Trouble in The War Room: Radio host Jim Quinn makes racially charged comments and sexism his shtick

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Washington, DC - In a report last week by Media Matters for America documenting the right-wing echo chamber of local and regional radio hosts, Pittsburgh radio host Jim Quinn stood out as one of the more prolific purveyors of hate speech and inflammatory on-air rhetoric.

"The list of Quinn's falsehoods, smears, and baseless attacks is growing at a rapid pace. He appears to have little regard for decency or appropriateness," said National Press Secretary J. Jioni Palmer.

While there has been a considerable amount of discussion about the role that nationally syndicated radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly have played in perpetuating smears and falsehoods about progressive candidates and ideals, little has been said about the vast network of lesser-known syndicated and regional radio hosts that has served as an echo chamber for conservative talking points and falsehoods. This year, Media Matters has greatly expanded its monitoring of regional radio.

Major items on Quinn and his co-host, Rose Tennent, include:

• Quinn called NOW the "National Organization for Whores," said columnist Fatimah Ali should "get an American name"
• Quinn said he referred to NOW as "National Organization for Whores" because "that's what they are. They're political whores"
• Quinn and Tennent repeated discredited claims that Obama has not released valid birth certificate
• Quinn and Tennent: Powell endorsed Obama because "he's tired of being called an Oreo," "an Uncle Tom"
• Quinn: "Gay sex produces AIDS"; "They should charge homosexuals more for their ... health insurance"
• Quinn stated that unlike welfare recipients, slaves "had to work" for food, housing

The War Room with Quinn & Rose is based in Pittsburgh on FM NewsTalk 104.7, airing from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET, and it is carried in many other markets. The War Room is also carried nationally on XM Satellite Radio Channel 158.

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