Autumn oddems: electrifying, gothic, nonagenarian, sagging, bragging, cuckholding, cupholding, hemorroidal, styble-ized, seritonin-soaked screams in the night: I am not dead!

~ If you google "I am from a Gothic Novel, I am electrifying, What an experiment," (as so many do) what do you get? Well, BlatherWatch, of course, which almost makes us feel Gothic and electrifyingly proud. Peculiar is how we feel about putting "breast implant slow leak pain sagging" in the search engine which also brings us to the fore...

~ We'd heard Michael Medved (KTTH m-f, 12-3p) bragging about meeting with the President, a while back, but presumed it was only one of those White House photo ops they give to Little League heroes, nonagenarians, and people they either want to shut up or lube up. Then we read this. It turns out Medved was not alone with the Prez on Sept 15, but one of a bevy of broadcast banterers that included Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Mike Gallagher. The meeting was supposed to be secret until Boortz blabbed it (he can't shut-up). Not too much of a stretch that there might have been a little of that famous Rovian strategizin' going on in the face of the Republicans' degraded political stature going into the election. Those particular talkers are all Bush parrots to the man (and that includes you, Laura). If you have any doubts that the right uses talk radio as a major mouth for their talking points, this little making-sure-you've-come-to-Jesus-and-are-still-there meeting oughta dispel at least a few of them. What we're wondering: where was Limbaugh? Has he been banished after all his pubic peccadilloes?

~ listen to Al Franken talking about the Air America bankruptcy here.

~ Wow. First, Michael Medved admits to loving NPR and preferring CNN over fox News, now Michael "the osterizer" Savage (KTTH m-f, 3-5p) is endorsing Governor Moonbeam. The meaneocon and best-selling author of Liberalism is a Mental Disorder has come out (not that way, silly) to support Jerry Brown in his bid for California Attorney General. A lot of rats jumping the conservative/Republican ship these days, it seems.

~ "I am not dead!" Bryan Styble insisted, "I am rescheduled!" The Bryan Styble Show ended forever with a whimper Sunday morning; but not without the host spending a lot of breath kvetching about us, and the people who read and write to us. Styble said he lost his last job in Detroit and was replaced with THE SAME TRUCKER SHOW as the one that replaced him on KIRO! One of our readers, heard the Styblehead for the first and last time that morning and was amazed at his, er, loquaciousness," Did they pay Styble by the word?" he asks.

~ Mike Webb is back after a post trial hiatus and can be heard reading you to sleep on his Internet stream. His new trial is coming up soon: Oct. 25 at 9a in Judge Spector's court, in room 733E in the King County courthouse. Opening statements should take place Oct 30. His first was declared a mistrial Sept.14th after jurors saw him being handcuffed and put into a police car after some bizarre behavior in the street outside the courthouse.

~ Mon Dieu! Somebody please don't mention this to Mom- If you search-engine "naked girl biting boy choch," you'll come to BlatherWatch, just as you would if you searched for "swimming suits for dockdogs." How embarrassing!

~ Last week was a bad week. First, Frank Shiers called us 'Satan' on the air, then the Little Bighead Stefan Sharkansky called us a "serial liar" in a headline. Then readers beat us up for our craven take on the baseball player flying the plane into the NY building, calling it "VERY bad taste," and "crass and dumb." We live in the glow of criticisms like that, but the unkindest cut was the remark by an otherwise loyal reader, "I've heard funnier from Frank Shiers." Ouch.

~ As heard on the Bryan Suits show- Linnea Noreen! Here's who to vote for to protest Jim McDermott without voting for a Republican (especially the weasly little GOP hemorrhoid running against  him this time).

~ This from rodman, one of our intrepids: "You probably didn't catch this but while Medved was doing his film critic spot on Bozus and Sytt-head this morning, Sytt-head took Medved to task for leaving his coffee cups and teabags all over the studio. Medved said. "Yes, the coffee cup you left in my mailbox made the point," and then something to the effect of "since you and Bozus get here at 3am, which are janitorial hours..." These guys sound like they're married...

