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Current TV has announced the launch of a new morning news block featuring live simulcasts of the radio programs “The Bill Press Show” ( KPTK 1090 3am-6am PST ) and “The Stephanie Miller Show” ( KPTK 1090 6am-9am PST ) every weekday starting early this spring. These additions further strengthen Current’s line-up of political commentary and analysis programs which include “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” “The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur,” and “The War Room with Jennifer Granholm”.
“Current has the young, progressive and involved audience that I want to reach everyday,” said Stephanie Miller. “The Current team shares our view that progressive political news and commentary is critical for an intelligent and informed populace and we’re excited to be part of their growing line-up of talented news broadcasters.”
(Translation for the aging demographic that clings to Fox News: This means the younger, hipper generation is about to 4-wheel drive around your ancient butts. We know you will never watch, Current doesn't care, and once upon a time Fox News Network was just getting started. So go ahead and chortle into your mug of Ovaltine.)
Stephanie was named Talk Radio's Woman of The Year by Talker's Magazine, and her "Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour" -- the No. 1 Comendy Tour in the country right now--continues to break box office records and remains the first political comedy album to reach No. 1 on the comedy charts on iTunes, Amazon and Billboard. She is joined by Hal Sparks and John Fugelsang, who also appear on her radio show.
“The conservative stranglehold on morning cable news television in America is over,” said Bill Press. “Current TV and I share a common goal of cutting through the talking points and shouting heads to present sane, intelligent political commentary and analysis.”
(photo:Bill Press)
Press, in addition to being an Emmy Award winning broadcaster and prolific author, also attends daily White House briefings and writes a syndicated newspaper column, distributed by Tribune Media Services.
“2012 is a crucial year in the history of our country and we felt that morning cable television programming was simply not speaking to Americans with progressive viewpoints and ideas,” said David Bohrman, President, Current TV. “This new block will be an alternative to the tired banter and light news that is found on the air today. We are proud to be the only cable news network presenting independent, intelligent and engaging progressive programming for viewers every morning.”
Every weekday Current TV’s camera will be live inside Bill and Stephanie’s studios to bring viewers live coverage of two of the most progressive radio shows on the air today. Current viewers will now have access to daily live interviews, political commentary, listener calls, as well as Bill and Stephanie’s take on the news of the day. R.R.
Rush Limbaugh is the exact opposite of any moral standard the LDS (Mormon) Church professes to uphold.
Bonneville International, who owns KIRO and the Rush Limbaugh-bearing KTTH is owned outright by the LDS Church.
Rush Limbaugh is in big trouble. Mitt Romney (the country's most famous Mormon) is in big trouble for his tepid response to Rush's slut-shaming tirade against this young woman exercising her political rights in the nation's capitol.
Bonneville and the LDS Church would go a long way towards some community respect in this town, if they had the courage to drop Rush from KTTH. It should be simple- they outlined some good reasons in 2009 in their Code of Deseret Media.
While we're not terribly optimistic they will live up to these stated principles (they've had many opportunities), we're hopeful that this latest porqueria from Big Pants will be the camel's straw.
The Code was supposed to force a “‘reawakening to righteousness,’ and be a ‘puritanical purge’ and series of ‘reorganizations’ at the Deseret News [their flagship paper] that replaced experienced reporters and editors with younger, more light-filled, devout [and cheaper] people.”
They made a big deal of removing Sean Hannity from their mother station, KSL in Salt Lake City in deference to their Code. But they didn't touch the delusional pig, Glenn Beck, or Hannity in markets like Seattle. They did cut the mic of vile reactionary scum, Michael Savage in Seattle, but for the most part, kept the wingers that pulled the ratings.
To Bonneville: there will be a backlash, we assure you. This is a progressive town which has a long history of honoring women in the public and private sectors.
Do the right thing and be rid of this man.
He dishonors you, the women of Seattle, and his stinking up of the airwaves bodes ill not only for Romney's future (your dreams of mainstreaming your faith in this country rest heavily in his candidacy) but also for building respect for your faith in this community.
This was not the best of Mondays for Rush Limbaugh, alhough he would never admit it. Sponsors continued to walk away from him, and at press time, and at least one radio station has cancelled his show. Rush pressed on today, explaining his "apology" and told his listeners who the real villans are. (hint: It starts with "L.")
AOL has become the latest company to officially cancel their advertisement from Limbaugh's show.
"At AOL one of our core values is that we act with integrity," said Maureen Sullivan, an AOL spokeswoman who confirmed the decision. "We have monitored the unfolding events and have determined that Mr. Limbaugh’s comments are not in line with our values. As a result we have made the decision to suspend advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Radio show."
But Rush still doesn’t get it. On his Monday show, Limbaugh once again pretended to apologize for his behavior, while claiming liberals made him do it. Eric Wemple summarizes Limbaugh’s latest lame effort:
“Give me 30 minutes — I want to explain why I apologized,” said Limbaugh just after noon.
The reason he apologized, he says, is that he descended to such a low, such a scummy, gutter-level depth . . . that he started to resemble liberals: ”I don’t expect morality, intellectual honesty from the left — they’ve demonstrated their willingness to say or do anything. This is the mistake I made: In fighting them . . . I became like them. Against my own instincts, against my own knowledge.”
Limbaugh further mentioned that he felt “very badly” because he’d “used those two words [slut and prostitute] to describe Sandra Fluke and I feel very badly about that. . . . I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for using those two words to describe her. The apology to her over the weekend was sincere. It was simply for using inappropriate words. . . . I ended up descending to their level. It’s important never to be like them.”
