George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[EvB]

Hmmm . . . the only other way I know of for this site is just to refresh your browser page. There is usually an icon like that near the URL input.

[b_dubb]

i've just been sending off emails that say ' is george insane?  i'll be contacting your advertisers to let them know what i think of your host'.  short.  sweet.  to the point.  $$$$$

what a bunch of clowns

[EvB]

I can't tell if this is just written for Coast Gab or if you sent it as an email, GeorgeSucks.  I sure hope you didn't just preach to the choir.  Your words are words they need to reflect on.

AGREE!! 

[JustOneFix]

This was my rough draft- since cleaned up and emailed.


I have been a long time listener of Coast to Coast since 1996 when Art Bell was running the show. When George Noory took over the show I continued to listen, but let's fast forward to the past year or so. The quality of the program has gone downhill with such a severity that I and many others feel something must be done. To use the oft quoted analogy "To err is human, to really screw up takes a computer" could apply to Mr. Noory by switching "computer" for "Noory". We all make mistakes, but for someone who is supposed to be a professional broadcaster, he makes glaring errors- of which these same errors are continued on a nightly basis with little to no correction. I am more than happy to provide you with some examples if you like. In fact you'll see a few at the end of this letter.

It is HIGHLY unprofessional for a radio host to be Instant Messaging(as was noted by Richard Hoagland one night), or otherwise distracted doing other things and letting the guest ramble endlessly with Noory piping in with the occasional "Wow", "Exactly" and other things along this line. He does not engage his guests the way George Knapp or Ian Punnett do, I believe he has no interest in 98% of the subject matter on the show which that in & of itself is a topic for another day that I will not go into great detail here, but touch on it briefly.

The subject of program content is yet another part of the show that needs work.  The quality of the show is suffering, and no seems to care amongst the staff of C2C and Premiere Radio. C2C has the capability to be a real ten strike of a show, but with the incessant incompetence and lack of drive that is evident from the production down to Noory himself, it's little surprise you are loosing listeners.

I tend to ignore most of Noory's numerous mispronunciations simply because they have become so commonplace. However one thing I absolutely could not ignore was the program last night talking about Bin Laden. Noory kept talking like a school girl about to get her first kiss when he mentioned (many times mind you) that Bin Laden's body was a "National Landmark" and "Should be in the Smithsonian".

  To say that Bin Laden's body should be on display in the Smithsonian is absolutely ludicrous. However what really got my blood boiling was the giddyness that Noory was using in his deluded thoughts about seeing Bin Laden on display in the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian is a depository for a great many pieces of Americana encompassing all eras and regions of this great country. To think he'd want Bin Laden on display in the museum that houses such artifacts as Howard Hughes' H-1 Aircraft, The Apollo 11 CM, George Washington's uniform, etc is just absolutely appalling. Why sully the great resource that is the Smithsonian(or any other museum for that matter) by eve using Bin Laden and National Landmark in the same sentence.

I hereby demand an on air apology by George on tonight's program over the comments he made. If he has any kind of backbone or any kind of testicular fortitude whatsoever this request will be honored. I'm sure I am not the only one in an absolute outrage over this.  One other foul-up from last night I will not get into is the whole bit about Noory comparing Bin Laden to Jesus as I'm not a religious person and the Jesus topic is out of my area of expertise. At the very least I would think this would be highly offensive to your Christian listeners much in the same way a Jewish person would be more than a little upset by someone saying that Hitler wrote the Torah.

If a simple apology is not issued I will start a grass roots campaign to have advertisers pull their product placements during the C2C show. Money talks and when your bread isn't getting buttered because Simpleton Noory can not host a decent program maybe then & only then will Noory & staff realize the error of their ways.

[EvB]

 

[valdez]

     Boneheaded, stubborn, and unrepentant, George rams an unusually dull and disjointed show down our throats.  The only subject I wanted to hear about (besides the apology which never came - sorry I missed that "countdown" thread - you folks are a lively bunch) was how dead Osama was.  Instead John Lott talked about guns, and Dr. Rollin McCraty on the effects of gamma rays on man-of-the-moon marigolds.  "How come when it's raining for, say, a week, people get depressed; but when the sun is shinning people feel better?"  Because you are surrounded by enablers that allow you to believe that adults ask questions like that.  I want an apology for that question.  Tonight.  I'm writing an email.

