Hockey audience. mort! mort! mort! let me introduce home base, and of course our loud mouth. shut up! i will not go for any of that crap. give it a second. shut up! what are you laughing about? just take the pictures. they say he s not kind halloween evening on the morton downey jr. show. i saw the audience. and the audience was pretty frightening. i was hurt, neck and back injuries. there was clearly a physical assault. i was known as the seacaucus slammer. six years before the jerry springer show. jerry springer is not like mort. he ain t got no backbone like mort had. mort would go up in somebody s face and confront them. you who traited on the united states. you traitor! the studio was the first in
Consider you a menace. taking a hard and fast opinion. your dpis disrupter. just driving the opinion home. are you willing to hear my views? no politeness. this is a circus. and you are a fool. you are a liar and a danger to the country. often you go back and recycle an idea, update an idea. but it s dependent upon finding the person. morton had been around radio, talk radio. morton downey jr. now, morton, i was on this guy s so-called conservative radio show. i resent the charges you made saying that i was a disgrace to the conservative cause. that i didn t know what i was talking about. you are the one, baby, who are a conservative come-lately. you re the phony. mort just understood performance. do you want to hear some facts? i am the same kind of phony.
Remember the joe pyne show from the 60s. no show look that on tv any more. i dislike the fact that you want to cuba as castro s guest. you consort with the enemies of this country. this alone is reason enough to consider you a menace. taking a hard and fast opinion. just driving the opinion home. are you willing to hear my views? no politeness. this is a circus. and you are a fool. you are a liar and a danger to the country. often you go back and recycle an idea, update an idea. but it s dependent upon finding the person. morton had been around radio, talk radio. morton downey jr. now, morton, i was on this guy s so-called conservative radio show. i resent the charges you made saying that i was a disgrace to the conservative cause. if i didn t know what i was talking about. you are the one, baby, who are a
Still runs just fine. just fine. stick it up on you tube, it gets 10,000 hits. now they re the flavor of the day. it s crazy. we did it to ourselves. in our case, it was simple. just go on tv. pretend you are somebody you are not. you got on tv for five minutes. if elvis was alive why don t you book him on the morton downey jr. show. i don t want to say it was a cult because it wasn t a cult. but where did these people come from? go ahead, pal. my name is joseph mcbratton and i d like to speak to these two very ignorant men right here. shot in seacaucus. the jersey characters are in that audience. why? they don t give a [ bleep ]. real housewives of new jersey and jersey shore. i m not better than anyone. use this very same confidence, assertion. black, white, puerto rican. that you find in the jersey
he wrote these pauses in because the audience was going to be yelling, kill the guy. i m as mad as you are. i ll tell you what i would do to him. should we hang this kid? you betcha xham! hang! the atmosphere was alive with the energy off the audience. join us, take that chair. no, no, no. no, no. i d appreciate not doing that. back when where else did you see americans being passionate about capital punishment? every member in the audience was happy to stand up and say his or her peace. i want to know how they would feel if somebody they loved were murdered. i feel any murderer deserves death immediately and none of this baloney. the law of the land is that before the law of the land we re going to check everything that make sure it s right. is that true? what the hell is the other issue? tell me the other issue, you pile of in his attempt to grab america s divided attention, downey is turning unleashed rage
On a low ebb, and it s getting lower. it s not getting better. it s getting worse. we re going to examine this topic tonight. and this is where the risers that you guys sat in were, and he would start kissing the front row of ladies. mort just sort of tapped right into the 17-year-old male, you know, something. where other 17-year-olds might be doing other stuff at night, we were driving to new jersey to go to the morton downey jr. show. [ applause ] it was a provocative show to deliberately provoke the guests and provoke confrontation. and he took it further than anyone that was on television. there s a war going on in the streets of america. a war on drugs and t sli that sell themo ki
all right, we ve got quite a topic for you tonight, folks. this one is hot. say hello to david letterman, folks. all right. give him a chance, give him a chance. have you had a dermatologist look at those things on your face? wait a second, buddy. send him back to russia. i was over a friend s house. i said, by the way, didn t you know that morton downey, jr.? and i said, yeah. well, he s got a tv show. so i watched it. and i said holy [bleep]. so i called him. oh, you ve got to come back and work for me, lloyd. you can t believe what s happening. lolyd was always trying to make it. my dad was always trying to make it.
Morton downey has been a friend of kennedy family for years. mort grew up with some of the younger kennedys. now morton downey is talking with the president. brother robert, attorney general, next to morton downey there. when robert kennedy died, there were so many different ways people expressed their grief. sean expressed his by writing his small little book of poetry. the title was quiet thoughts make the loudest noise. i thought that was a rather interesting title. he was always writing poems. his brain was always going, constantly. it was hard for him to just chill. row upon row of grief-racked followers, sunken cheeks, replacing their years-ago happy faces sang proudly for their
Girl grow up, mort. thank you. morton, downey, jr. it killed me. i really loved him. i really did. you either love him or you hate him. well, i kind of did both. in having advocates for civil rights for women and minorities reality is having to fight on the downey show with al sharpton. reality is presenting gloria allred to the world for the first time. professor allen besh wits. perhaps he done something important that went beyond a television show. i was sitting at home one day and the telephone rang, and i was shocked. morton downey calling me in a low voice. he just wanted to remind me of our earlier days, and ask me if
Sharpton agreed to bring tawana brawley the next day. why don t you have steven pagonas? i ll bring tawana. sit there and tell me i want them here tomorrow! whispers around there, were like, reverend al sharpton are going to be here and he he s bringing tawana brawley. and we waited and waited and waited. to pass the time, mort was making an album called morton don downey jr. sings. he said he had his guitarist friend there helping him with his album and if we wouldn t mind, could we listen to his songs. we sat there listening to probably one of the only morton downey, jr. concerts. a lot of the audience had to leave after a couple of hours