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(October 31, 2001) A Lying Opportunist Peter Werbe, leftist talk host on KOMY, was dropped from our schedule several weeks ago. As a result of that action, he never did lose his right to “free speech,” despite his rantings on the subject. In addition to public radio, there are about thirty-five stations in this market, most with more powerful signals than our little one thousand watt station. Surely one of those stations would have carried his program.

BUT…..that was not Werbe’s plan … he chose to use his departure from KOMY to go online, present himself as a victim, obtain worldwide FREE publicity, and claim that his first amendment right of free speech was denied. (Pretty smart, actually, if he wasn’t so dishonest…) He deliberately fomented hate against us, the owners of KOMY, under a false premise simply to promote himself. The first amendment has nothing to do with a person’s right of free speech, and Werbe has known that all along.

As owners of a commercial radio station, it is our legal right to offer programming that we believe a majority of our listeners would enjoy. Werbe certainly did not fit that description. Many listeners used the station comment line to characterize him as arrogant, rude, mean-spirited, and other various expletives. There wasn’t one advertiser willing to sponsor him.

Even if this were not wartime, we were about to let him go … too many listeners were tuning us out.

Last Saturday, 10/28, Werbe agreed to be a guest on the two-hour weekly Saturday Special. Unable to handle the criticisms of several callers, he walked out of the show after the first hour. As a result if this incident, we received an astounding number of emails full of hate and indignation because we “deprived” Werbe of his free speech rights.

If you are one of those gullible souls who bought into his big canard, your anger at us is misplaced. Your anger should be directed to Wormy — I mean Werbe — the lying opportunist. You have been snookered … and we have been the victims of deliberate character assassination.