The styblehead returns! jesus wept.

A tipper clued us to the KIRO weekend skedge and guess who's wiggled his way up to the bottom of the week?

Yes, Bryan Styble will hold forth from 10p-1a on Saturday and Sunday nights starting, presumably, this week.

Frank Shiers is scheduled (groan) for 7 nights a week.

It's another baby step backwards for KIRO- a formerly proud heritage station once responsible for 50% of Entercom Seattle's profits, now a 2nd tier earner.

The laughable know-it-all was fired in October from the overnight so the unlistenable Mother Truckers Show could sell their trucking products to the trucking product-consuming public.

When the latter proved to be nonexistent, KIRO wisely cut them loose and began broadcasting Dave Ross re-runs on the overnights.

We'd thought we'd heard the last of The Styblehead, (the affectionate nickname given him by his many friends out in Radioland) but apparently no such luck. He had worn down ratings from predecessor Lou Pate's 9-15 shares, to an abysmal .08 last time they bothered to count.

He's obviously worn down the KIRO management who obviously never had to listen to him. We can't really complain- he's great copy and has given rise to some of the most spirited comments in our spirited comment threads.

Styble fancies himself as a scientist and renaissance man but is a neoconservative clinchpoop given to non-stop didactic and arcane monologues; odd personal grudges aired endlessly on the radio; fierce losses of temper, and an irritating way of never letting callers finish a sentence.

This strange little man stands instead of sits at the microphone, wears two watches and a bicycle helmet and lets himself be provoked by an audience of 4 or 5 audacious and funny young guys who make sport of baiting him.

When they're on their game- The Bryan Styble Show is at its acme. Otherwise it's a humorless kulturkampf and factoid convention of one.

Comments

[joanie]

Never say never . . .kind of funny, his ability to survive. You gotta like that a little.

I'll give him a try when he comes back . . . last time I listened which was years and years ago, I couldn't take more than a few minutes. Maybe he's changed . . . or maybe I have.

[dave]

styble is not listenable, be careful joanie, it will make you want to break your radio...im not kidding

[headless]

Why doesn't Goldy get more time on the radio? Last week I thought he was getting pretty good at it. Styble is the worst radio show I've ever heard.

[mercifurious]

Watch set: 10pm to 1am

"Styblehead crap council" emergency meeting called. All deputies will have their dialing hands ready.

Ready for fun?

Note: The last time Styblehead was on the air, I had one of my minions call-in w/ feign complaint: "Whats w/ all those mean ol' bloggers?".

Styblehead went on yet another Styblerant about this familiar Styble-rumor:
"They say that I've been having an affair with the KIRO cleaning woman"

...funny because we never said that - check the Bla'M archives.

Me thinks he protesteth too much.

[mercifurious]

Minions contacted. Safety-buttons: off. Fail-safe devices removed.

Joanie: That means listen up Saturday - it'll be fun

[sclub]

Again: Tom C. is an idiot.

[Liz]

I heard Styble in for Shiers recently and I thought he did a fine job, of course, I have always been a Styble fan.

It's a different time slot for him, the show may have a different format, I think he deserves the opportunity to do a few shows before judgements are passed.

I know I have read here that many felt his constant interruptions were one of his faults. During the recent "in for Frank" show, he gave callers plenty of time and space, without interjection.

Like I said, new show, new format, different audience.

[Rich]

As bad as he was, I say give him a next chance. There is something intriguing about his Lazarus nature. He has generated some of the best comments in the blog. You have got to like a guy who responds to an E mail with his home phone # and an invitation to call.

[Tommy008]

yaaay i finally got my WABC to stream again on my pc. no more "tinfoilhat" taliaferro. I've got Dr. Bill to take care of Styble on the weekends.

[sparky]

why doesnt KIRO just put up a billboard that says "Please don't listen to our station. Thank you."

Wouldnt that be cheaper than all those salaries and benefits?

