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(photo: Senator Al Franken, D-MN)
"The Supreme Court has made its decision and I will abide by the results," Coleman told reporters outside his St. Paul home.
"In these tough times we all need to focus on the future, and the future is that we have a new United States senator," Coleman said.
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled Al Franken
the winner of the 2008 Senate race.
(photo: Minnesota Star-Tribune
In a unanimous 5-0 decision, the court upheld a three-judge panel’s April 14 ruling that Franken defeated Republican Norm Coleman in the race by 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast.
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It's the most recent live and local talk show live in the dead radio world mostly inhabited by zombies beamed-in from outer space.
And now it's a year old. While that's a sad commentary on local radio - a wasteland once a boiling crucible of creativity - that this little petunia in the onion patch of KVI weekend brokered shows and infomercials has survived and thrived, should be celebrated.
"Hiking the Appalachian Trail" is reportedly the new code/euphemism for having illicit sex in the political class. This after Southern "values" politician Gov. Mark Sanford's obfuscation of his travel plans when he was actually having an assignation in Argentina.
An old code in Seattle for a secret fuck-date was "going to Tukwila." You could go to Tukwila in the back seat of your co-worker's car in a downtown parking garage; in a no-tel on Aurora Avenue or in the ladies' room at The Comet.
It's an inconsequential book. There's no new information, and it neither asks new questions; nor anything of its readers. (Plus, there are no pictures, always a disappointment in a geezerly book about radio).
It's Censorship, The Threat to Silence Talk Radio by Brian Jennings and we waited until we could get it new at Amazon for $5.52. (Advice: don't pay retail for this dog!)
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Two wars; ground-breaking healthcare legislation, cap & trade near to passing; new violence in Iran; a prominent governor admits to traveling to his lover in Argentina on the public's dime, the passing of Farrah Fawcett, and EVERY GODDAMN CABLE NEWS SHOW HAS BEEN PRE-EMPTED BY ENDLESS NARRATION AND NEWS COPTER VIEWS OF THE CROWD GATHERING OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL WHERE MICHAEL JACKSON DIED!
Jackson was a pop star, btw and a peculiar has-been at that.- why must the news machine be halted?
"He could have had it all," says Rush.
"Up & Coming" takes a whole, new meaning in the GOP. First Sen. John Ensign, now Gov. Mark Sanford - the family values party crosses two off their 2012 list this month.
Is this for whom we're "saving traditional marriage?"
"I’m thrilled to have Randi on the Air America Washington team…it’s about time we were reunited.” says Air America’s program director Bill Hess.
Rhodes will do PM drive at WZAA, AAR's new progressive talker in Washington DC.
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As talk radio blah-blahs out one side of its mouth bemoaning the "Cash for Clunkers" bill as a big government, "European-style" socialist handout, the radio business management side is hoping it'll provide a kick in the ass in a dreary summer in ad sales.
(Photo: "Sweaty Betty" queen of the BlatherWatch fleet)
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Ah yes, we remember Shawna Forde... she's the peppy, flirty, blonde, anti-immigration, Everett activist charged last week with 2 counts of first degree murder in Arizona.
On assignment for The Stranger, we talked to her in 2007 at an Everett anti-immigration rally she helped organize billed as "The Great Gringo Awakens From Siesta," featuring Jim Gilchrist, the disreputable founder of the Minuteman Project.
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