Ripped Off by Ross Perot?
Who is Bruce DuMont to speak this way about Ross Perot? DuMont is a local radio personality. Perot is worth billions and ran for president, offering our wretched land leadership just a little ahead of its time. Need we say which gentleman is clearly more equal than the other?
DuMont met Perot at a broadcasters convention last September in Dallas. Perot was the keynote speaker. DuMont introduced himself, said he hoped to have Perot on Inside Politics, and handed a business card to a Perot factotum, attorney Daniel Routman. Later DuMont spent more time with Routman. Can you tell me something about your show? Routman asked. Be glad to, said DuMont. He’d already filled out a questionnaire from the media department of Perot’s United We Stand America, Inc., in Dallas, and he offered to send directly to Routman some of the same information. He told Routman he’d appreciate his help.
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Actually, DuMont wasn’t sure some things United We Stand wanted to know about Inside Politics were any of its business. In addition to such arguably justifiable data as “Audience Marketing Size/Geographical areas covered” and “Major Network(s)/Cable %,” United We Stand asked for a “Company Profile Sheet.” Says DuMont, “I took ‘company profile’ to mean, ‘Tell me more about Inside Politics.’ Maybe that was foolish of me.”
“What I’m pissed off about,” DuMont told us the other day, “is here’s a guy who first of all holds himself up as this paragon of virtue. Here’s a guy who if you want to interview him asks people to tell everything about themselves and their company. And all of a sudden either he or one of the minions around him says ‘Hey! Here’s a good idea. You’ve been looking for something to do on the radio. Look at what this guy in Chicago has been doing Sunday night. It looks like a pretty good idea.’”
We didn’t speak to Perot. But we reached Routman, who has equally pleasant things to say about DuMont.
Then why did Perot choose Sunday? we wondered.
“Well, maybe that’s true,” he said.
