Idaho radio host gets epic beatdown from Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Say what you will about Neil deGrasse Tyson. That he’s a Christmas-loathing Scrooge. That he picks on “Star Wars.”

Or that the $85 tickets to his June performance at the Morrison Center in Boise were too spendy for the proletariat. (Steve Martin and Martin Short suddenly make Tyson’s tickets look like bargain-bin pricing.)

Just don’t call Tyson “a horse’s astrophysicist” and follow it up with flawed reasoning.

Idaho Falls conservative talk-show host Neal Larson discovered this the hard way.

In a piece published in the Magic Valley Times-News — in which he refers to the rock-star science spokesman as a “jackass” — Larson clumsily attempts to criticize the celebrity brainiac. Worse yet, he gets facts wrong.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/words-deeds/article97410952.html

Cross-posted in the Science Group.

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1. This has garnered quite a buzz here

And Larson quit! He wrote a column yesterday wherein he whined like a typical Repug, claiming he received all sorts of hate mail, etc, and he couldn't take it anymore.

To those who despise me, feel I am terrible and let me know it without reservation, wishing this newspaper would stop carrying my column, I have good news for you. As you can tell by now, I’m pulling the plug.

While I am happy enough to see him go, I'd also like to think he learned a lesson and maybe became a better person for it. Right now there are 47 comments on his article.
http://magicvalley.com/news/opinion/columns/larson-a-newspaper-columnist-s-farewell/article_93296ba6-a649-5b10-8f2a-fd2b19c43b47.html