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Lest we forget: the union soldier

  

                               1861-1865

How come secessionist slave-state rebels get to grab all the glory? Union Soldiers laid down their lives for free-soil and the United States of America. Thanks for serving, and... for winning!

Great Moments in Blather: exposed bra strap reveals 'institutional sluttishness' and unnecessary titillation at KIRO

August 18, 2008

Reaffirming the stereotypes we have about the aging conservative listenership of talk radio, we were amused at a letter Dave Ross's producer, the notoriously floozical Libby Shenkman, got this morning about the soft porn of the photo above:

Libby - How wonderful for you (sincerely). You being the Producer/Chief of Staff of the popular Dave Ross Show which I listen to daily. It is unfortunate however that you do not dress like the professional you are. I look at the photo posted today and see you wearing a skin tight shirt with your bra strap hanging out - standing next to one of the most respected professional persons in this region and think to myself what a mismatch. Your attire in this photo seems more like that of a high school or college girl on campus. I realize that working in radio is more casual and do not expect you to look like a TV News talking head but please consider that your attire is considered by the audience when posting photos on your blog. Thank you.
Cynthia XXXXXX- Listener to the Dave Ross Show for ten years

If you can't figure out what this is about, look carefully at the left shoulder of that little vixen in the picture above: see that stripe of nude-colored material peeking out from under that skin tight top? (mmmm... nude!) See Dave Ross, so obviously aroused, is leering at the little hussy who is so obviously enjoying every minute of it. (mmmm... aroused!)

Besides the (sincerely) bitchy subtext screaming: you're the slut who's got the job I could only dream of!, this shows the proprietorship listeners think they have over media people... even of their dress and even if they're off-air staff on a non-visual medium!

(Here's a talk radio topic: Does anyone under 50 pin their bra straps so they won't show? Does anyone over 50 pin their bra straps so they won't show? Are bra straps provocative? Do women who show them signal sexual availability or enthusiasm? Is it unprofessional? Was Dave Ross complicit? Does Dave encourage such offensive sexual exhibitionism with the tarts he hires? Where was Cynthia back in the days of nude radio? If Cynthia's bra strap ever showed would anyone notice, or care?)

Libby, though clearly a slut ,is also a sane young woman and writes the progression of her reaction to the letter on the Dave Ross blog:

I started to formulate a big, emotional response in which I would defend my professionalism, hard work, and respect for Dave and his show.
   Then I remembered that I have a life.
So instead I will leave you with this picture of my attire, which I think is entirely appropriate for a casual workplace (a.k.a. newsroom). Note my miffed expression at having wasted any time worrying about faceless internet slander.

And posts the full frontal pic above. (mmmm... producer full frontal)

Reaffirming the stereotypes we have about the aging conservative listenership of talk radio, we were amused at a letter Dave Ross's producer, the notoriously floozical Libby Shenkman, got this morning about the soft porn of the photo above:

Libby - How wonderful for you (sincerely). You being the Producer/Chief of Staff of the popular Dave Ross Show which I listen to daily. It is unfortunate however that you do not dress like the professional you are. I look at the photo posted today and see you wearing a skin tight shirt with your bra strap hanging out - standing next to one of the most respected professional persons in this region and think to myself what a mismatch. Your attire in this photo seems more like that of a high school or college girl on campus. I realize that working in radio is more casual and do not expect you to look like a TV News talking head but please consider that your attire is considered by the audience when posting photos on your blog. Thank you.
Cynthia XXXXXX- Listener to the Dave Ross Show for ten years

If you can't figure out what this is about, look carefully at the left shoulder of that little vixen in the picture above: see that stripe of nude-colored material peeking out from under that skin tight top? (mmmm... nude!) See Dave Ross, so obviously aroused, is leering at the little hussy who is so obviously enjoying every minute of it. (mmmm... aroused!)

Besides the (sincerely) bitchy subtext screaming: you're the slut who's got the job I could only dream of!, this shows the proprietorship listeners think they have over media people... even of their dress and even if they're off-air staff on a non-visual medium!

