Holiday oddems: critches, defects, o'reilly, olberman, mike webb, john dingell, susan paynter, knute berger, steve scher, allan prell, erin hart, your mother

~~please forgive our recent tardier-than-usualness and that some of our recent posts are unclickable. Typepad (the low-rent blog provider we depend upon to save America) has been suffering crashes on its Roy Rogers model servers and rodent-run hardware. They owe us.

~~The "war" on Xmas wages on. The cynical exploitation of Christian "victimhood" continues to put gas in the Lexi for right wing talkers. O'Reilly's December 2 promise to "bring horror into the world of" those he claims are waging a "war" on Christmas earned him the "Worst Person in the World" title on MSNBC's 's December 8 Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The prestigious award was based on false O'Reilly claims, noted by Media Matters, that a Texas school district and the township of Saginaw, Michigan, enforced bans against red and green clothing during the holiday season. Olberman told Rep. John Dingell: Would it surprise you, sir, that as they have warned us about this rush to change "Merry Christmas" into "Happy Holidays," that the biggest transgressor in the area might be Fox News itself?...they sold O'Reilly "Christmas decorations" and called them "Holiday" ornaments for your "Holiday tree." And instead of a Christmas party this year, their parent company has just held a Holiday party?"

~~The best news and political discussion on Seattle radio happens not on KIRO or KTTH, but at 10a each Friday on KUOW's Weekday, the wildly popular public radio news talk show hosted by the evervescent plodder, Steve Scher. Unfortunately only an hour long, the debate's always wide-ranging with a regular clutch of liberal print media graybeards: PI columnist Susan Paynter, Seattle Weekly editor and columnist, Knute Berger and Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat. They have the benefit of age, and long experience reporting in Seattle- virtues not often celebrated in local radio these days. Paynter isn't the cute little trick she once was scandalizing the newsroom in a micro miniskirt; and Berger still looks like the hippy who sneaked past the security guard. We love this weekly discussion, though there's a little too much about Seattle city politics, an exasperating topic we'd rather know less about. We think that coots rock and we're all for fogey power; what's more, we're crazed liberals. But we'd like this weekly dust-up even more if there were a conservative among these pundits. Of course, most radio conservatives we know live in the suburbs or are too heavy-breathing for NPR- but stick in someone like Carlson or Medved who could hold up their end of an argument with minimal demagoguery and we might have some real radio.

~~Cliches we feel confident will be gone by the end of this month: "Monday morning quarterback;" "deja vue all over again;" "the People's Republic of Seattle."

~~A reader who must be inside at KIRO writes: "Mike Webb has a guy who calls himself Dr. Mortimer S. Weems D.D.S. who is always instant messaging him a written butt-kicking. He shows up on Erin Hart's show also. Since I can't stand the uber-arrogant Herr Webb, or the annoying Hart, I get a real charge out of this Weems."  We don't know how the reader could know about this unless he is Dr. Weems or a KIRO board op or producer. Dr. Weems: could you please drop us a line at blatherWatch-mail@yahoo.com? We probably have lots to talk about.

~~Fans of Allan Prell, late of KIRO 9 to noon will be happy to hear he's reached some kind of agreement with some moneybags interested in syndicating the Allan Prell Show. According to Prell, all they need is a Director of Affiliates, whatever the hell that is...if you are one and need some work, write him at allanprell@gmail.com.

Comments

[FREMONT]

Hooray for your applause for "Weekday", but do we really need a banal conservative viewpoint? It would add ketchup, not spice, to the discussions...

[dykstra]

kuow is too chickenshit to add any other viewpoint than their seattle elitest liberal cocktail party jibber-jabber. Just prove that michael is spinning when he hsays that npr isn't lib-rdio ar

[Chad Stanley]

Oh geez...ban the conservatives! Katy bar the door! Cup your ears and sing "la la la la la"...gimme a break! There is NOTHIN' wrong with a reasoned (ie: Medved) point counter point. Relax peeps, we're not all in junior high.

Regarding Big Al Prell - Kudos to Allan! I am anxiously awaiting his syndication and I hope and wish that it can be received via internet stream, because I'm not sure that any program director in this market will have the cojones to give him airtime. Hopefully I'll be wrong, but I'll be satisfied if he gets a stream. Personally, I believe he'll do just FINE in the red states, since he has a 'sense of humor' which many of the self righteous in Seattle just don't dig - ya heard?

[God]

What are you talking about, Webb has a great radio show...FOR ME TO POOP ON!!! Sorry for the exhausted Trimuph quote.

I am pretty sure if Prell gets sydication, he will go stream.

[umo]

It takes no money to stream your own radio show to a worldwide audience on Shoutcast. That is the only route left for the pathetic Alan Prell.

[FREMONT]

Hey, Chad, there is no junior high any more...it's been "middle school" for years! How outta touch (or old) are you?

[Chad Stanley]

I'm old enough to recall Ed and Wendy King in 1970 on KDKA weekday nights from 9:00 to midnight. The callers weren't even broadcast over the air; Wendy would paraphrase a conversation she just had with a caller and Ed would comment. Yup - those were the days. The days of them super Stillers as well. Talk about ancient history!

Had no idea about middle versus jr...but I really don't focus on such minutae. Now go back to your herbal tea.

[dykstra]

there's enough heresy and blasphemy on this site to bring on the Armageddon single-handed, hope you all go to hell for Christmas. you don't deserve grace or redemption.

[sparky]

Well, now thats not a very Christian attitude...

Fremont...some school districts still have junior highs, although not very many.

[Andrew]

dykstra you are the most evil thing to ever happen to this website. You aren't wanted here or anywhere else on earth. I wish for Christmas that you be put out of our misery.

[Danny Westneat]

Who are you calling a graybeard fogey coot? Aren't you, like, 50 or something?

[FREMONT]

Yeah, Michael, like 50 or something? How ancient ARE you, anyway?