Comments

[joanie]

Noreen and Beren (R) were also on Ross's show yesterday. It was a good interview but McDermott is still my guy.

Interesting Franken audio . . . his radio show beats O'Reilly's 60% of the time and his average listener is 47 to O'Reilly's 67 (lol). Thought that was funny!

BTW, Michael, did you know that Bellevue is no longer a sleepy little Seattle suburb?

[sparky]

I have it on good authority that Rush could not make it because he had take that Cialis stuff and he had to go see the doctor.....

[joanie]

IOW, nice piece in Seattle Mag on Bellevue. I love that little stretch of street in old Bellevue. Hate to see it all go.

[sparky]

taken, took, tooken,,,one of those words shoulda gone in there...

[umo]

Medved hates everybody else's litter except his own.

[Tommy008]

The too biggest "toxic narcissists" on the air right now are Tom Leykis and Michael Medved. Leykis is a liberal , so this isn't just some conservative-bashing here. Both men are absolutely toxic in the sense that they are consumed by their own sense of superiority to others, and see the world only in terms of how it adds to their own self-aggrandizement. Leykis actually openly refuses to ever ask how the caller is when they inquire of his well-being. In this sense, he's more honest than Medved, who actually has the same degree of contempt for his callers and would refuse to ask how they were as well, if he wasn't too timorous to do so. Although, I actually enjoy some of Leykis' wit and humor, I am going to have to reduce my listening time to him after October to no more than five minutes a day. This toxic soup of heartless narcissism and belittling of others is really a bad influence- like hanging out with a criminal budddy. Medved's interaction time with me has already undergone a similarly draconian reduction, due to very similar reasons.

[Zerbina]

In an interview with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier Times, embattled Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has equated the war in Iraq with J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." According to the paper, Santorum said that the United States has avoided terrorist attacks at home over the past five years because the "Eye of Mordor" has been focused on Iraq instead.

"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said. "It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."

[joanie]

Gee, Zerbina. You've earned my respect. I find it hard enough to listen to the bla-bla-bla in the debates affecting me.

The Lamont-Lieberman-Schlesinger debate was pretty good and I thought the Republican candidate Schlesinger came off the best! (lol)
But, I've tried getting into the rest of them - whew!

[Fremont]

Got a sticky "h" key, Bla'M? Spellcheck: cuckolding, hemorrhoidal, and serotonin....
Nya, nya....

[Jeast]

It was said yesterday on the Ed Schultz show that Limpaugh had a private meeting with Bush days earlier, then Bush meet with rest of the rightwing hatemongers...his personal cheerleaders....

[Respect My Authoritah]

Tommy, the question "How are you?" is one of the most annoying - not to mention insincere - pieces of rhetorical pablum on the planet. There is no difference between a person inserting it into a salutation and one of those irritating people who punctuate every comment with "You know?", and it bugs me to no end to be asked how I am by a person who honestly couldn't care less how I am.

Why should any radio host - or anyone else - be required not only to acknowledge that empty formality but to turn around and ask the stupid question themselves? An exchange of how-are-yous does nothing but waste valuable air time, and when the caller is allowed on the air thirty seconds before the top of the hour, yet still persists in wasting several of those precious seconds inquiring about the host's well-being or whatever, you have to admit that you are not listening to good radio.

Leykis's standard response - "Do you care?" - is right on the money. I wish my job allowed me to respond to all the how-are-yous I receive in a similar manner.

[sparky]

When I called the Stephanie Miller show, the screener told me " Whatever you do DONT thank her for taking your call.." so I didnt. But I wasnt planning on it anyway....

Dorki Monson can be especially condescending to callers who say that. I thnk people say it because they hear other people say it and they are already nervous about speaking on the air.