President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the ceremonial first pitch, opening day, 1916.
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President Obama takes to the mound tonight in the stadium of the Washington Nationals to throw the ceremonial first pitch. It's a tradition started 100 years ago this month by President William Howard Taft.
For a look at the most memorable first pitches in history, we talk with Bill Schulz, a comedian and the co-host of Fox News' Red-Eye with Greg Gutfeld.
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Dear Station Manager,
I just wanted to respond to Dr. Fung's comment about Bill Schulz's appearance on the show. The good doctor clearly lacks a sense of humor. As a childhood friend of your guest, I can tell you that Bill is many things (really...really bad things), but racist isn't one of them. Throwing out a term like racist at someone like Bill, who was clearly being sarcastic, diminishes a word that should be saved for...well...actual racists. He should save his "dismay and disgust" for people that actually deserve it, like Glenn Beck.
As someone who both listens to public radio and watches fox news, I welcome a mixing of the two (for entertainment or political opinion purposes). There should be more of it. Too many people just listen to just one or the other.
As to Dr. Fung, I will henceforth refer to him as Dr. G, because clearly there is no "fun" in him. Furthermore, anyone who makes snap judgements such as his clearly lacks the ability to understand someone who has a different sense of humor, or viewpoint, other than his own. And that is frightening, considering his education credentials.
Kindly,
Drew Lerner, not-a-PhD
Dear Station Manager,
We are writing to express our dismay and disgust with the recent comments made by a guest commentator Bill Schulz, regarding the President throwing out the first pitch.
This piece had no news value at all, thus we must conclude that it was meant as "entertainment". Mr. Schulz opined that he was "like the President" in that he (also) had "a great tan". He then went on to do an imitation of a Latino baseball player, and then said "and when I got a translator to tell me what he'd said ...".
These three comments display a racist attitude that may play very well at Fox, but is completely indefensible on a national public radio station.
We will no longer be listening to "The Takeaway", and will not be listening to WGBH. The Takeaway prides itself on it's "fresh and friendly" approach. This however is neither of those things. We, as young, urban professionals don't want any part of a station that countenances casual, front-porch racism as "entertainment".
Christopher Fung, PhD
Ping-Ann Addo, PhD
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