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The Advocate No, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.
Media Matters Documentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.
Orcinus home of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups
Hominid Views "People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.
Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.
Howie in Seattle Howie Martin is the Abe Linkin' of progressive Seattle.
Streaming Radio Guide Hellishly long (5795!) list of radio streaming, steaming on the Internets.
The Naked Loon News satire -- The Onion in the Seattle petunia patch.
Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."
The Maddow Blog Here's the hyper-interactive La Raych of MSNBC. daily show-vids, freakishly geeky research, and classy graphics.
Northwest Broadcasters The AM, FM, TV and digital broadcasters of Northwest Washington, USA and Southwest British Columbia, Canada. From Kelso, WA to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, BC - call letters, formats, slogans, networks, technical data, and transmitter maps.
Plus "recent" news.
News Corpse The Internet's chronicle of media decay.
The Moderate Voice The voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.
News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.
HistoryLink Fun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.
right-wing blogs we like
The Reagan Wing Hearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.
Orbusmax inexhaustible Drudgery of NW conservative news
The Radio Equalizer prolific former Seattle KVI, KIRO talk host speaks authoritatively about radio.
Wow. In an incredible boot-up for liberal talk radio, The Stephanie Miller Show has been named to try out for the vacant, early morning, Imus simulcast spot on MSNBC.
It's "temporary," we're assured by our spy out at MSNBC Redmond, and no done deal. But we've learned that Miller is the top contender, and the one for whom the network has the greatest hopes.
"They decided it was time for a woman in that slot," he told BlatherWatch.
It's been a fierce firefight between some of the most hardball agents in the country. Other competitors: Michael Smercomish, Ed Shultz, Neal Boortz, Randi Rhodes, Rachel Maddow, and Laura Ingraham.
Miller's show (KPTK m-f, 6-9a) is liberal, progressive and very
funny, and another progressive media success. She's syndicated by Jones
Radio Networks (which is not Air America).
Her caffeinated, fast-moving show is assisted hilariously by voice
actor, Jim Ward who could do an impression of Harpo Marx and make a
radio audience crack up.
Miller, 49, a comedienne, has hosted local radio shows on KABC and
KFI in LAs and co-hosted CNBC's "Equal Time" as the liberal
counterweight to Bay Buchanan.
(Besides her many and obvious talents, she's always been dear to
our hearts because she's the daughter of former Republican Rep. William
Miller, Barry Goldwater's running mate in 1964; a ticket we supported
in 1963).
Comments
You know, I would really be thrilled for her if she was tapped by MSNBC....but I would hope that KPTK would still run her show..it would mean not being able to call in anymore, but they would be nuts to lose her on that morning drive time. Of course, if they do move her, then goodbye KPTK and I will tape the t and v to watch in the evenings.
I also would be sad if she had to tone things down because she was on tv....no more Lying Sack of Crap, no more Itchy Kitty, no more Squeezy McFeelpants, no more playing the audio of Billo reading from his porn novel....no more Jim Ward impressions of Kim Jong Ill....
"Stephanie Miller is as harmless as a kitten" _randi rhodes
Miller is a perfect fit for MSNBC in the post Imus era. Her show appeals to a politically correct leftwing female mentality. Miller is less controversial than lukewarm tapioca.
Miller is a perfect fit for MSNBC in the post Imus era. Her show appeals to a politically correct leftwing female mentality. Miller is less controversial than lukewarm tapioca.
The translation in my head is if your sick and tired of assholes listen to Stephanie.
Amazing! Every time i come on here its the same old people throwin out the same ol bullshit trying to out do each other with stupid rhetoric. I swear you folks are pathetic, you need to get jobs a quit wasting your fuckin time like this. DO SOMETHING; get off your fat asses and MOVE!!!
You are like hungry fish in a pond, swimming around with nothing to do. Someone throws a morsel in and you all jump to it with your almighty egotistical wisdom. Surely you must have chores, preparations, other things to do beyond staring at the computer screen. You poor sad, lonely bastards I feel for you (& thus - for this country). Can't stay here long - makes me sick.
Just found it but everyone should be watching the Bill Moyers Journal which is interviewing many, many journalists about how the gov sold the war. Fascinating!
Knight Ridder is the only news service that investigated thoroughly the WMD charges and found nothing there. The two reporters who found the story that now everyone is acknowledging was correct said the only medium that asked either reporter on was CSpan. One of the reporters actually appeared on CSpan - probably Washington Journal but he didn't say.
