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.