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Odds and Ends, Sytman stays in the Establishment WorkFirst! Job Club. Portland's Taft finds out how the Free Market works

You remember Dan Sytman, the former host of the ill-fated or just ill Sytman and Boze show on KTTH who later found a gubmint job with Rob Mc Kenna as Media Relations Manager at the Attorney General's office? Also one-time producer for the 2 Mike's,  Medved and Siegel.

Now that electing a gubernatorial candidate, who was more likely to call the cops on your loud party is out of favor (Ken Eikenberry was the other one) Dan needs a job.  He moves on to the Washington Policy Center as director of communications and marketing, joining other Dan's like Evans in the establishment WorkFirst! job placement center.

  Speaking of Boze, he has moved on to 4 freaking hours! starting at 5am, possibly preempting the last hour of the Washington Times sponsored "America's Morning Snooze".

Meanwhile down south, Portland's KPAM 860 has fired 8 year weekday host, Victoria Taft. 

 

scary lady alert!

 

 

 

Taft, whose show was the female version of another Portland Righty, Lars Larson,  claims she was given no reason for her departure other than a speculative claim that was tied to a blogpost.  The Invisible hand of Adam Smith would disagree. Taft's show goes online somewhere on the Intertubes.

This open thread is constitutional!

from Huffington Post:

Not all Republican state lawmakers took such a hardline against the ACA’s implementation. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Utah Gov. Gary Herbert plans to follow federal health care mandates for the time being, while refusing “to do something that is going to bust our budget” in the future.

Former Office of Management and Budget director and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who plans to step down at the end of his term, took what on the surface seems a more moderate approach. Daniels said he would leave the decision on a possible Medicaid expansion to future state legislators.

Some GOP lawmakers have expressed their view that compliance with some key aspects of the health care law is a way to ensure at least some state control over the process. As CBS News reports, Republican Colorado state legislator Bob Gardner argued that by moving forward on the creation of insurance exchanges “Colorado did the right thing by having a mechanism to do its best to impose a Colorado solution.”

In a similar statement, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder expressed his belief that “working with our legislative leaders to establish the MiHealth Marketplace will allow Michiganders to make decisions regarding what will be covered as opposed to Washington, D.C., making those decisions for us.”

Washington AG and Republican Gubanatorial candidate Rob McKenna announced in a speech this week that it was not a good idea for Republicans to pour a lot of time and money into trying to get the law overturned. "McKenna notified media across the state that he would be speaking about the US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of the Affordable Care Act. McKenna was one of 26 state attorneys general who sued to block the Affordable Care Act. But when Stranger reporter ( and close personal friend to Blatherwatch) David “Goldy” Goldstein arrived for the press conference at McKenna’s downtown Seattle offices, a guard was waiting for him. Cameramen, radio people, and   reporters were granted free entry. Goldy was prevented from entering. "They are physically blocking me from entering," Goldy said by phone to The Stranger, seven minutes before the 11:30 a.m. press conference was scheduled to begin. A spokesman for McKenna, Dan Sytman, had told Goldy a few minutes before that Goldy wasn’t a journalist and then blocked him from entering. A McKenna staffer had also grabbed Goldy by the shoulders and turned him away from the door. "More about that here.

On the March 26th episode of The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly told American Constitution Society president Caroline Fredrickson that she was "going to lose" her argument that the individual mandate was a constitutionally-sound tax and "does not require people to buy health insurance."  At the end of the segment, O'Reilly vowed to replay the interview and "apologize for being an idiot" if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of upholding the mandate.

Bill, we are still waiting :)

Where are they now? dan sytman

We're embarrassed we didn't find out about this sooner. Remember Dan Sytman, "Producer of the Mike's" (Siegel and Medved) and talent on KTTH 's ill-fated Sytman & Boze?

Last September Sytman was hired as Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna's Media Relations Manager.

Dan was nicer in person than he was on the radio: we liked him.

Congratulations, Dan -- glad to see you in some honorable work in the public sector...

Dori: a tool in dino's box

Dori Monson, popped his buttons for a couple of hours Friday about ads Governor Christine Gregoire has mounted against her sneaky opponent Dino Rossi attacking his stance against embryonic stem cell reserach .

Dori (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) is a not so stealthy surrogate for Rossi.

Although Rossi claims he supports stem cell research, he really doesn't: there's some fine print he and his campaign strains to hide from voters. (And that's but one of his deeply held panderings to the religious right base who've held the state GOP hostage, and rendered them impotent statewide for decades).

Dave Ross: will dino rossi ambush me... PLEASE?!

Last week Dori Monson was ambushed by Governor Gregoire that is, called him without prearrangement -- and he's been bragging/complaining ever since.

We loved the whole exchange, it was great radio, and wrote almost lovingly about Dori for once. (It showed that despite he has a girl's name, he is The King Of Seattle Talk Radio)

We realized that one of the things that bugs us about local talk radio now that it's been dry-cleaned, pressed and all the local weirdos removed, is the absence of the unexpected. With just Dori, Dave, The Commentators, Ron and "I would Be" Don, there's none (save maybe Kirby of KVI) of the pure, local, slightly strange, one-of-a-kind hosts that promote (not always intentionally) that tension of the unexpected and take you occasionally by surprise.

