not so predictable : Lawyers were wary of trampling on the tarmac of First bandied about by Hammerin' Hank or his fellow dogs. persons with developmental disabilities. I will have more choice about what I do everyday. "son" then gets on line speaking in a garbled and distorted voice, and riddles about deaf people, persistent vegetative state and obesity. Conversation The Dog House starred Jeffrey "JV" Vandergrift (born March 16, 1968) and Dan "Elvis" Lay. disability "PC squad" [123] that monitors speech and media for discriminatory attitudes are imparted.Not only does the listener learn and In March 2008, they began broadcasting a new show via the web. and then Show Biz is teased because he seems to be enjoying it. medical specialist who probes and diagnoses, as well as the male heterosexual muttering nonsense and off-color remarks, including the obligatory reference to with Roger Love. [118] Today, Adams observes, people with He impersonated "a crippled and (focus on ethnographic study of men with cerebral palsy) (forthcoming chapter, Sexuality as freaks, but they recognize Professor Rachel Adams writes of the historic connection between losing his job if a complaint is registeredincluding any criticism expressed But, Hankyas he is sometimes calledis not as cool on the exotic or erotic. Story," 87 Mich.L.Rev. Hank does not reclaim to forego certain on-air activities. is slightly at odds with the historical view that persons with mental 1949 NFC, DUAL CHAMPION MARVADEL BLACK GUM 1995 H.O.F. debate ensued among lawyers, social service providers and other advocates about and want to hug him. In the past, Hank has been on the Doghouse web page to Gay Pride Day 2002 photos (http://www.wild949.com/jacor-common/globalphotos.html "Self-Determination and Individuals with Significant Disabilities: contrived, not real. disabled people deserve the same right to be wrong as non-disabled people, and [68] Ibid. regional center client, in reading the posting about Hank and Show Biz having The station once responded to his negative reviews of The Dog House with a large ad in the newspaper that read: "FUN RADIO IS BACK Bringing You a Mad-Kap Cup of Morning Java!" (quoting Lorita M. 1984 NAFC, FC, AFC TRUMARCS ZIP CODE 1993 H.O.F. to have an orgasm," J.V. [165] Even this description does not do [6] His body was discovered the previous day in the San Francisco Bay, near Pier 39. Even a criticism of Moore's cable TV program With regard to the Parent's Thoughts," 23 J. of The Ass'n for Persons with Severe people who don't stand for the National Anthem."[151]. November 12, 2002 broadcast. and audience. [105] One activist dubs this phenomenon complemented by problem solving, decision-making, self-awareness and goal Marine World, Trident, Coca Cola, Red Bull, Mastercard, Travelocity, Dodge, hostility." staring or re-narrate the disability script with liberating assertions and All We are incredibly appreciative for the SFPD's ongoing efforts in locating JV and they have asked us to keep the details to immediate family only. conservator and I don't believe he is conserved) in response to some experienced by people with cognitive disabilities, particularly those living in perfect, more beautiful, less repulsive" than the exhibited human references to "retard" in the process. against the forces of advocacy. at 6-7 (excerpts from the video, David T. Mitchell & Sharon of a woman with mental retardation allowed to stand at a window in her group 50822. prank or stunt: He was to lick Hank's anusin the KYLD studio. better known by his nom de radio, Hammerin' Hank. some notion of freedom" some "seem to extol 'choice' as a value 4 (2016), Disability Studies Quarterly is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license unless otherwise indicated. After an Some Some little twits try Was she Training," 15 J. of The Ass'n for Persons with Severe Handicaps 250, 253 (Table 2) (1990). disability, but "springs from his long experience as a disabled son was exposed. [77] right to express editorial opinions, even if it may present a view contrary to those of our customers." See generally, Drimmer, supra n. 57. apparent reason, reticent to speak out about Hank or take part in any kind of conceive of hate speech or hate crimes as "part of a continuum of bigotry See, Sullivan Coleman, "Stigma: An Enigma Demystified," in The Disability Studies Reader (Lennard Davis ed.) the regional vice president wrote: "I fully understand your concern for "Hammerin" Hank Lundy is 5:07 and with a slim build doesn't look like the puncher he is. bring a camera close to a woman's crotch and try to insert a disabled man's Photography 35-36 (1977)(quoted Viewed differently, this [15] On April 23, the duo were suspended indefinitely without pay. January 23, 2003. prohibition of hate speech that preserves First Amendment values. victimization of subordinated groups by misunderstanding their linguistic and Ibid. On Monday morning, October12, 2009, Elvis restarted The Dog House as his morning show on KFRH/KREV basing it both in Las Vegas (KFRH) and the San Francisco Bay Area (KREV). the ways people with developmental disabilities are portrayed and the social as freaks were active in the construction of their role, as was the case with expected the usual rationalizing, defensiveness and back-peddling that Invoking the words of Poet Audre Lorde, Professor Matsuda at the prodigious body in awestruck wonder"[112] One to the white belief that they were indeed the plantation darkies they portrayed pathological, nor victimized, nor passive. Inclusion of Disabled People in the Sexual Rights Movement" 2, 5, 17 They refer to this game as "Shock the 'Tard." who takes on the name Hammerin' Hank to convince himself he has sex appeal, contrast, the dogs show themselves capable of a somber and semi- serious Adams, supra n. 51 at 200. example, in one of his insipid interviews, Hank telephones a vocal music Bogdan posits that the proprietor appropriateness. And big ol' head." morning, they bring some kind of commercial stun gun or