(Here's a talk radio topic: Does anyone under 50 pin their bra straps so they won't show? Does anyone over 50 pin their bra straps so they won't show? Are bra straps provocative? Do women who show them signal sexual availability or enthusiasm? Is it unprofessional? Was Dave Ross complicit? Does Dave encourage such offensive sexual exhibitionism with the tarts he hires? Where was Cynthia back in the days of nude radio? If Cynthia's bra strap ever showed would anyone notice, or care?)

Libby, though clearly a slut ,is also a sane young woman and writes the progression of her reaction to the letter on the Dave Ross blog:

I started to formulate a big, emotional response in which I would defend my professionalism, hard work, and respect for Dave and his show.
   Then I remembered that I have a life.
So instead I will leave you with this picture of my attire, which I think is entirely appropriate for a casual workplace (a.k.a. newsroom). Note my miffed expression at having wasted any time worrying about faceless internet slander.

And posts the full frontal pic above. (mmmm... producer full frontal)

Reaffirming the stereotypes we have about the aging conservative listenership of talk radio, we were amused at a letter Dave Ross's producer, the notoriously floozical Libby Shenkman, got this morning about the soft porn of the photo above:

Libby - How wonderful for you (sincerely). You being the Producer/Chief of Staff of the popular Dave Ross Show which I listen to daily. It is unfortunate however that you do not dress like the professional you are. I look at the photo posted today and see you wearing a skin tight shirt with your bra strap hanging out - standing next to one of the most respected professional persons in this region and think to myself what a mismatch. Your attire in this photo seems more like that of a high school or college girl on campus. I realize that working in radio is more casual and do not expect you to look like a TV News talking head but please consider that your attire is considered by the audience when posting photos on your blog. Thank you.
Cynthia XXXXXX- Listener to the Dave Ross Show for ten years

If you can't figure out what this is about, look carefully at the left shoulder of that little vixen in the picture above: see that stripe of nude-colored material peeking out from under that skin tight top? (mmmm... nude!) See Dave Ross, so obviously aroused, is leering at the little hussy who is so obviously enjoying every minute of it. (mmmm... aroused!)

Besides the (sincerely) bitchy subtext screaming: you're the slut who's got the job I could only dream of!, this shows the proprietorship listeners think they have over media people... even of their dress and even if they're off-air staff on a non-visual medium!

(Here's a talk radio topic: Does anyone under 50 pin their bra straps so they won't show? Does anyone over 50 pin their bra straps so they won't show? Are bra straps provocative? Do women who show them signal sexual availability or enthusiasm? Is it unprofessional? Was Dave Ross complicit? Does Dave encourage such offensive sexual exhibitionism with the tarts he hires? Where was Cynthia back in the days of nude radio? If Cynthia's bra strap ever showed would anyone notice, or care?)

Libby, though clearly a slut ,is also a sane young woman and writes the progression of her reaction to the letter on the Dave Ross blog:

I started to formulate a big, emotional response in which I would defend my professionalism, hard work, and respect for Dave and his show.
   Then I remembered that I have a life.
So instead I will leave you with this picture of my attire, which I think is entirely appropriate for a casual workplace (a.k.a. newsroom). Note my miffed expression at having wasted any time worrying about faceless internet slander.

And posts the full frontal pic above. (mmmm... producer full frontal)

KIRO to staff: have a nice holiday!

Bonneville suits delayed the much-predicted, and inevitable blood-bath at the Seattle cluster (KIRO, KTTH, 710ESPN) until after Memorial Day weekend.

Staffers spent a long week anticipating when or for whom the bell would toll.

The Apocalypse will occur sometime after Tuesday- the sleepless nights, the anxiety, fear and depression to be extended over the long weekend.

Bonnes vacances!

(At least one KIRO source opined to us that they held off the to “make you [Blatherwatch] look bad.” But even as self-inflated as we are, we know media corporations decisions are always made for perfectly sound business reasons). 