[Tommy008]

Morons liek Mr. N.R.A. Nutjob, my Republican marina neighbor, foolishly believes W. Bush is a conservative and a Republican. This sneaky, STINKY deal that Bush made with Mexico's Fox in 2004 and tried to keep secret, which would give billions is social security money to illegal workers is just another example W. Bush, Oligarchist/Corporatist, not even Republican, up to his undermining, destructive tricks.

[cinco]

the "Factoid Convention of One" will have to get by without me... thanks for the witty heads up, Michael.

[Ted Smith]

If Styble is back, Mike Webb cannot be far behind.

[Just bad radio]

Even If I was Mc Styblehead , I dont think, I would'nt want Mike Webb behind me ! Stay way from the Styblehead COOL/AID!! its not funny its just wrong!

[Maya]

surviving doesn't make good radio- rats survive.

[Bill]

OK, I'll admit that Styblehead's style and presentation drove me nuts before he was let go in October.

But now, I say "UNCLE!"....I'll listen, and be amused by his long winded dissertations about odd things. Like a few here, I do admire his perseverance.

Besides, its kinda' like listening to a meltdown-waiting-to-happen. So Michael-Savage-like. 'Ya just know sooner or later something bad might happen.

[Duffman]

As much as we bash KIRO, it's obvious that we can't stop listening! asi es la vida!

[sparky]

au contraire, mon fraire....some of us broke the habit years ago... ;-)

As I posted many moons ago, listening to KIRO is like going to the refrigerator time after time, hoping this time there will magically be something to eat...

...or beating yourself with a stick because it feels so good when you stop.

[Rich]

The Styblehead may be bad radio,but he is great blog fodder.

[Stybsterite]

He denied that he was harassing the cleaning woman, but admitted that you can put the accent on either the first or second syllable of "harassing." (True story)

[rev]

While it's true that Syble is an opinionated fool, that hardly disqualifies him from hosting talk radio. If he provides some kind of direction to his program rather than encouraging listeners to change the subject with every call, and if he doesn't interrupt his callers with irrelevant digressions, he might achieve a marginally adequate presentation. He demonstrated this during the windstorm programs.

If, if, if. Of course, if my grandmother had wheels, she could have been a streetcar.

[FREMONT]

Minions...don't let the phone bill lapse! I've neverf listened to Styblehead, but I'm taking a nap Saturday afternoon...Let's roll!

[FREMONT]

WeBSUX ???!!!

[Stybsterite]

I just realized that my previous post might appear to be intended as a bad joke about the word "harassing." No, never mind.

[FREMONT]

"This sneaky, STINKY deal that Bush made with Mexico's Fox in 2004 and tried to keep secret, which would give billions is social security money to illegal workers is just another example"

T-8, if workers paid into Social Security, why shouldn't they reap the benefits? Huh?

[Tommy008]

they shouldn't be here in the first place. That's their problrm if they paid in, committing identity theft , using my or your ss #. Comes with the territory of being here illegally.It's not liberal to be in favor of the depressing of blue collar and middle class wages, and the undermining/decimation of the middle class itself which is all Bush is up to with his LOVE for illegal workers and desire to keep the borders blown wide open, which they quickly became, after Clinton left office.

[lukobe]

hmm--if they used someone else's SSN, doesn't that other person get their SS benefits?

[Tommy008]

If we do, we deserve it. Illegals do not improve our quality of life here, contrary to thr pc myth.

[adc]

I don't bother with radio on the weekends, except to listen to football and baseball. And with that Monson ass polluting the Hawk pre-game show, I don't even listen to that any more.

It's been clear to me for some time, that KIRO management just sucks. Period. End of story.

How many poor decisions are they allowed to make? And these aren't minor "boo-boo's" one would expect from a freshly-minted college grad, these are major F-ups.

For Godssakes, just shytcan the entire upper echelon and start the hell over. They can't possibly do any worse.

Honestly, how many companies would tolerate a management team that takes a premier product, and utterly destroys it? I find it very odd.