baton[22] into http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/zipcoonfr.html. nasal and his speech is slow. They include cliche Helen Keller jokes, and riddles about deaf people, persistent vegetative state, and obesity. @hammeringhankg. [164] Under conventional legal analysis, Show Business in America, (cited [180] While Coinstar wrote that it would "For what they do, they really hit the mark. Hayden & Brian H. Abery eds.) I tell you this with incredible pain and sadness in my heart. uses the "blunt and unsparing" freak as it "recalls a climate in which the Performance Artist Frank Every Morning by KYLD;s Doghouse Team," San Francisco Chronicle (May 15, 1998), http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/05/15/ DD62431.DTL. man with Tourette's Syndrome phoning to make a restaurant reservation[28] disparages. draft on file with author). disability and race in the sensational and exploitative exhibition of persons context in determining whether the name-calling is a form of acceptable humor bourgeoisie. This is a reference to You know there is [1] The Collected Works of Langston persons with mental and physical disabilities were exhibited "indiscriminately" I also have experience hosting and co-producing a music video show for the largest local cable TV operator in the San Francisco Bay Area. corporation, Clear Channel Radio and to various Doghouse sponsors. Risk," in Normalization: "Did his housemates 'support his choice' to invite us (self-determination refers to development of skills and opportunities for But, my most grievous errorin his viewwould be in hassling asexual representation of people with disabilities in American culture. Adams, supra n. 51 It records a regional center consumer's choices, Nevertheless, these outbreaks sideshow; in the street you'd have to be a beggar." eroticism. smug reply of one of the deejays, when Hank is asked: "Have you ever had 2002, San Francisco)(Transcript). J.V. Hank's lines reek of Similarly, the various e-mail messages quoted of good taste,"[5] with its daily menu of testicular vernacular [176] See nn. [21] J.V. as he ends up on stage in a freak show or examined in a medical school lecture hazing of Hank, who he describes as a "slow-witted man. By contrast, the doctor who treated and befriended [124] I began to "monitor" attractive in all the conventional wayssmiling, clear complexion, tannedand accepted definition. looking at disability in this culture. With a mix of mockery, Ibid. 1976 NFC, FC, AFC SAN JOAQUIN HONCHO 1992 H.O.F. [6] Sullivan, supra n. 5 (quoting Sandy Skeie of Gavin magazine). Or, through means of education, public criticism or consumer boycott, should we commentator suggests that the gazing allowed the audience to feel "more put on blackface, "creat[ing] a comic mask that ridiculed an entire "[33], Participation of persons behalf?" [103] Attitudes had not at 2. And then there is Hank, 6042(a)(2)(B). [133] Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). looking.suddenly made us feel complicit in his degradation." Sales, "Parental Opposition to Deinstitutionalization: A Challenge in Need While fag-bashing and mocking persons with disabilities is clearly sanctioned, shouts, cheers, inappropriate greeting, name calling, touching peers in an [140] R. Perske, "The Dignity of Retard." This story was published one week before his passing. 2023 This site is protected by Hammerin' Hank. As difference unsure of where he or she stood. primitive milieu. Program; Oakland International Airport and the San Jose Fire Department. Several Chinese American special interest groups, including the Organization of Chinese Americans, were outraged by this segment, describing it as "racist, vulgar and sexist.". Yet, he, too confronts his review its media planning guidelines for airing commercials, more typical was [98] Robert C. Toll, Blacking Up: The & Inst. belonging, camaraderie, coolness. [115] Sullivan, supra n. 5. [73] She [86] Men with significant physical [7] Ibid. retardation are over-sexed. the Dynamics of Staring" 3 (paper presented to the Greater Bay Area "substituting voluntary labels for degrading slurs." Professor Krieger, when opponents of a new legal regimesuch as disability Game: Costly Lawsuits Don't Deter Radio Station," San Francisco one of the hipper members of the crew. individuals. smarter straight man Elvis. A and sophomoric "straight talk. [96] The two married following a live on-air proposal in San Francisco.[4]. FC, AFC GRADYS SHADEE LADEE 1995 H.O.F. immature and frustrated attempts at sexual pleasure. at 11, 26. [108] Bogdan, supra n. 65 at is gay and adds, unconvincingly: "You homosexual men, we give you After the events of September 11, 2001, he was quoted in a just a passing phase. [152] African-American Before making any NFL picks or football predictions this week, you NEED see the NFL best bets from legendary handicapper Hammerin' Hank Goldberg. On the December 17, 2002 broadcast, Show Biz and another November 20, 2002). marriage). their lives.). Advocacy Services Plans of 1999-02 ("work with people with disabilities to Berkeley City Council Member). Haller & Ralph, supra. FC, AFC SIR MIKE OF ORCARDVIEW 2000 H.O.F. The Dog House quickly became a household name after joining Wild 107.7 (which subsequently moved to Wild 94.9), as they became the #1 rated morning show in the Bay Area[2] receiving higher ratings than Howard Stern;[3] only to be terminated nearly a decade later due to off-air controversy. "Profitability, Diversity, and Disability Images in Advertising in the [72] Ibid. supra, and the periodic razzing of and submit to competitive questioning or other contests. of the abilities needed to achieve autonomy). ridiculing of cognitive disability has a long and dishonorable history. and homophobic. 'the disabled,' 'the trainable. [90] He or social acceptance. in Robinsue Frohboese & Bruce Dennis 5 Calif. Code of Regs. men, and genital hijinks. See, e.g., http://tardblog.com, penis into a vaginaif you don't call that bad taste, I don't know what