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Willy cunningham to do talk radio from 'speaker boehner's' office

Willy Cunningham (KVI Sundays 7-10p) is one of the most truculent, vile, right-wing talk hosts in America. 

He's telling listeners he'll do election night radio from "... the portico of the Speaker of the House’s office in the U.S. Capitol. I’ve been invited there by the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, and I’ll be the only radio talk show host in the speaker’s office, doing my show from the portico overlooking the Washington Monument,” Cunningham said. “And I’m going to do it.”

‘Mouthing off’ survived the KVI purge

We’re happy to report that the fledgling, Mouthing Off,(KVI 6-7p Sundays) has survived to blab another day…

Seattle veteran talk host, Kirby Wilbur was fired after 16 years at KVI and ignominiously led out the back door last week with his stuff in a cardboard box.

The little show with KVI producers Dave Carson, and Kevin Dodrill is masculine, libertarian, off-beat, and funny. It is, however, but a hopeful glimmer in what appears to be the sunsetting of KVI and Seattle local programming.

Radio execs: "We got fat and happy.”

What's happened to radio?

That question consumed the radio suits- the CEO's, the consultants, the media media- gathering in Philadelphia this week.

They were (slightly) less self-congratulatory than usual. As they should be, with their industry in revenue free-fall with no bottom in sight.

Another sign the end is near... KVI junks 'cop talk radio'

Effective immediately- if you were listening last week, you heard the last show.

We speak sadly of KVI's Cop Talk Radio (Saturdays 6-7p), another victim of media hard times in general, and KVI's problems in particular.

A peek into the obama-care future: a grim, horrifying, stupid world

Our patented Lens of Blather is an instrument which allows us to see into the fearful future as predicted by talk radio.

Willy cunningham: a two-legged, small-peckered, tiny-minded, foul-smelling reason why right-wing talk radio is doomed

Syndicated Christian talker and values huckster Willy Cunningham (KVI Sundays, 7-10p) said on Cincinnati local radio Tuesday of Barack Obama's childhood: "Imagine at the age of 1 or 2 seeing your father for the last time. See, his father was a typical black father who, right after the birth, left the baby. That's what black fathers do. They simply leave."

It's getting desperate. The electoral paths to victory for Olde John McCain are fewer and fewer: nothing that his campaign has thrown at Obama has stuck, so it's left to the talk radio slop-trough creepy-crawlers like Cunningham.

(With surrogates like Cunningham, is it any wonder Republicans rarely convince black voters -- or brown, for that matter -- to vote for Republicans?)

McCain was once an honorable man. KVI was once an honorable station, why do either one of these entities put up with him? This is certainly not the first time we've heard such inciteful rhetoric from this guy.

The shit machine: talk radio's case against barack obama

Joe Gandelman is the editor at The Moderate Voice, a wry and respected independent political blog. Last week he drove up the California coast where the radio choices are none but right-wing talk.

He writes: "... unless you’re a Republican partisan, this week conservative talk radio seemed infiltrated by Democratic Party moles doing caricatured, extremist off-the-wall broadcasts guaranteed to convince independent voters listening in to vote for Democrats." You think the rhetoric, verbal extremism and unbottled rage displayed at Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s recent rallies is something?"

Can talk radio save john mccain?

Nope.

But it's not for the want of trying... On the AM bands today, Barack Obama was a flesh-eating, vampire-socialist: "Bill Ayres, Bill Ayres, Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright."

Monday was about The Manchurian Candidate/Terrorist Edition, a frenetic hope by McCain to turn the page on the sinking economy, an unfolding Katrina for which McCain has no coherent plan.

Dave Boze (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) bemoaned the "creepy" Obama "cult-like" following.

"Push back the liberal whores!"  squeaked Mark LeVIN (KVI m-f, 6-8p).

Friday oddems: returning to obscurity; hemorrhoidal FCC tool; wiki quickie with rachel marsden; sex out of the box; nancy-frigging-grace; humble-frigging-dori; a latvian, two filipinos, and a truckdriver

 ~~ "Returning to obscurity" is how David Goldstein framed his future after a good run filling-in for Dave Ross (KIRO m-f, 9a-12p). We asked in a post, last week: "How's Goldy doing? hoping to get some feedback on the local, novice, liberal blabbermouth's radio performance. Of course, we got an earful. But there's some good advice there, once you get by the Goldy-haters. Does up-and-comer David have a chance in a local talk market that's shrinking before our very eyes? Probably not, unless, of course, he's willing to do celebrity astrology, and forsake his trademark wonk for awesomeness.

~~Speaking of Too Beautiful to Live, (KIRO m-f, 7-10p) Gay Gary says he's finally loving the new show since the sexual tension has been ratcheted up, "like," he says, "A LOT!" He noticed it when Jen producer was out sick and Sean and Luke were left alone. "... Luke was going into the control room with Sean where he was planning on doing the show the rest of the night. 'It's boys night tonight!' he gleefully announced. (OMG!) He then had Sean inspect a skin rash he'd developed. (OMG - x2!!!) What will happen next?! I don't know but it's like a radio soap opera you guys! I'm just hoping the prudes at the FCC don't make them move the show to Sirius or XM now that things are heating up." Gay sexual tension on talk radio? Gotta agree with Gary: that's thinking out of the box... (photo: Sean)