BlatherWatch

Tuesday oddems: KIRO potty mouth, newstalk ass bandit; strangest bedfellows, l’État, c’est moi, phamous philanders; phun with phatuous phundamentalists

~major market potty scandal at KIRO: "Why oh why, don’t people who use toilet seat covers in public restrooms, throw them away when they are done? I don’t understand it. We have culprit here at KIRO and I’m hot on her trail. There is a woman here at KIRO or maybe KTTH or KBSG – needless to say- major market radio here- who seems bent on goin’ potty and then leaving the seat cover right there on the toilet for someone else to have touch and throw away! That’s just gross! So I posted a sign in our restrooms that said: “If you use a toilet seat cover, please dispose of it when you are finished. No one should have to do that for you.”

~ we've been hearing about a talk host (who shall remain nameless) who got written up at a certain

Air America lives! Al Franken to announce in Senate race

Huffington Post is reporting that liberal talk network, Air America will be bailed out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy after by Manhattan real estate developer Stephen L. Green, brother of erstwhile New York mayoral candidate, Mark Green.

Also, as widely predicted, top AAR talker Al Franken will leave the air to run for the US Senate in Minnesota against neocon Norm Coleman.

(Coleman, feeling the heat from a heated Franken candidacy, has separated himself from the Bush and his war escalation).

Popular Portland progressive pontificator, Thom Hartmann, who's show is already syndicated by AAR, will replace Franken on the network.

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Daryn kagan: rush limbaugh broke this woman!

After Big Pants dumps you, what?

That's the question longtime news anchor CNN Daryn Kagan, has been asking since the corpulent radio comedian, Rush Limbaugh dumped her in February. Then CNN, without telling her why, didn't renew her contract after 12 years.

When the going gets tough, they say, the tough gets maudlin.

Let the boats be swift, the honey be mud: the GOP starts in on obama and hillary

Seems like only yesterday, that Sean Hannity (KVI m-f,12-1p)  was decrying Sen. Barack Obama's cocaine use and bad-boy youth. But he's got a new smear- and it's all tangled in his usual earnest, altar-boy self-righteousness.

The Producers, Part 2, the callers: turn your damn radio off, and don't ask the host how he's doin!

Producers' love/hate relationship with callers is the old can't-live-with-'em-or-without 'em paradox.

Former Seattle producer Luke Burbank, a reporter for NPR's Day to Day, (KUOW m-f, 12-1p) describes it thus: "A good call can launch an entire hour of good radio. A bad call can really tip the train off the tracks."

The Producers, Part 1: hosts, joe-jobs, and show prep

We're as guilty of it as anybody. When we say talk radio- it's Dave, or Rush or Sean, or Bryan.

But behind those brands, are the producers: The harried, under-the-gun pros, who daily and minutely, dream up the topics, screen the calls, keep the host in the know, in the moment, in the room, and sounding good.

In-depth hannity, dick morris analysis: hillary's a bitch!

Hannity (KVI m-f,12-3p) spent most of his generous spare time today explaining in his earnest, altar-boy way that Hillary Clinton is a conniving, mean, nagging, pushy harridan who humiliates and berates inferiors and considers most people her inferior.

Tuesday oddems: naked walmart girls; the liar in winter, stalinist styblefodder; evangelical race horses; all the snooze that fits, we print

~what a lame talk topic- 24, the TV show! Last week, shows who oughta know better, discussed the thing as a political topic- Dave Ross, The Tators, Dori, and many, many more. Conservatives pining: If only we were in such world where all our fears could be realized! With the failures of those in the real world they once held high, and the crumbling of the conservative Utopia they've been predicting since 1994, many are roving with Jack Bauer in a hopeful land where killing a vicious Moslem to save America is always a good idea and nobody whines about it. 24 is all they've got right now- there's such reality in their voices when they talk about it! Like children talking about their imaginary friends. (Meanwhile, Senate Republican hawk John Warner, threw the The Liar In Winter and his surge under the underarmored Humvee today).

KIRO, KTTH ratings kick ass!

In another psychological boost to staffers and management, KIRO placed #3 in the market in the Fall 12+ book published late Friday. KTTH came up to 6th place.

The is the second break employees have felt lately, including last week's acquisition of the Entercom's stations by Bonneville International.