Former talk host and KIRO radio personality, Mike Webb struck and shoved a photographer in the hallway at 10:45 today as he entered Superior Court Judge, Helen Halpert's courtroom for an omnibus hearing on his felony insurance fraud case.
The photographer, Jeff DeWolf, 59, a local freelancer, was not hurt.
"I will press charges," says DeWolf, who made a police report. "If you can't feel safe do your job in the halls of justice, where can you feel safe?"
The incidence is being investigated by Seattle Police.
BlatherWatch was there, and witnessed the incidence as Webb, striding down the hall in dark glasses broke away from Attorney Mark Larranaga to lunge at DeWolf.
Larranaga yelled "Mike!", pulled Webb back, and hustled him down the hall.
It's not known whether Webb will be charged in the assault case. "It's up to the City Attorney," said SPD Officer Mike Cassidy, who took DeWolf's report and assigned a case number.
Webb was arrested in December on fraud charges after police say he tried to claim damages from an accident he had with an uninsured driver on a Geico insurance policy he bought after the accident.
He has pled not guilty and trial is set for July 12.
Sigh... another limp-nut, candy arse photographer. "I'm going to press charges" blah, blah, blah.
I'm not the biggest fan of Mike's by any stretch of the imagination, but peoples jelousy of his talent is very telling.
Posted by: Dave T | June 30, 2006 at 02:51 PM
Webb may be crazy, but he is One of Us. All good liberals need to support Mike during his extended meltdown.
Posted by: gusto and poor | June 30, 2006 at 03:08 PM
oh yeah, our great first amendment champ tries to clock a media guy doing his job. What a nut case! I hope they come and get him for this one.
Posted by: lago | June 30, 2006 at 03:10 PM
Gusto: you're no liberal and neither is Webb. He's just a pissed off felon. He's embarrassing.
Posted by: mac | June 30, 2006 at 03:13 PM
I'm not the biggest fan of Mike's by any stretch of the imagination, but peoples jelousy of his talent is very telling.
So he assaults people for being jealous of his talent? You are a moron aren't you?
Posted by: swassociates | June 30, 2006 at 04:24 PM
Ugh - Brian Maloney is congratulating you on your scoop - back-handed praise, indeed...
Posted by: TJ | June 30, 2006 at 04:37 PM
Thanks for telling me what I am, little mac. I had no idea, you schmuck.
love always,
Gusto with the must-o
Posted by: gusto and poor | June 30, 2006 at 04:49 PM
What an idiot. I'm a big lefty and all, but jeez, what a frickin' republican thing to do (hitting a photographer.)
Posted by: Ben Schroeter | June 30, 2006 at 05:27 PM
Watching Mike Webb spiral down into his insane personal hell is the most exhilarating train wreck seen in Seattle radio since the fall of Mike Siegel.
Posted by: umo | June 30, 2006 at 05:41 PM
Mike's fall is sad and pathetic.
Still, I wonder if he was trying to keep his picture out of the media because he is worried about his personal safety- someone going after him because he is gay.
I know, I know, he carries a gun... Still, I'm just trying to understand what made him snap. Maybe the idea of having his picture in the media pushed him over the edge.
Posted by: Caytie | June 30, 2006 at 06:01 PM
...or being exposed at a nutter.
Posted by: Mark | June 30, 2006 at 06:34 PM
Seems odd that Webb doesn't want his photographed published when he has appeared on television before.
Webb Ahkbar
Posted by: gusto and poor | June 30, 2006 at 06:39 PM
"Still, I wonder if he was trying to keep his picture out of the media because he is worried about his personal safety- someone going after him because he is gay."
Good point. He is, after all, the only gay man in Seattle.
Posted by: Beebee | June 30, 2006 at 07:30 PM
After reading Mikes version of the events I can only conclude that he plans to put on an Insanity Defense.
Posted by: paul | June 30, 2006 at 07:48 PM
and, instead of my insertion here (oooh, lookie there, I made a bad pun), this spot should be reserved for ReRa.
c'mon, Brian in Lacey - I know it's you - perhaps you could do a Brian Says/Red Rachel Says type comment each time, being your sane-ol' self for your part, and letting ReRa rant in hers (well, your other part)...
And that leaves another opportunity for a bad pun! I like to share.
Anyone?
Posted by: TJ | June 30, 2006 at 08:02 PM
All I can say is ! The StybleHead its not funny ! Its really bad radio! Hooty hoo !
Posted by: Brian In Lacey | June 30, 2006 at 08:45 PM
Not much good to say about Mike, huh?
I had a love/hate relationship with him but am so over him. He always seemed to have an anger management problem and I guess he still does.
