Radio personality Peter Boyles launched his “monthly column” in the November issue of the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle, with an online version appearing on the Chronicle website as "The Peter Boyles Blog." In his introductory column, Boyles promised readers, “You will get the unvarnished truth from my perspective, twisted as it has become.” He later added, “So starting next month I am going to let it rip. I don't bend over for the politically correct Vaseline.”
The monthly Chronicle, which bills itself as “The Voice of the Cherry Creek Valley,” introduced Boyles as “a nationally acclaimed radio host on KHOW.”
As Colorado Media Matters has documented, Boyles and his radio show guests repeatedly have cited false, misleading, or dubious statistics, particularly about the issue of immigration. In addition, Colorado Media Matters has documented repeated instances in which Boyles has uttered, promoted, or defended racial or ethnic slurs while discussing the topic of illegal immigration on his show.
Boyles began his column with the claim that “newspapers are considered a dying medium”:
This posting is my maiden voyage into the world of newspaper punditry. I have had radio and later television programs to express my opinions. I have one huge bully pulpit these days to provide my viewpoint for four hours every morning on KHOW 630 AM. So why now after all my years in Denver have I elected to become a newspaper columnist at a time when newspapers are considered a dying medium?
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Denver had some truly great columnists at one time and now newspapers are declining because of the lack of writers who provide an interesting point of view. The writers, with a few exceptions, hand out the exact same point of view and they speak only amongst themselves. It is a result of the continuation of political correctness in newspapers. Writers say “undocumented job seeker” rather than “illegal alien” and anyone who disagrees with a vocal minority becomes a racist in the mainstream press or how about my new favorite -- “infant citizen.”
Boyles then promised to provide a voice different from “the continuation of political correctness in newspapers”:
I have been asked to write a regular column in the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle because I work cheap and most of the staff at the Chronicle are on work release from the real media world. It is a local newspaper that wants to make you think rather than trying to tell you what to think. My column will do the same. You may not always agree with my opinion, but at least I will give you an honest opinion rather than spoon-feeding some preordained message you've heard again and again. You will get the unvarnished truth from my perspective, twisted as it has become.
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So starting next month I am going to let it rip. I don't bend over for the politically correct Vaseline. Don't look for “Border Street” or for “Tom Tancredo is the anti-Christ” or that “Mayor Hickenlooper is doing a good job” or that “the democratic convention is always good for the city.”
I'm more in favor of the three 6's in [Democratic Colorado Gov.] Bill Ritter's hairline and whether or not John Hickenlooper throws like a girl.