Dec. 9th, 2004

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David Brudnoy, WBZ's evening talk show host, died of cancer at 6 p.m. this evening.

Whenever I got tired of the nattering classes doing their schtick on NPR, I knew I'd be able to switch over to WBZ 1030 in the evening for something completely different. DB was a gay, HIV positive, ~conservative libertarian, with whom I agreed surprisingly often. He was very good at doing talk radio without being a twit, and even when his guests were idiots, he managed to salvage the conversation.

He was one of the first on the red side of the media spectrum to realize that Shrub was NOT going to be the libertarians' friend. He was pro-gay marriage. And he was a guy who wasn't afraid to be intellectual.

Best quote from tonight's WBZ memorial call-in show (in heavy Bahw-stin accent): "I'm just a blue collar guy, ya know, drive a truck an' everything, but every time I listened to that guy, he made me feel smarter."

I'll miss his voice, not the least because I didn't remember to switch over to listen to him often enough...

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