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  • HorsesAss.Org: the straight poop on WA politics & the press
    progressive brilliance from the guy who pointed out Tim Eyman's nascent horse's-assedness
  • Evergreen Politics
    Northwest regional politics and issues thoughtfully and provokingly written
  • Talker's Magazine
    The quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).
  • Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly: an organization of hope
    need we say more than, it's delicious?
  • The Advocate
    No, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.
  • Media Matters
    David Brock tirelessly exposes right-wing obfuscation in media.
  • Pacific NW Portal
    An ambitious blog of blogs for the progressive Pacific Northwest plus news and weather.
  • Orcinus
    home of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups
  • Hominid Views
    "People, politics, science, and whatnot" Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.
  • artistdogboy
    He's neither a dog nor a boy, but an artist he is and an island of iconclasm on an island of iconoclasts.
  • Jesus' General
    An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.
  • Howie in Seattle
    Howie Martin is the Abe Linkin' of progressive Seattle.
  • LTR (Liberal Talk Radio)
    Invaluable national insider news and resources for devotees of our favorite medium.
  • Meet The Stress
    Chic chicanery by Mercifurious, relentless commentator on culture, politics, the Styblehead, and the end times. (Kitty Repellent Not Provided)
  • Streaming Radio Guide
    Hellishly long (5795!) list of radio streaming, steaming on the Internets.
  • The Rusted Eye
    Artful linking, artfully narrated by our artful friend and Detroit movie critic, Jeph Meyers. Hardly anything, ever, here about talk radio, yet this site is as oddly compelling as Mr. Meyers himself.
  • The Naked Loon
    News satire -- The Onion in the Seattle petunia patch.
  • Irrational Public Radio
    "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."
  • The Rachel Maddow Show
    Here's the hyper-interactive La Raych of MSNBC. videos, podcasts, transcripts, and classy graphics.
  • Northwest Broadcasters
    The AM, FM, TV and digital broadcasters of Northwest Washington, USA and Southwest British Columbia, Canada. From Kelso, WA to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, BC - call letters, formats, slogans, networks, technical data, and transmitter maps. Plus "recent" news.
  • News Corpse
    The Internet's chronicle of media decay.
  • STEVE YOUNG ON POLITICS
    Steve Young covers our beat in the prone position and with one hand tied behind his back. We wish we were Steve Young.
  • The Moderate Voice
    The voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.
  • News Hounds
    Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.
  • HistoryLink
    Fun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.

right-wing blogs we like

  • The Reagan Wing
    Hearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.
  • Orbusmax
    inexhaustible Drudgery of NW conservative news
  • The Radio Equalizer
    prolific former Seattle KVI, KIRO talk host speaks authoritatively about radio.
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December 09, 2008

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

MillerDr. 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.

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November 19, 2008

The doctor is out, dennis miller is in at kvi

Dennis-miller-thumb1 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).

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October 19, 2008

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

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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.

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October 12, 2008

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

11937Joe 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?"

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June 30, 2007

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

Goldy_2 The David Goldstein Show (KIRO Saturdays, Sundays, 7-10p) tonight:

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June 06, 2007

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

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"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.

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March 25, 2007

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.Millerdennis2_2

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.

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    • KIRO 710ESPN Seattle 710 KHz
      Games and sports-blabber
    • KIROFM 97.3
      Multi-format: news and nearly all local talk. This is where classic KIRO AM news talk radio went... hopefully, not to die. The home of Dave Ross, Dori Monson, Ron & Don, Luke Burbank, Tony Miner, and Tom Douglas.
    • KUOW FM 94.9
      Seattle's foremost public radio news and talk.
    • KVI am 570 KHz
      Conservative talk: Except for Kirby Wilbur in the morning, this is syndicated right-wing such as Dennis Miller, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, George Noory.
    • KTTH am 770 KHz
      Right wing home of local talker David Boze: and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Lars Larsony.
    • KPTK am 1090 KHz
      Syndicated liberal talk. Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Lionel and more fill in the large hole to the left on Northwest radio dial.
    • KGNW am 820 kHz
      Christian talk with occasional politics. Dr. James Dobson.
    • KOMOAM
      News, traffic, and and John Carlson & Ken Schram's "The Commentators."
    • Washington State Radio Stations
      Comprehensive list of every danged AM & FM station on the dial.
    • KKOL am 1300 KHz
      Once a rabid right-wing talker, it's all business now... except for Mike Siegel in the morning and syndicated. Bloomberg.