art's no tool, and when on ham, he knows he's not in a private setting. hell, he himself has subsidized a receiver in pahrump at KNYE which receives the DX between he and his buddies for the purpose of then streaming that audio online at smeter.net
in that context, i would interpret the true meaning behind the intentionally deliberate and diplomatic tone of his thoughts in the following way:
"i'm no longer financially bound to the show's success, so i don't give a shit what they do with it. it's ruined as far as i'm concerned and i'm just glad i've washed my hands of it prior to its demise. for starters, this shill noory is moving to LA so that he can stay close to the suits at premiere who want to control him and force him to read ANYTHING they put in front of his face. anybody ever heard of tahiti village? exactly. the guy who replaced me, snoors, doesn't run his own air board. he has his calls screened. he is, in other words, a pussy who is failing completely to understand what it was that gave intelligent, reasoned people an incentive to hear the show. the network apparently has control over this creature, and they neither could nor WOULD ever succeed in doing that to me. no way in hell."
end of paraphrase.