Geez, this is a good documentary. Too bad so many would rather hear pundits proclaiming whatever instead of listen to a well-researched piece of journalism like Moyers presents.
Walter Isaacson just said the people at Knight Ridder were calling the colonels and the CIA people and finding out the facts and they got it right. These people were saying the story that the gov is handing out has some problems. But big media called on pundits and politicians as their experts.
What a crock our so-called "journalists" are in main-stream media.
It's surreal to hear them talk matter of factly about an administration leading us into war "under false pretenses" while that same administration is still administering as we speak. It's like a historic mistake which has yet to finish being made, nevermind remedied.
I think I mus needs his job back on MSMBC. But if not my second pick for this would be LIONEL from the Lionel show www.lionelonline.com
He is a wacky DUDE!
I don't think she will be the permanent fill-in, as Larry Elder, IMHO who is more reiable and informative will be in Imus's spot the following week. OR, Maybe they will choose the most Satanic talker to be MSNBC's choice to fill in for the I-man - there's a stiff competition going among talkers for that distinction...
Keep Moyers confined to PBS - he's become a crock and comes across as a blathering socialist who has little credibility in my book. FYI - Karl Rove also has little credibility in my book.
Don't shoot the messenger. Even the media admits they fucked it up. They showed British news coverage in contrast to US news coverage, and the British coverage of the run-up was much more damning and forthright than anything I ever saw in the US media. Even a pinko like Bill Moyers is incapable of overstating the facts.
It came down to this: puting faith in Bush and Powell was patriotic as 9-11 was still a fresh wound, and telling the viewers things that challenge patriotism was bad for the news business. It drove viewers over to Fox News if they weren't there already, and it's still as
batshit today as it was then.
That's the lesson to be learned, that our journalists are no such thing, they are just mirrors reflecting our opinions back at us. The network presidents fire people who get bad ratings, not people who are biased or sworn to a fixed outcome of opinion.
If you watch Fox News, the only truth you will ever get is the truth that a conservative is happy to hear, you will never get "the truth truth", because that would hurt their ratings. Rupert Murdoch is better known for his wealth and business prowess than honesty and candor.
Keep Moyers confined to PBS - he's become a crock and comes across as a blathering socialist who has little credibility in my book. FYI - Karl Rove also has little credibility in my book.
Klueless, you never fail to show the depth or your cluelessness! I'm wondering what - if any - Bill Moyers program you have ever watched? And if you respond to this by naming a program, tell me what you saw that so labels Moyers a crock or a socialist.
I know, I will not hear back. That in and of itself is further proof you have nothing to support your allegations about Moyer. And your book? A bunch of empty pages authored by Fox News.
Hey great show, kinda close to Don Imus. She has the same great personality as Don does. If we can't have Don, Stephanie is the best replacement. Hey I heard the HO thing from her, thought it was great.
Happy in Bellevue called in to Taliaferro last night with more of his inane, pro-Bush prattle, but was quickly met with a thundering, humiliating denunciation from the T-man. You got to hear happy attempt to outshout Taliaferro, in a rare display of his true, ugly personality. bwahaahahahahaa
She was awesome..didnt hold back with anything that was sure to offend the right wing...the rest of the country got to hear about Female Impersonator Ann Coulter, and how Condi and Bush are having an affair....lots of people called in who had never heard her before and were loving it...
Happy in Bellevue called in to Taliaferro last night with more of his inane, pro-Bush prattle
Taliaferro? Vas es los?
Happy in Bellevue is one of my favorite NW callers. Right along with Darryl - the one who incessently tries to veer every conversation into pot legalization.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that).
You can just overhear the call-screener having an aneurysm in the background everytime he calls in.
The Ray Taliaferro Show 1-5 a.m. mon thru fri day mornings on KGO810 San Francisco. they stream 24/7 on kgo.com if you can't pick up the signal, which is often drowned out by the bozos at our local Christian goofball station. Taliaferro is the king of the Bushhaters.
Ray was in a real crabby mood early this morning. When I got up to tape Stephanie, Ray was on my radio and he was yelling at someone..dont know who. It carried over to the next two callers and then I fell asleep. Sometimes he just laughs at the weirdos but sometimes....the Wrath of Ray is upon them.
When I went to the media event featuring the KPTK hosts, the audience was asked to submit questions for the talkers....the most frequently asked question was "Is Stephanie Miller available?"
If you missed Bil Moyers last Wednesday, you can read or listen here.
