January 17, 2001

Jeannine Graf was fired for exposing the Fistgate scandal, the school-supported, taxpayer-funded conference where 12-year-old children were given graphic instruction on "fisting" and other elements of homosexual sex, on her popular talk radio show. 

She was the only member of the media with the courage to report on the subject; most of the press were afraid of the story. The Boston Globe defended Fistgate and even printed a vicious personal smear against Graf. (See story)

In reporting about the scandal, Graf made many enemies in the establishment. Because of the publicity she generated, the Department of Education was forced to apologize to the parents of the state and fire two of its teachers who had taught at the shocking conference.

Did Jeannine Graf deserve to be fired? Here are some thoughts from readers of The Massachusetts News.

Former Guest on Show Calls
Firing a 'Blow to Free Speech'
I have appeared on Jeanine Graf's program several times over the years on a wide range of social issues. She is without question one of the best talk show hosts on the air.

She is fair to both sides, does her homework, stimulates and keeps the discussion moving, and draws out the most important points from both sides.

She has class and provides real, intelligent discussion, especially compared to Imus, Howie Carr and others who try to appeal to the lowest common denominator of listeners.

Her firing from station WTKK which, when it began, looked like a breath of fresh air compared to all the other politically correct stations, is a real disappointment. It is a great loss to full discussion of important issues and a blow to freedom of speech and of the press in this broadcast area.
Evelyn Reilly
Waltham

Switching Back to WBZ
Now that Jeannine Graf is gone, I'll have to switch back to WBZ and the David Brudnoy show.  I'm sure David's sponsors will be happy for the increased audience.  Too bad, as I did try to support Jeannine's sponsors.
Kevin McDonough

Promoters of Fistgate
Should be Fired
I think that those responsible for promoting "Fistgate" should be fired.  As a parent and an educator, I was and am abhorred that such information was given to children.  I am thankful that Ms.Graf informed her listeners about such an indiscretion.
Robert E. Ellenberger

Jeanine Graf Has Courage
Jeannie Graf shouldn't have been fired from her position.  Far too many of us have been sticking our collective necks in the sand for far too many years now.  At least she had the moral and personal courage to tell us, (those who really have the power but don't know it yet) what is going on and, more importantly, what is going wrong.  Looking for a scapegoat, are we??
Rich Levesque
Assonet

Graf was 'Jeff-Jacobied' Out of Radio
Jeanine Graf was just "Jeff-Jacobied" out of talk radio. At least the Boston Globe gave Jacoby only a temporary sentence of departure for not fitting into the PC straight-jacket, designed according to the media gods.  Perhaps 96.9 FM will come to their senses when enough of us spread the word and stop listening to their station and supporting their sponsors.

Severin is Not What He Claims
Jay Severin is a self-proclaimed non hypocrite. 

I beg to differ with you, Jay, as your silence in the Jeannine Graf firing
over the 'Fistgate' matter is deafeningly hypocritical.
Marie C. Daly

Liberalism Reveals its True Colors
It's nauseatingly predictable that Ms. Graf would be fired.  Today, freedom of speech only applies to that speech which is approved.  Liberalism is revealing itself for what it truly is—fascism.
Robert Kumpel
San Diego

Result of Outlawing School Prayer
Another result of that 1962 decision by the Supreme Court which effectively threw God out of the government schools [Engel v. Vitale].
Keep up the good work!
Myron C. Wheeler
Billings, Montana

Fired for Reporting an Important Story
We have come to a very sad place in the history of our country when a person can be fired from their job for reporting a story of extreme importance to the public interest.

Under the present rules no one can say a prayer in school without offending some interest group.  We can however, allow employees of the state education dept. to teach practices of the most perverted lifestyle to our children, against the wishes of their parents and we
are all but required to accept this as normal.

Instead of Graf losing her job, she should get a medal and all the govt. employees who allow this abomination to happen should be fired—including the governor.

Graf should be paid at her present salary by the station that fired her until she repositions herself in a new job of equal stature. She has performed a valuable service to the community in general.

What happened to so called "free speech”? These interest groups seem to have the absolute power of a fascist government.

Very sad story.
Gene Brennan
Chatham

Jeannine Graf is a Hero
The members of the Dept. of Education, who have been securing massive funding from tax payers for the gay/straight alliance (GSA) clubs that have been growing by leaps and bounds in our Mass. public schools, must have been terrified that the 'teaching' sessions on how to engage in various forms of dangerous and destructive sex would become an issue that city and town school committees would have to address if parents became knowledgeable about what children were being taught in the name of "safe schools."

