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Dec 31, 1999 Prager contrasted today's editorials of the New York Times (calling for arms control, gun control) and the Wall Street Journal. Prager read the last two paragraphs of the NY Times editorial: The original American frontiers had to do with covering geographic distance
-- from coast to coast, from farm to factory, from hamlet to city or suburb.
But the nation finishes the century with many of its social frontiers
uncrossed. Racial justice and decent medical care are not yet a guaranteed
part of every citizen's birthright grant to "life, liberty and the Prager read approvingly from the WSJ's last two editorial paragraphs: Though it sounds simple, history shows just how difficult it has been to strike this happy medium, ever threatened by competing dispositions: by those (generally on the left) whose belief in man's perfectibility begs the totalitarian rule we saw starting with the French Revolution and those (generally on the right) who see in man's tendency to sin a sign of his fundamental depravity. The genius of 1776 was to make room for both grace and sin, and to appreciate that in the use of his own freedom to improve the lot of himself and those around him, man was acting with his Creator. We would be the last to confuse Augustine's City of God with the United States of America, now or in 1776. Surely, though, it is worth noting that as the freest people in the world Americans remain, against all reasonable predictions, the most religious. May it not have something to do with the understanding at the heart of the American founding: that the God who looked out upon the earth and pronounced it good designed us to glorify Him as free men and not as serfs. Prager: The NY Times editorial does not mention God while half of the WSJ editorial focuses on God. And this is why the two papers almost never agree. Dec 30 Prager talked about the parents who abandoned their severely handicapped ten year old boy at a hospital. The parents included a note outlining the kid's needs and wants and explained that they could not look after him anymore. Prager took exception to the media calling the parents rich and harping on their owning two BMWs. Prager noted that the parents home was only assessed at $183,000. P says that is nothing. Prager's home is assessed at one million dollars. Prager said he cried for everyone concerned in the story. Prager believes the parents just broke down. From the USA Today: ROCKLAND, Del. - A husband and wife allegedly abandoned
their disabled Prager says it is moral idiocy that the parents are no longer allowed to communicate with their abandoned son. P: We have many advocates for the homeless, but hardly any for parents with disabled kids. Why? Because the homeless are public. We have many advocates for AIDS, the most overfunded of all diseases and the only one that is totally preventable (don't have unprotected male-to-male anal intercourse and don't share intravenous needles). Politicians respond to people who scream loudly, rather than to true crises. In his third hour, P. discussed a letter he got from a male friend who was staying with his girlfriend at the home of parents with kids in the house. While the parents did not mind if the boyfriend and girlfriend slept in hte same room, Prager's friend thought it would set a bad example for the kids. Prager agreed. The boyfriend and girlfriend should sleep in separate parts of the house to set a good example. Shannon writes: In the LA area, perhaps the most nauseating talk radio religionist has to be Dennis Prager, KABC. A Jewish scholar, Prager primarily uses his airtime to expound upon his oft stated view that increasing secularism is sending America to hell in a handbasket (he appears ignorant of stats that show large increases in both church attendance and religiosity in America). Prager also states that he cannot fathom how atheists can remain happy when they have no expectation of devine retribution for folks like Hitler and Stalin. I have had a few handicaped chats on air with him, all of which resulted in my being cut off. Rather than continuing to be exasperated and angry with his verbal diarrhoea I permanently tuned out his show about a year ago, and haven't needed Prozac since. Dec 29 In his first hour, Prager interviewed John Stossell of ABC who just did an hour special the night before on incompetence in the LA Child Protective Services division. Prager mocked social workers who did not place children for adoption with parents of a different race. In his second hour, Prager mourned the passing of actor Clayton Moore who played "The Lone Ranger." Prager praised the creed of the TV show and how Clayton comported himself offscreen in accordance with that ethic. Did not drink or smoke or swear. In his third hour, Prager discussed Jenny Craig's selection of Monica Lewinksi as a spokesperson. Prager said it sent a bad message, that no matter what you do, as long as you get fame, you'll be rewarded. It sends a bad message to kids. If a kid asked you, after seeing Monica on a commercial, who's that, what would you say? Monica is only