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Desperate sex, dep't: mormon media ignores its own ethics when it comes to sports radio

After desperately casually ransacking the Internets shopping online for a product that would make our dick thick and kick-start reinvigorate our love life, we were briefly encouraged hearing the earnest lady lawyer on sports radio KIROAM promoting a product called Retoxor.

Wow! The Mormon Church, who owns the KIROs (and konservative KTTH) have long turned down ads for alcohol, the lottery, casinos, and sex-related products. So we figured that "the outer liquid capsule of Retoxor must really be "medically proven," and would definitely, no doubt "ensure a rapid and almost instant uptake of the clinical tissue-stimulating ingredients, [to go] to work widening benefits," as promised.

We could almost feel the widening benefits starting to surge. We dreamed the old dream of marching with the Terrible Swift Sword into heretofore unconquered "clinical tissues." Retoxor was, after all, "Discovered by Three Former Medical University Students."

With our implicit trust in Mormon business ethics, and having known many former medical university students, we asked ourselves? "what could go wrong?"

But before we plunked down the $153.99 for a 3 months supply, we put Retoxor into the Google machine and... OMG!

Seems quite a few needle-dicked men who did plunk down the gelt, had quite a lot to say about Retoxor: a) it didn't work; b) the company, within 24 hours, used or sold the men's personal contact information which launched an avalanche of spam and "harassing sales calls." c) despite cancelling by phone within the 30 days of the promised money-back period, the money was taken from the pencil-dicked patient's bank account with "no refund in sight." The company had to shut down an earlier version of the drug (Prolixus) because of legal entanglements from fraud complaints.

Made us wonder why Bonneville would accept this advertising. In the first place, they broke their own rule by accepting the sex-based product, thinking, apparently, they could get away with it by running these spots only on sports radio, where some of the listeners are weak, sad, and desperate men (like ourselves) who tune-in daily for sporting affirmations of their (our) masculinity.

That the product is the object of so many scam and fraud complaints is another matter- but hey, caveate emptor,  sucker- this here's free market capitalism.

Bonneville International isn't just owned by some jack Mormons, it's owned outright by the LDS Church. According to Salt Lake City Tribune reporter, Glen Warchol, this ain't the first time they've seen to be blind to their own stated principles. The Code of Deseret Media was installed in 2009 and was supposed to force a “‘reawakening to righteousness,’ and be a ‘puritanical purge’ and series of ‘reorganizations’ at the Deseret News [their flagship paper] that replaced experienced reporters and editors with younger, more light-filled, devout [and cheaper] people.”

They made a big deal of removing Sean Hannity from their mother station, KSL in Salt Lake City in deference to their Code. But they didn't touch the delusional pig, Glenn Beck, or Hannity in markets like Seattle. They did cut the mic of vile reactionary scum, Michael Savage in Seattle, but for the most part, kept the wingers that pulled the ratings.

You don't have to dig deep to uncover the hypocrisy of this religious institution, which is so often the case with institutional religions... especially the ones involved in for-profit business.

But the LDS Church, because of Mitt Romney, will soon be given the colonoscopy of a presidential campaign. They might be well-advised to pick off such low-hanging fruit as this.

Michael savage offers $1million to newt to drop out; glenn beck calls tea party newt fans racists; bugs bunny withdraws support from michelle bachmann

The war torn GOP remains just that despite Newt Gingrich has strong poll numbers. Within a prty in which the ideological base resides in talk media, the radio iside sure ain’t all lined up for Newt. Monday, Michael Savage offered Newt $1 million to drop out of the race in 72 hours to let Romney prevail by default.

You might say Michael Savage hasn't had a salacious, mendacious headline in at least a year; or you might say, he speaks for a Tennessee shitload of other conservatives across the fruited plans... From the Savage site:

Might right-wing talk have survived, if only... ?

(Dori Monson with his nemesis, "Queen Christine")

We're thinking a lot about KVI's folding its tent and turning the 'waves over next week to '60's and '70s Top 40 hits.

What went wrong with conservative talk in Seattle? 

There's a theory around town that we just might decide to subscribe to. It's that the downfall of Seattle talk radio is because the political environment is so boring.