[George sucks]

Coast has a guest on tonight, May, 3rd, 2011, that requires an extraordinary interviewer. Dr. Judy Wood contends the buildings in NY on 9/11 were destroyed with a directed energy weapon.

George will fail at this one abysmally I predict. I mean more than his usual abysmal failure, this might be epic. 

[anagrammy]

     Boneheaded, stubborn, and unrepentant, George rams an unusually dull and disjointed show down our throats.  The only subject I wanted to hear about (besides the apology which never came - sorry I missed that "countdown" thread - you folks are a lively bunch) was how dead Osama was.  Instead John Lott talked about guns, and Dr. Rollin McCraty on the effects of gamma rays on man-of-the-moon marigolds.  "How come when it's raining for, say, a week, people get depressed; but when the sun is shinning people feel better?"  Because you are surrounded by enablers that allow you to believe that adults ask questions like that.  I want an apology for that question.  Tonight.  I'm writing an email.
 

I was miffed as well.  Here we have an event which may significantly change the foreign pollicy quagmire which has cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives and Coast to Coast is talking about.... (GEORGE)  What exactly is the process when a person applies for a gun permit?  Really?  Why don't you launch into my family's inside joke, the most boring topic there is, "How A Bill Becomes A Law."  Where are the remote viewers who didn't view?  The psychics who didn't intuit?  The astrologers who learned nothing from the stars?  The fortune tellers, gypsies and prognosticators of all the hues and colors for the last ten years who have NOT, NO NOT ONE, predicted this.

Anagrammy

[Usagi]

     "How come when it's raining for, say, a week, people get depressed; but when the sun is shinning people feel better?"  Because you are surrounded by enablers that allow you to believe that adults ask questions like that.  I want an apology for that question.  Tonight.  I'm writing an email.

Love this.

[Usagi]

Noory: "They carried on to pursuit their target."

Does this dude speak English?

[Usagi]

The woman was a "social security school teacher"?! WTF is that?

Man, I don't even listen out for Noory fuck-ups at all, but when you do they sure come fast and furious, don't they?

[El Kragen]

George brought up the Jesus/Osama incident during the Howard Bloom segment (around 1:45 AM EST). There was no apology and he asked Bloom what he thought about it. Bloom responded it was genius or brilliant (something like that).

Again George missed the whole point of the criticism. We all get the point of the statement. He's just an idiot and it was an idiotic thing to say.

George cannot "freestyle" on a topic. He sounds like a damn fool and comes up with gems like that statement.

[George sucks]

Noory just mentioned his Jesus is Obama statement Sunday night. I missed the first part of what he said before my ears perked up. Had something to do with him mentioning he "got emails on this", "tell me what you think" asking Howard Bloom. He went on to state, I said, "Just as when Jesus Christ was crucified it did not end Christianity...". Bloom then cut him off and said, "Brilliant!!"

So, Noory can't see how in any way comparing the two is extremely disrespectful. Or, he doesn't care. Either way, he is taking the defensive position.   

[Usagi]

I suspect all the emails had the opposite of the intended effect.  Noory is probably giddy that he's getting all that attention.

Did you hear him talk about the video chat with him coming up?  His tone of voice sounded like you had the oppurtunity to have a one-on-one with the Dalai Lama.  "You'll be able to see me [you can hear the smarmy smile on his face], but I won't see you."

[HAL 9000]

George brought up the Jesus/Osama incident during the Howard Bloom segment (around 1:45 AM EST). There was no apology and he asked Bloom what he thought about it. Bloom responded it was genius or brilliant (something like that).

Again George missed the whole point of the criticism. We all get the point of the statement. He's just an idiot and it was an idiotic thing to say.

George cannot "freestyle" on a topic. He sounds like a damn fool and comes up with gems like that statement.