The judge, who made the decision to silence the evidence, must have been under very threatening circumstances to make the decision that would prevent the information from reaching  parents. The newspaper personnel, with the exception of the Herald, must have been under the same kind of threat.

Perhaps, someday, the people who were “calling the shots,” so to speak, during those hours of decision-making will be revealed and their actions brought to light. There had to be phone calls and e-mail messages flying between the power-breakers to pull off the threats that led to the judge's decision. Someday it will all be revealed and the students and parents of Massachusetts will see clearly how the DOE was caught up into that massive web of deception.

Don’t Support the Boston Globe
As far as I'm able, I'll not have anything to do with the Boston Globe and I’ll think that most of what 96.9 has on the air is worse than an emergency broadcast signal test tone, because unlike the EBS test tone, it serves no purpose.

People who continue to subscribe to the Globe and or support advertisers of the Globe or 96.9 who promote the immoral agendas of those organizations will deserve what they get when they wonder what happened to their children who don't share their values or respect those aspects of society that make it worth living in.
John

American Elite Preaches Atheism
Every society is ruled by an elite over-class. These people influence the culture and its key institutions - the courts, other branches of government, the media, the educational infrastructure  - out of all proportion to their numbers.

The American elite has its own de facto religion. The individuals may say they are of this faith or that one. But the only acceptable worldview is that of practical atheism.

These folks know full well that what they are doing opposes traditional religion. But they don't care. They are hell-bent to force their own religion on us and they are using any and all means to do it. Dissenters will not be tolerated.

Jeannine Graf is as much a victim of the established paganism as the Christians under Nero were.  Fortunately, these folks don't have the power to burn at the stake yet.
Lawrence Andrade
Swampscott

Express Dissatisfaction to Station’s Advertisers
I am saddened that in America you can't express yourself and report the apparent truth without retribution. It appears that a few exert a lot of power and they need to be challenged. The best way I know is to express our dissatisfaction to the station’s advertisers.
Benjojp

Free Speech is Okay—Sometimes
What happened to Jeannine Graf is terrible.  I guess it just goes to show that free speech is okay an long as you don’t have an opinion against homosexuals, abortion, race, or anything else that the left wingers don’t want to hear.   But, we can hear all there is about right wingers being out of control for not opening their arms to homosexuality, abortion and anything that the left wingers believe in.   Free speech is not free speech in some cases.  I think that conservatives, mild or strong, need to stand up for themselves.  I don’t mean physically. just verbally--telling anyone that tells you that you are wrong in your views to "go pound salt."  We are entitled to our views as much as they are.

Just because they think they are right doesn"t mean it is so.  I hope that Jeannie Graf comes out ahead of all this and wins out in the end.
Bonnie Reed
Plainfield, IL

Jeannine Graf Will Find a Better Station
I believe that Jeannine Graf will be picked up by another station more worthy of her professional and moral integrity.

She is just another pothole on the highway of socialist-homo bliss. They got ticked at her for spilling their Starbucks Latte on their tutus. Don't they know that no matter what you do, potholes don't go away? They just get bigger and deeper.

Keep your powder dry folks, there are clouds on the horizon and pink they
are not!
R. Chouinard
Oxford

Speech is No Longer Free
Our speech and newspapers are no longer free to tell the truth. They will continue to erode if the good people in this country don't put the politicians at all levels on notice that "We the People" created government.
However it has evolved that the servant using the color of law has become the master due to their intimidation by a plethora of unconstitutional statutes.

In my opinion the best way to attack the FM radio station is for people to write to their sponsors and tell them they will no longer buy their products or services because of the station’s suppression of the truth.

My very best to Jeannine in these troubled times.
Jim Giles  

What Will ‘Forces of Havoc’ at the Globe Do Now?
Was there a public statement from the company?  First, Jeff Jacoby, then
Jeanine Graff … will Mike Barnacle and Jay Severn be next?   Or do they have better producers and backers at MSNBC?

This may be the price conservatives and free speech advocates (anti-PC) pay for the change of the administration in Washington.

It will be interesting to see whether the forces of havoc at the Boston Globe and the New York Times relate themselves to the First Amendment, or the lust for power mimics the other aberrations that violate the rights of investigative reporters.

The actions at Tufts were arguably pedophilic and because they were PC they became untouchable? Where, except for Jeanine Graff, was the "free press?"