(That's some of why we're hooked on Too Beautiful to Live (KIRO m-f, 7-10p -- it's feeling that anything -- though perhaps trivial -- can happen at any time).

Is there life after seattle talk radio?

Where do you go after you're fired from talk radio job in Seattle? 

The answer, apparently, is Port Orchard if you want to stay anywhere near the Seattle market.

Those regularly scheduled Seattle newstalk spots are coveted ... seems you gotta leave town or get a gig selling cars.

It's the dilemma faced by the recently fired Bryan Suits, and Dan Sytman but also faced by such as Allan Prell, Mike Webb, Mike Siegel, New York Vinnie, Erin Hart, Lou Pate, Fred Ebert, Peter Weissbach, Brian Maloney, and Bryan Styble.

Thanksgiving week oddems: islamo-fascist gravy; turkey leg apostasies, heretical airport stuffing, bear sausages of doom, larry nelson on the ropes; the faloofah in afghanistan, the modern toilet; dori monson's weird giblets

~ Larry Nelson, longtime KOMO radio morning man has stage 4 lung cancer. Terminal, and inoperable, says his wife Gina. Stan Orchard has made a Larry website to honor him. Take a gander, and add your best wishes to the impressive and growing list of admirers and old friends who have written. There are pics, airchecks and lots of memories flying around- go up there at once.

~ We like Dave Boze's new show (KTTH m-f, 3-6p). He had the capable help of mentor and local ultra-conservative poohbah, Michael Medved (KTTH m-f, 12-3p) with whom he's used to yucking it up and mocking Seattle. We particularly enjoyed the talk about his homemade bear sausage, and BlatherWatch fully expects some in our KTTH goody-bag this year. If Boze can quit saying Dan Sytman's name (as in "This is Sytman & Boze on KTTH...") we think this show has a pretty good chance of grabbing not only Bryan Suits' old (and we mean old) listeners (after all there were more than a hundred). He could also  grab some who've been listening to the idiotic Ron & Don (KIRO m-f, 3-6p) out of pure resignation. We're about to see a real afternoon battle for conservative hearts & minds. We read what commenters write, it's obvious there's a rightie backlash to Ken Schram- his place, even balanced by Carlson is off-putting to many veteran KVI listeners. As that Zogby poll revealed last week, conservatives don't like to hear the other side.

~ "discussions of discussions" are going on, according to sources, on another place for Dan Sytman on KTTH. We'd approve of anyone getting a live and local show in this market- even Dan Sytman.

The David Boze Show starts today

The David Boze Show premiers today at 3p on KTTH. We'll definitely be giving it a listen.

KOMO's Dennis Kelly and other are asking: IIs this sudden programing development a reaction to last week's firing of Bryan Suits and movement of The Commentators to afternoon drive.

Dave has been up and coming for a while. He was a winner in what's being called the being called The Season of the Witch: Seattle newstalk lost two well-established local talk hosts in one week, and another well-known talker bit the dust.

Bryan Suits was fired from "Thee Talk Station," KVI; Dan Sytman was canned from "The Truth," KTTH. The Mark Fuhrman Show on KGA in Spokane was dropped Thursday. 

Boze was the Dumb half of Dumb & Meaner, BlatherWatch's not-so-sober sobriquet for the late Sytman & Boze Show, early mornings on KTTH until last Friday. They were replaced by syndicated jerk, Glenn Beck.

Dan Sytman 2005-2007 R.I.P.

Effective immediately, KTTH weekdaily morning show, Sytman & Boze has been dropped and Glenn Beck will be inserted live into the 6-9a slot.

A note on Dan Sytman's website says:

Being the ridiculously blessed person that I am, I have a little extra time off this November. I hope to talk with you soon. In the meantime I'll leave you with my favorite quote from President Ronald Reagan: Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."

David Boze will host his own drive-time show from 3-6p. Brilliantly, it's to be called, The David Boze Show.

"We’ve been very impressed with David’s performance and with Glenn Beck’s show," Said Program Director Rod Arquette in a statement, "This change allows us to air the Beck show live in morning drive and provide live, local, conservative talk with David in the afternoon. David has the ability to really connect with his listeners and brings a unique perspective to some of the more compelling local and national issues.

Another casualty of the Holiday massacre is Teresa Joy, the snide early morning newsreader.

Sytman was a longtime producer for the Michael Medved Show, and had a weekend show on KTTH before doing the team-up with Boze in 2005 replacing Mike Siegel.

Angry seahawks fans cause radio topic

Seattle's No. 1 talk host Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) and Sytman & Boze (KTTH m-f,5-9a) told listeners Thursday the "far left haters" who dominate Seattle were making themselves and all of us look bad.

(Wow, we thought, that sounds terrible! Then we wondered why- if Dori is Seattle's No.1 talk host- does he hate Seattle so much?).

Seems when President Bush came to Bellevue for his fat cat/big bucks shakedown for the endangered Rep. Dave Reichert last week, Seahawks Matt Hasselbeck and Mack Strong presented the No.1 Lovable Fuck-up with Hawk jersey No.43 in a touching opportunity of the photographic kind.