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Rush tops beck, hannity tops billo (eeee-ewe!)

In a new CBS/Vanity Fair poll, Rush Limbaugh easily topped Glenn Beck as the most influential conservative in America. (Though it's disgusting to think of topping or bottoming in this context).

The Asshole Chronicles: rush limbaugh, michael j. fox, and the NAB

My, how times have changed.

The National Association of Broadcasters is honoring Michael J. Fox with their Distinguished Service Award for his work in television for “raising awareness for Parkinson’s Disease through the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.”

Seems like only yesterday (actually, it was 2006) that Rush Limbaugh, that great American, broadcasting pioneer,  and conservative role model, mocked Michael J. Fox on-air accusing him of either playacting or deliberately going off his meds to enhance his symptoms to make a political point.

KVI, as we know it, is gone: what's next?

We gotta say it. Kirby Wilbur, despite we disagree with his antediluvian politics, is one of the nicest guys in Seattle radio.

He’s a friend of BlatherWatch, though we gave him plenty reasons not to be (sorry about the crack about the donuts, Kirb). He wrote a letter of reference for David Goldstein, (a flaming liberal, but a friend too) helping him land a job at KIRO. Young talent including Luke Burbank and David Boze,  Matt Haver, Dave Carson, and Jen Andrews worked for him and owe Kirby plenty. (Read Boze's homage here). Kirby could be conservative without being an asshole- a rarity these days.

Copps: 'regulate radio before its too late!'

“As for government and the FCC, we’ve been asleep at the switch when we weren’t being downright destructive. Twenty-plus years of heedless deregulation eviscerated almost every public interest guideline we had. Media companies took advantage of that. Don’t blame them. Blame us.”

That’s the FCC’s Michael Copps, long a minority voice in the wilderness on the deregulatin’, consolidatin’, confabulatin’, Bush-appointed FCC. Now he’s in the glorious majority.

Rush to rev. ken hutcherson: "I love you."

I'm lovingly aggressive [with The Gay] the same I'd be for a murderer or an adulterer. I give 'em the love of God. If they reject it, I give them the discipline of God. ~~ Rev. Ken Hutcherson

Having a black friend really works for Rush Limbaugh so he takes Rev. Ken Hutcherson’s calls.

Talk radio mao-maos obama

It's hard to believe that anyone believes that red-baiting would work in 2009, but talk radio and Fox News blabbertalent keep hammering away on administration officials who might have quoted Mao at some time in their careers.

(Chairman Mao, Andy Warhol)

Limbaugh dropped from NFL bid

ESPN reports today that Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from the bid group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams.

New York business tycoon and National Hockey League franchise owner Dave Checketts now realizes that if he is to be successful he has to drop the controversial Limbaugh.

Glenn beck: rush limbaugh's evil spawn

In the second half of her interview with Limbaugh, NBC’s Jamie Gangel asked him what he thinks of Glenn Beck. Limbaugh responded:

GANGEL: Glenn Beck — do you worry about the new guy on the block?

RUSH LIMBAUGH: No. Look, in 1988, I’m the only national conservative voice. Now look at conservative media. Look what I have spawned. Glenn Beck to me is right on daddy-o. Glenn Beck is a result of my success.

It's all rush, rush, rush- whatever happened to glenn beck?

Rush Limbaugh told Today Show's Jamie Gangel that he knows how to get under the skin of the media and get them to write headlines about him.

That he does. And his bid to buy the St. Louis Rams is surely another of those forays. The almost simultaneous interview on the Today show was no accident. Rush's name was on all the explaining industry's lips over the weekend, and still there Monday, all day.

Will KPTK step up to radio reality?

Seattle liberal-interest money groups have long talked up the possibility of buying a radio station to counter the overwhelmingly conservative news talk stations in a market that's overwhelmingly liberal.

That's probably not a good idea, since it's been proven many times that radio should be left to radio professionals...Oh wait, that's right, a generation of professionals put radio where it is today: in the shit.