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C.J.: On-air comment about Wellstone haunts Barnard C.J. Star Tribune Published Oct. 29, 2002 CJ29 This is why you don't wish people dead, Tom Barnard! Sen. Paul Wellstone had only 39 days to live Sept. 17 when the local radio bully told his listeners: "I hate that little [unprintable], and I hope he drops dead." The vulgar reference to the male anatomy was part of Tommy Barnyard's on-air campaign for his buddy Norm Coleman. Barnyard instantly backed off the death wish but not enough to make people forget about it. Within hours of the news Friday that Paul and Sheila Wellstone and six others had died in a plane crash near Eveleth, readers and listeners to the Barnyard show began calling me. There was John, so distraught that he said he left work early. "I challenge you to go after Barnard for what he said." Then, there was Bob regarding ". . . the lovely and hateful Tom Barnard . . . I hope you expose that hateful man for what he is." (I did, again, on Oct. 10.) And Carl: "He needs to be reminded in public of the words he spoke and have ownership of them since he always talks about never backing down and never apologizing." Well, he didn't apologize in the first or last 30 minutes of his show Monday, although he did call the death "unbelievably tragic." As usual, he tried to have it both ways. Barnyard refused to respond to a listener's mail question on Social Security. "We're not going to talk about politics right now because it doesn't make any sense," said Barnard, adding he wouldn't talk about politics again until Thursday. About an hour earlier, Barnyard couldn't resist talking politics while reading a news story about Rebecca Yanisch wanting the interim senator job; he said the election would be affected by the governor appointing a Democrat. Not good enough, Tom Although I haven't heard of any apology from Tommy Barnyard's lips, a colleague reports hearing him refer to the "unfortunate death of Senator Paul Wellstone." That's better than on Friday, before the tragedy, when Barnyard was calling him Senator Welfare. At one point, Barnyard said something Monday to his morning crew along the lines of, When you guys heard about it, doesn't it seem surreal? What seems surreal is that the cowardly Barnyard didn't admit his avowed hatred of Wellstone. Barnyard's cowardly enclave also apparently hides GM Amy Waggoner, who did not return a call. Julie Hoover, ABC's PR person in NYC, and John Hare, prez of ABC Radio, were asked to contact Waggoner about whether listeners could expect to hear Barnyard apologize. In the coming weeks, bet money that Barnyard will say something offensive about Wellstone's death. Same genre? Almost too rich was the Barnyard crew deriding the movie "Jackass" being No. 1 at the box office on Monday. Isn't Barnyard leading this market? In headline fashion, Barnyard and crew hashed over the diplomat being killed in Jordan, the gas-related deaths of hostages in Moscow being held by Chechen rebels and some passing chatter about the movie "From Hell" before getting around to this: "The late Senator Paul Wellstone's oldest son has urged former Vice President Walter Mondale to step in to replace his father, according to Democratic leaders . . . " Barnard read, then said, "That unfortunate accident on Friday . . . The fact that Senator Wellstone's wife and daughter were also on board and David Wellstone and Mark Wellstone and Todd Markuson [husband of Marcia Wellstone Markuson] lost their entire family is unbelievable. It's unbelievably tragic that that would happen. It's an odd situation." What's odd is his sympathy without an apology and his overuse of the word odd, as Barnyard continued: ". . . this probably seems odd to most people, but I've never met Senator Wellstone; never even spoke to him. Most everyone said how you can disagree with his politics, but you couldn't help but like the man. Well, I never met him, so I wouldn't know. I couldn't tell you that." Here's how it's done NFIB.org has apologized for the unfortunate timing of a recent direct- mail piece regarding Sen. Paul Wellstone's position on the death tax. "R.I.P" read the front of a piece that included art of a headstone and a moon. On the flip side, the artful highlighting of the words "dead" and "killing you" jump out as much as the photo of Wellstone. NFIB.org's Web site posted a statement Friday "in response to the death" from NFIB senior veep Dennis Whitfeld. "NFIB [which the Web site describes as 'The Voice of Small Business] will suspend any further campaign activities to join in the national sorrow over the loss of a man who served his country honorably and with distinction." A call to Mindi Boyagain's to find out whether many people had called to complain further went unanswered. Really. The number on the Web site rang and rang Monday. The lines are open It's very telling that both John and Carl didn't want to be fully identified, fearing radio reprisals from Tommy Barnyard and his listeners. Barnyard Buddies, you've got my number and e-mail. Have at it and make your misguided comments in defense of Barnyard. But I'd expect some of you to have the guts to take on shameful Tommy. -- C.J. is at 612-332-TIPS or at [EMAIL PROTECTED], where she never opens attachments. So don't even try. Return to top � Copyright 2002 Star Tribune. All rights reserved. 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