Here is Snoron's original statement along with tonight's piece of shit... as mp3s

Fuckwad statement #1 (mp3)
Fuckwad statement #2 (mp3)

[Roger]

ha ha ha ha! Comedy can't get any better than this!

Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin, Married with Children, The Office,
none of it comes close reproducing the ineptness in all 'seriousness'
that this character propogates!

The big question is: is it strange that it is stange? Weird? Spooky?

Spooky that it's spooky?

'Poof! And there it went!'

Hope that that quote of George happens to his ownership of this show.

Have any of you 'seen any evidence that anything like this happened any
where else?'

Saddly, you have to admit: no.  No change coming. Just a strange kind of
sad comedy.

Is it 'oxymoronic' to say that?

I want to cry.

[Eddie Coyle]

      Typical Noory bullshit and Howard Bloom is a fucking joke, this charlatan's background? He was a publicist for bands like Styx and Journey. Yeah. He is to philosophy/sociology what fucking Dr Morgus is to medicine. He hates Arabs, well except useful idiots(cough,Noory,cough) to a point where even Ian, who loves him, had to scold him a bit(Summer 2006 during Israeli invasion of Lebanon)

         DIE C2C DIE!

[valdez]

George brought up the Jesus/Osama incident during the Howard Bloom segment (around 1:45 AM EST). There was no apology and he asked Bloom what he thought about it. Bloom responded it was genius or brilliant (something like that).

Noory just mentioned his Jesus is Obama statement Sunday night. I missed the first part of what he said before my ears perked up. Had something to do with him mentioning he "got emails on this", "tell me what you think" asking Howard Bloom. He went on to state, I said, "Just as when Jesus Christ was crucified it did not end Christianity...". Bloom then cut him off and said, "Brilliant!!"

He said he got "an email".  Heck, I know at least two people who gave him shit on this, but for some reason he chose minimize the response he got.  Fine.  It wasn't an apology, but I sensed a tinge of guilt.  He knows he's wrong.  Thanks for posting the link, HAL, you're like that Garcia chick in "Criminal Minds", with her technical computer savvy, and her big boobs.  Kind of.  Nevermind.  The Coastgab Rapid Response Team gets an on air reaction from George.  I'll call it a victory.  Good job.
     Besides Howard Bloom kissing George's butt, Dr. Judy Wood talked about some crazy technology that actually brought down the towers, and maybe the federal building at Oklahoma City.  Whatever. I'm sure she's a nice lady, and probably makes a fine ice tea and biscuits, but she was totally not ready for prime time radio.

smells like victory

[Roger]

What would tv do?

[Silent]

I listened to the clip posted by HAL and all it sounds like he's saying is you can't kill off an ideology by taking out its leader or founder.  It's a dumb analogy but I don't see him saying 'Bin Laden is just like Jesus'.

What it shows to me is just his inability to come up with a strong argument.  Whenever I hear anyone making an analogy which includes either Jesus or Hitler that person's social skills credibility takes a nosedive in my eyes.  It's always a weak, clumsy comparison that will get people all fired up and the point being made is completely lost.  Not that Noory's social skills are held in high regard here.  I think you guys have been inadvertantly trolled by Noory.   

[EvB]

  I think you guys have been inadvertantly trolled by Noory.   

i admit it - that's the case for me. damn.

[El Kragen]

Just for the record here's what Snoory said:

"Just when Jesus Christ was crucified it did not put an end to Christianity. If anything Christianity flourished, it got bigger. Believe me, the death of Osama Bin Laden will not mark the end of terrorism, by any means. We need to get to the root cause of what is causing this and combat it and fight it whatever way we can."

[aldousburbank]

Just for the record here's what Snoory said:

"We need to get to the root cause of what is causing this and combat it and fight it whatever way we can."

This would have been something I could have wholeheartedly agreed with George about, had he been talking about his sucky little radio show.  Otherwise, notice that even when placed in context, Noory's statement signifies nothing but horseshit.  Same as it ever was.  This guy sucks so bad that it sometimes makes me exceedingly happy to say that he does.  It's a beautiful thing. 

