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UPDATED: dr. laura is out; dennis miller is in at kvi

Dr. Laura, is being tossed out of the Seattle market once again.

In another admirable but probably pointless re-shuffling of the deck chairs, KVI will put Dennis Miller in the 9a-noon slot, in early February. Maybe they decided one negative, sharp-toothed scold (Laura Ingraham. m-f, 3-6p) was enough -- if so, we'd have to agree.

The doctor is out, dennis miller is in at kvi

Dennis Miller, the former SNL comedian, sports caster turned libertarian, security conservative radio talk host and will take over KVI's 9 ta noon slot in early February. He left the Seattle market when KKOL flipped to business talk early this month.

The KVI slot is now filled with Dr. Laura Schlessinger who tells young women and gay men why they shouldn't sleep with their boyfriends. She tersely supports wives who are having trouble serving and servicing their husbands on demand as, she believes, is their Biblical role. (Laura's never lasted long in this market, though she's tried many times).

If you thought talk radio hated colin powell yesterday... wait 'til tomorrow!

It's ironic and sad. Gen. Colin Powell's redemption is in direct proportion to the diminishing of John McCain's honor. 

While it's now McCain who's dying for Bush's sins, Powell, who was once tacked up on that cross himself is now one of the few Republicans in the post-Bush era with his reputation intact.

He announced his support of Barack Obama on Meet the Press, a major blow to the McCain/Palin campaign. It's
another nail in the coffin; a knell of death; beginning of another ending; and a sign the end is near for the impoverished, dishonorable, ill-advised, out of gas, poorly run, and badly-imagined campaign of the John McCain.

The shit machine: talk radio's case against barack obama

Joe Gandelman is the editor at The Moderate Voice, a wry and respected independent political blog. Last week he drove up the California coast where the radio choices are none but right-wing talk.

He writes: "... unless you’re a Republican partisan, this week conservative talk radio seemed infiltrated by Democratic Party moles doing caricatured, extremist off-the-wall broadcasts guaranteed to convince independent voters listening in to vote for Democrats." You think the rhetoric, verbal extremism and unbottled rage displayed at Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s recent rallies is something?"

Horse's ass radio tonight: mike webb, geov parrish, the stranger, and police accountablility

Horse's ass radio tonight: mike webb, geov parrish, the stranger, and police accountablility

The David Goldstein Show (KIRO Saturdays, Sundays, 7-10p) tonight:

US Oil to KKOL: 'eliminate the risk- or else." what would jesus do?

"No AM radio station has ever caused an explosion or fire at a refinery,” Salem Broadcasting flack, Dennis Ciapura wrote to a radio trade site.

Odd claim for a radio man to have to make, but Salem's trying to get Seattle's Christianist, right-wing talker, KKOL up and running with all 50 grand throbbing from their new tower on at the Port of Tacoma.

They're all powered up and no place to go.

The Dennis Miller launch: fangs without the bang

The syndicated Dennis Miller Show, in an inauspicious launch, will be picked up by KKOL, starting Monday, Mar. 26. He'll be heard from Mondays-Fridays at 12-3p, replacing Jerry Doyle.

It's inauspicious because, as Baroosk at Talking Radio points out, the carpet sure doesn't match the drapes.

The pre-launch hype flacked by Westwood One was the Miller show having some 80 stations to start, but the cynical conservative convert will only launch with eleven- 8 of which are Salem stations like the 50,000 watt cigarette lighter, KKOL.

He enters the Seattle market in a tough slot- one filled with the big boys- Ed Shultz, Medved, Dori Monson and Hannity.