There must have not been enough outcry over Jeff Jacoby and the injury to his family and fans.
Professor James E. McGregor
Foxboro

Those Responsible for Fistgate Should be Fired
I do not have a religious affiliation; therefore my attitudes may or may not have anything to do with Christian concepts.  I do know that reading the story about "Fistgate" had me blushing from both modesty and outrage.  To think many of us have sacrificed to be stay at home moms to be able to limit our children’s exposure to this smut, while they are going behind out backs and teaching it in our schools. 

All those involved in setting up this program that children were required to attend should be immediately fired and not be able to hold any job dealing with children ever again.  They have removed the innocence from these children every bit as much if they had raped them or sexually abused them.  They have taken them and sexually abused their minds, if you will.  I used to try to be tolerant but have more and more come across this type of  "in your face" trash.  All my tolerance is gone and I will spread the word contrary to homosexuality.
Cynthia Ratcliffe

Jeanine Graf Should be Given a Medal
Jeanine Graf should be given a medal for exposing this horrific event in Mass. schools. 

Kevin Jennings, the head of GLISTEN, has spread this filth with taxpayer dollars.  He's teaching the teachers at workshops how to teach the kids this garbage, a life style that will kill them.  They are called Diversity Workshops, and use religion to add legitimacy to his program.  Most of the teachers don't know of this until they are forced to go to one of his workshops. 

Two parents are being sued for recording what the teacher are teaching the children.  In Mass., it's against the law to tape record. So, it's being done in Conn., NY and DC where these laws favor them.

Next attack is planned on the Southern Baptist per Alex Jones who interviewed Ms. Smith (teacher exposing this) as Ms. Graf did on 96.9 talk.  It has already begun in TX too.  But the Baptist Temple has no 1st. amendment rights.  Looks like a NWO mind control game.

 Parents with children in public schools need to wake up, and know what your kids are learning.   No wonder parents want to home school, or send their children to religious and private schools.  Nowadays, the good things like religion are bad, and the bad things are good.  Sounds like Sodom and Gomorrah.  Satan is alive and well.
Sallie Ortha

Real News Cannot be Reported
We have a very serious problem in this country when real news cannot be reported, as in the case of Jeannine Graf. This goes on everyday throughout America and as a result we have a gigantic dumb-downed society!  Concerned citizens must take action and make their voices heard.  We can no longer sit idly by each one of us must get involved. 

First, Americans must wake up and get their children out of "public" indoctrination camps!  Second, write letters and call all the culprits involved. Thirdly, stop supporting controlled mass medias - cancel your subscriptions and turn off their mind-molding television garbage.

Contact their paid sponsors stating your opinion.  I am doing all of the above in support of Jeannine Graf.  Thank you,  Massachusetts News, for having the guts to do what is right!
Marie Gunther
Poway, CA

Boston Globe Covers Up Issues
After reading about the Jeanine Graf story printed by the Boston Globe, I think that the Boston Globe is a communist peace of trash leading the Massachusetts news media. For when freedom of religion , freedom of speech and freedom of the press is used to aid in job dismissal and affects a  persons pursuit of happiness, then I say that is communism. The Globe is a paper printed with the aid of pocket lawyers and backings by people influential in improper media presentation. They print only what they want you to hear and not what should be heard. The Globe prints what it calls  "news worthy events" when in reality it covers up the issues that are real. The Boston Globe is the most underhanded piece of trash ever printed in most contents in American history. I don't even know Jeanine Graf. I just read the Globe and burn it to start my fireplace.
Ed Turner
Burlington

Jeannine Graf Firing is Reprehensible
I think that it is reprehensible.  I have already e-mailed and mailed a letter to 96.9 FM talk, letting them know that I have been a loyal listener for quite some time now and that I NO LONGER will be a loyal listener to the show.  As much as it pains me not to listen to it ( I personally liked Jay Severin and Jeannine Graf) I will not listen to the station at all.  I have also asked them to remove me from their mailing list and informed them that, even though I am only one person, I will not support anyone that advertises with them.

I am livid over this.  It is far beyond my business when it comes to what two consenting adults want to do in the privacy of their own home no matter how vulgar, disgusting and filthy it is, but for our tax dollars to go to teaching that this lifestyle is healthy is wrong.  The homosexual lifestyle is one of depression, filth, violence, and disease.  This is not healthy and we should not be brainwashing our children into thinking that it is.  Jeannine was right to expose this vulgarity and she had the free speech to do.

Then the school system does a cover up by labeling it "Multi-Culture" classes and now they don't want people to know what went on.  They know they're wrong and they know that if the liberal media would tell the truth for once then Massachusetts citizens would be absolutely outraged.
Wendy Courtney