Talk:Charles Adler (broadcaster)

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How can you possibly associate Charles Adler with Tom Leykis? Adler is by no means a crude, shock-jock.Loomis51 23:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, I'm removing that whole line. Adler is nowhere near as extreme a conservative as Rush Limbaugh, nor is he anything like Tom Leykis. "A moderate cross between the two" is rather hard to imagine. Heqs 08:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I would personally agree with it. He's very rude, and completely a "Shock Jock" as you put it. However, he doesn't have the only daily nationally syndicated radio show in Canada. Dave Rutherford's show is also nationally syndicated. Chaleur 00:34, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Ever heard Tom Leykis? Give it a try sometime.
Popular envelope-pushing topics for shock jocks include sex, especially kinky and/or scatalogical topics (toilet humour), or just unabashed innuendo. Dialogue approaching or committing thinly veiled or excused racism, homophobia, exploitation of women, ridicule of the disabled, etc., are also tools of the shock trade. One increasingly common theme of shock jocks is to promote weekly highway "flashing" days, with names such as "Whip'em Out Wednesday (W.O.W for short)", where women are encouraged to expose themselves to other motorists. The Liz Wilde Show features "Blow It Out Yer Ass" Fridays, where nudity and sexual content dominates the broadcast.
Charles Adler, on the other hand, sticks to current events, pop culture, advice columnists and political discussion an 8th grader could follow, and asks his callers not to call people losers.
Btw, what qualifies as "nationally syndicated"? Is anyone in all ten provinces, let alone territories? As far as I know, at the very least Adler doesn't reach Quebec and Rutherford isn't carried in BC. heqs 13:14, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes. I listen to him fairly regularly (Leykis). The biggest difference I see is that Mr. Adler is more patronising to his female guests. He only seems to call the male ones idiots on a regular basis. The female ones he flirts with. At least Leykis calls everyone an idiot. Chaleur 21:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Don't think I've ever heard Adler call a guest an "idiot". heqs 04:11, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Adler isn't a shock jock, nor is he a Limbaugh wannabe. As I just added to the article, his interviewing style is tongue-in-cheek and intentionally unpredictable. He'll be talking to someone about gun control and suddenly throw in a question like "Do you think the Flames will win the Stanley Cup this year?" I've heard this time and again. And quite often the interviewee gets the idea. I have never heard him call anyone an idiot -- in fact he treats his interviewees with a lot more respect than some of them deserve. Compare with someone like Dave Rutherford (an Alberta-based radio show host) who I have heard yelling angrily at some of his guests (not always without cause, I might add). I think this article could use a quotes section, as Adler has provided many interesting quotes on his show -- many of which are used to promote it. 68.145.238.33 17:19, 29 October 2006 (UTC)