This article has found words to express the way I feel now and have felt for at least several years about shock jocks in general and Alan Jones in particular.

One thing I do disagree with, though, is the affirmation that Jones is not smart. Misguided, canny, wordy, aggressive, rude, energetic... and smarter than most of his listeners and Joe Public, who he has duped as he builds an audience and a multi-million dollar salary.

Here's hoping that extreme entertainers, on any medium, whose business plan is founded on being more aggressive or more one-eyed than all competing entertainers are no longer rewarded by either audience share or big bucks. I'm confident that Australians now have the necessary tools to respond forcefully if and when such entertainers arrive.

2GB will get along just fine without AJ.

I think you left out revenge and spite out of the motivations.

People really are blind to their own failings. I see a sea of schadenfreude here.

Like the left denounce the invasion of Iraq, citing the other targets where human rights violations occur where there is no oil. Well, it only seems to be right wing commentators that are deemed so offensive that they must be taken down.

'Here's hoping that extreme entertainers, on any medium'

Oh Reallllly! When the chaser does it, it's considered funny, when Deveney does it it's clever, 'stick that up you conservatives'! But when a right wing shock jock uses less extreme words, it must be stopped!

Why cant people just admit it, and be honest, that a large part of the motivation is that regardless of his methods, he says things against their political ideology.

This article is nothing but a slur by an author who admits to be partisan and biased against not only against Jones but primarily his political viewpoint.

The author should read the COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 45D; many of the advertisers on the Jones program were harrassed and 2GB suggested they temperarliy suspend their advertisements because of the duress to staff of these advertisers. One only has to think of the despicable Max Brenner protests to know how vicious left protests can be.

The Destroy the Joint campaign is a fraudulent campaign with union underpinning; the disgraceful comments being posted on their site once again reveal the disproportionate and hypocritical standards of left protestors; in any event the poll produced by this front organisation was completely infiltrated by not only joke participants but out of town, 'guns for the cause' contributors.

The author has said that Jones is sexist and mysogynistic; he does not provide examples; and given the Slipper affair and the rank rank support by the ALP feministas of Slipper that complaint is egregious.

The author would be better off turning his fine legal mind to this issue: documentaion from Slater and Gordon has shown that Gillard has conceded she knowingly and deliberately completed a legal document, the application for association for her lover, Wilson, with false information.

How is that act different from what Einfeld did? Or is that a mysogynistic insult under the new values espoused by this author and the protestors he supports?

Nothin that either Jones or Slipper can come up with could possibly 'out crass' Deveny!

For Plibasec to try to tie Abbot into this level of rhetoric adds a whole new level to the meaning of hypocrisy.

Alan's article is illustrative of the problem, attempting to disguise this blind leftist 'progressive' bile in 'pseudo academic' wank. Mr Austen, turn the radio off mate.

These boycotts are not political they are class warfare.

Rich companies getting richer via a BIG Australia baby-bonusing, immigrating PM. The mass marketeers are protecting their income streams by silencing the voice of the silent majority - Jonesy - and enabling Gillard to make the silent majority pay for the infrastructure needed to immigrate ever more ungrateful, infrastructure hungry foreigners & breed ever more bonused top the hilt children.

This is Class Warfare. Class warfare is a crime. So is turning a democracy into a DICTATORSHIP by importing and Baby bonus gerrymandering of electrorates to subvert the standard of living of Australian citizens who have already PAID for the infrastructure they need.

Another crime is Shepherding women who have more than 2 children. Gillard's anti misogynist rants do JUST that. The PM must know not all women are angels. Has she ever seen The film Disclosure or seen reruns of "The Knifing of Rudd"?

There are women of substance who must be treated with respect, but to include women who have babies because they failed at everything else is a crime. That is the root cause of OVERPOPULATION and all the ugly consequences from global warming to war and the coming famines.

There are good and bad in men and women. To shepherd all women from scrutiny behind a misogynist rant is an EVIL beyond all belief.

At the end of the day these rich companies, their ghoulish boycotts of the voice of Australias' silent majority, their political ALP implants and their mass marketeerss will yield to REVOLUTION. The next Marie Antoinette will be Big-W not Big-M.

One can agree that Jones is not the brightest star in the intellectual firmament?
I guess you don't have to be very bright to be a conservative or conservative voter? But it has to help?
As does simply opening your mouth just to change socks?
Nor do you have to play fast and loose with or quite massively exaggerate, the actual factual reality? But again it has to help?
One recalls how a single truck stopped for a few minutes by genuine roadwork, became a convoy, prevented by registering a protest by labour party thugs?
The reported truth seemed to reveal a single truck, held up for just a few minutes by road repair works? One also recalls the Canberra circus, where purple faced and clearly enraged Jones invited his then female target of choice, to come to the microphone and explain herself?
Almost as if he had a right royal right, to demand her kow towing subservient presence?
This patent Islamiphobe, needs to understand that our Muslim population here, are at lest as large as his target Audience.
And possibly a far more lucrative cashed up market!?
Or that to our immediate north, is the largest Muslim republic in the world, with many almost as well informed and massively offended as soon we are; and has a very much larger cashed up middle class than our entire population.
All of who are quite capable of also boycotting the locally available products, that Alan Jones promotes.
It is after all, a global village and or a shrinking world.
I believe Jones could do worse than emulate Peter slipper and gracefully retire.
There's an old saying that goes, when you are in a really deep hole, you need to stop digging! Rhrosty.