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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
28 Years Ago Today

Here's a segment of an episode of AM Chicago with Oprah Winfrey on WLS Channel 7. The topic was controversial, provocative and outrageous radio talk show hosts and featured Alan Burke of WGBS in Miami, Morton Downey Junior of WERE in Cleveland, Warren Freiberg of WLNR in Lansing, IL, Irv Homer of WWDB in Philadelphia, and Jerry Williams of WRKO in Boston.
This episode featured the infamous "soap spraying" incident by Warren Freiberg. FuzzyMemories.TV has the entire hour, but for those of you who don't want to sit through the whole show, here's the isolated "liquid soap incident" with Warren Frieberg squirting it on Jerry Williams. This aired on Wednesday, May 22, 1985.

WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Here's Soap In Yer Eye" (1985)

Here's a segment of an episode of AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7. The topic was controversial, provocative and outrageous radio talk show hosts and featured Alan Burke of WGBS in Miami, Morton Downey Jr. (on this show just going by Mort Downey) of WERE in Cleveland, Warren Freiberg of WLNR in Lansing, IL, Irv Homer of WWDB in Philadelphia, and Jerry Williams of WRKO in Boston. Starring Oprah Winfrey as host.

This episode featured the infamous "soap spraying" incident by Warren Freiberg (here joked about by Rich Koz on the 1985 Chicago Emmy Awards, about 5 minutes into the video)

For those of you who don't want to sit through the entire segment, here's the isolated "liquid soap incident" with Warren Frieberg squirting it on Jerry Williams.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, May 22nd 1985 during the 9 to 10am hour.

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It's obvious that Freiberg had planned to do this in advance... I mean, who goes around carrying a bottle of liquid soap in their pocket?!
Comment posted by T.K. on Thursday, February 25th 2010 at 12:08am.

Bob Luce couldn't have put together a better work.
You got your marks in the studio audience and calling up on the phone, etc.
I think ALL OF THEM had it planned. This is the first I had ever heard of this.
Personally, I never really cared for any of those humanoids (borrowing a term from Bobby Heenan).
However, I will admit that I did watch Morton Downey whenever he had anything of interest on topic.

Comment posted by armitagenlowell on Saturday, February 27th 2010 at 10:51am.

Looking at it again, I think you're right. None of the guys on the panel seemed to react spontaneously... nobody looked genuinely shocked (even though they claimed to be after the commercial break). Irv Homer sits there in the middle of the action and just turns away. And if that "soap" was as irritating as Jerry Williams said it was, wouldn't he wince and rub his supposedly burning eyes?

Still, I can see how this would have been a bit unsettling to watch at the time. The skinhead brawl on Geraldo was still a couple years away and Jerry Springer was just a news anchor in Cincinnati. Obviously, Freiberg's bosses fell for it enough to fire him... I doubt *that* was planned!

Comment posted by T.K. on Saturday, February 27th 2010 at 12:07pm.

I used to live right next to WLNR growing up and I used to see Warren Freiberg all the time. My mom would point him out and remind me to stay away from him! :)
Comment posted by LjSchultz1 on Sunday, May 22nd 2011 at 5:40pm.

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