holiday oddems: mike webb's coming back! casualties of the war on xmas, fill-in duds, dried mucus from rev. moon

~~According to the Seattle Times, Mike Webb will be back on the air tonight after his hiatus following his being charged for felony insurance fraud last week. He's vehemently denying the charges and claims- in fact he claims that it is he who is the victim. He's all lawyered up, so don't expect him to say much about it on-air, and he'd be a fool to talk it up any more than he has already.

~~Having said that (and having said 'having said that') join us in calling in to Mike tonight to show our solidarity or ask him for his side of the story. It should be a fun holiday night!

~~Despite all the incoming, the casualty count on the 'War' on Christmas stands at zero. The remarkably resilient holiday saluting Jesus Christ's birthday and exercising our sacred right to go shopping, went off without a hitch- even with the Fox News campaign and the dire predictions made by the America moral leadership like Bill O'Reilly, Jerry Falwell and Sean Hannity. Media Matters counted 58 segments in just 5 days on Fox News  devoted to a secular conspiracy against the holiday. Our favorite quote is by the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus who said "If the anti-Christmas forces are winning, then the war in Iraq is nothing short of total victory."

~~ BLOW-OUT SALE! 1 slightly-used right-wing blog. Brian Couch the Bothel Bleeding Heart Conservative, contributor to (un)Sound Politics, and infrequent commenter on BlatherWatch is selling (!) his Michael Medved Fan blog. It's been on the market since earlier this month, so maybe you could get it cheap. He says it tops out at over 1800 hits a day sometimes, so it definitely needs some marketing...maybe changing it to the Ed Shultz Fan blog would help...

~~Things are tough over at KIRO with all the vacations and Mike Webb missing. It makes for some pretty lame radio. Dave Ross is in Africa checking his Hoodia plantation, and his 3-6p fill-in was some guy named Ron who got up an endless yet numbing conversation with Carl "Words" Jeffers about pumpkin bread then switched to pure Seahawkian jargon that needed a translator. (which prompted many of us to dawdle over to KUOW where Ken Vincent was playing delightfully, absurd holiday music). Lou Pate is out, so the insufferable Frank Shiers spewed his pablum all over the highchair on the 9 ta noon. Erin Hart, who has clearly been working too much, is filling in again for Webb tonight, Bryan, "rhymes with horrible" Styble fills-in for Pate on the overnight; and the rest of the world is doing best-of shows (Sean Hannity's best, it turns out, is no different than his worst).

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~~We've been trying to work in these totally off-topic quotes by the Rev. Sun Young Moon for a long time. Since it blows on talk radio this week, here are our favorite quotes by the owner of our favorite conservative newspaper, The Washington Times.

This is a Moonie gift from our house to your house- Happy Holidays!

You may think it rude if I share this with you, but I would like to give you an example. You use the bathroom each morning. When you defecate, do you wear a gas mask? This is not a laughing matter but a serious one. If you are near someone else defecating, you will quickly move a good distance away. But when you smell your own feces, you do not even notice it. This is because that fecal matter is one with your body. Therefore, you do not feel that it is dirty.

When you were young, did you ever taste the dried mucus from your nose? Does it taste sweet or salty? It's salty, right? Since you can answer, you must have tasted it! Why did you not feel that it was dirty? It is because it was part of your body. Reverend Moon has figured out something that no one in the world knew.

Comments

[Brian Olympia wa]

I am thinin ???? how many calls is Mike going too dump tonight ? So you might have to dance around the board oprator............ but Iam going to be calling hooty hoo! how about you ??????????????

[Brian Olympia wa]

HAy what do you think?????? How about Gary ( behind the glass) from KIRO should take over late night until Lou Pate gets back ............ Come to think about it????? how about, Gary on late night, and Lou Pate ( behind the glass). P.S. Please make Bryan Styble stop that is one bad show KOMO 1000 sounds good after 10 min of his show.

[sparky]

so...in other words....Rev. Moon believes his shit dont stink? He would make a great politician....or radio host...

[Chad Stanley]

Styble is so bad that he's actually creeping up to the level of 'so bad he's good'...although he's not there yet!

All the relentless KIRO ass-kissing, his near panic in engaging someone, ANYone in conversation. I mean it's bizarre how bad it is. It almost reminds of the old Second City routine of the desperate talkradio deejay. Oh, wait - that was last night's show.

Hey - did you know he's a published writer? He told us!

Hey - did you know he's got a blog? He told us!

bing-boing-bing

[chris]

"I mean it's bizarre how bad it is. It almost reminds of the old Second City routine of the desperate talkradio deejay."

Jerry Todd?

[umo]

Styble is so horrible he is compelling. I listen to his show with the fixated astonishment of staring at a train wreck.

[Andrew]

I gotta hear that! When is he on?

[Dave Robbins]

You're right...there is no war on Christmas. My kids enjoyed their "WINTER BREAK" and their "HOLIDAY TREE". Where's your tolerance for christians????