Now, I really don't want to hear anybody say that I have a bad attitude or that this thread is a waste of time.  Thanx.

[fysisist]

It doesn't look like anybody else caught this, but on Sunday night when talking about the killing of OBL, the unbelievably inept and boorish Noory, while stumbling for a name, referred to the al qaeda number 2 man as Zarqawi, who was as some of us might remember the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq until 2006 when he was killed by a US airstrike.  Hagmann corrected Boory by stating rather pointedly that OBL's deputy and al qaeda number 2 man Zawahiri was still at large.  What does Snoory do while shuttling back and forth from St. Louis to LA?  Does he ever even read a friggin' newspaper?  If this clown's IQ is over 89 I'd seriously be surprised.  But I actually take that back because if it were simply a matter of not having the intelligence to be able to prepare for a show, then you could possibly forgive the ineptness.  However, the problem here is that he is just too lazy or even worse, thinks that he is above having to prepare for the show.  And then rather than acknowledging his mistake, he just continues on with his next uninformed and inane comment.  One can well understand why this guy has no wife or girlfriend. 

[Eddie Coyle]

It doesn't look like anybody else caught this, but on Sunday night when talking about the killing of OBL, the unbelievably inept and boorish Noory, while stumbling for a name, referred to the al qaeda number 2 man as Zarqawi, who was as some of us might remember the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq until 2006 when he was killed by a US airstrike.  Hagmann corrected Boory by stating rather pointedly that OBL's deputy and al qaeda number 2 man Zawahiri was still at large.  What does Snoory do while shuttling back and forth from St. Louis to LA?  Does he ever even read a friggin' newspaper?  If this clown's IQ is over 89 I'd seriously be surprised.  But I actually take that back because if it were simply a matter of not having the intelligence to be able to prepare for a show, then you could possibly forgive the ineptness.  However, the problem here is that he is just too lazy or even worse, thinks that he is above having to prepare for the show.  And then rather than acknowledging his mistake, he just continues on with his next uninformed and inane comment.  One can well understand why this guy has no wife or girlfriend.

         He's a moron, absolutely clueless and hilariously seems to consider himself an expert on Middle East affairs. I remember some years ago, a guest telling Noory about al-Zawahiri being a major player in Muslim Brotherhood affairs and being complicit in the killing of Sadat in '81, and dumbass Noory says in a surprised tone "That's Before 9/11!!!"....Yes George,October,1981 preceded September 2001.

[Bart]

It looks like noory is not being called for any appearances any more.  His "calender" has been as blank as his head for a long time now, and we all know if he had something scheduled in December he would already have it up and showing.

[aldousburbank]

It looks like noory is not being called for any appearances any more.  His "calender" has been as blank as his head for a long time now, and we all know if he had something scheduled in December he would already have it up and showing.

I think his next scheduled gig, other than the alleged outcall bdsm escort thang, is the Dec. 21-22 2012 shows which promises to be oh so glorious.

[fysisist]

I think his next scheduled gig, other than the alleged outcall bdsm escort thang, is the Dec. 21-22 2012 shows which promises to be oh so glorious.

does the bdsm thang involve turmeric??

[rkowna]

Here's some related info-
Sending an email to the sales staff- ALL of them- is a worthwhile idea.
The more people that know about the custerfuck that C2C has become will have a positive effect in the long term.

