WBAI makes Page Six
New York Post [Page Six] - July 8, 2007
Quinn-bashing Costs Station
AFTER a bid to name a street after race-baiting activist Sonny Carson
was blocked by Council Speaker Christine Quinn, FM talk station WBAI
has made her Public Enemy No. 1 - but the campaign seems to have
backfired. Sources say the station is losing audience due to hosts
who’ve used “racist, sexist and homophobic” slurs when discussing
openly gay Quinn on air. Our regular listener says the worst offender
is Father Lawrence Lucas, who serves on the station’s board and has
made “the worst comments out of everyone. They are anti-white and
homophobic remarks. “He calls her a ‘nasty lesbo.’ A lot of listeners
have started calling in and complaining.” The on-air anti-Quinn
tirades began in early June after a bill was introduced to rename
four blocks of Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant after Carson, who
led the racist boycott against a Korean deli in 1990. Quinn opposed
it, calling Carson “anti-white” - just as Carson described himself.
“The public outcry against these comments demonstrates there is no
tolerance for hatred and bigotry in this city,” said Quinn’s rep of
the name-calling. WBAI did not return calls.