KIROFM 97.3 Multi-format: news and nearly all local talk. This is where classic KIRO AM news talk radio went... hopefully, not to die. The home of Dave Ross & Luke Burbank, Dori Monson, Ron & Don, Frank Shiers, Bill Radke, Linda Thomas, Tony Miner and George Noory.
KUOW FM 94.9 Seattle's foremost public radio news and talk.
KVI am 570 KHz Visit the burnt-out husk of one of the seminal right-wing talkers in all the land. Here's where once trilled the reactionary tones of Rush Limbaugh, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Mike Siegel, Peter Weissbach, Floyd Brown, Dinky Donkey, and Bryan Suits.
Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.
KTTH am 770 KHz Right wing home of local, and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larsony, and for an hour a day: live & local David Boze.
KPTK am 1090 KHz Syndicated liberal talk. Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman fill in the large hole to the left on Northwest radio dial.
KLFE AM 1590 kHz Syndicated right-wing 2nd stringers like Mark Levin, Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Dennis Miller and Hugh Hewitt inhabit this timid-voiced neighbor honker for your radio enjoyment (unless you're behind something large like Costco).
KOMOAM News, traffic, Ken Schram and John Carlson.
Wow. In an incredible boot-up for liberal talk radio, The Stephanie Miller Show has been named to try out for the vacant, early morning, Imus simulcast spot on MSNBC.
You know, I would really be thrilled for her if she was tapped by MSNBC....but I would hope that KPTK would still run her show..it would mean not being able to call in anymore, but they would be nuts to lose her on that morning drive time. Of course, if they do move her, then goodbye KPTK and I will tape the t and v to watch in the evenings.
I also would be sad if she had to tone things down because she was on tv....no more Lying Sack of Crap, no more Itchy Kitty, no more Squeezy McFeelpants, no more playing the audio of Billo reading from his porn novel....no more Jim Ward impressions of Kim Jong Ill....
Posted by: sparky | April 25, 2007 at 02:19 PM
..oh, and if she does get it...watch for Big Eddy to be realllllllly pissed..lol...
Posted by: sparky | April 25, 2007 at 02:21 PM
"Stephanie Miller is as harmless as a kitten" _randi rhodes
Miller is a perfect fit for MSNBC in the post Imus era. Her show appeals to a politically correct leftwing female mentality. Miller is less controversial than lukewarm tapioca.
Posted by: shoreke | April 25, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Miller is a perfect fit for MSNBC in the post Imus era. Her show appeals to a politically correct leftwing female mentality. Miller is less controversial than lukewarm tapioca.
The translation in my head is if your sick and tired of assholes listen to Stephanie.
Robinz
Posted by: robinz | April 25, 2007 at 04:01 PM
Her show appeals to a politically correct leftwing female mentality. Miller is less controversial than lukewarm tapioca.
I get the impression you've never once heard her show.
PC & less controversial? How so?
Do tell, Shoreke.
Posted by: mercifurious | April 25, 2007 at 04:24 PM
..oh, and if she does get it...watch for Big Eddy to be realllllllly pissed..lol...
and on that note alone I hope she gets it, never mind that I hope she does because I like her.
Robinz
Posted by: robinz | April 25, 2007 at 05:55 PM
Amazing! Every time i come on here its the same old people throwin out the same ol bullshit trying to out do each other with stupid rhetoric. I swear you folks are pathetic, you need to get jobs a quit wasting your fuckin time like this. DO SOMETHING; get off your fat asses and MOVE!!!
Posted by: Grace | April 25, 2007 at 07:00 PM
Pot. Kettle?
What is more stupid, the people posting here or coming here repeatedly to complain about the people coming here. Hmm.
Posted by: cowpotpi3 | April 25, 2007 at 07:09 PM
What is more stupid, the people posting here or coming here repeatedly to complain about the people coming here. Hmm.
Boy, you pegged that one.
Actually it's becoming more of a kind of a squawking noise in the background at this point.
Just ignore it and it will stop. It's no fun if it dosen't get the badly needed attention it's dysfunctional personality craves.
Robinz
Posted by: robinz | April 25, 2007 at 07:17 PM
Here's to laughing at you, Grace. Thanks cowpot. I guess the right can be funny . . .occasionally. :)
Posted by: joanie | April 25, 2007 at 07:18 PM
You are like hungry fish in a pond, swimming around with nothing to do. Someone throws a morsel in and you all jump to it with your almighty egotistical wisdom. Surely you must have chores, preparations, other things to do beyond staring at the computer screen. You poor sad, lonely bastards I feel for you (& thus - for this country). Can't stay here long - makes me sick.