Sales staff-
Carol Terakawa
   EVP of Sales
   818-461-8097    cterakawa@premiereradio.com
Michael Soifer
   Director of New Business (All New Advertising Inquiries)
   312-266-3873
   msoifer@premiereradio.com
Dan Metter
   SVP/Director of Talk Radio Sales
   212-445-3926
   dmetter@premiereradio.com
Alison Horn
   VP of Music Syndication Sales
   818-461-8040
   ahorn@premiereradio.com
Craig Hawkesworth
   VP of Interactive Sales
   972-455-6267
   chawkesworth@premiereradio.com
Dennis Brownlee
   VP of Urban Sales
   212-445-3904
   dbrownlee@premiereradio.com
Alex Fenech
   SVP Southeast Region; Atlanta Sales Office
   404-870-5071
   afenech@premiereradio.com
Doug Johnston
   SVP of Sales, Central Region; Chicago & Detroit Sales Offices
   312-266-3880
   djohnston@premiereradio.com
Rhonda Scheidel
   EVP Southwest Region; Dallas Sales Office
   972-239-6220
   rscheidel@premiereradio.com
Jason Wilberding    VP Western Region; Los Angeles Sales Office    818-461-8604
   jwilberding@premiereradio.com
Cathie Mongarella
   SVP Northeast; New York Sales Office
   212-445-3970
   cmongarella@premiereradio.com
Misc.
    Domestic Affiliate Relations
    Eileen Lofrese
    elofrese@premiereradio.com
    (212) 896-5335 phone
    On Air Sales
    Dan Metter
    DMetter@Premiereradio.com
    (212) 445-3926 phone
    Online Sales
    Craig Hawkesworth
    chawkesworth@premiereradio.com
    International Affiliate Relations
    Tanya Juhasz
    international@premiereradio.com
    (818) 377-5300 phone
    (818) 501-2031 fax
    Premiere NOC (Affiliates Only)
    noc@premiereradio.com
    (800) 276-4431 phone
    Coast to Coast AM Streamlink
    customerservice@premiereradio.com
    (818) 461-8357 phone

The motherlode.  Thanks.  Sales hurts first and worst in broadcasting.  Advertisers typically begin bailing before the bad ratings.  Because a lot of contracts are longterm you still hear commercials but sales people know before the ads run dry who has not renewed.  I am off to do some writing.  I am going to do the kindness thing.  I think anyone who has a sales job at this level is good at what they do, and more importantly they are not idiots.  I am going to make mention of the fact that I am listener who has invested nothing in my budget to advertising on coast; if I can tell and am motivated to write imagine what sponsors with money sunk in this train wreck must be thinking.  Thanks for the list. 

[rkowna]

     He said he got "an email".  Heck, I know at least two people who gave him shit on this, but for some reason he chose minimize the response he got.  Fine.  It wasn't an apology, but I sensed a tinge of guilt.  He knows he's wrong.  Thanks for posting the link, HAL, you're like that Garcia chick in "Criminal Minds", with her technical computer savvy, and her big boobs.  Kind of.  Nevermind.  The Coastgab Rapid Response Team gets an on air reaction from George.  I'll call it a victory.  Good job.
     Besides Howard Bloom kissing George's butt, Dr. Judy Wood talked about some crazy technology that actually brought down the towers, and maybe the federal building at Oklahoma City.  Whatever. I'm sure she's a nice lady, and probably makes a fine ice tea and biscuits, but she was totally not ready for prime time radio.

smells like victory

Just listened to this nitwit Judy Woods.  The April 12 show, the second worst Noory show in history behind Bin Laden is Christ mess, was when her name first  surfaced.  Hoagland cited her has a genius and said that her work and his work were on parallell courses with that of Jesse Ventura.  The show is still so annoying I just heard Hoagland in the back of my head  say and George is the mother spider in the web weaving us all together.  Sick, ignoramus, shill for Hoagland and an advocate of idiocy. 

Sorry for the digression, but Art was impartial, or at least not mentally unstable, and listening to this rot is destroying the legacy of a a great man.  Anyway, after listening to Ms. Woods, any fear I ad that these two cretins (Noory and Hoagland) would be able to latch on to Jesse Ventura has been allayed.  Just to be clear I am not worried about Mr. Ventura, he will take care of himself, but the last thing I want to see the Dueling Windbags gettin a contact extension because Premier sees the value in Jesse being a Premier kind of guy.

I am not a fan of Jesse Ventura but anyone smart enough to be elected governor should be smart enough to distance himself from these two scheming dirtbags.  I believe Judy Woods introduction to Jesse  will see to it that Gorge and Hoaxland's attempt to create publicity by luring Jesse Ventura into their overt attempt to save th show by leeching off of Jesse Ventura is very likely terminated.  Sick. It is starting to make me physicaly ill now instead of just mentally ill.