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Glennn Beck and the heartbreak of head fat

Having head fat doesn't always mean you are a fathead... so says medical researchers, but it's a no 1 symptom.

We've always known Fox News "anchor" and radio host Glennn Beck (KTTH m-f, 6-9a) as a hypermanic, pop-eyed, chubby-cheeked, arm-flapping, spittle-spraying, race-baiting, grenade-launching, cliche-spewing, sex-obsessed, fag-baiting, right-wing cheer-king for violence against diversity...

But could he also be... a fathead???

The answer is yes... a visit to Bill O'Reilly Friday, revealed a fat-fold on Glennn Beck's head in which he could easily conceal a handgun. (a concept he heartily endorses, btw).

Rush goes on vacay- who will lead the GOP?

A ship with no captain; shit creek without a paddle; a noodle without a butter pat. We strain for the perfect cliché.

The Republican Party will be rudderless all next week as Rush "I Hope He Fails" Limbaugh announced Wednesday: "I will be taking next week off for golf and football."

T-Man's call-screener gets gay-egged, sand-bagged

  He's one of the morning zoo keepers on the T-Man Show KUBE m-f, 6-10a) named Gay Phone Operator.

He and a friend were walking out of the Northgate QFC on Jan 15, when a couple of teenagers ran up, yelled FAG!, and threw eggs at them, messing up their clothes and of course, freaking them out.

Mr. Operator (real name, Chris Sterling, 39, says the cretins recognized him, went back into the grocery store, bought eggs, and came back to pelt him.

(Photo: Gay Phone Operator)

(Like most straight, white people in Seattle: we're shocked when shit like this happens in this liberal paradise. Northgate is a tough neighborhood, though, and sexual differentness particularly rattles small people).

U$ing rush limbaugh...

Michael reagan: meager end to a meager radio career

"Put a fork in him," a poster's subject line reads in Radio Info...

As rookie Ron Reagan is rising up on Air America, (KPTK  m-f,3-6p) hi older step-brother Michael Reagan, a veteran radio broadcaster is down for the count.

Michael Edward Reagan, 63, former speedboat racer, and adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, is one of the weakest talents in right-wing radio. He's milked his famous father's name shamelessly to no avail -- his radio career has been on a descending glide path for years.

This month he was dropped from the third rate network right-wing he was on and picked up by a fourth-rate one. He was dropped to make room for Roger Hedgecock, the disgraced former mayor of San Diego cum radio talk host.

Did obama make a mistake calling out rushbwana?

They are so jealous.

"Wish he'd call me out," muttered Glenn Beck into his second and third chins.

Hannity screwed up his tiny, Irish choir-boy lips, "It started on my show!"

They've turned green about Obama actually saying Rush Limbaugh's name outloud in the media. The president was responding to Rush's remark on the Hannity  show that he does not wish success for Obama's America.

KUOW goes to re-runs

Weekend America, MPR's magazine show, as we've reported, will end Jan. 31, and KUOW will replace it Feb. 7. with KUOW Presents Weekend.

Will this be a locally produced gem of a show which will develop their bench, regain the station's once proud reputation for innovation and edge, and give some up-and-coming talent some air-time?

(photo: Jet City Cakes)

Hell no, this is KUOW, and there's a depression on, boy!

KPW will a "best-of" show of which will be gleaned from recent local shows. Re-runs.

They already run a KP, (weeknights, 9p) and we're not sure if they can squeeze any more juice from the shows for this. Maybe the weekend show will be re-re-runs.

Rush limbaugh: appealing to our bitter angels

President Obama told congressional leaders Friday, "You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.”

You get more than a hint of the real motives behind the partisan entertainer's politics hearing Limbaugh's response to The National Review.

He warns: if Obama should succeed turning around the free-falling economy with his stimulus package, it would hurt Republicans politically for a very long time.

Wonk's corner: what's happening now in radio, and why

"[It] isn't just the result of mismanagement or increased competition. It all goes back to when radio went from being a business to being an investment. When the focus moved from sustainable growth to maximizing quarterly profits and making investors happy at any cost, a day like Tuesday [the massive layoffs at Clear Channel] became inevitable.

No business grows forever, and no business could support the kind of inflated prices the investors paid for stations and groups in the last decade or so. The bubble had to burst, and when it did, and revenues shrank while the debt payments remained, the investors were going to call all the shots.

At some point, having exhausted the possibility of cutting costs to the bone, radio will end up back in the hands of people who want to operate the business as radio rather than as an ATM. Until then, we'll have to deal with the influence of people who really just want to get their investments back. ~~ Perry Michael Simon, All Access (1.23.09)

Obama to GOP: stop listening to rush limbaugh if you want to get anything done."

UPDATE: President Obama warned Capitol Hill Republicans Frday that they need to quit listening to Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.

(photo: anti-Obama comedian Rush Limbaugh)

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his $875 billion stimulus package.

Later the White house clarified: "There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats. We shouldn't let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done."

Sean Hannity had asked Limbaugh Wednesday, if he wanted the president to succeed, he replied, "I shamelessly say, no, I want him to fail, if his agenda is a far-left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?"

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One of the first sets of President Obama's executive orders instructs “federal agencies to handle requests for information from the public and press under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) with an eye toward disclosure, not refusal.”

You'd think that this “new standard of openness,” would be welcomed by the disloyal opposition such as the anti-Obama radio talker Rush Limbaugh. It would, after all, make it easier again for citizens and the press to sunlight official government documents.