My exact complaint about her. She treats anyone who even remotely disagrees with her with extreme hostility, has an unbearable "I know better than you-holier than thou" attitude on every issue and insults callers and guests who don't 100% take her position. That makes her a terrible host and impossible to listen to. 

I heard some of Wednesday's show regarding the hospital-long term care decision from Queen's Park and I actually agree with her side of this. But she was so obnoxious in the way she responded to it, with that imperious tone in her voice, she almost made me want to change my mind. 

Of course, she believes she's never wrong and I'm sure would accuse me - and laffin - of misogyny and racism because we criticize her. But it has nothing to do with her race, gender or anything else other than she treats everyone opposed to her rigidly fixed ideas like they're a moron - even if the other side has some legitimate points to make. And that makes her on-air style unbearable. 

Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. But really, who wants to hear that hour after hour, day after day? For me the only "Rush" is to turn my dial immediately to something else when she's on. 

laffin wrote:

Heard Moore's Round One this morning on Newstalk 1010 and one of the contributors Reshmi Nair sounded somewhat confrontational.  Similar behavior heard on The Rush? She gets a little upset when you disagree with her point of view.

re: one of the contributors Reshmi Nair sounded somewhat confrontational.  

More or less confrontational than Jerry Agar?
More or less confrontational than Mark Warner?
More or less confrontational than Knia Singh?
 

No one likes a know-it-all. That's how she comes off. I'm uncomfortable listening to her.

The choice was more or less and you answered with "yes."  
Would you like coffee or tea?  Yes.

You know, I'm not entirely sure that's true and it has nothing to do with "gender bias," because I have no issues at all with Alex Pierson, Barb DiGiulio when she was on, or any other female host. I think some of them were great and I listen to Pierson all the time and am very glad to hear her back on the air.

But rudeness is not restricted to one gender or another. Outside of Mark Warner, the others you mentioned, while they can be abrasive, at least let you make your point. Agar does not usually talk over a caller or a guest. But he will try to refute their points, once they've made them.

Nair had some official on a few weeks ago, intro'd him, let him say two sentences, then immediately launched into an attack on the guy.

He tried desperately to get a word in edgewise, but she wouldn't let him, continually talking over him until finally saying, as he again attempted to address her points and counter them, that they'd run out of time. She then somewhat cynically thanked him for coming on the show - which thanks to her, he didn't really get a chance to do - and they went to a commercial.

It was a disgraceful performance and I still have no idea what the guy's original point was or if I agreed or disagreed with it, because he never got to state his case. You gotta wonder why he was even invited on in the first place, unless it was to give her an excuse to launch into a completely undeserved rant. 

And that, I would maintain, is the big difference between the other people you cite.  

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RadioActive wrote:

Couldn't believe what I heard on NT1010's "The Rush" on Monday. During their 4:30 PM segment, two guests started talking over Reshmi Nair as she tried to express her opinion. And before throwing to traffic she actually had the gall to say, "I just wish I could make my point without people talking over me!"

The irony of that statement, considering that's all she does anytime a guest has a different opinion from hers, wasn't lost on me. And it made me laugh out loud. She certainly didn't like the taste of her own medicine. 

She's a lousy talk radio host.  How long before she goes MIA, too?
 

She was even interrupting, and yelling over her fill-in co-host, some other Scott, today, to inject nothing to the conversation.  She's brutal.

https://twitter.com/_scottreid/status/1587849498684014592?t=3XQeVvw1w2kkSBrL4CSlRw&s=19

can't decide if this is charming or not so much....

It’s not too bad when Mark Towehy co hosts and he doesn’t let her get away with her bullshite

Makes for good radio when you have one person on one side and one on the other

When either Scott is in the chair, just seems like it’s the two of them agreeing with each other all show, so I tune out

The Rush needs a blow up and rethink. This isn’t working

Attn. Reshmi Nair. Please read the following article, especially this point:

Listen. Follow the half-second rule: Pause before you respond to minimize talk-over and interruptions. Be aware that men interrupt women more often and female listeners definitely notice when it happens.

Well, not on this show they don't...

Who Talks More or Less on Your Show?

Listening to The Rush yesterday, a woman called in about the ICU overcrowding and mandating masks.  She used the term "woke".  I could hear Reshmi being triggered.  Rather than let the woman make her point, Reshmi cut her off with "Woke?  What do you mean woke?"  She made the caller describe her understanding of the term "woke" and then went ahead and snarfed.  Yes, Reshmi snarfed.  Deb Hutton remained silent.  

Oh fer heaven's sake - she snorted, did an intake of air through her nose as if in disgust, and probably rolled her eyes t'boot though I can't prove that but it isn't hard to imagine her facial expressions when she engages with someone who triggers her.  Her smarminess comes through loud and clear. 

And for what it's worth, I'm a she. 
 

Chrisphen wrote:

From bad to worse today. Two fill-ins - Towhey and Hutton. I immediately turned them off.

No-one needs to be subjected to that Motts redux 'dumb and dumber' horsepuckey.

Both Towhey and Hutton are vastly more tolerable than the remaining 'host'.  Put a fork in this turkey, and start again, again.
 

Walter wrote:

Put a fork in this turkey, and start again, again.

Agreed. When it launched, I was willing to give "The New Rush" every benefit of the doubt - at least they appeared to be investing in an afternoon drive duo without the same familiar hosts or pumping in province-wide syndicated content. The chemistry didn't quite "gel" but I thought, give it time - not easy to fling two new people together and expect instant rapport.

I've given up now and I'm willing to throw 1010 on in the background at almost any time. It's basically unlistenable. It hasn't improved with age and I find Nair overbearing on that program, brash with callers, and MacArthur is essentially interviewing her for her takes. (Incidentally, I quite liked Nair on her TorontoMike'd appearance - electric, intelligent, and a different dynamic entirely.)

I still applaud the experiment even if it's not working - didn't work, whatever "tense" you might ascribe to a program where the future seems unmapped with MacArthur being totally MIA/AWOL, for what, week 6?