famous for her affair with Bill Clinton. Jenny Craig stock went up 33% on the announcement. A female caller deplored how men are attracted on such a simple animalistic basis. Why not for a woman's mind? Prager talked about a time as a single youth when he cried alone because he'd met a woman of good character who wanted a relationship with him. And Prager was not attracted enough to her, despite her goodness. What struck me, Luke Ford, about the hour was the venom and anger of several female callers against Monica Lewinsky. I don't think I've ever met a man who hated Monica but many women seem to. I think women have a visceral hatred of temptresses, mistresses, porn stars, strippers, prostitutes and other sexually loose women who tempt men and reduce the housewife's sexual value. BTW, Luke seeks generous woman open to discrete encounters. Chris Bolton writes on the PRager List: As a spokesman for Jenny Craig, Monica's slogan should be "Stick to you diet - Don't blow it like I did". I wonder if she'll be promoting a high protein liquid diet. Hmmmmmm. Dec 28 Prager had Lenny Miller on his show for an hour. From www.dennisprager.com:
On December 21, 1999 Dennis did two hours of radio discussing the From the 10/16/99 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Dec 27 Prager dissed Time's selection of Albert Einstein as the man of the Century. Prager says Time's Walter Isaacson, a Rhodes Scholar who attended Harvard, made the safe choice. He chose brains. In his third hour, Prager talked about Elizabeth Hurley's selection as babe of the Century. Her boyfriend (Hugh Grant who Prager would not name so as to not gossip) was arrested a few years while being orally serviced by a streetwalker on Sunset Blvd. Prager said that if the boyfriend of the babe of the century sought sexual variety, then that largely explains men in general. They will instinctively seek release anywhere and anytime, no matter how beautiful and sexual their partner. Prager is writing a book on male sexuality. P says men are insatiable for variety of sexual partners. Prager says a proof for his thesis is gay men and lesbian women. Gay men typically have 500 sex partners over a lifetime while an average lesbian will only have a dozen. Two women called up and said the Liz Hurley - Hugh Grant thing showed that Liz may not have been into oral sex or sex in general. Prager felt morally uncomfortable with this direction of the conversation as it was too gossipy. Dec 20 Prager praised Danny Ainge who just quit as coach of the Phoenix Suns to concentrate on his family. Prager said he did the same thing four years ago, leaving WABC radio in New York to devote more time to his family. P says that almost nobody believes him, that he quit for his family, rather than was pushed out. I have it on good authority that the primary reason Prager quit WABC was because of conflicts with rightist host Bob Grant. Radio
columnist Tomm Looney writes: Is Dennis Prager Next? It's no fun to
write stories like this, but now that Dennis Prager is syndicated, KABC
can dump him with less guilt. Dec 15 Prager based his first two hours on articles in People magazine. In hour one, he discussed an interview with the parents of murdered homosexual Mathew Shepherd who said they agreed to not ask for the death penalty for his killers if they promised not to appeal a sentence of life in prison without benefit of parole. Shepherd's parents did not want to be dragged through an endless appeal process. In hour two, Prager discussed People magazine's support for the Miss AMerica who is dating the Lt. Governor of Kentucky and campaigning for the Democrat. The Miss America pageant want Miss America to abstain from political campaigning during her one year reign. Prager agrees. He deplores the politicization of the personal, how politics on the left seems to suffuse everything. Prager said how obnoxious he found an appeal for AIDS by Bernadette Peters at the end of the Broadway musical "Annie Get your Gun." A caller said he's wary of attending arts events for fear of getting harangued about various PC causes. In his third hour, Prager said he was 51-49% more pessimistic than optimistic about the new century. He feared the growth of technology without moral guardrails. P. discussed his most disturbing calls. One was a woman who said she did not know if she'd miss her child or her dog more if they died. Another was a man who said that if he could have a clone of his dead son, he'd want one. Prager would not. Prager favors banning human cloning though he does not mind organ cloning. Prager also fears men and women going their own way, without needing the other for reproduction. Gil writes on the Prager List: DP... lets his guests say dishonest things
and use dishonest tactics for which he fails to take them to task. So
there's nothing for him to do after the fact except, perhaps, mea culpas
over neglecting to say what he should have said. It's Today, while listening on Real Audio, I picked up the last 20 minutes
of the first hour. DP did argue with his guest, the SoCal ACLU director,
over their "playing" with the courts in trying to overturn CP.
