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Bernard McGuirk
Bernard J. McGuirk (October 26, 1957 – October 5, 2022) was an American radio personality. He was host at WABC in New York City alongside Sid Rosenberg. He was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York, where he worked in his younger years as a taxi driver.
McGuirk was an alum of Cardinal Hayes High School and graduated from College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York with a degree in communications in 1984. He worked in radio and television beginning in 1986. He was best known for his long run as the executive producer of Imus in the Morning, a radio program that was nationally syndicated from 1993 until the program ended with host Don Imus's retirement in 2018.
On April 1, 2015, during the Imus in the Morning show on Fox Business, McGuirk called Apple CEO Tim Cook a "bigot hypocrite" for "running his mouth" about the subject of the religious freedom Indiana law passed the month prior.
McGuirk: There is a lot of hypocrisy. First of all, Governor Cuomo tells all his state employees don't go to Indiana but he's going to Cuba where gay marriage is illegal and they maybe throw you in jail. You have this hypocrite, this bigot hypocrite, Tim Cook, who is running his mouth about the whole thing.
McShane: The Apple CEO?
McGuirk: Yeah. He sells products to Iran. He sells products to Saudi Arabia where they execute people if they're gay.
McDowell: A hypocrite maybe, but a bigot?
McGuirk: A religious bigot, yeah. He won't allow these religious people to exercise their freedom.
McShane: That seems too strong to me.
McGuirk: It does seem strong but in my opinion it happens to be accurate. If he doesn't allow this Orthodox Jewish guy to refuse service...the point of the law is to allow him to exempt himself from a certain situation.
McShane: This will end up back in the Supreme Court somewhere.
McGuirk: And the governor of Connecticut. Meanwhile the state has the same law.
McShane: But I think there is a difference in the law in terms...there are small differences in these laws. Some of these state laws are just to protect you against the government not against another person. So there are differences in those state laws.
McGuirk: Gay rights and religious freedom are not mutually exclusive. They both can exist in the same universe and compromises have to be made. That's just the way we work things out in this country. Tim Cook has to put his money where his mouth is. If he really feels that way, stop marketing Apple products in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Nigeria where they not only dump on women and treat them as second class citizens but as I said they would execute gay people.
On the Imus in the Morning show, McGuirk was not known to shy away from saying whatever was on his mind, and always in a heavily accented "Brooklyn cabdriver" deadpan that seemed both to amuse and horrify Imus in equal measure. Imus' sidekick, Charles McCord, often played the role of the instigator, doing his best to egg on McGuirk.
For example, after the release of The Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq, McGuirk stated: "She strikes me as the kind of woman who would wear one of those suicide vests. You know, walk into the tent or try and sneak into the Green Zone.
The son of Irish immigrants and an altar boy in his youth, McGuirk did impersonations of John Cardinal O'Connor and Edward Cardinal Egan (both Archbishops of New York) in which he "fashions an oversize FedEx envelope into a cone on his head ... Using a high-pitched Irish brogue ... the producer-as-cardinal said on the March 16 installment of the show that 'the only thing Hillary Clinton has in common with the late great President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, God rest his soul, is that they both enjoyed extramarital affairs with women.'"
Regarding Presidential aspirant Barack Obama, McGuirk stated: "He's a neophyte, no experience. It's all because he's half black, it's patronizing, he's Oprah's guy." After Imus tried to interrupt him, McGuirk went on again to say it was patronizing to support Obama, and referred to him as a "jug-eared neophyte".[citation needed]
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Bernard McGuirk
Bernard J. McGuirk (October 26, 1957 – October 5, 2022) was an American radio personality. He was host at WABC in New York City alongside Sid Rosenberg. He was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York, where he worked in his younger years as a taxi driver.
McGuirk was an alum of Cardinal Hayes High School and graduated from College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York with a degree in communications in 1984. He worked in radio and television beginning in 1986. He was best known for his long run as the executive producer of Imus in the Morning, a radio program that was nationally syndicated from 1993 until the program ended with host Don Imus's retirement in 2018.
On April 1, 2015, during the Imus in the Morning show on Fox Business, McGuirk called Apple CEO Tim Cook a "bigot hypocrite" for "running his mouth" about the subject of the religious freedom Indiana law passed the month prior.
McGuirk: There is a lot of hypocrisy. First of all, Governor Cuomo tells all his state employees don't go to Indiana but he's going to Cuba where gay marriage is illegal and they maybe throw you in jail. You have this hypocrite, this bigot hypocrite, Tim Cook, who is running his mouth about the whole thing.
McShane: The Apple CEO?
McGuirk: Yeah. He sells products to Iran. He sells products to Saudi Arabia where they execute people if they're gay.
McDowell: A hypocrite maybe, but a bigot?
McGuirk: A religious bigot, yeah. He won't allow these religious people to exercise their freedom.
McShane: That seems too strong to me.
McGuirk: It does seem strong but in my opinion it happens to be accurate. If he doesn't allow this Orthodox Jewish guy to refuse service...the point of the law is to allow him to exempt himself from a certain situation.
McShane: This will end up back in the Supreme Court somewhere.
McGuirk: And the governor of Connecticut. Meanwhile the state has the same law.
McShane: But I think there is a difference in the law in terms...there are small differences in these laws. Some of these state laws are just to protect you against the government not against another person. So there are differences in those state laws.
McGuirk: Gay rights and religious freedom are not mutually exclusive. They both can exist in the same universe and compromises have to be made. That's just the way we work things out in this country. Tim Cook has to put his money where his mouth is. If he really feels that way, stop marketing Apple products in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Nigeria where they not only dump on women and treat them as second class citizens but as I said they would execute gay people.
On the Imus in the Morning show, McGuirk was not known to shy away from saying whatever was on his mind, and always in a heavily accented "Brooklyn cabdriver" deadpan that seemed both to amuse and horrify Imus in equal measure. Imus' sidekick, Charles McCord, often played the role of the instigator, doing his best to egg on McGuirk.
For example, after the release of The Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq, McGuirk stated: "She strikes me as the kind of woman who would wear one of those suicide vests. You know, walk into the tent or try and sneak into the Green Zone.
The son of Irish immigrants and an altar boy in his youth, McGuirk did impersonations of John Cardinal O'Connor and Edward Cardinal Egan (both Archbishops of New York) in which he "fashions an oversize FedEx envelope into a cone on his head ... Using a high-pitched Irish brogue ... the producer-as-cardinal said on the March 16 installment of the show that 'the only thing Hillary Clinton has in common with the late great President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, God rest his soul, is that they both enjoyed extramarital affairs with women.'"
Regarding Presidential aspirant Barack Obama, McGuirk stated: "He's a neophyte, no experience. It's all because he's half black, it's patronizing, he's Oprah's guy." After Imus tried to interrupt him, McGuirk went on again to say it was patronizing to support Obama, and referred to him as a "jug-eared neophyte".[citation needed]