Haley Stevens: “in the past several months when radio personalities--sometimes known as ``shock jocks''--have gone beyond the bounds of…”

“in the past several months when radio personalities--sometimes known as ``shock jocks''--have gone beyond the bounds of propriety, their employers have been quick to dismiss them. For example, the Charlotte, NC, station just yesterday fired a radio talk show host who made an on-the-air joke about this week's tragedy in Littleton, CO. There was also a Washington, DC, station that immediately fired the ``Greaseman'' for his racist remarks after the tragic dragging death of a Texas man that we all remember. Now in Chicago we learn of another one of these offensive on-the-air personalities who has stepped over the line. He made insulting remarks against Special Olympians. What he said about these brave athletes is indefensible. What he said was--and it bothers me even to repeat it-- Watch them run, watch them fall, watch them try to catch a ball. Olympics, Special Olympics. Watch them laugh, watch them drool, watch them fall into the pool. That's diving at the Special Olympics. And I know full well that I will burn in Hell, but those guys playing wheelchair basketball gotta be about the funniest-- And the expletive is deleted; they took that out-- thing I've ever seen in my life. [And it is all] at the Special Olympics. Mr. President, these young men and women have overcome obstacles that we cannot understand. They deserve our applause and admiration. They should not be the targets of juvenile jokes on the public airwaves.…”