It's so ho-hum around here, so predictably blue, the Republicans so down-trodden and blandiose, that right-winger radio talkers simply end up mirroring them.

Dino "Shrugs not Hugs" Rossi is a prime example. He turned into a baggy-faced, slightly-bored, and distant observer: The fire in his belly is suppressed by Tums.

His past opponents Governor Gregoire and Senator Murray can be described, as the cliche goes, "work horses, not show horses." Rossi, who might have qualified as the former at some point, reflected, eventually, his opponents' innate boringness. He was a clothes horse, a stalking horse, but never a race horse (to beleaguer that already beleaguered metaphor).

Neither Patty Murray nor Christine Gregoire are exactly lovable, but they're not really hate-able, either. They're simply very good, and non-nonsensical at their jobs. They're wonkish, and serious. They're counter-inspirational. They just work, and win elections. Nobody of consequence can be stirred up enough to run against them, much less build a career around ranting against.

We think of such talk radio target-rich environments like San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago with crazy-pants libs who say and do nutty stuff, and have created a generation or two of wild-eyed talkers.

Even Seattle talk radio at its apex in the '90's was pretty tame, if you think about it... KVI's Kirby Wilbur although as conservative as a shot-gun funeral was avuncular, and overly polite. John Carlson (KOMO m-f, 3-6p) who used to hang-out with William F. Buckley, has always sounded like a closer on a Christian college debate team (he's even tamer, now). Dori Monson (KIROFM m-f, 12-3p) does his deliberate, self-conscious little rants, which sound pretty angry the first you hear them, but on second or third go 'round they just sound formulaic and feigned. The late, great Bryan Suits on the late, great KVI was sarcastic and cutting, but never mad or passionate. Frank Shiers, (KIRO m-f 7-11p) the actor that he is, does outrage, but you can usually hear whoever else's schtick he's imitating (Glenn Beck, Sideshow Bob, Dori). It's hard to imagine Dave Boze, (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) actually emoting -- we've often wished we could step on his foot, just to hear what would happen.

It's sad. Of the six conservative talkers we just listed, only four are working. Wonder what radio would look like today if there had only been a few more Republicans in this town...

(Don't get us wrong: We love Seattle's monotone blue. We're liberals and we like that politicians we agree with run the state. It's part of why we live here).

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.

Michael savage: palin is 'unelectable'

“She’s not electable as president. She doesn’t have…the gravitas,” so blarted hard-right talker Michael Savage on Friday last.

A new poll shows that the fecund Ms Palin’s most avid support comes of 60-something white men who like the way she fills out a pair of jeans.

Her's is more "fan base" (fanny-base?) than political base.

Wee-ooo! let me in! michael savage still pounding on the UK’s door

The unwholesome, scurrilous but popular bag of radio wind, DOCTOR Michael Savage (KTTH m-f, 6-9p) has again been denied a reprieve from his ban from Britain.

It started in May when now former British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith included him on the list of 16 of 22 people banned from the country since October for allegedly fostering extremism or hatred.

FCC's mark lloyd: "I am not a czar appointed by president obama," but he IS rather, er... black!

FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd said last week that a "right-wing smear campaign" has been waged to mislead people about his beliefs.

"She's got ovaries and she's puerto rican..."

More civil discourse from the patriots of right-wing talk radio. 

Michael savage is exonerated... by himself!

Michael Savage, the vociferating, lemonade-into-lemons San Francisco talk host (KTTH m-f, 7-10p) is popping his buttons after his British nemesis, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced Wednesday she's resigning.

Savage is taking the credit, and as always, drinking his own bathwater.

Eating their own... michael savage: 'rush limbaugh is a fraud.'

SAVAGE: And yet here in America, I've had some people come to my aid. They see the bigger picture. They're not like O'Reilly; they're not like Limbaugh, who's the biggest disappointment of all. Limbaugh has turned out to be the biggest phony of all of them, all of them. Amongst all of them, he is the biggest fraud. Rush Limbaugh is a fraud. When he was accused of the drug usage, I supported him. But that man is a one-way street. It's all about him. He's in it for nobody but himself.