He asserted it was for what they saw as their moral stance. The director,
though saying playing was not the word he'd use, agreed with DP's assessment.
Once again DP didn't press deterence in the face of this one-sided self
congratulation. In debates I've had with honest CP obstructionists, they
admit they could care Dec 14 Prager favors kids reciting sections of the Declaration of Independance every day, instead of school day. "...That all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator by certain inalienable rights..." A few secularists phoned to say that would offend them. Prager pointed out that racists also would be offended by the notion that all men are created equal. Should we bend to accommodate anyone who'd be offended? What about kids offended by the explicit discussion of sex in seventh grade? A couple of people who opposed prayer in school said they'd support reciting the Declaration of Independence. Prager: This solution is good for everyone except for the radically secular who worry that kids might take God seriously. Gil writes on the Prager List: Gayle Sheehy was interviewed at 6 tonight
[by Michael Savage, San Francisco KSFO talkshow host]. Rerun scheduled
for 5PM Wednesday. He kept her for 22 minutes before she hung up on him.
He showed her to be an Dec 10 Prager now hosts a TV talkshow on raising boys on the Fox Family Channel. Thursdays at 11AM EST. Dec 9 Gnobaro writes on the Prager List: I remember it was shortly after my
highly successful IPO, that I realized that there was a dearth of meaning
in my life...and I ended up converting to Orthodox Judaism. Still, I've
never been able to find a Jewish woman who loved me for who I am, rather
than for my money. Socalldjew writes: the point you've omitted is that society condemns
men for only caring about a Chris Bolton writes on the Prager List: I was listening to Dennis' today during the 10:30 PST segment. His topic dealt with mens' responses to women's oft heard complaint that all the good men are taken (or are gay). Women often say that the few remaining good men are commitmentphobic. A number of men wrote to Dennis about this saying that they were NOT afraid of commitment but still had a hard time finding women to date. The first 2 letters talked about how hard it is for short guys to attract women. Though I am 6'-3", I fully believe and understand Steve Dietrich replies: Chris Bolton wrote: Dec 3 In his first hour, Prager protested Mattel selling see-through lingerie for Barbie dolls to kids aged five upwards. Prager protests the sexualizing of children. Callers said there was such lingerie 30 years ago and it did them no harm. A caller said that the people who make this stuff do not have kids and are out of touch. writes: Anyone hear today's show? Prager at one point was patting himself
on the back (again) about what a great person he is and made the point
that he Dec 2 Prager talked about the outpourings of grief for the panda Tsing Tsing. Prager believes that most of the fervent supporters of animal rights, and those grieving for this panda, are single women. Women long to nurture someone, and those women who aren't married and don't have kids, transfer their longings to animals. Prager notes that when Columbine High School reopened, it did not even mention the deaths of students the previous school year. Yet there is all this grieving over a panda. Prager: We grieve for what we value. Her brain tells her that animals are equal in value to people. Nov 29 In his first hour, Prager discussed the televising of a two hour car chase which ended with the police shooting and killing the runaway male driver. Prager opposes the televising of most chases because while they are dramatic, they are unimportant. Prager worried that the televising of a killing would desensitize people. Prager began his second hour relaying an incident that took place at his shul. After giving the Saturday morning sermon, Prager got into a conversation with a teenage male who inquired about Prager's Tuesday night class at the University of Judaism. Then the boy's father interrupted by saying, 'Hey buddy. On Tuesday night you will be doing homework." Prager says many parents push their kids too hard to achieve good grades. Nov 26 In his first hour, Prager wondered if people would shop at malls anymore given the rise and convenience of the internet. Prager predicted that stores will have to make shopping more fun. In his second hour, Prager talked how we significantly affect how people treat us. Thus, if we are unhappy with how people are treating us, we should change the way we present ourselves. In his third hour, Prager talked about women who slim down and look great after a separation. He used Mrs. Gingrich as an example. She's lost 35 pounds since splitting from Newt, has changed her hair, and looks