KARAOKE
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Even if you knew nothing about Bobby Fischer, listening to him sing this song would tell you all you needed to know. 'There just ain't no pity. No, no, no, in the naked city, yeah - New York City.' This unlikely duet, featuring Jackie Wilson and the world's first and only chess grand master fugitive from justice, was broadcast live, on 6 July 2001, by DZSR Sports Radio, a Manila-based AM station that has embraced Fischer as a ratings booster. In exchange for these rare interviews (Fischer hasn't given a magazine or TV interview in thirty years), Sports Radio management has happily provided Fischer with hours of free airtime to spin his classic R&B records and to lash out at his enemies, both real and imagined.

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This particular radio broadcast was Fischer's seventeenth in the Philippines. The bizarre karaoke interlude was a departure of sorts, but otherwise the broadcast was no different from the previous sixteen. Fischer's talking points never vary. Essentially Fischers enemies - including the former New York mayor Ed Koch, both Presidents Bush, and the Times Mirror Corporation - are 'Jews, secret Jews, or CIA rats who work for the Jews'.
 
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