rabbi daniel lapin, 2002-2006 R.I.P.

Your rabbi and ours did his last show on KTTH and the Seattle market Sunday night.

In February, Lapin will begin broadcasting a 3-hour Sunday afternoon show (1-4p) on San Francisco's conservative talker, KSFO. He'll replace David Gold, who is on tape over the weekend. Lapin will be one of the few live hosts KSFO's Sunday schedule, which, like most talk stations is a mishmash of tape delay, gardening shows, and Matt Drudge who isn't dead even though he sounds like he's been embalmed.

The didactic right-wing Lapin will do essentially the same show in Baghdad by the Bay as he does in Seattle. "I'm a one trick guy," he told a listener Sunday. The KSFO show will be streamed on the Net.

(We're not sure if it's a case of the rat deserting the ship or vice versa. Neither Lapin nor Entercom's KTTH have had a great year- the station is nearly moribund, even Rush Limbaugh is in the tank; and Lapin has been more than touched by the Abramoff scandal).

Lapin's show, whose broadcast time was in part purchased by his non-profit Toward Tradition, has never made it in the real radio marketplace. The show, over the years, has meandered around the right-wing dial from KVI to KKOL to KGNW to KTTH. It was syndicated for a short time.

He's always had a small but loyal audience of mostly fundamentalist Christians for his lectures on morality and human behavior that usually ended in a political lesson or a screed against "secular fundamentalists."

It was pretty boring radio. He's much more interesting off the air. Here's BlatherWatch's extensive file on the rebbe.

Seattle times: rabbi daniel lapin abramoff connections
Rabbi Daniel Lapin: show rabbi of the racists
Rabbi Daniel Lapin: "The Man Who Stands By His Scandal-Ridden Friends"
Rabbi Daniel Lapin: More National Embarrassment
Rabbi daniel lapin, a long look backward
The rabbi with the tinfoil yarmulke (and we thought he was just boring...)

Comments

[Tommy008]

Lapin's demise on KTTH is like a late Christmas present. This strange, imperious little sicko has been around Seattle radio far too long spewing his hateful, arcane nonsense on the airwaves . I think he'd already overstayed his welcome after about a month. Did you ever hear him go on his hateful rants against the Kennedys? Once he said that it would "cleanse the gene pool", when that one Kennedy cousin died in that skiing accident in the late 90's. Good riddance Lapin, you sick, hateful bastard. Seek treatment.

[Andrew]

Thank God I'll never have to read about that guy again.

[sclub]

Is he paying for the KSFO airtime?

[Dana]

He's a Jewish nazi. Good riddance to bad rubbish.