BlatherWatch

Cop-killing, live and local radio, mike huckabee, and why we can’t wait until the first snow storm

The cop murders in Lakewood, and the Maurice Clemmons manhunt was like bad weather: made for live and local news talk radio.

It’s what radio does best. It gave instantaneous coverage and breaking news talk about a story that really matters to Puget Sound locals.

(photo: Mike Huckabee, "killed in the fray.")

It was a radio community based on breaking news you can use.

Election night, 2009: liberals- 3; talk radio- 0

Liberals had a good night in Washington.

(photo: Dow Constantine)

Once again, it’s plain that despite the bluster, the blather, and hours of blatant advocacy, conservative talk radio KIROFM, KTTH, and KVI are origami tigers when it comes to delivering votes for conservative candidates, and conservative candidates.

Carrie prejean: hottest dish on the christian hot dish circuit

Carrie Prejean has a chance of getting another 15 minutes, and her choice to become a charm in the bracelet of the religious right is a good one.

She's the Miss California who took the opportunity to Christian-witness her fundamentalist opposition to gay marriage in the Miss USA Pageant. Losing the contest, she blamed it on discrimination against her brave Christian witness, which caused kind of stink cables and talk radio live on, and they responded with lots of her puling to drooling interviewers like Sean Hannity.

That may be, but he still carried new jersey...

Were that it were polling the most crackerish of cracker Mississippians or the knuckledraggers of Alabam.

But no, the Public Policy Polling's survey was of New Jersey, the home of Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, and Big Pussy.

Seems quite few in the Garden State pretty firmly believes the president is the Antichrist. The numbers must be pretty remarkable in Dixie!

Medved warns of mandatory sex changes, and taxpaid abortions for trannies!

Michael Medved (KTTH m-f, 12-3p) reported Tuesday that when Obama says "transformation", he means trannies! We just gotta say: OMG!! WTF??!!!

(photo: socialized medicine is really a bailout for the sexually bewildered)

Right-wing terrorism: did bill o'reilly inspire a killer?

A fine, Christianist patriot killed Dr. George Tiller as he attended his Wichita Lutheran church on Sunday.

The 67-year-old late term abortion doctor was shot in the church's vestibule and in the head because the shooter knew that's where he'd be and because he knew Tiller always wore body armor... even to church where he served as an usher, and his wife sang in the choir.

Rush's approval depends on disapproval, says ppm study

It's no surprise: A little-reported study of PPM data last year starkly shows that Rush Limbaugh's ratings go down when he approves of something!

When Limbaugh was expressing disapproval, he got a 5.71% share of listeners, but when he expressed positives on people oir issues, his share went down to 5.43%.

Rush gets it (he's a genius!) so he rarely approves of much of anything.

Can right-wing talk inspire another beer-gut revolution?

Taking a moment from wall-to-wall coverage of the Octomom, Sean Hannity's website has a poll:

What kind of revolution appeals most to you? The Hannitized ditto-heads are voting, and so far, 22.22% favor a Military Coup; 35.56% are for a War for Secession; but 42.22% are for good ol' Armed Rebellion.

Is this another go at mainstreaming the far, far right with an uprising of the militia windbags, the exurban goons w/guns, those beer-gut revolutionaries with the mail-order long guns converted to fully-auto?

Don't laugh it's happened before, and not that long ago ... as the crow's feet fly.

Has radio wrecked the right? ...the right thinks so

Lowbrow conservatism, name-calling, neocons, bullying bluster, blind loyalty to George Bush and the abandonment of elitism on talk radio have allowed carny barkers to run away with the right.

Although we've said similar stuff many times, this time it's an influential conservative magazine. (We'd add that conservative talk is grinding down radio, too -- but that's another post).

Friday oddems: tina nole; KUOW ministry of information; saving face on facebook; the olde cod blarts; rev. dave barry; up-tick in new jersey, dave in winter

~~ She got the gig! Tina Nole left CBS Radio wednesday to start Air America Thursday where her duties as yet announceable. "It feels like home here with all these progressives!" she says. The longtime Dave Ross (KIRO m-f, 9a-12p) producer left for NY in 2007 and produced, among other things, CBS's Super Tuesday and Pennsylvania primary coverage. Stay tuned for upcoming AAR developments. Read her blog here.

              (photo: Tina Nole: unrecognizably New York-y)

~~ Rev. Dave Barry? Dave Ross will appear Saturday on The Fairly Spiritual Show, (KGNW, Saturdays, 10-11a) talking about how his Catholic faith influences his work.

(photo: 'Dave in winter' by Dave Ross)

He'll be with host Pastor Doug Bursch, a Pentacostal with a sense of humor who self-describes thus on his web page: "He has the humor of Billy Graham and the theology of Dave Barry. Or maybe it’s the other way around." We

(photo: Pastor Doug)

have a feeling Pastor Doug's spirituality is not as ambiguous as his show title leads one to believe. Advice to Dave Ross: don't sign anything!