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- Jul 4, 2022
A bunch of conservative talking heads seem to have started as shock jocks, Hannity and Jim Quinn also come to mind.Way before his Fox career, he was trying to be a Rush Limbaugh clone on AM radio after his coke addiction lost him his shock jock career so he did a major rebrand.
A bit of a side-note, but looking up on Quinn led me down this weird rabbit-hole where apparently the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, Robert Bowers, was a Quinn fan. On one of the recent MATIs I think it was briefly mentioned that Torba had cooperated with the feds in the past - that was about Bowers. Bowers posted on Gab with his full name and the @onedingo (link). Torba freaked the fuck out when Stripe et al. dropped Gab following the shooting, froze Bowers' account, and turned over all kinds of user info to the FBI. The feds were after these two brothers who talked to Bowers on Gab, and the younger one killed himself though it's not clear why (link). That part of the story seems to have been somewhat buried, but add Gab to the list of "websites with a higher body count than the Farms."