Friday Updates

Dominating The Discussion

Plus, Franken vs. Horowitz, Earle's Strange Play



--- A radio industry chat site has banned all further Radio Equalizer discussions. Apparently we were dominating their News-Talk board:


(moderator) I'm gonna put the kabosh on the radioequalizer's blog being the center of the posts here. We are not here to discuss what HE says in his blog. It is getting old...


--- Check back later today (Friday) for an announcement on where you'll be able to see Michelle Malkin and I updating the Air America scandal's latest.


--- Extremist Seattle talk host Mike Webb, who previously said President Bush deserved to be executed, is now threatening liberal bloggers who expose his hypocritical actions:


But when we kid the liberal, we get threats and the f-bomb. We're embarrassed by him. We kid, but this isn't the first time Webb's come after us.

Back in 2003, after we wrote a talk radio piece for a local magazine that didn't give him enough ink (he thought the song was about him), he wrote: "F--- You. Don't come near me. That would be regretful."

Then he tried to murder us with the publisher, the editor, and threatened to report us for harassment to our Internet provider. Recently, he wrote: "So, please, just leave me the f--- alone and have fun on your little 'website.' Let me be clear: the next email from you will be considered harassment."

(We've seen his show's "cumes" and we can assure you, our "little website" has more readers on a Sunday than he does his little talk show 'most any day. We kid Mike Webb, but his ratings are lower than Mike Siegel's).

(From Blatherwatch, language editing mine)


--- Air America host Steve Earle (you didn't know he was in their lineup?) has produced an odd off-Broadway play on the life of murderer Karla Faye Tucker. Run, don't walk, to get your tickets to this certain audience pleaser.


--- A Microsoft exec confuses Boston talk host Howie Carr with Harvard's Nicolas Carr. How to tell them apart: one's obsessed with finding Whitey Bulger, while the other is fixated on whatever it is they're pondering these days over lattes in Harvard Square.


--- Robert Novak was the odd-man-out at an Aspen Bash-Bush-Bash sponsored by a major radio station owner.


--- Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, will host both Al Franken and David Horowitz within days of each other. Why not at the same time?


--- Seattle's KIRO-AM, my former employer, has fired liberal 9am-noon host Alan Prell after lackluster ratings. Some say it's the start of major changes to come. KIRO's hard-left turn last year has been a disaster of Arbitronian proportions, I'm told Rush Limbaugh may move into the slot, in a last-ditch effort to save once-proud KIRO from extinction.


--- The Washington Post has an update on fired WMAL talk host Michael Graham.


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