Friday Oddems: OMG!! WTF?? LOL!! the old meniscus, a new case of toilet paper; the spitzer ho-down; $30 dollar hookers; entercom slolly-gusters; DJ no job; dog boots of the stars; bob ney gets an honest job

~~ We're blogging lite over the weekend: We're off for some minor surgery. Not to worry, it's Costco's "Two-fer Weekend." We'll pick up a stitch in the old meniscus; then we get to choose between a vasectomy and a case of Cheerios. First 10 patients get a free vat of guacamole. We'll be there early.

~~ Entercom is really "hep." (always were) Now they've downloaded a horse & buggy onto the "information super highway," by launching a new KNDD-FM/107.7 midday show called Radio Impulse. Listeners are encouraged to use e-mails and phone text messages to request songs and get responses on whether and when that request will be played! Cool -- wired, yet wireless. Our old (Photo: DJ No Job) friend, market manager Jerry "Swing blade" McKenna, told the P-I's Bill Virgin they're trying "to come up with a midday show that speaks to our audience." Actually, they were just trying to come up with a midday show with two less paychecks: McKenna laid off assistant program director Jim Keller and midday host DJ No Name. Sources say they'll lay off two more people once the FAX machine is fixed. 

~~ Why, oh why, dear Lord? would you allow someone to google "picture of guy on toilet seat outside of trailer," and get BlatherWatch?  What hath God rot?

~~ Somebody sent us this, but we don't know who wrote it. If it was you, let us know because it's brilliant, and sounds like it might even be the mindset that created Too Beautiful to Live, (KIRO m-f, 7-10 p) if there is a mindset...

A. Find a demographic and OWN it. No more than a 15 year spread male or female. OVER PERFORM beyond belief. Use research to confirm, but lead your effort to attract the demo.
B.  Hire great talent, people who connect to the demographic you want and then develop them.
C.  Create memories. Moments that people remember forever. Too few stations do this anymore.  This is not a CD giveaway, cash contest, or meet the artist flavor of the month.  This is really touching lives. Two or three morning shows in Seattle did this years ago and are still remembered by their listeners. The new shows don't seem to know how.
D. Promote. Advertise on TV and be at events where your audience can see you. Many stations forget this basic element of greatness.

~~ "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." - Edward R. Murrow

~~ Jeff Pogiola, KIRO news guy: how long is "a brief 60-day session" of the Legislature?" Shorter than a regular 60-day session? say, 59 days? And while you're at it, how long is the biennium this time-?- they've been altogether too short, lately. Just askin'...

~~ Billo Reilly is still drinking his own bathwater. Every day on his radio show, and every evening on the teevee since the Spitzer ho-down, he's bemoaned the media sexploitation and says he's not interested. He loops, however, the front page of the call girl website showing the girls in all their cleavage and winking sex poses; and does segment after segment of "analysis," of Spitzer and "sex industry." (which is one of the worst references to sex ever invented, no? Conjures up conveyor belts, widgets, and pistons). O'Reilly "interviewed" psychologists who analyzed Spitzer and an ex-call girl who's written a book. All the while, scolding media for doing what he and Fox news trade on. Hasn't been that long since he bought himself out of his own sex scandal.

~~ Bob Ney to talk radio? He was the Republican asshole who renamed French fries, "freedom fries" on House of Representatives menus to help the White House smear the French for their prescient refusal to help in the foolish Iraq invasion. More importantly, he was the first congressman to go to jail on corruption charges in the influence-peddling case of lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Seems he got out of prison last month and went to work for his progressive friend Ellen Ratner's Talk Radio News Service (TRNS). Maybe Ney turned liberal while , and in the Big House. (It happens when righties get bitch-slapped by outside the Beltway reality). “The Bureau of Prisons won’t let him be on air,” Ratner told The Hill, “He’s doing our daybook; he does research.”

Comments

[abob]

Everybody now knows that a good looking woman can command $4,000/hr. That should be great motivation for fat sloppy women to throw out the gallons of Haagen-Daz, join a gym and lose weight. If you whip yourself into sexy shape you can quit your $5.50/hr job at Walmart.