Great Moments in Blather: teleprompter is disastrous for obama's future

As the slow-leaking facts mount up at our feet like cherry pits, Congressional Republicans believe President Obama and his unpopular administration will face impeachment or resignation.

"This ain't going away," said Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY) " There's too much there, here."

The practice of Obama of reading every public word he utters from the reading machine (dubbed "TOTUS" by his critics) will bring him down, they believe.

With the Republicans' usual mastery of the media, they've managed to keep the issue of Obama's mysterious dependence on the teleprompter up and running for months. It's prevented him from getting anything done, and is the basis of the public's distrust and dislike for the man and his family.

Republicans are convinced that the ubiquitous machine with its glinting glass screens is hiding more than Obama's obvious difficulties communicating, and his meager abilities.

Why can't the POTUS kick this habit? Does he never have anything original or spontaneous to say? Who runs TOTUS?

The GOP has several theories: 1) he's stupid 2) he's on drugs 3) he's controlled electronically by Rahm Emmanuel who's controlled electronically by George Soros and ACORN.

As Rush Limbaugh said Monday:

So I find it interesting that among those who oppose Obama a lot of people think he couldn't be doing this on his own. There's gotta be somebody behind him, somebody writing the speeches. We know that's Axelrod. Somebody putting words in the teleprompter. We know that that's Axelrod. Somebody who may have chosen him, prepped him, groomed him, what have you, some man behind the curtain.   

Sean Hannity wondered out loud on his radio show Tuesday, "He can't improvise a core belief?"

Obama seems to be getting worse at reading from the screens. Except for some brave reporting from the respected on-line pub Newsmax, nobody is reporting this stuff.

"The fix is in with the mainstream media," says a Republican analyst, "that's why they're acting like this is just petty bullshit dreamed up in petty desperation."

The Republican teleprompter drumbeat day after day is dragging down his public opinion numbers. According to the Rasmussen, 52% of Republicans think he's not bright enough to say anything original; 24% think he's a Moslem and needs translation from the Arabic; and 31% believe he's addicted to crack.

Despite it serves as the strings of the puppetmaster, the teleprompter seems to have a mind of its own.

Rush:

And this is very strange. I mean the prompter had to know that he'd gone off prompter but the prompter didn't know what to do then because it doesn't usually happen. So the prompter got paralyzed. It just stopped. Normally, the prompter, when you go off the prompter, the prompter tries to follow along and pick up where you left off and you're going to resume, but there was a total breakdown here -- I love this prompter. You know, every now and then this prompter just shows Obama who the boss is. I just love it. "

The Republicans know they have the upper hand now, and Democrats are scared. "I feel like we're living on borrowed time," says a Congressman who wouldn't let his name be used.

With the truth about the teleprompter and its manipulators looming over Washington like a Great Blossoming Turd-storm, Republicans know that any day now, the Obama presidency will just go up in flames, and everything will go back the way it was... to, as they call it, a blessed "post 911 world."

As the slow-leaking facts mount up at our feet like cherry pits, Congressional Republicans believe President Obama and his unpopular administration will face impeachment or resignation.

"This ain't going away," said Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY) " There's too much there, here."

The practice of Obama of reading every public word he utters from the reading machine (dubbed "TOTUS" by his critics) will bring him down, they believe.

With the Republicans' usual mastery of the media, they've managed to keep the issue of Obama's mysterious dependence on the teleprompter up and running for months. It's prevented him from getting anything done, and is the basis of the public's distrust and dislike for the man and his family.

Republicans are convinced that the ubiquitous machine with its glinting glass screens is hiding more than Obama's obvious difficulties communicating, and his meager abilities.

Why can't the POTUS kick this habit? Does he never have anything original or spontaneous to say? Who runs TOTUS?

The GOP has several theories: 1) he's stupid 2) he's on drugs 3) he's controlled electronically by Rahm Emmanuel who's controlled electronically by George Soros and ACORN.