KIRO management must have some great pics of THEIR corporate masters caught doing the nasty with others not their spouses, that's all I can think of.

[Tommy008]

As W's old business school professor said about him, G.W. Bush was and is enamored with the Gilded Age, a period roughly 30 to 40 years before Roosevelt's New Deal, which gave birht to the modern middle class in America. There was no real middle class in the gilded age, and that's just the way oligarchist and corporatist W. Bush, and Pappy Bush and Babs would prefer it. The W. Bush-enabled invasion of America by illegal workers is just the ticket with which son George is trying to destroy everything Roosevelt and the unions have tried to build up and secure for the average American.

[joanie]

Tommy, I think the illegals issue is so complex. I agree with you about Bush's motives: he is oligarchist and he wants cheap labor. Everybody should recognize that by now.

But, we do use and need some of that labor . . . although, I for one, think that if we can give money to oil companies for overpriced gas, we ought to be able to pay a farmer enough to pay a field hand a living wage. Neither field hands nor farmers are doing very well . . .

What an upside-down society we live in.

Also, it wasn't just the New Deal that created the middle class. The GI Bill that sent so many returning vets to college after WW2 had a lot to do with it as well. Now, we're sending our kids to prison instead of school. Go figure.

But, to come full circle, I don't really blame the illegals. They are not the problem. They are being exploited because we don't fix the other problem: paying for what we get/eat.

One more thing, I had some work done on my house a few years ago. The one Mexican (and he was here legally) was the best worker of the bunch. Had to watch him to get good work; but, he worked.

[chris]

I don't know, Bush has been pushing the N. American Union, which is all about cheap labor as well as that highway being built up the center of the nation from Mexico. If you listen to the Alex Jones show, which can turn one off sometimes, he does lay out Bush' new world order of tyranny. The middle class is what made this country great.

This new congress has to impeach Bush and Cheney, they are both megalomaniacs.

[joanie]

And the sooner they get Bush out of the way, they'll get to Cheney who will be even easier . . . geez, he'll be screaming to be impeached! He has no charm whatsoever.

[Tommy008]

Post-impeachment, and seizure of his assets, Cheney could make a good living playing Scrooge in Dinner Theatre and Little Theatre productions of A Christmas Carol.

[Mercifurious is Dead]

Mercifurious: Wrong again...

Blathering Mike: Wrong again...

No credibility
No accuracy
No life

This blog is a farce

Blatherwatch R.I.P 2004 - 2006

[joanie]

BTW, are you all learning the latest Bush Iraq dance: the Surge and Accelerate?

[Tommy008]

Speaking of Scrooge, did anyone catch The Snarler (Mark Levin) going apoplectic over Nancy Pelosi and the Dem's first day, and her first order of business to raise the minimum wage? He kept snarling and snapping off phony statistics that supposedly obviated the need for any wage raise. Levin's niggardly, parsimonious prototype type is nothing new in America and his various "soulmate's" of each previous decade for the last seventy years or so, before each new raise, ever since Roosevelt introduced the minimum wage in the depression, have been spouting such statistics and dire warnings of economic harms, which have NEVER come to pass.

[joanie]

They're automatons - they're programmed. How can they change, Tommie? Impossible. They are only able to spew out that which is programmed in. Like sheep . . . baa baa baa baa . . .

Now where have I heard that before?

[lukobe]

Joanie--surprised you think gas ought to be cheaper.

Isn't the real problem with illegal immigration and, for that matter, offshoring, that we want our goods as cheap as possible? I mean, that's what's responsible for the proliferation of WalMarts...

[Tommy008]

"the laughable knowitall" bwahaahahaahahahahahaahahahheeeeheeeheeheeheeheeeheehehhawwww

[Tommy008]

I like Dr. Frank's analysis of Bush as just a big, overgrown destructive child, bent on destroying and breaking things. He's the monster that the cold, unfeeling, and undemonstrative Babs and G.H.W. created. I particularly blame Babs, though.

