BlatherWatch

Dwight pelz on horsesass radio tonight

The David Goldstein Show (KIRO Saturdays & Sundays, 7-10p) will have Democratic chair Dwight "hot talk" Pelz at 9p to wrap-up the legislative session which ends Sunday night.

He'll probably agree with us and all rational observers that this session was one of the most productive in memory. Doubt that anyone will argue with that- mainly because the few irrational observers that would disagree won't call Goldy because they don't want anyone to know they're listening.

OPEN THREAD: Limbaugh: "liberals kill kids."

"Now, if this Virginia Tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was? This guy had to be a liberal. You start railing against the rich, and all these other things? This guy is a liberal. He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line. So it's a liberal that committed this act.

~ RUSH LIMBAUGH, talk radio hose, April 19, 2007

Holy terrorists? KKOL threatens to blow up oil refinery

KKOL owners were dismayed March 19 when the Coast Guard asked them to turn off their brand, spanking new 50,000 watt transmitter so they wouldn't be blowing up a nearby oil refinery, tanker ships or the Port of Tacoma.

Is it a jihad by this Christianist station? No, but their conservative broadcasting is threatening the lives of the public at large; the economy of Tacoma, and the fuel supply to the community and the nearby McCord Air Base.

(Where's Homeland Security? O yeah- they're paying Young Republicans to check my Grandma's underwear at the airport).

Republican Radio sheds the republicans

You could almost hear the lip gloss as Anne-Marie Lake, the blonde Torquemadre of Republican Radio (KVI Saturdays, 3-5p; KKOL Sundays, 5-6p) announced, "It’s a radio revolution and you’re invited!"

Actually, it isn't so much a revolution as a devolution.

The conservative weekend kulturkampf and radio bitch session has shed the 'Republican' part; and is now calling itself: Take Back America Radio.

The Republican brand has become so degraded, the show could no longer be associated with it- like Imus and CBS. 

Seattle Babble-on: more news, limbaugh to KIRO?

With a new program director, and a re-invigorated will to live, KIRO and KTTH are on the move again under the new ownership.  

There's buzz, where there's been snores for months.

We're picking up grabbits of info hinting at some big changes; and, as always, those changes may not go without an uproar and bloody heads rolling down Eastlake Avenue.

~ Will Rush Limbaugh be coming over to KIRO, displacing Dave Ross again?
    We know for sure they're considering it.

Don Imus, R.I. P. - is shock radio dead?

We hope the Don Imus flap is over, but will you allow us the last word?

It's always been a desperately competitive business- and now earballs tuned to earthly talk radio have been falling in number, making it even more dog eat dog.

Down in the local markets, remarks like Imus' are the coffee cake and latté for mouth-breathers like KSFO's Melanie Morgan, and Lee Rodgers who need to distinguish themselves from the blathering herd and rattling the sensibilities  in liberal San Francisco by saying the most fraptious shit they can think of. You'll recall the king of political shit-talk, Michael the Savage Weiner (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) is another spawn of that great city.

New KIRO PD has controversial past

We were hoping to get off to a good start with new KIRO/KTTH Program Director, Rod Arquette, but now we're wondering if he and Bonneville International are such good fits for the Seattle market.

In a corporate decision that had white supremacist David Duke applauding, Arquette was the hatchet man for a controversial Bonneville firing that could send a chill through the racial, ethnically diverse Seattle market, and the liberals around the Seattle talk cluster. 

BREAKING: Rod Arquette named KIRO PD

Rod Arquette, Vice President of News and Operations for KSL Newsradio and the Bonneville/Salt Lake Radio Group has been hired as Program Director for KIRO and KTTH.

He's a big gun in the company- been an all around news man and exec since 1988. This is either a kick down the stairs for him or they consider saving KIRO a top priority.

He owns a bulldog named Lucy.

(He replaces Tom Clendening who was summarily shuffled out of the KIRO deck in February after Mormon-owned Bonneville International traded Entercom a couple of old Pontiacs and neat shell collection for the talk stations).

Imus fired from CBS radio- so enough already!

We''re done with this self-important, racist, sexist, libertarian carbuncle; who, in the end is- and long been- irrelevant.

CBS said the cancellation of "Imus in the Morning" from 61 stations is effectively immediately.

Time to turn our attention:

To the lost war where a suicide bomber made it into the "secure" Green Zone in Baghdad despite best surging efforts. 

To a bumbling president desperately shopping for a "war czar" upon whom to delegate his operational responsibilties as commander-in-chief in a war he lied to get us into.

To the already over-extended troops extended even further in a war already lost.

To countless e-mails deleted illegally by the White House's Karl Rove to avoid congressional subpoenas.

Brave new radio

If you know Luke Burbank, you know he can get pretty excited about stuff.

We just talked to him and he's even more hypermanic than usual.

That's because NPR, for whom he's been working for a few years after leaving Seattle, is turning him loose on 21st century radio- as a host of a national radio show.

He (with a female co-host not yet hired) and producer Matt Martinez are the only staffers so far of a morning NPR show from New York kicking off in September which will break plenty of new ground if not some new wind.