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On the positive side: ken schram has the first new liberal talk show in seattle since 2008

KOMO's shake-up last week reduced live & local programming in Seattle talk radio, but a silver liniment might be: Ken Schram got his own show (KOMO m-f, 12-3p) and conservative talker John Carlson lost half a show. 

The David Goldstein Show, the last live and local liberal talk show in Seattle was cancelled in 2008.

Schram isn't as progressive as fogeyist right-wing listeners accuse him of being, but he was too liberal for KVI: they had to take The Commentators back to KOMO because conservative talk listeners can stand nothing but what-they-want-to-hear-radio.

The incredible shrinking seattle talk radio... or ... why we don’t have much to write about any more

Conservative talk radio was invented in Seattle, now it’s as endangered as the wild Puget Sound salmon. and let’s face it, save Dave Ross, there ain’t no local liberal talk.

With the KVI’s elimination of Kirby Wilbur, another block of local airtime went to out-of-town, out-of-touch, syndicated blabbermeisters- sending a butt-load of ad $ somewhere else.

Rush to rev. ken hutcherson: "I love you."

I'm lovingly aggressive [with The Gay] the same I'd be for a murderer or an adulterer. I give 'em the love of God. If they reject it, I give them the discipline of God. ~~ Rev. Ken Hutcherson

Having a black friend really works for Rush Limbaugh so he takes Rev. Ken Hutcherson’s calls.

War on Xmas: is the nightmare over?

Kirby Wilbur said it Friday: if there were no holiday displays in the capitol building, "it would be better than the mess we've got down there."

Our sediments exactly!

The atheists may have won one for once. The strategy behind their controversial sign was that no holiday messages and displays should be posted where the state does its secular business.

The war on xmas rages on: 'the offensive odor to the armpit.'

"You have led the State of Washington to be the armpit of America. And I'm afraid that our governor is the one adding the offensive odor to the armpit," Rev. Ken "Hutch" Hutcherson told reporters,

Today's noisy non-event in Olympia protesting free speech, produced a couple hundred Christians, and three ironic counter-protesters holding up signs that said, "Get Over It."

War on Xmas: stolen atheist sign shows up at KMPS; rev. ken hutcherson is on the way!

The atheist sign stolen from the Capitol rotunda this morning turned up a few hours later at country music station KMPS.

According to the Seattle Times, a KMPS employee said the sign was turned in at 10a by someone who didn't say where they'd gotten it. The person only said to give the sign to KMPS host Ichabod Caine.

Showdown: Rev. Ken Hutcherson & Goldy on the Dave Ross Show

David Goldstein is not gay and never has been gay... yet he self-describes as a weak, soft man; and a liberal Jew to boot.

Nonetheless, he'll go mano a mano with "Dr. Blackman," AKA Rev. Ken Hutcherson, who, at 280 lbs. and 6'4" is the biggest, baddest-ass, Christian homophobe in the valley.

He self describes has a strong, hard man; and Christian to a fault.

Lucky for Goldy, it''ll be by phone; at 9a on KIRO, Tuesday.

UPDATED: Godtalkers: do you know who rabbi daniel lapin is?

Godtalk Update: after Rabbi Lapin discussed Berkeley's actively discouragement of  Marine recruiting, a listener writes: "This is a Godtalk topic?!?" Later Lapin managed to get into the religious conversation: "I don't like the BBC, I don't like PBS, and I don't like NPR... they shouldn't exist."
    Another listener comment forwarded this to us: "Please, please PLEASE, get Rabbi Daniel Lapin OFF THE AIR!!! You are insulting every minute Bernie spent on the air. I have been a faithful listener for years, but no more until Rabbi Lapin is history. He gives us nothing to contemplate, but much to hold in contempt. While Bernie spoke to the best in all of us, the Rabbi makes even the pacifist want to consider mayhem. He is narrow-minded, condescending, self-absorbed, and about as deep as one layer of vaneer. As Bernie would say, "He parked his brain at the door and picked up his Crayolas." The loyal God Talk audience deserves FAR BETTER. If you keep him, you would do well to  rename the program "God Forbid Talk."
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Godtalk, Bernie Ward's interfaith dialogue is too popular to cancel at San Francisco's KGO (Sundays, 6-9a). But what would he say if he could comment on how his show is being shepherded over by one of the most virulent clergymen in the American religious right?

For three weeks now, former KSFO right-wing talker, Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Seattle has hosted the weekly, liberal, one-world exchange of views that often range far afield from those of the Judeo-Christian practitioners whom Lapin's always championed as the sort of "Master Race" of religionists.

Rev. Ken Hutcherson on the medved show

(photo: Rev. Ken Hutcherson with (state's) rights activist, Gov.George Wallace)

In America, if a man puts something into another man, it had better be a bullet. ~Bill Maher

Rev. Ken Hutcherson on the Michael Medved Show (KTTH m-f 12-3p) said Tuesday that the Rabbi Daniel Lapin told him to fear not, the Hebrew language has no word for tolerance- that things therefore, were either right or wrong, bad or good. In other words, tolerance is not biblical.

(We're not that good on the Bible, but we didn't need a rabbinical scholar to tell us how intolerant the Rab and Rev are).

Hutcherson, a black, evangelical megachurch pastor who's fundraising schtick is fag-baiting and threatening guilt-ridden white corporations, slaked his mighty thirst for self-promotion once more.