If anyone wonders whether Simone is just playing with the callers in good fun or is indeed a condescending and nasty jerk it's the latter. After the last election an elderly man called up about an election on Long Island and Simone gave him the full treatment that he was basically feeble minded. The caller said the election was close and Simone said it was a 30 point blowout. I looked up the election results and the caller was correct so I sent Simone an email and he sent me a reply during the show and said I was looking at early results in the printed newspaper. He then went on the air and said oldtimers (meaning me and the caller) were reading outdated results as we rely on printed newspapers. Meanwhile Simone is older than me because I was listening to him when I was in high school. Anyway I sent another email and said I was looking at final results from the Newsday website and sent him a link. He wrote back with a terse comment that Newsday was wrong. OK maybe so I let it go.
The next day I checked again and went to the Nassau County Board of Elections website and they had the same results that Newsday had that it was a close election, like 5 points, not 30 as Simone said. He was using results from Associated Press. I emailed Simone again and told him (politely) that I think A.P. had the wrong numbers as the official numbers from B.O.E. had it close. I also compared the prior midterm election numbers and A.P.'s vote totals were way too high. Simone replied back very nastily that I have no knowledge of what I'm talking about and that I should stay out of such things as I was not qualified to speak about them. The next day I checked and A.P. corrected their numbers and I (and the caller) were correct and it was a 5 point margin not 30. I sent one more email to Simone and showed him the corrections and thanked him for confirming what I always suspected that he was a nasty person who means it when he makes fun of callers. This time he did not reply and never mentioned it on the air.