Posted by: Grace | April 25, 2007 at 07:29 PM
Blam thanks for the heads up on Steph Miller, I do enjoy her and it will be interesting to see how she does on TV.
Posted by: Grace | April 25, 2007 at 07:52 PM
S'plain yourself, Gracie, what are ya? Right? Left? Bi? Confusted? I do think you have some good taste if you like Steph.
Now, Gracie, you go back to work while I have my servants fix a cup of tea and fan me.
Posted by: joanie | April 25, 2007 at 08:07 PM
disGraceful, stop pretending to be a girl. Maybe in your next life, you hairy, sweaty, internet transvestite.
Posted by: Andrew | April 25, 2007 at 08:42 PM
Just found it but everyone should be watching the Bill Moyers Journal which is interviewing many, many journalists about how the gov sold the war. Fascinating!
Posted by: joanie | April 25, 2007 at 09:53 PM
Knight Ridder is the only news service that investigated thoroughly the WMD charges and found nothing there. The two reporters who found the story that now everyone is acknowledging was correct said the only medium that asked either reporter on was CSpan. One of the reporters actually appeared on CSpan - probably Washington Journal but he didn't say.
Geez, this is a good documentary. Too bad so many would rather hear pundits proclaiming whatever instead of listen to a well-researched piece of journalism like Moyers presents.
Walter Isaacson just said the people at Knight Ridder were calling the colonels and the CIA people and finding out the facts and they got it right. These people were saying the story that the gov is handing out has some problems. But big media called on pundits and politicians as their experts.
What a crock our so-called "journalists" are in main-stream media.
Posted by: joanie | April 25, 2007 at 10:08 PM
It's surreal to hear them talk matter of factly about an administration leading us into war "under false pretenses" while that same administration is still administering as we speak. It's like a historic mistake which has yet to finish being made, nevermind remedied.
Posted by: Andrew | April 25, 2007 at 10:29 PM
Well-said, Andrew.
Posted by: joanie | April 25, 2007 at 11:05 PM
I think I mus needs his job back on MSMBC. But if not my second pick for this would be LIONEL from the Lionel show www.lionelonline.com
He is a wacky DUDE!
Posted by: Brian | April 26, 2007 at 06:01 AM
I don't think she will be the permanent fill-in, as Larry Elder, IMHO who is more reiable and informative will be in Imus's spot the following week. OR, Maybe they will choose the most Satanic talker to be MSNBC's choice to fill in for the I-man - there's a stiff competition going among talkers for that distinction...
Keep Moyers confined to PBS - he's become a crock and comes across as a blathering socialist who has little credibility in my book. FYI - Karl Rove also has little credibility in my book.
Posted by: KS | April 26, 2007 at 09:31 PM
Don't shoot the messenger. Even the media admits they fucked it up. They showed British news coverage in contrast to US news coverage, and the British coverage of the run-up was much more damning and forthright than anything I ever saw in the US media. Even a pinko like Bill Moyers is incapable of overstating the facts.
It came down to this: puting faith in Bush and Powell was patriotic as 9-11 was still a fresh wound, and telling the viewers things that challenge patriotism was bad for the news business. It drove viewers over to Fox News if they weren't there already, and it's still as
batshit today as it was then.
That's the lesson to be learned, that our journalists are no such thing, they are just mirrors reflecting our opinions back at us. The network presidents fire people who get bad ratings, not people who are biased or sworn to a fixed outcome of opinion.
If you watch Fox News, the only truth you will ever get is the truth that a conservative is happy to hear, you will never get "the truth truth", because that would hurt their ratings. Rupert Murdoch is better known for his wealth and business prowess than honesty and candor.
Posted by: Andrew | April 26, 2007 at 10:55 PM
Keep Moyers confined to PBS - he's become a crock and comes across as a blathering socialist who has little credibility in my book. FYI - Karl Rove also has little credibility in my book.
Klueless, you never fail to show the depth or your cluelessness! I'm wondering what - if any - Bill Moyers program you have ever watched? And if you respond to this by naming a program, tell me what you saw that so labels Moyers a crock or a socialist.
I know, I will not hear back. That in and of itself is further proof you have nothing to support your allegations about Moyer. And your book? A bunch of empty pages authored by Fox News.