But it's just a bunch of advertisers, right? Apparently not. According to Public Policy Polling
"Our numbers suggest that Rush Limbaugh has seen significant erosion in his popularity with Republican voters over the last week. The last time we polled on him nationally he was at 80/12 with GOPers. But now we find him below 50% in all three of these states: he's at 45/28 in Ohio, 46/29 in Tennessee, and 44/30 in Georgia."
RR
No, not that word. "S" as in SORRY, for slandering Sandra Fluke by calling her a "slut" and implying that she leads an active sex life that he demanded be filmed and posted on the Internet.
At least it's his version of an apology.
“My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir,” Limbaugh said on his website. “I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.”
This quasi-apology came only after he received blowback from a few key Republicans, and a couple of his advertisers. Is he sorry for his "insulting word choices," or for making her the poster girl for nymphomaniacs? Several of his advertisers, believing it is the former, have pulled their advertisements from his show, and several others are considering it.
Much of the criticizm, however, came not from his original comments about the "need" for the Pill, but his demand that she post videos of her sexual activity as a sort of "payment" for having employer-provided contraceptives. As a result, Citrix, Sleep Number, Sleep Train, Legal Zoom and Carbonite have all pulled their ads after a firestorm of complaints from customers. “Due to recent commentary by Rush Limbaugh that does not align with our values, we’ve made the decision to immediately suspend all advertising on that program," Gabby Nelson, company spokeswoman at mattress manufacturer Select Comfort, said in an emailed statement.
Sears and Pro-Flowers are considering cancelling their spots. Pro-Flowers has Mother's Day coming up soon, and there is currently an effort to start a national boycott against them if they don't cancel their advertising. A quick peek at his website this morning shows that the only advertiser left on the page is...Rush. He is still peddling t shirts.
Several commentators have pointed out that Rush must think women have to take the Pill everytime they have sex, much like he relies on Viagra. What he did not bother to find out is that Ms. Fluke never testified on the benefits of contraception. Her speech before the Congressional committee was about a friend of hers with cystic ovarian disease who needs to take the Pill to control the growth of the cysts. Rush ignored the fact that many sexually abstinate women take the Pill to control cramps, endometriosis and to level out hormones when approaching menopause. To him, birth control means getting it ON!!
Was his apology enough? Forbes Magazine was not impressed:
"He tries to non-apologize by saying it was all just a big joke that no one should have taken seriously...
For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.
Limbaugh, of course, spent several days attacking Sandra Fluke in the most personal of terms. He called her a slut and a prostitute. Now he’s saying we should not believe what his words said. No, it was all just a wild spoof of some kind, a meta-commentary on the absurdity of modern life under a liberal regime...The idea of Rush Limbaugh attempting to retcon weasely nuance into his own past statements to obscure his excesses: now that’s absurd."
We agree.
RR
Not exactly the kind of headlines we're used to seeing since the halcyon days of newspapers competing against the red baiting of the 1950's or train wrecks in which wolves were nipping at the pancreases of dead passengers high up in the mountains.
Alex Jones talking into a snake microphone
that could also be a Zippo lighter
But since we live in fictitious times where truth is a stranger to fiction, we can't help but resist peering into the land of 1000 watt AM radio and the magic of the Internet that brings us the spare parts of talk radio.
In the 24 or so hours since the death of Andrew Breitbart and now quite possibly Davy Jones too, conspiracy host and player of cool bumper music, Alex Jones and his staff of 2 theorize that Breitbart was the victim of foul play just hours before his alleged release-of-something-big-that-would-derail-Obama-but-now-he's-dead-so it must be true meme.
The ambiguously stoned but squeaky clean Monkees
who would later team up with the New World Order and kill Davy Jones
Breitbart's accusations from the CPAC conference claimed, “I have videos, this election we’re going to vet him. We are going to vet him from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008.”
Breitbart also said he would release the tape during last months CPAC conference. We have to believe he was still 'editing' for Blu-Ray sales and therefore couldn't make the deadline.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
On Jones' website ( but not available on the air around here or least Alex isn't telling us,) his site asserts that something fishy is going on, because prior to his video post-post pre-release, the hospital won't tell the Infowars News Team if Breitbart was even admitted to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Hospital.
HIPPA is also a part of the Illuminati plan to cover up the deception too.
Alex says, "You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to appreciate the downright weirdness of Breitbart predicting a major event to occur on March 1st, only for him to end up dying on that very date. Breitbart was officially pronounced dead at 12:19am."
Sheriff Joe Arpiao has also flown in his team of Maricopa County Rangers from Arizona to defend tyranny and also to evade his own court appearance which is being orchestrated by the other Illuminati.
Meanwhile, Erich "Mancow" Muller tweeted:
New do- it-yourself book by Dori Monson
On Tuesday's edition of the Dori Monson show 97.3 KIRO FM , our erstwhile conservative host without a nationwide audience, attempted to segue his own Shorecrest Scots going to finals with a Houston based Jewish High school.
It seems the private/parochial schools in Texas don't have a way around the darned Orthodox sabbath which begins on sundown Friday and runs 24 hours until sundown Saturday.
Most district league and regional playoffs are during the weekends, which was shifted to accommodate according to league director Edd Burleson, who told the NY Times, "if schedules are changed for these schools, it's hard for other schools. If we solve one problem, we create another problem."
The league has 20 semi-final games scheduled on Friday.
How does the coach and his players feel?
Robert M. Beren Academy Coach Chris Cole told Coach Dori "The White Shadow" Monson, "Basically what we're asking for is just a little change. If they can change the Daytona 500...if BYU can participate in the NCAA, those kind of things are logistics that can be worked out."
Dori asked, " Why not play this one game on the Sabbath?"
Uh huh.
Coach Cole said "The truth is the kids are not even angry about this. They are very disappointed but it's not part of the equation."
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