much better. Prager wondered if many of these divorces could've been prevented if the women had slimmed down and toned up while married. This drew an angry reaction from several female callers. Prager said that it is important for married people to stay attractive to their spouses. For men to work hard and move ahead in the world, and for women to maintain a pleasing shape. Nov 25 Prager devoted his Thanksgiving show to the topic of gratitude. P. says it is important to say thank you out loud, just as a husband should tell his wife out loud that he loves her. A caller said he does not invoke God at his Thanksgiving meal, so as to not offend guests who may not share his religious faith. Prager got to the nub of the issue - the man was uncomfortable with public God talk. If you're offended by sitting at a table where the host thanks God, you are too easily offended. P: But there is a difference between thanking God and trying to recruit people at your table. Do you want to be inclusive? As a Christian, must you include Christ in your prayer if there are non-Christians present? Prager makes more universal prayers when at the table of a non-Jew. Prager: If you saw two cars, one with a bumper sticker "S---- Happens" and another thanks God everyday for health, etc. And you had to choose which car to get a ride in? The words we say affect us. If we speak gratefully, we become grateful. If we speak harshly, we become harsh. Nov 23 Prager praised George Bush's appearance on "Meet The Press." Prager did disagree with Bush's stance on not meeting with a group of gay Republicans. Prager believes in meeting with almost any group, even the KKK. Prager says the most impressive candidates vis-a-vis ideas is Forbes. Lil Juan writes on alt.radio.talk: KABC's Dennis Prager promotes bigotry of the worst kind. He pretends not to be a racist by hiring uncle toms like Larry Elder, but only to preach the same racism as does Prager. A few years ago, Prager received a call from a black caller who accused him of always cutting off black callers and said that Prager would therefore cut him off. Prager responded by cutting off the caller immediately. It seems that Prager does not like callers from blacks with views that differ from his own. Prager also treats women who disagree with him far more brutally than he treats men with the same disagreement. Whenever Prager has a women on the line who has him backed against the ropes, he'll often use the old "we're up against a commercial break, but we'll continue with you when we get back" trick, only to never hear from the caller again. He also is very against women calling in on cell phones. I've heard from people who work at the station that a women calling in on a cell phone and disagreeing with him gets him so infuriated, that he'll use his engineering board to create fake static and say, "oh no... we that call." Incredibly, KABC allows this continue and lets him go national. MG: Dennis Prager will hang up on anyone, not just blacks, who accuses him of cutting people off. I have heard Dennis do it consistantly throughout the years that I have been listening to him. He even warns people that it is the one sure way of getting kicked off of his program. Chuck: In fact the funniest calls are: Caller: Dennis I know you're going to hang up on me but... CLICK Nov 5 For twelve hours, KABC ran a "Battle of the Talkshow Hosts," keeping around six hosts at the mike at the same time battling it out. Ken, from KABC's morning show, called Prager's show "Amish Talk Radio." The other hosts seemed to look at Prager as a father figure, someone to seek moral guidance from and rebel against. Prager reitereated that he is the same type of person off the air. He talked about the time in his 20s when his friends baked marijuana into brownies and simply became Prager squared. Just like regular Dennis only more so, particularly very verbal. Another host asked Prager if he ever got drunk and blew the shofar. No, that's Al Rantel, the gay conservative who follows Prager. Amara writes: While the racial stuff is nonsense and DP doesn't strike
me as a hater, let's not go too far in the other direction. I sometimes
tell screeners Nov 2 Dennis Prager phoned in to Mr. KABC's show which ridiculed Uri Geller. Mr KABC had a magician in who bent spoons and did the stuff Uri did... Anyone hear this? Fred writes:
