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Remembering Mr. Walt

A memorial service for writer and historian Walt Crowley will be Tuesday, 4 to 6p at the Museum of History & Industry, 2700 24th Ave. E., Seattle.

What does billo reilly really say about black people?

This from Gawker.com:

Fox News motormouth Bill O'Reilly is upset—he says that his recent remarks about those oh-so-well-behaved black people in Harlem were totally taken out of context! So we wondered: Well, what context were they in? Searching through the Fox transcripts, using the terms "Black, "African" and "African-American," and discarding comments about Africa (such as about Darfur or the IMF), Intern Mary itemizes the way in which Bill O'Reilly has talked about black people.

Horse's ass radio: roads & transit, fireworks, and peter goldmark

On the David Goldstein Show tonight:

7p:  Roads & Transit Proposition 1 which is on the November ballot will be the subject of a radio free-for-all with Jessyn Farrell, of the Transportation Choices Coalition; Aaron Toso of Yes On Roads & Transit, and Mark Baerwaldt of NoToProp1.org. He's the rich guy who's personally financed the anti ad campaign roundly decried as blatant misrepresentation of the facts.

8p: Peter Goldmark will join Goldy. He's the Okanogan rancher and geneticist who ran against Republican Cathy McMorris in Eastern Washington's 5th Congressional District in 2006. He recently kicked off his campaign for State Lands Commissioner.
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Horse's Ass radio: Secretary of State Sam Reed tonight!

Our favorite Republican, Secretary of State Sam Reed will appear on the David Goldstein Show 8p Saturday to talk about Monday's U.S. Supreme Court hearing on WA's top-two primary.

Mike webb's family, dave ross ask: 'What's up with missing persons?'

Why are missing persons seemingly such low priority to local cops? Dave Ross (KIRO m-f, 9a-12p) asked that question today, about Tanya Rider, the Maple Valley woman, rescued after more than a week trapped inside her wrecked car.

A sheriff's office flack didn't have very satisfying explanations. Why did it take so long to ping her cell phone- which is the relatively easy investigative method that found her?

As we were listening to Ross, we got an email from murdered talk host, Mike Webb's sister, Marian Bogni still stinging from the bungled Missing Person's investigation that failed so spectacularly to find Mike's body even as it lay in his own house!

Caitlin ross to fill-in at KIRO for dad dave

Caitlin Ross has given stump speeches, been in front of huge audiences, pressed the flesh by the hundreds at county fairs and been interviewed many times on the radio and TV.

"But," she says, "I have never done what I'll be doing next week."

What Caitlin, the diminutive 23-year-old elder daughter of KIRO's Dave Ross (m-f, 9a-12p) will be doing next week is filling in for him on Monday and Friday. Other fill-ins will be David Goldstein,Tuesday; Carl Jeffers, Wednesday & Thursday.

But do the Republicans love those negroes? KUOW carries GOP "debate"

A black Eastside Republican told us, "We know they think we're not good enough to sit down with, but now our votes aren't fucking good enough for them to even ask us for?"

In one of the most puzzling developments in the weird Republican 2008 presidential race, the top tier candidates, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mitt Romney are avoiding Tavis Smiley's Republican Presidential debate at Morgan State University.

Only the goofball also-rans: Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo have signed up. The latest asterisk to enter the race, the noisy little Alan Keyes also will also attend.

KUOW will carry the 90 minute forum live tonight at 6p. PBS' channel 12, KBTC will run it from 8 to 9:30p.

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Bill O'Reilly loves those negroes!

And we just love this story! It's about Bill O'Reilly,  race, talk radio... and meat loaf.

Liberal watchsite Media Matters is reporting about The Big Fat Head (KTTH m-f, 9-11p) shooting his big fat mouth off on the radio last Wednesday.

Relating a recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at Sylvia's, a classic Harlem soul food restaurant, O'Reilly told listeners he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "

Tuesday oddems: dittos betrayus; billo gives it up? loopy livershorts, and the big crapaud

~ You gotta excuse us: we've had to be away from the radio a lot, and have been blogging lite, lately. We've had a big project and then, of course a death in the family. We're getting our head up out of it now, but thanks for bearing with us.

~ And oh yeah... we haven't asked for awhile: do you work in a talk radio station, and have anything to share? Need to squeal on your boss? Want to get ahead by leaking embarrasing information about your colleagues? We're here to help: discretion is what our fine old reputation is built on.

Walt Crowley, 1947-2007

Walt Crowley, 60, died Friday evening, Sept 21, after suffering a stroke following cancer surgery.

He passed peacefully surrounded by many old friends, and one new one: a little known superhero named Captain Underpants.   

(photo: John Carlson and Crowley mix it up on KIRO TV's Point CounterPoint, 1986)

Walt was a liberal, a democrat, and a populist in ways deeper than politics. Blessed with a sense of humor, and a wide-ranging curiosity; he had sense of the absurd, and a penchant for B-grade science fiction, robots, and rocket ships.

For all his wit, savviness, and irony, he was plainly and hopelessly in love with Marie McCaffrey, their's was one of the most durable and joyful marriages we've ever witnessed.

He couldn't be facile; suffer fools or bores; but he loved people. If it was you he liked- he was loyal, and generous to a fault, and that was that.

Walt cut his commentarian teeth as a political cartoonist; and took great joy in sometimes being an overlarge garlic fragment in the baba ganoush of Seattle nice.