[joanie]

Listening to Randi talking about medical care - or the lack of it - in Iraq. Twenty thousand doctors have left the country along with most of the middle class.

People in this country have no idea what we've done to that society. Heartbreaking.

[sparky]

I heard a prediction this morning: Cheney will retire, Condi will be made VP, Negroponte will be made Secretary of State, Bush will resign and Condi will pardon him.

I need an aspirin

[joanie]

If that happened and the people of this country didn't rise up, I would retire to a cave forever!

Can that happen? Wouldn't Cheney have to pardon him? How could Condi do it?

[Tommy008]

there's already the exact precedent in place- Agnew resigned, Nixon appointed Ford as V.P., Nixon resigned and Ford pardoned Nixon. Ford had no right to pardon Nixon. "Healer", my ass. That's why I paid no attention to his funeral- also why he was never elected in his own right. Christ, even The Snarler, Mark Levin, says Ford shouldn't have pardoned him.

[chucks]

No impeachment comming. Too much heat for the D's to handle.
Next.
Chuck.
By the way, the last time I saw the word niggardly used, it was by a conservative who was fired from his gummint job.

[Ted Smith]

Here is a scenario that someone posted about 6 months ago:

Imagine that it is Inauguration Day 2009 and that a Democrat will be sworn in. Little bush, Cheney and Condoleaser meet together in the Oval Office. Little bush signs an order pardoning Cheney for all crimes past, present, and future. Then Little bush resigns as President and makes it effective immediately by giving it to Condo. Cheney then becomes President and immediately pardons Little bush and every Republican, defense contractor, fundraiser, and even Mike Webb (because he hates this blog so very, very much).

And then with pardons in hand, they all go off to the Inauguration and snicker to themselves while the Democrat promises to bring all wrongdoers to justice.

And then Cheney goes back to work for Saudi Arabia, Laura moves to a condo in Dallas and starts marketing designer bags of dope, and Little bush and Condo run off together to the new bush Family Compound in Paraguay and frolick naked together in the gentle light of the World's largest cocaine refinery.

[lukobe]

By the way, the last time I saw the word niggardly used, it was by a conservative who was fired from his gummint job.

Was David Howard really a conservative? Would a conservative really take a job as aide to the mayor of D.C.? Anyway--surely you don't think he deserved to lose his job over it....?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niggardly

"On January 15, 1999, David Howard, a white aide to Anthony A. Williams, the black mayor of Washington, D.C., United States, used the word in reference to a budget. This apparently upset one of his black colleagues (identified by Howard as Marshall Brown), who incorrectly interpreted it as a racial slur and lodged a complaint. As a result, on January 25 Williams forced Howard to resign.

However, after an internal review into the matter and pressure from the gay community (of which Howard was a member), the mayor offered Howard the chance to return to his position as Office of the Public Advocate on February 4. Howard refused but accepted another position with the mayor instead.

The Howard incident led to a national debate in the U.S., in the context of racial sensitivity and political correctness, on whether use of the word niggardly should be avoided because of its potential association with the extremely pejorative racial slur nigger, despite the entirely separate and unrelated etymologies of the two words."

[sparky]

Chucks, i think there would be enough votes for an impeachment, but not enough votes to remove him from office at this time. it is a two part process. Nixon knew he would end up in jail so thats why he resigned and had Ford pardon him for things he "might have done." Clinton knew he would not be sent to jail so he didnt fight the impeachment because it was "ceremonial"--that is my word for it.
If Bush was a rational being and thought he was going to be arrested, he would probably arrange for something along the lines of what Ted wrote. But he is delusional and that makes him dangerous when backed into a corner.
Pelosi and Reid have sent him a letter saying Congress will not approve a surge..lets see how Bush reacts to that.

[lukobe]

I still want to know if Bush and Cheney have actually broken the law. I strongly disapprove of much of what they've done, but I think they've been pretty smart about messing up the country.