[Andrew]

Hahaha, that great radio commentary was posted on BlatherWatch last year with attribution: http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2007/10/seattle-babble-.html

[sparky]

That "picture of guy on toilet seat outside of trailer,"
is on the archives of Liberal Talk Radio's website...and it appears to be Brian Baloney....

[Duffman]

I think to fully appreciate the content of TBTL, one needs to understand the following answer given to the question of 'why a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a world map'.
You recall a now infamous orator from South Carolina said:

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as in, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children."

:) Good Luck with your surgery Bla'M...remember to pee in the bottle before you leave.

[PugetSound]

Bla'm, if it's that Lazik Surgery place in Renton you may be back before the morning is over. But good luck to whatever your doing to fix whatever it is.

[PugetSound]

Duffman
Are you heartened a bit by the stuff being played on Obama's Minister? This has to develop a bit further but this Minister is evidently the same one that married him and that he has called his personal minister for years.

I'm an atheist but find it amazing that someone as reasonable and well educated as Obama would subject his family to such racist rants. What is it about those rants that would appeal to him?

If you are a Hillary fan, this may be the big play that you have been waiting for.

Will there turn out to be any thing to this? Who knows? But one sign that some Dems are really worried is over at Goldy's blog they have done some counter-programing already trying to link McCain.

I guess the theory is that they all have wacky ministers...not sure if THAT will hold up.

[Duffman]

Indeed that could be a concern for Sen Obama unless he quickly distances himself and I don't believe he's done that yet? That he would subject himself (& his family, especially his kids) to this kind of 'preachin' for so many years may be 'telling'. Certainly a plus for Mrs Clinton I'm sure in the eyes of Penn voters AND super delegates. Thanks, I'll check out HA.

[PugetSound]

Duffman
You may see a Road Runner Cloud from Obama as he distances himself from this made to order for the Clinton just-in-time 'Acme Racist Preacher' straight out of central casting.

If not, Obama will have a huge issue in the general election as most Americans don't hate America as this Preacher does.

Listen to those clips. Playing the crowd the way that Racist Preacher did was something out of a Nuremberg Rally. The event right after 9/11 in which the Preacher blames America was horrible. The way the Minister distorts history to make his point, positively Goebbels like.
Sickening. And apparently we have other clips available...(thank you Hillary. This may be that 'vetting' she has talked about.)
Obama needs to come out hard on this. Otherwise it "could" be his Howard Dean Scream moment...

[Duffman]

'Otherwise it "could" be his Howard Dean Scream moment...'

Absolutely...where are the Sen Obama fans herein? Strange sound of 'silence'??? :)

[PugetSound]

Tommy 008
Here are some more of Obama's moments courtesy of your Dr. Savage website. Not my cup of tea but this is where it is posted most readily.

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[PugetSound]

If Obama is the real deal, he'll be able to slip out of this one. So it will be very interesting to see how this turns out. Get some popcorn...

Hey Duff, you may not hear from Joanie until later. She has to await 'the word' (ie talking points) from Randi!

[Duffman]

Gotcha! :) ...expected more from merci/recoil/fremont/sparks, et al

..course they could all be out at McDonalds Andrew's for breakfast...

[PugetSound]

Just make sure you don't go through the Drive up Window when 'Andy' is working. Otherwise you'll get some secret sauce in your Burger that you don't want!

Don't leave out Cowpotpi3. I am sure he'll have something to say.
Bad news on the D&D front. The founder died a few weeks ago. May be black armband time for some out of respect.

[PugetSound]

And for those tempted to blame evil republicans on this, dontcha know if they had this information this is something that they would be using during the General Election. Say, around October or so.

[Tommy008]

I won't hold my breath until Goldy condemsn this wack job preacher. That's what I hate about Goldy's type of liberalism. It's just koolaid drinking, no better then Rush or Hannity with kneejerk reactions to everything. I'm an idependent thinker. To me Goldy is just a leftwing ideologue who is just as dogmatic in some ways as his righwing counterparts. The preacher doesn't particularly care for Jews either, and has a peculiar fondness for Farrakhan. Concerned yet, Goldstein?