Dennis Prager used to do an experiment when speaking before children. He would pose to them a theoretical dilemma: If their own dog and a total stranger (human) were drowning, and they could only save one, which would they save? As was to be expected, some chose the dog, others chose the person. What Prager found amazing, however, was that even among those children who chose to save the person, few were willing to condemn the choice of the others or opine that it was wrong to save a dog over a human being. Even those who, presumably, were able to absorb "good values" were conditioned to equate those values with the skewed values of the other group. On his radio show this morning, Prager admitted he patronized a prostitute in Europe at age 20. Was this when Prager lost his virginity? Better not gossip about this though. Dennis thinks the rich and powerful should be able to do whatever they want in their private lives, from using pornogrpahy to visiting prostitutes, so long as they "don't hurt anybody." And we shouldn't talk about it. They can flount social and Biblical and religious norms all they want, but we shouldn't gossip about it. Prager passionately opposed Heidi Fleiss selling her little black book of customers. He thought that would be a far greater sin than the actual patronizing of prostitutes. Prager wants to save people from humiliation. He thinks the release of the black book would ruin lives, disrupt families and marriages. Prager gives this personal information tremendous power. On what basis does Prager claim that the release of the black book is a greater sin than using hookers? I don't think he has a Biblical or Judaic leg to stand on. Judaism and the Bible opposes using prostitues, in fact, all extra-marital sex, as well as gossip. Both are sins. October 27, 1999 Magicweb: Listen to Dennis today, interviewing Uri Geller, fixing machinery
over the air by the power of mind! Jason: You're joking, right? That show alone proves that Dennis has sold out for ratings. Shannon: Not to embarrass you more than your above post already has old bean, but did you happen to hear Al Rantel's postscript to Prager's show? If not you missed a beauty...Rantel, for whom I formerly thought of as little more than another rant radio Prager shill, exposed Uri Geller for the devious liar that he is. Uri Geller on Prager's show made much of lawsuit he filled against American magician and professional debunker, James Randi. They way Uri presented the scenario one was left with the impression that it was Randi who lost the suit...Rantel was able to extract from Geller that in fact the opposite was true...Uri Geller paid out not James Randi. Prager is a Buffoon folks... A grade A sucker... A first class schmuck...To
hear him fawning, oohing and aahing over this confidence trickster and
then James Randi Educational Foundation homepage at http://www.randi.org. Magic: I have listened to Dennis for years off and on. Listened
to him religiously on Religion on the Line. I don't agree with his politics
but I enjoy hearing him expound on religion. I critized him on this forum
and was answered by his admirers, but when I hear something pleasing to
me I can complement him as well. Karl writes on the Prager List: I noticed a number of cases where Prager
displays a pronounced double Yesterday, Chuck Ungar made the following post to alt.radio.talk: Steve Gross writes on the Prager List: Dear Dennis, To take that a little deeper, what does it mean that Science is Truth?
It means that God set up the world according to fundamental laws; that
these laws continue to operate; that these laws are observable by man
and can in turn be used to derive other laws. That is how Science works.
We make observations, then form a hypothesis, then test that hypothesis
by making further observations. In this way, scientific truth is refined.
If they didn't work that way, life would be chaos. Things could happen
for no reason (not moral reason, but physical reason). For example, if
we lit a flame, put a pot of water over it and all of the sudden the water
froze. An analogy would be a murder mystery where the author, on the last In fact, one of the most powerful refutations of ESP, mind-reading and
psychokinesis is that they apparently don't follow the Inverse Square
law. Most forces that we know about in nature follow the rule that the
power of the force diminishes as the square of the distance from that
force. ESP does not. Could there be a force that doesn't work that way?
Certainly, there can. In fact, several subatomic forces do. However, these
forces operate over unimaginably tiny distances, like the width of an
atom. We What does all this have to do with Uri Geller? Uri Geller basically claims
that he can controvert all the known laws of science. All the hundreds
and thousands of years of exploring and trying to understand and explain
the world are suddenly brought to naught. That's what is at stake You talked of belief and open-mindedness. Science (which I remind you,
is God's Truth) gives us a way to approach and evaluate such claims. One
of No, you obviously are not. Mice are not normally huge or pink or in your
radio station. Thus, if I make such a claim, it is your obligation as
a rationalist to challenge me. I am the one that has to provide proof.
