The stupid was really coming out of the woodwork from the callers on the WFAN midday show: it was like performance art. In succession (IOW, with no other calls in between):
1) male RN calls up and explains how patient privileged info is relayed to approved family members of the patient, esp with celebrity patients. Went on to vehemently defend hospital workers w/r/t HPAA and said there was a good possibility it was NOT a hospital worker/MD/nurse who leaked the info. He then intimated that JPP's family was somehow responsible for the leak of the photo (he stopped just short of invoking the Frank Burns logic of "those men couldnt have been gambling, as gambling is not allowed on the base");
2) Hot-under-the-collar caller says JPP using fireworks is the equivalent of doing 60 in a 55 zone, and loudly defended that JPP should NOT be prosecuted/persecuted. One problem there: no one had even discussed prosecuting JPP. As per the hosts, the big issues are: blowing his finger off, not accepting the tender previously, and the whole HPAA thing; who said anything about arresting him?;
3) caller gives long winded explanation of and defines the word 'accident', and that according to reports, what happened to JPP met that definition and was likely an accident.
By the third call, Evan and Joe were practically wetting their pants from laughing so hard.....
