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Friday oddems: honky whitesville; slime at the water's edge; neville chamberlain plays hardball; tiny, sick children; zucchini de ron; shrimp cocktails hired at KIRO; absolutely nothing about dori monson

~~ Unfortunately for KIRO fill-ins Frank Shiers and David Goldstein; these shrimp cocktails were hired during Passover to fill in for Ron & Don (m-f, 3-6p). "They're not kosher," said PD Rod Arquette, "but few in the R&D audience knew the difference." 

~~ "You don't know what you're talking about." We've been trashing MSNBC's Chris Matthews lately because he gets spittle on his jaw when he talks, and what he's usually talking about generally reveals him to be a supercilious ass. But Thursday, we gotta hand it to you, Chris: you done good. KRLA talk host Kevin James came on to discuss Bush's pointed attack on the Democrats in the Knesset today, where he accused Barack Obama of the "appeasement" of terrorists, comparing him obliquely to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, British Conservative appeaser of Hitler. James, who's a blabbermouthed fool his own self, kept referring to Chamberlain until Matthews could take it no more. "What did Neville Chamberlain do wrong in 1939?" he demanded. James motored on without answering the question. Then Matthews went after him like a school marm on meth until he got James to finally admit he didn't know what the hell Chamberlain actually did in the hideous history he was trying to hang on Obama. "He's as bad as the White House Press Secretary that doesn't even know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was," Matthews said later. Kevin James is an attorney, and the exchange was utterly satisfying. The incident, which can be viewed here, was added almost immediately to James' Wikipedia entry found here.   

Obama needs hillary more than hillary needs obama

Hillary Clinton is to MSNBC what teenage girl-fights are to Fox News.

They're obsessed and preoccupied with her. They may know better -- the attention Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann give her may be focus-grouped to snag some demo we can't even imagine.

But we're obviously not that demo: the endless speculation as to why she's still in the race: the ponderous surmising and apprising of her wile and guile is just bad teevee.

You don't know why she's still in the race, boyz? You think she (and Bill) are so self-deluded they don't know she's not going to get the nomination? And haven't known for several months?

What Hillary Clinton is doing is solidifying her impressive constituency and considerable power base in the Democratic party. As she should.
 

Junkyard dog tales: Obama's a druggy!

Sean Hannity got a knee-up with his shrinking listening audience, and the Fox Radio marketing department scored big Sunday night when Morley Safer, a Grand Lizard of CBS' 60 Minutes, referred to him as a "a junkyard dog."

They referred to him, are the operative words, here; and cause for high fives and endless mentions throughout his radio and teevee shows Monday.

(Whenever Hannity, or O"Reilly are named in the real media, they bump it with a trumpet for days, even when they're called something as unflattering as a irritable canine. Billo was as jealous  today as a poodle of Hannity's great 60 Minutes triumph. Hannity rubbed it in by shitting on Billo's hat).

Operation chaos is a big success

In another twist in the phony, shape-shifting "Operation Chaos," Rush Limbaugh proclaimed victory for his alleged part in manipulating Tuesday's elections.

As you know, Big Pants has been urging his listeners to register as Democrats and vote for Hillary Clinton to prolong the Democratic primary fight, and help nominate her -- the conventional wisdom for months was that Clinton was the weaker candidate.

Republican blogger knocks al franken off his game

"What happened is our accountant made a mistake, and all of these are repercussions of that same mistake," ... "His mistake was not understanding the law, the obligation to pay these state taxes."

So says comedian and former talk host  Al Franken whose campaign is in full damage control over a blogger's exposure of bookkeeping problems in New York and California that caused Franken to pay about $70,000 in back taxes to 17 states this week.

Franken is the frontrunner in the Democratic (known in Minnesota as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) primary to run against Sen. Norm Norm Coleman, who is seen as vulnerable in November. 

Boring oddems with some sick sexual stuff and a chocolate cake thrown in to make sure you'll read past the bump..

~~ we're still feeling a little woozy, which is why we're blogging weird and wonky.