[PugetSound]

Spot on Tommy 008!

[Tommy008]

DaveRoss came on last hour and started rationalizing the Obama preacher and his speeches. He played the most benign of all the clips and kept saying "now what about this is actualy not true?". The particular clip he played had thei wacko preacher talking about Jesus as being persecuted by "rich white people". The guy can't even get out of his "evil white man keeping us down" mania mindset and obsession when he's talking about Jesus back in Biblical times. "He's simpy saying that "race matters", Ross said, apologizing for the black racist, sounding like the ridiculous Seattle buffoon liberal that he is. If Ross showed up in Obama's church parking lot in his Prius, he would be met with whoops of contempt and shouts of "what you doing here, white boy?", if not outright physical violence. Like the clowns on Goldy's site, Ross went on to play clips of McCain's preacher, who didn't have anythign to say in the same league as Obama's favorite hater. Also i don't think mccain has a 20 year close relationship with this guy. Absolutely disgusting. Ross is an obvious Obama supporter and it's sickening to hear him make excuses for this hateful, venomous black racist and anti-semite. Ross lost what little credibiiity he had with me this morning.

[Tommy008]

IT'S OFFICIAL- DAVE ROSS IS A BUFFOON!!

[abob]

Dave Ross condemned George Bush for simply speaking at Bob Jones University. Now he is actually trying to defend black racist Jeremiah Wright? Michael Savage is right; Liberalism is a mental illness.

[Dave (not dave ross)]

There is no question that Obama's preacher is racist and that he has a long association with him. What Dave Ross did say in the end that made sense to me is that most politicians are touched by many kinds of people during the course of their lives and campaigns. Alot of these people have agendas and views different from the politician, however they are lumped together as supporters.
What is important is the first framers of our government knew men were imperfect and at times made mistakes, so they made it so that no one man would have total control over government.

[PugetSound]

Spot on again, Tommy.

Interesting that the 'usual suspects' haven't chimed in yet?

I listened to Ross and was disappointed in his approach. But if you are a Democrat, isn't it better to get this out now before the General Election?

I am extremely disappointed in Obama's response to date. So what is it exactly about this Preacher that he finds so appealing?

[Upton]

What is the complaint about Dave Ross? All he was trying to do was offset Carl Jeffers and his Uncle Tom impersonation.

I'm getting tired of Jeffers promoting Hillary to be the nominee. Try to be at least somewhat objective for Gods sakes.

[mangus]

Obama will go down like a cheap hooker before this has even started. The Democrats have fucked themselves. They have made Clinton out to be the she-devil and killed her chances even if they nominate her. The blacks and children will go back to whatever they were doing before if she is nominated. Obambi will be crushed, he already is.

[PugetSound]

the most interesting quote on it I have found

"The problem is less that Wright sounds Malcolm X than that he sounds like Jerry Falwell crossed with Ward Churchill, calling down God's vengeance on a corrupt U.S.A., but for leftist instead of right-wing reasons.
So far, Obama has attempted to laugh off Wright's penchant for inflammatory rhetoric, comparing him to "an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with," and suggesting that this is "what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor." But as Wright's America-bashing gets more airtime -- and as his Obama-boosting sermons put his church's tax exemption at risk -- Obama may have to go further down the road to explicitly disavowing his pastor. His connection to Wright isn't the equivalent of John McCain's going to Liberty University to make nice with Jerry Falwell. It's the equivalent of John McCain taking his wife and children, most Sundays, to Jerry Falwell's church. And the disconnect between Obama's studied moderation and his congregation's radicalism requires more of an explanation than he's offered so far."

[abob]

Jeremiah Wright is being denounced in the mass media because he had harsh words of rebuke for certain policies of the US govt he felt were morally reprehensible. I disagree with many of Wright's views. However, Rev. Wright earned the right to criticize his country because he risked his life in the service of the United States. Jeremiah Wright served this nation with honor and distinction as a United States Marine and in the United States Navy. He did not dodge military service like many of his critics in the media such as Limbaugh & Hannity & Medved. When an American enters the military and demonstrates the courage & willingness to sacrifice his own life to protect the freedoms of his fellow Americans; I will never question his patriotism or love of his country.

