Talk:Jim Quinn

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[edit] Obligatory Rants

NOTE: someone should update this article to reflect quinn's obvious disdain for constitutional law (given his support for a criminal administration and, correspondingly, their blatantly illegal abuses of America's governmental infrastructure). his political beliefs as demonstrated on his radio show can hardly be classified as "constitutional." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.166.66.2 (talk) 13:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

HA HA - above contribution obviously from a winey, liberal. This can easly be conferred from the bad grammar and punctuation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.200.171 (talk) 21:11, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
  • re: HA HA -- your sentence, including "this can easily be conferred" doesn't make sense in the English language unless I infer that you perhaps got confused and used conferred when you really meant to use inferred. Please see talk page guidelines on civility and on signing your posts.

riverguy42 (talk) 16:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • re: HA HA -- Also, I think you meant to say whiney liberal and not winey, liberal. The American Heritage Dictionary indicates that winey means "having the qualities or taste of wine", and it's easily inferred from the incivil tone of your laughter that you did not mean to confer any such endorsement on the target of your incivility. In order to confer on your target the attribute of whininess, you would need to use the h, as in whine. Generally, it's good form to make sure your own diction and punctuation are up to snuff before laughing so loudly at another. It tends to make the laugher appear laughable. For diction and punctuation, there are plenty of good dictionaries online. For civility, well...the Bible is a perhaps good reference to consult on the topic of the mote in your brother's eye. For those who don't like the Bible, the Wiki "talk page" guidelines provide more secular (but essentially equivalent) guidelines.

riverguy42 (talk) 16:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • This is an ok place for discussions about NPOV, and naturally there will be opinions about Quinn from both sides. All opinions expressed about Quinn are welcome (as long as you sign your posts), but this is not a place for attacking other editors opinions.

riverguy42 (talk) 16:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Jim Quinn is definitely an interesting and well spoken radio commentary. Definitely worth a listen if you live in the Pittsburgh area or have the money to subscribe to the site to access the archives of the radio show.—Preceding unsigned comment added by USER NAME OR IP (talk • contribs) DATE AND TIME


[edit] blanking

Please stop blanking the page. If you have issue with any individual statement, feel free to bring it up here, but your edits will continue to be reverted. Trilemma 16:53, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Then rewrite it to be a bit more neutral. You've already shown that any edits to what you write will be classified as "vandalism", so it doesn't appear at this time to be worthwhile to work with you. --Likwidshoe 10:27, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Feel free to add any additional material, but your attempt at blanking the page is not acceptable and will continue to be reverted. If you look, you'll see that a previous editor added some information while largely blanking what was there. Most of the information he added has been kept, but the blanking was changed. Trilemma 17:30, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Subjectivity

The main body of this article shows significant subjectivity and should be rewritten. (previously unsigned comment by KongminRegent

Please sign your comment's with the four ~'s. I updated yours.

The info stating "Beginning in December 2005, he has added two additional segments to the show: the 'insane item of the day' and the 'stuck on stupid award'." is wrong. The "insane item of the day" has been around since at least 2001. It is not an everyday thing. The "stuck on stupid award" was started a couple of days after this incident. --Likwidshoe 00:24, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Show

Removed 'Like many of his conservative peers' before 'Quinn has no formal training in this area. Opinionated addition.

The sentence detailing his interest in law enforcement not coming to fruition demonstrated gross bias. How many other "conservative talk peers" have shown unrealized interest in joining law enforcement? Who are they? And the clever rhyme describing him as a "hostile talker and docile walker" was a clever play on words that serves no purpose than to paint him with somebody else's brushstroke. It was somebody's clever way to put their mark on an article without adding anything of encylopedic value.

71.55.62.160 23:24, 5 September 2007 (UTC)


Quinn toyed with the idea of going into law enforcement as an undercover agent as a topic on his show. He later stated that his advanced age(late 50's) prevented him from being accepted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.165.89.27 (talk) 00:24, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] unsigned comments; previously 'Removing a paragraph'

The paragraph discussing conspiracy theories about Clinton is anecdotal, uninformative, and generaly meant to discredit him and accomplish nothing else. I believe that it should be deleted, and I believe I should recommend it here instead of just doing it.—Preceding unsigned comment added by USER NAME OR IP (talk • contribs) DATE AND TIME

Yes, you should recommend it here, but if you don't sign your comments, especially when nominating content for deletion, you give the appearance that you are seconding your own nomination (see unsigned "I agree" below). Unsigned nominations for deletion (and unsigned comments in generally) are viewed as suspect and are therefore properly ignored. riverguy42 (talk) 15:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Does anybody known what Heads-Up it is when they play that song with the woman playing the piano singing He Touched Me?

That's the Sexual Harrassment Heads-Up. I've added information about that to the section. 71.231.102.185 11:07, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
I agree about the conspiracy section. I also believe there aren't enough references to his recent shows. What about his thoughts on loose change? —Preceding unsigned comment added by USER NAME OR IP (talk • contribs) DATE AND TIME

[edit] New Quick Start Guide

When the new station came on, Quinn presented an updated Quick Start Guide, which I transcribed onto this page. I would just like to say that these are supposed to be quotes, so please don't change or adulterate them if you think they are offensive, rough, etc. KongminRegent 22:52, 26 December 2006 (UTC)