As Rush Limbaugh said Monday:

So I find it interesting that among those who oppose Obama a lot of people think he couldn't be doing this on his own. There's gotta be somebody behind him, somebody writing the speeches. We know that's Axelrod. Somebody putting words in the teleprompter. We know that that's Axelrod. Somebody who may have chosen him, prepped him, groomed him, what have you, some man behind the curtain.   

Sean Hannity wondered out loud on his radio show Tuesday, "He can't improvise a core belief?"

Obama seems to be getting worse at reading from the screens. Except for some brave reporting from the respected on-line pub Newsmax, nobody is reporting this stuff.

"The fix is in with the mainstream media," says a Republican analyst, "that's why they're acting like this is just petty bullshit dreamed up in petty desperation."

The Republican teleprompter drumbeat day after day is dragging down his public opinion numbers. According to the Rasmussen, 52% of Republicans think he's not bright enough to say anything original; 24% think he's a Moslem and needs translation from the Arabic; and 31% believe he's addicted to crack.

Despite it serves as the strings of the puppetmaster, the teleprompter seems to have a mind of its own.

Rush:

And this is very strange. I mean the prompter had to know that he'd gone off prompter but the prompter didn't know what to do then because it doesn't usually happen. So the prompter got paralyzed. It just stopped. Normally, the prompter, when you go off the prompter, the prompter tries to follow along and pick up where you left off and you're going to resume, but there was a total breakdown here -- I love this prompter. You know, every now and then this prompter just shows Obama who the boss is. I just love it. "

The Republicans know they have the upper hand now, and Democrats are scared. "I feel like we're living on borrowed time," says a Congressman who wouldn't let his name be used.

With the truth about the teleprompter and its manipulators looming over Washington like a Great Blossoming Turd-storm, Republicans know that any day now, the Obama presidency will just go up in flames, and everything will go back the way it was... to, as they call it, a blessed "post 911 world."

Glenn beck mocks malia obama

"Leave the families alone!" Glenn Beck screamed... just last week. His fauxtrage had barely got a chance to die down when today, he relentlessly mocked 11-year old Obama daughter Malia on the radio.

Public radio listeners have their limits…

KUOW pushed them today.

Weekday with Steve Scher (KUOW m-f, 9-11) had an in-studio “hootnanny” of Northwest tugboat songs replete with a banjo, dobro and guitar (or GIT-tar). 

(It was the kind of segment that gives both folk music and public radio their dubious reputations among actual human beings).

Open thread: rush rules the (chicken) roost

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has an open invitation to any Republican officeholder “on the planet, especially in this country” to come on Hardball and simply say “I’m right, Rush is wrong” on any issue of significance to them personally. 

It’s been more than a fortnight: no takers.

Besides, that Chris Matthews is a aweless, verbal firehose- doesn't that indicate that Republicans are whiny, wimpful chickenshits, led by and afraid to speak up to the indelicate, blimpful radio entertainer?

Yup.

Is alex silverman the new gregg hersholt?

Remember this guy?

In March, KIRO hired Alex Silverman as anchor/reporter. He’s been the morning anchor at Syracuse Clear Channel conservative talker WSYR for nearly a year despite he's still an undergrad at Syracuse University.

He's apparently a shot of the hot variety (not a bad thing...)

He’ll start at KIRO in June when he matriculates. Here’s his website.

He may be the only KIRO hire besides Gregg who knows where he or she will be working next month… we’re hearing that PD heavy Ken Hatch et al might let the Eastside crew dangle slowly, slowly in the wind until next week (!).

Cruel indeed, but not unusual in radio, they say.

Hersholt on crosscut: who's bitter?

Gregg Hersholt, 60, exiting KIRO Friday after 26 years is lovingly interviewed today by Crosscut’s Feliks Banel and has some interesting comments about the business and memories of where radio has been in Seattle.

Billy Bob: BASEBALL, ROCKSTAR, TAMI-PIE AND BEAUJOLAIS

 Billy Bob (whose real name is neither Billy nor Bob) worked long in the Seattle radio market wearing a suit. He says the experience heightened his sense of irony, augmented his influences, and diminished his circle of friends. He knows more than we do, but not as much as he used to.