[AuthenticAndrew]

I think I know why Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr's hate speech isn't covered by the mainstream media. It reminds me of how four black guys raped, tortured and killed a young white couple and that went ignored by the mainstream media, and some said it was because the event didn't play to the cause of any particular interest group with the exception of a few conservative pundits who are only heard in their own vacuums.

Anything that happens against white people goes unnoticed because their is no pro-white interest group, that has any respect atleast. On the other hand, notice the army of black leaders who had microphones dropped in their laps when Imus made his public racist remark. Notice how much coverage women's lib got when Elliot Spitzer was caught "buying a human being."

As long as the media is going to require that every story have a cute and convenient narrative we're going to miss out on a lot of important news.

[PugetSound]

abob,
I agree. He has the right to say what he wants.
I would hope that people would also exercise their right to use their feet when hearing such horrible rants. The fact that Obama hasn't tells me a lot about him.

[Ryder]

Getting right to it......

At this stage of the game the Donkeys have screwed themselves. If Obama does not get the nomination African Americans are going to believe that the Clinton machine stole it from them. They will stay home on election day.

Without them, the Democrats have no chance of beating McCain.

[sparky]

Bla'M, I hope you didnt go to the laser eye place to get your knee fixed...I dont think they could help you.

[nevets]

Puts, is that true the D&D founder died. The Paladin must be having a long quest in honor of that great man and that is why he has been quiet lately.

[nevets]

And Puts, I just heard Obama on FOX news denouncing these remarks but was intrigued by something he said:

"Rev Wright helped him find Jesus Christ"

Question,

Who was his savior before this period in his life? Muhammed?

[PugetSound]

Yep, here it is:

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) (IPA: [ˈgaɪ.gæks][2]) was an American writer and game designer,[3] best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with Don Kaye in 1973. Gygax is generally acknowledged as one of the fathers of the tabletop role-playing game.[4]

[Andrew]

Someone led me to believe this angry pastor business wasnt in the Main Stream Media, it apears to be very much in the MSM at this point.

[nevets]

Thanks Puts.

Paladin, you take all the time you need to get over your grief.

[wutitiz]

The damaging thing about this is that the media has the audio clips that can be played repeatedly a la the Dean Scream. That is much more effective than writings, after years of dumbing-down by unionized, socialized education.

It's also damaging because much of the appeal of Obama for people like me was that he diverged from the race-baiting tactics of Sharpton & Jackson. Now it appears that the divergence was in the direction of Louis Farrakhan.

Obama needs to come up with a pretty dramatic move, or the party will have to figure out how to put in the fix for Hillary.

[Duffman]

"Obama needs to come up with a pretty dramatic move, or the party will have to figure out how to put in the fix for Hillary."

I'm sure you're meaning this in a 'positive' sense, eh whatitis?
I'm thinkin - all of a sudden Mrs Clinton is looking better and better to all of her 'doubters'. Welcome all...'can't we all just get-along' for the sake of our great Country. :)

[wutitiz]

Tommy008, I have to hand it to you. Anybody who can call both Dori and Dave buffoons is in a league of his own when it comes to capacity for independent thought.

That, along with your blogworthy writing skills, makes you one of the top 2 or 3 posters on blatherWatch.

[Duffman]

"Obama needs to come up with a pretty dramatic move, or the party will have to figure out how to put in the fix for Hillary."

I'm sure you're meaning this in a 'positive' sense, eh whatitis?
I'm thinkin - all of a sudden Mrs Clinton is looking better and better to all of her 'doubters'. Welcome all...'can't we all just get-along' for the sake of our great Country. :)

[Duffman]

Sorry for that 'double-up'... :)

[wutitiz]

'Positive sense,' Duff? Maybe, so in the sense that it all but ensures President McCain hehe.

Especially if he takes my advice and takes Condi Rice as running mate. He will get 90% of the black vote vs. Hillary, upset the voting-block balance forever, and win by landslide numbers.

[Duffman]

whatitis: I'm not too sure you could count on 90% of the black vote for Condi...is she really black? I think she may be regarded as a 'good ol boy' :)