Geoff Metcalf
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Geoff Metcalf was a nationally syndicated radio talk show host based in Washington, D.C. He is the Editor of CalNews.com.
Metcalf is a former Green Beret. He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Army Reserves and has commanded a Special Forces Operational Detachment, and a Military Police Company in addition to various staff positions.
He was a columnist for the Sacramento Union and an editorial writer for the Evening Times in Rhode Island.
Metcalf also was program director and talk show host at WAAB, 1440, in Worcester, MA.in the early 1970s.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom Geoff was a military pundit and appeared on numerous radio and television programs (Fox & Friends, Bob Grant on WOR, Lionel, G. Gordon Liddy, Al Rantel on KABC, Mancow, Al Malmberg, and several Canadian and European stations.
Prior to national syndication, Metcalf was a radio talk show host for San Francisco radio station KSFO, as well as Sacramento Radio stations KSTE and KTKZ plus KPLA-770, a station licensed to Riverbank, California but serving Sacramento. From July 2000 to early 2002, Metcalf hosted an Internet-based talk show offered through the conservative website WorldNetDaily.[1]
He currently writes a weekly column for a number of online news websites, including NewsMax for which he is a pundit. [2]
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[edit] Awards
He is a recipient of the NRA Defender of Freedom Award, and Eagle Forum's 'Media Person of the Year 2000.
[edit] Dispute with Muslim group
He is involved in a freedom of speech dispute with CAIR in August 2005 for a comment he made to his listeners on air:[3]:
- And by the way, let me just add a sidebar here that's significant, and everybody forgets this, but according to the Quran, believers in Islam are not required to tell infidels, and that's us, the truth. So they apparently have permission to lie when it is appropriate"
In its press release, CAIR did not refute the substance of Metcalf's comments, instead it called on area Muslims to put pressure on WMAL's advertisers regarding "the incitement of anti-Muslim hatred caused by its talk show hosts."
A careful reader will note that Metcalf did not cite the chapter and verse of the Quran wherein this alleged permission appears. Without a cite or direct quote, Metcalf's allegation is, of course, difficult to refute. Metcalf's accusation of Islam is strangely reminiscent of traditional objections to the Jewish Kol Nidre prayer and ceremony.
Given Metcalf's military background, readers should keep Metcalf's remarks in perspective by recalling American propaganda during World War II and other wars.
[edit] Books by Geoff Metcalf
- The Terrorist Killers
- In The Arena.