[mesa]

Gee Dave, you sound like a pretty miserable guy...too bad you're ruining the holiday for your kids....where's your Christmas spirit?

[ExRat]

The "war on Christmas" is so bogus.. It's actually a war, waged by the right, on my freedom NOT to be a Christian.

[sparky]

Dave, did someone actually tell you that you couldnt call the tree IN YOUR HOUSE a Christmas tree?

[mesa]

Sparky

Dave is a "victim"...please don't judge him too harshly

[KS]

There is a war on Christmas that started subtly about 10 years ago when the ACLU hand picked smaller municipalities to sue to take away any religious symbolism of Christmas with their fascistic tactics.

Now, when those who favor the traditionalism celebration of Christmas start fighting back, the secularist progressive (regressives) try to cry foul because their agenda of secularist socialist country as dictated by the quasi-communist ACLU is being interrupted, as the majority of people believe it should be.

[mesa]

from the mouthes of babes...er bill o'reilly

[Andrew]

What we are realy experiancing is a War On Tolerance.

Aspects of Christmas are being improved to be make them fair to all people. I can't believe how quick Christians are to make everything that is festive exclusive to their belief system.

[mndcrm]

"war on christmas" is code word for some, meaning, (white christian aryan nation)

[sparky]

Who were these secular progressives who cried foul??? What town? What day? The only person I heard crying foul was Bill OReilly...I am a progressive and I wished everyone I met a Merry Christmas. Not one person corrected me, scolded me, lectured me or even flipped me off. And I live in a very diverse community. Why do you think that progressives are not religious? Is that what Bill and Jerry and Pat and Rush told you?

[sparky]

oh..and does this mean that former Republican Bob Barr, now an employee of the ACLU, is a communist? Does he know this?

[Fluffycat]

Listening to Styble is like listening to a train wreck...it's so awful you can't believe you're hearing what you're hearing and you can't tear yourself away. Not exactly what you want to be known for but it gets ratings.

[KS]

Barr is not a commie, but I do not care for him - he is self-serving and think he contributed to making the Republicans look stupid when he and a few others kept trying to bring down Clinton for petty reasons - somewhat similar to the way the partisan Dems are trying to bring down Bush. Sorry, I don't listen to Rush, I do listen to O'Reilly, Michael Savage and Neal Boortz- which must drive most all of you all crazy. I stand by my story about traditional Christmas - which never harmed anyone until the ACLU stepped in and tried take it out of the public square. On the other side of the ledger - intelligent design does not need to be taught in Public schools - it just makes the MSM paranoid and doesn't really serve a constructive educational purpose; that's just the PC word for creationism. Pat Robertson is a clown when he talks politics. Merry Christmas. And so-called progressives are tolerant ? LOL

[joanie]

Just had to compliment you, Michael. This was one of the funniest pieces you've written. I'm still laughing. Thanks.

[sparky]

Mike isnt on the air tonight....

[chris]

He is out exterminating republicans..

[sara]

http://mikewebb.org/blog_frame.htm

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

I said "Hello". They said "Goodbye"
Thank You For Your Friendship during these past 35 years on the radio, especially the past 10, where we had a chance to really get to know one another and offer an alternative to the disgusting, corporate-driven nonsense masqerading as talk radio.

As a child in San Francisco, I enjoyed so much, turning on my little transistor radio - finding my true friends in the people who broadcast from the great stations KEWB, KYA, KFRC, KNBR and the legendary Gene Autry station, KSFO. It was always fun tuning the AM dial and DXing to WWL in New Orleans, always discovering.

When I finally entered the medium at the age of 14, I got to work at one of those legendary stations, hosting a show called "From the Campus", a little program they dumped in Sunday mornings at 3am. But it was a thrill for me. And then to become a beat reporter for the world's first alternative rock station, KMPX --- what an experience --- dodging rocks and billie clubs during Vietnam war protests.

Several news and music stations later and a trip to Seattle where I fell in love, enjoyed the management jobs but quite honestly, I felt more at home on the air than in my own house. There's just such a beautiful intimacy to it all, different than any other medium. I've been fortunate.

I could go on, but suffice it to say, that people come into our lives on time and they leave on time as well.

So Long,

Mike
¶ 7:58 PM

[sparky]

good scoop, sara

[sara]

Got it from our friend, the orb, at orbusmax.com...however, he's reporting that the kiro710 website is down. I just checked, and at 10:45 p.m. PT, Mike is still listed under "Shows" and under "Personalities."

[FREMONT]

Hey, Sparky, I flipped off EVERYONE who said "Merry Christmas" to me! So, here's a tip of the hat and a flip of the bird to you!

[kit marcinko]

I know that shavetail Lt. Bryan Suits did a stint in the first gulf war, but why did he get out of the Iraq theater without a re-deployment? Could it have been his pro war politics on the radio? Many have returned to combat with worse injuries than his.

[sparky]

I knew I could count on you, Fremont, to put the icing on my Christmas holiday.

[Fremont]

Sparky, beware the grain of salt in that icy sweetness...and Happy flippin' New Year too!