Can't Find Blacks 'Worthy of a National Radio Show' Says Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo of Sirius XM Radio

Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo. (Screen capture from YouTube video)

When a caller named ‘Warrior’ asked why Mad Dog radio has never had a black host, Russo, rather ineloquently, tried to explain that there weren’t any qualified hosts around.

By Bob Raissman
Chris (Mad Dog) Russo lapsed into a Donald Sterling moment Friday, creating his own controversy when he told a caller he has not found a black host “who is worthy of doing a national talk show.”

With sensitivity running high, it’s perfectly fine to discuss Sterling, especially on sports-talk radio, where controversy sells...

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Based on the staff pictures of so-called 'liberal-progressive' news
organizations, one could conclude they agree with Russo.

(Clockwise from top left - Democracy Now!, NPR interns, NPR staff, Politico managers,
Huffington Post staff, Trueslant staff, NPR staff, Alternet staff, Middle - Open Democracy
staff.)

In an interview Friday night with the Daily News, a defiant Russo was not backing down.

“The idea that I wouldn’t hire a black talk-show host, a Korean talk-show host, or a talk-show host from Mars is absurd,” Russo said. “If there is any person of any ethnicity who wants to get a job at ‘Mad Dog Radio’ and we feel he or she is capable of doing a national talk show at the highest level, I’d put them on in a second. Let’s just say we are not being overwhelmed by resumes.

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