~~ Oops, Dep't. Kirby Wilbur (KVI m-f 5-9a) rolled out property tax initiative I-1030, on his show Wednesday, with the help of national right-wing hitman, Floyd Brown (presumably to provide a "celebrity" to the auspicious occasion) and nutty wing man, wingnut Wynn Cannon whom, we were told, wrote the masterpiece. Introducing grumpy, reactionary initiatives and referenda is traditionally done on Kirby's show. "Cut' em off at the purse strings." Kirby proclaimed. This dog will pass for sure, we thinks: When Horsesass.org's David Goldstein applied the math to his own house, he found his property bill "would be reduced by a stunning 99.4 percent!" He'd pay only $25.26 on "Arse Acres," his Seward Park manse. Goldy writes: "Perhaps that wasn’t exactly what Kirby intended, but then, perhaps he should have consulted a lawyer before writing, you know… a law."

Floyd Brown: will he willie horton obama?

Never one to be affraid [sic] of stereotypes, I am proud to be a Patriotic, Christian, Conservative. The four pillars of my life are Faith, Family, Flag and Freedom. My hero is Ronald Reagan. I even started riding horses because of his admonishment: “the best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse.”

Floyd Brown is back.

We know Floyd Brown. If you don't, you will know him by his works.

Among many slimier attributes, (which we'll get to) he's a Tacoman, a gigantic tub of scum, and a one-time KVI talk host, and filled-in just last week on the Christian kulturkampf of Kirby & Co., on KVI, "Thee talk station" (m-f, 5-9a).

Brown is seminal in the right-wing tactics of the modern political era, and heroic in backroom Republican circles.

He's in the news again because he's made and is distributing an inflammatory teevee ad airing in North Carolina that blames Barack Obama for international terrorism and Chicago gang murders.

Marketing masterpiece: sheriff dave reichert, serial killer killer.

"It's one thing to write a hero [for a movie]. It's different to be a real hero. That's what David Reichert is. It's slightly intimidating to play him when you know the breadth of his accomplishments, but we had a great group of people to help bring it to life. We knew we had to live up to Congressman Reichert's actions. We knew what a hero he was. The real challenge was trying to live up to that." ~~ actor Tom Cavanagh (above right)

"[Dave Reichert] desecrated the victims. The public ought to know that," says Seattle University journalism and criminal justice Professor Tomás Guillén.

The pristinely coiffed sheriff (above left with the actor who plays him) is portrayed as the dogged cop who got the Green River killer in The Capture of the Green River Killer, airing Sunday and Monday nights on the Lifetime Movie Network.

Guillen is describing Republican 8th District Congressman Reichert, known in local law enforcement as 'Sheriff Hairspray' -- and for his manipulation of the Green River murder investigation in order to climb up into party politics.

The movie will keep alive the Reichert-stoked myth that his police work and determination was responsible for the arrest of Gary Ridgway.

Many argue the opposite is true.

Rachel Maddow: "McCain will win."

"McCain is going to win. ... Unless something really drastic happens on the Democratic side, I think McCain sails to a big 51% win."

Rachel Maddow (KPTK m-f, 3-5p ) is not optimistic about Democrats in November. She spoke with BlatherWatch Tuesday.

She says it's a matter of Democrats' "campaign malpractice."
                     
"[McCain) will enthusiastically embrace not only Bush -- but Cheney, and run as a bellicose, warmongering adult. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will have firmly established themselves in the mind of the electorate as squabbling kids who don't deserve the office."

The Air America Talk host and MSNBC analyst admits being a cynic about elections; and November's a long way off, but, she says, "John McCain has had a long career being tongue-kissed by the press, and there's no signs of that abating. The stuff he's getting a free ride on are unconscionable.  [The Democrats] are letting John McCain win -- it's campaign malpractice."  

"Fleeting vulgarities:" does anyone give a fuck?

The US Supreme Court will hear the FCC’s appeal of a ruling by a lower court which ruled last year in favor of the four television networks that filed the suit, Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC.

The Commission, which has a majority of tight-spinctered, corporate butt-sucking Bush appointees cracked down on so-called "fleeting vulgarities" (good name for a blog, wethinks) which is the use of bad words on air accidentally or without forethought even if it was used just once or by a teenage boy yelling a bad word during a remote in a shopping mall.

This policy was a political bone thrown, in lieu of keeping other Bush election promises to the religious right. It succeeded, however,only in driving Howard Stern from the public airwaves and giving a huge boost to the struggling satellite radio.

(There's nothing that makes us more want to shout out the seven deadly words (shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits) than mention of the childish, wash-your-mouth-with-soap polices of the decency regulations by the Federal Communications Commission. These are rules that can not only stifle our sacred right to use these fine old Anglo-Saxon words, but make actual adults resort to such terms as "potty-mouth," f-bomb, or "frickin'").