Posted by: joanie | April 27, 2007 at 07:32 PM
Hey great show, kinda close to Don Imus. She has the same great personality as Don does. If we can't have Don, Stephanie is the best replacement. Hey I heard the HO thing from her, thought it was great.
Posted by: Kevin | April 30, 2007 at 05:02 AM
Happy in Bellevue called in to Taliaferro last night with more of his inane, pro-Bush prattle, but was quickly met with a thundering, humiliating denunciation from the T-man. You got to hear happy attempt to outshout Taliaferro, in a rare display of his true, ugly personality. bwahaahahahahaa
Posted by: Tommy008 | April 30, 2007 at 08:30 AM
She was awesome..didnt hold back with anything that was sure to offend the right wing...the rest of the country got to hear about Female Impersonator Ann Coulter, and how Condi and Bush are having an affair....lots of people called in who had never heard her before and were loving it...
Posted by: sparky | April 30, 2007 at 08:37 AM
No, it wasn't that way at all; this is how things get distorted.
Posted by: fuzznuts | April 30, 2007 at 08:39 AM
Happy in Bellevue called in to Taliaferro last night with more of his inane, pro-Bush prattle
Taliaferro? Vas es los?
Happy in Bellevue is one of my favorite NW callers. Right along with Darryl - the one who incessently tries to veer every conversation into pot legalization.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that).
You can just overhear the call-screener having an aneurysm in the background everytime he calls in.
Posted by: mercifurious | April 30, 2007 at 08:48 AM
The Ray Taliaferro Show 1-5 a.m. mon thru fri day mornings on KGO810 San Francisco. they stream 24/7 on kgo.com if you can't pick up the signal, which is often drowned out by the bozos at our local Christian goofball station. Taliaferro is the king of the Bushhaters.
Posted by: Tommy008 | April 30, 2007 at 09:09 AM
10-4.
I've actually not heard from Bellevue Happy since the Mike Webb days - ammonia & chlorine, that chat
Darryl may have plumb forgotten his talking-points/first-name
Posted by: mercifurious | April 30, 2007 at 09:28 AM
How can anyone refute this? Pres Bush on Global Warming
Posted by: fuzznuts | April 30, 2007 at 09:47 AM
I've actually heard Darryl get the best of that smug creep, Rabbi Lapin. believe it or not.
Posted by: Tommy008 | April 30, 2007 at 10:18 AM
And this is "Legal Pot" Darryl, not "Hominid" Darryl, right?
Posted by: mercifurious | April 30, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Darryl 420...yep.
Ray was in a real crabby mood early this morning. When I got up to tape Stephanie, Ray was on my radio and he was yelling at someone..dont know who. It carried over to the next two callers and then I fell asleep. Sometimes he just laughs at the weirdos but sometimes....the Wrath of Ray is upon them.
Posted by: sparky | April 30, 2007 at 11:23 AM
yeppir pothead Darryl- really put that ass Lapin in his place. bwahahahaahahhh
Posted by: Tommy008 | April 30, 2007 at 11:40 AM
This is your best choice for replacing IMAS.
She has my vote.
Bob
Posted by: Bob Alen | May 01, 2007 at 05:52 AM
GOOD TIMES!
Posted by: Brian | May 02, 2007 at 08:06 AM
She is one HOT tomato!
Posted by: fuzznuts | May 02, 2007 at 08:24 AM
When I went to the media event featuring the KPTK hosts, the audience was asked to submit questions for the talkers....the most frequently asked question was "Is Stephanie Miller available?"
If you missed Bil Moyers last Wednesday, you can read or listen here.
Posted by: FREMONT | May 02, 2007 at 12:40 PM
but....Stephanie Miller is already on KPTK...Im confused
Posted by: sparky | May 02, 2007 at 12:58 PM
I think Fremont means "available" as "ready for freddy", not candidate for hire at KPTK.
Thanks for the link, Fremont. Neighbor was dying because she missed it.
Oh, and tit-for-tat, for those who were not awake at 3am, here's video of Stephanie Miller's MSNBC debut:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-IqKzg5P59Y
Posted by: mercifurious | May 02, 2007 at 01:23 PM
thanks merci, MUCH better when she can be viewed!
Posted by: fuzznuts | May 02, 2007 at 01:27 PM
Hey I got up at 3 each morning and started the VCR..it was worth it..some very very funny moments
Posted by: sparky | May 02, 2007 at 06:27 PM