Uri Geller falls under the same category. He is making claims that although
not impossible, are certainly contrary to accumulated human knowledge. In fact, I believe this is why the Torah has so many admonitions against
witchcraft, sorcery, astrology, etc. (something that unfortunately even
most Remember several years ago when you were upset with Cardinal O'Connor
because he visited the Central Park rapists, even though you generally Finally, I think your treatment of your listeners was unworthy of you.
You did something to them that you have repeatedly spoken out against
- namely, you imputed motive to them. To wit, you said that they were
all afraid of a non-physical reality. You chanted "scaredy cat"
and were quite sarcastic. I think you were being overly sensitive to the
justifiable Shannon replies: Steve I personally feel you are far to generous to Prager,
I believe and have always believed, that he is a man in love with his
personal beliefs not with truth. I find him intractable, arrogant, vain
and wholly disingenuous. Not a man deserving of the slavish adoration
that he evidently attracts. Geller has had ample opportunity to have an impartial scientific evaluation performed on his wizardry and to win $1.1 million into the bargain... To date he has refused. He is a charlatan of the first order...He is an illusionist who lies about the causes of his illusions and deceives simple and gullible minds like Prager's for profit. Incidentally, you mentioned that the Torah commands that witches burn...Do
you feel the slightest moral pang when you consider that multitudes of
Steve: Shannon - Sorry, I don't share your animosity towards Prager.
I generally agree with him to a great degree. In this particular case,
I feel he has badly Mae made the following post to alt.radio.talk: If you listen to Dennis Prager on a regular basis and don't hear the mysogyny your mind is as closed at his is. I refer to the day he went into one of his mindless, hateful rants about a woman coach wanting to coach a high school boys team. As usual he used the topic to blame women for all of the ills of the world. Face it Dennis Prager is a big fat, waddling ball of hate. He talks about happiness but his happiness depends on second class citizenship for women. He advocates second class citizenship for women in the home, society and religion. Insecure, sexist pornloving jerk! Dennis Prager has obviously convinced himself that he's not a woman hater as he SPEWS hate 3 hours a day. Hetero male can and do express extreme hostility towards women all the time. Note how much time the pornmeister spends defending porn for males. How he advocates patriarchy. How often he picks a news item and uses it as a launching board to express hostility towards women. The guy is sick and needs therapy. Alice: I have also noticed that when a MAN disagrees with Dennis Prager, he is far more respectful than when a woman disagrees with him. He also seems to have a contempt for people who care about animals. Sadly, in L.A., the main talk radio rival (on KFI) is pretty awful, too. If I MUST be out driving during that time of day, I usually end up either listening to tapes, or a music station. Hilda: Isn't it funny, Mae but I do not hear that. I happen to like Dennis. My husband thinks he is too in love with himself. If you think this about Dennis, what must you think of Tom Leykus? Now there is a real piece of crapola. He only thinks of women as sex objects to be used and tossed in the trash heap. October 26, 1999 Singlemom writes: Perhaps KABC management has told the Prager to quit
his incessant, dark, negative whining or perhaps Luke whispered the same
request in His ear at Temple... September 28, 1999 H David Burstein wrote: "The only good thing to be said in favour of the American golfers, in fact, is that, at golf if nothing else, they are better than the Europeans." I thought some members would appreciate this description. Thank God the
Americans know how to fight wars. Amara writes on Prager List: Yesterday we had another moral mis-adventure.
Just as the point of the NY Times article on DDT was missed; thirty years
of first world neglect of tropical diseases taking its toll of third world
children was morphed into an unprincipled attack on our avian friends
and those who would protect them. Orange County Register 7/4/99: John Kobylt: "At one point, there
was the feeling of a true variety show going on. Weekenders Leo Terrell
and Gloria Allred wished them well and brought gifts. John tried to get
the O.J. Simpson controversy stirred up. Dennis Prager brought his accordion
and played 'Havah Nagilah. ' 'My parents wouldn't let me watch TV on school
nights but said I could learn a musical instrument,' Prager said. 'I literally
went to the Yellow Pages and started with A,' to which Ken quipped, 'Too
bad you didn't start at G for a cool instrument to get the girls. ' Elder
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