, civil rights activists and cu klux clansmen alike to take a hike or go gorgle with razor blades. By the mid sixties, he was the most popular t v radio voice in america. Life magazine called him sedistic, a barroom tough but millions turned in to watch the fireworks when a guest advocating free love set off a malay pine's audience charged the set and knocked it flat.

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