Posted by: joanie | June 30, 2006 at 10:22 PM
Maybe the photographer was a republican...
Posted by: stodge charger | June 30, 2006 at 10:39 PM
stodge,
would that make it ok to assault someone, if they differed politically from the assailant?
/just wanting to know where you stand
Posted by: chunkstyle | July 01, 2006 at 12:47 AM
The Comittee to Name the Bastard is proud to name Mike Webb as it's choice for the 2006 Lying Phony Bastard Award. The new award will be given out every 4th of July weekend to the biggest creepin Seattle for the preceding 12 months. Congratulations, Mike- you can claim your prize, a pink pair of boxing gloves, with the award title stenciled on them, from me, in the County Courthouse Hallway.
Posted by: Tommy008 | July 01, 2006 at 06:54 AM
Bryan Styblehead the over night BOOBIE of KIRO new 710! Its Saturday night Styble head Radio , So its going to be the drinking game , everytime the B.S.H.R. Its not funny it just really bad. Says Kiro news talk 710 or BLOG SPOT .com , It time of a straight shot ( Since its styble head radio ) it would be right without drinking wild turkey , Off the record , Iam thinking I will be shit faced in about 5 min into his very bad show !
Posted by: Dan | July 01, 2006 at 07:14 AM
Here is looking at you !hooty hoo !
Posted by: Brian In Lacey | July 01, 2006 at 08:25 AM
stodge,
would that make it ok to assault someone, if they differed politically from the assailant?
/just wanting to know where you stand
Posted by: chunkstyle | July 01, 2006 at 12:47 AM
Of course it would. We must exterminate the Republicans. We cannot fail.
Posted by: baba booey | July 01, 2006 at 08:39 AM
Jealous of his talent??? Let's not get carried away now....
Posted by: Misty | July 01, 2006 at 10:33 AM
baba booey,
At least you are honest about your hatred and genocidal tendencies.
Does the same proposition work in reverse for you (i.e. Republicans advocating extermination of Democrats)? You'd have no problem with that either, right? Or any faction fighting with their ideological opponents?
WRT Webb, he's clearly been unhinged for a long time, and it is all culminating in a paranoia-laced implosion.
Posted by: chunkstyle | July 01, 2006 at 10:56 AM
Ann Coulter talks about exterminating Liberals all the time..does that bother you, Chunkie?
Posted by: sparky | July 02, 2006 at 05:48 PM
sparky,
Yes, I repudiate all talk of exterminating one's political adversaries.
Now, that said, although Ann Coulter is a firebrand who frequently employs excessive rhetoric, I'm not sure has actually said that, but I'm sure you'll be happy to provide a quote
Posted by: chunkstyle | July 02, 2006 at 08:54 PM
ok...
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
[Town Hall, September 14, 2001]
Coulter's controversial comment about Murtha came after she was asked at the RightWingNews site to comment on the ex-Marine who now opposes the Iraq War. She said of Murtha: "The reason soldiers invented 'fragging.'" This is a term describing soldiers killing their own officers, originally in Vietnam. [Editor and Publisher]
Coulter on killing Bill Clinton:
(Responding to a question from a Catholic University student about her biggest moral or ethical dilemma) "There was one time I had a shot at Clinton. I thought 'Ann, that's not going to help your career.'"
Universal Press Syndicate columnist Ann Coulter "joked" during a Thursday speech that liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned. "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," Coulter said at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark. "That's just a joke, for you in the media."
oh yeah we are just laffin our butts off, Ann
Posted by: sparky | July 02, 2006 at 10:38 PM
Thanks Sparky,
I'm not specifically a fan of Coulter, and haven't read her books. I've seen clips of her in interviews though.
I think the worst one is the poison in creme brulee. That's certainly over the top.
The middle two are dangerously close to the line, but there is still a difference between those snide inferences and the declarative sentence "we must exterminate the Republicans" shown above by a poster.
The first one, is describing the Taliban in Afghanistan, so unless some of the lefties want to make common cause with them, there is no real comparison.
Anyway, I'm all for vigorous, yet civil debate without the extreme rhetoric, personally.
Posted by: chunkstyle | July 03, 2006 at 09:14 AM
Our side is winning...
Posted by: stodge charger | July 03, 2006 at 10:25 AM
Well, I agree that Ann is over the top and I think most of what she says is calculated to get a rise out of libs, which she does on a regular basis.
I disagree that saying we should go into a country and kill the leaders and convert them to Christianity is not comparible. It is all bull shit.
Unfortunately, there is a large group of American "morans" who believe everything she says as the truth. That is where the damage is done...
Posted by: sparky | July 03, 2006 at 01:29 PM