The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney

09 March 2006

WABC, Curtis Sliwa, Ron Kuby, Phoenix, London

HOW LONG?

Sliwa vs. Kuby, Kook George Galloway, Save Air America!





After talk radio's weirdest-ever real life drama played out this week in a New York courtroom, a big question emerges: without killing each other, how long can WABC's Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby really expect to work together?

After testifying on opposite sides of the John "Junior" Gotti racketeering conspiracy trial, the "Curtis and Kuby" morning drive co-hosts are headed for rough waters.

While the conservative Sliwa founded the Guardian Angels, liberal Kuby is a longtime criminal defense attorney.

From the New York Post's Bill Sanderson:


Curtis Sliwa sounded even-tempered yesterday talking about radio co-host Ron Kuby's testimony for John "Junior" Gotti's defense - but he said later it was all for show.

The Guardian Angels founder and co-host of the WABC Radio morning talk show "Curtis and Kuby" says he will never get over Kuby's testimony, which might help Gotti beat charges that include orchestrating Sliwa's kidnapping and shooting in 1992.

"Our friendship is over," Sliwa said of Kuby in an interview with The Post.

"We never socialized, but you have to be friends five hours a day when you're discussing all kinds of situations from A to Z . . . That's over. I just have to maintain a professional outlook."

Sliwa said he strove to be "cool, calm and collected" during his air time with Kuby.

"That was the only way I could get through the next five hours," he said.

"You can't be so angry that you reach over, take his pony tail, wrap it around his throat and choke the hell out of him," Sliwa said.


Who can blame Sliwa? He was nearly killed by the very mobsters Kuby wants to protect.

More coverage from the New York Daily News, which calls Kuby a "civil rights lawyer" and the New York Times here.

Will ratings go through the roof, as listeners take bets on which day these two will come to blows?


In a move only Cindy Sheehan and crackpot Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) could love, fringe lunatic MP George Galloway has been given his own radio talk show!

From All Access:

UK Pol Galloway Gets Show On TalkSPORT

Controversial UK politician GEORGE GALLOWAY joins TALKSPORT/LONDON to host a weekend evening show for 8-10p SATURDAY and SUNDAY nights, starting MARCH 11, according to UTV. GALLOWAY, who recently appeared on "CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER," is known for his vehement support of the Muslim community and anti-American, anti-ISRAEL comments; he was expelled from the LABOUR PARTY in 2003 and won a seat in Parliament for the BETHNAL GREEN and BOW area of LONDON under the RESPECT PARTY banner.


Buy a pixel, save Air America!


With alerts from amused readers and other bloggers, the Radio Equalizer's in-box has been filled regarding a fundraising effort to get the liberal radio network back on the air in Phoenix.

Here are the donation levels:

Pixels - Cost - Package

100 - $100 - Truth Teller
300 - $300 - Freedom Fighter
500 - $500 - Liberty Lover
1,000 - $1,000 - Patriot
5,000 - $5,000 - Pioneer


From their site:


If you are interested in providing other types of financial assistance: loans, loan guarantees, etc. please contact Jeff Farias directly at (602) 577-3837.


Jeff, just a thought: have you tried any of the area Boys and Girls Clubs?


Thanks for your continued and vital Radio Equalizer support, via Amazon orders that begin with clicks here, regardless of what you ultimately order! Because this investigative work is taking an increasing amount of our time, it's needed more than ever.

Galloway image: The Londonist

published by Brian Maloney at 11:25

11 Comments:

  • Curtis and Kuby ain't breaking up; Sliwa was just riffing some schtick that any regular listener would recognize and realize that's all it was. Every Friday Kuby does shout outs to his clients in various lockups around the listening area and Curtis always mutters "disgrazzia!" and hammer Kuby for representing the scum of society.

    The whole point of the pairing is that they are about as far apart politically as any on air duo could ever be. Phil Boyce would yank the entire show off the air and replace it with something else before he'd ever consider breaking the pair up.

    By Blogger Unknown, at 09 March, 2006 14:03  

  • It was true, wasn't it?

    alQeda and AAR are roughly the same in that they both want to tear down the United Stated of America.

    By Blogger tradersmith, at 09 March, 2006 14:14  

  • robert, hilarious. Who voted Bush the worst on all those items? If it weren't for the tax cuts, this country would have been in deep doodoo after 9-11, a terrorist attack (thought you might need some reminding).

    Even I have taken advantage of the tax cuts. My money has more than paid for the loss of revenues to the federal trough.

    Of your list, only three of your comments are debatable. Debatable, but barely.

    You know, I have several friends that were against the war, just because. I can respect them.

    But, I can't respect those new to the party who got their gumption to protest after swigging a gallon of KoolAid given to them by John Kerry, Micahael Moore, Al Frankenstein, Randi Roadkill, and others.

    So, what is it with you?

    By Blogger tradersmith, at 09 March, 2006 16:55  

  • Uh, Phil M:

    Bill Clinton had THREE chances to get Bin Laden--he didn't--three strikes you're out and 3,000 or so innocent lives are killed!

    TC Lynch, you're right on Curtis and Kuby--dramatics and semantics or not, this is something that happened to Sliwa over a decade ago at the hands of Gotti who thankfully is burning in h-e-double-hockey sticks!

    The actions by the mafia--a disgrace to American-Italians like myself--to try and shut him up would be akin to a radical leftist finding out where Michael Savage lives in San Fran. and posting it in some chatroom threatening his life.

    Look I listen to C&K and find Kuby irritating as he is a liberal--they are the Odd Couple of NYC Radio (insert Neil Simon joke here!).

    And guess what, those on the left HATE AMERICA so much that they would rather kiss the toejammed feet of Bin Laden, Castro, Chavez, or Hussein. These ultra left radicals, many you'll find on college campi, do not want to see America survive!

    By Blogger The Real Bob Anthony, at 09 March, 2006 17:16  

  • Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen -

    This isn't a blog to post general arguments for and against George Bush or for and against any specific political party.

    We have plenty of other things to sling around on the radio front. Politics are fair game only if there's a radio angle in some way shape or form.

    Everybody agree? Of course, since Mr. Maloney owns the joint, the final decision is his.....but....

    Please take your fight outside.

    Dick Tuck -

    Your story is very interesting and on point since it has a pretty potent radio angle... (Did you ever think we'd agree on something?)

    I'm interested... please keep us posted. I think that her charge is going to be hard to prove, given that she was only an employee for 3 weeks....

    By Blogger Lokki, at 09 March, 2006 18:12  

  • Well, Phil,

    War In Afghanistan - OKAY
    Precenting Any More Attacks on American Soil - SWEET
    Tax Reform - NOT BAD
    Unemployment - PRETTY NICE
    The Economy - SURPRISINGLY GOOD, CONSIDERING THE WAR AND WE DON'T HAVE A RETARDED CLINTON-ERA DOTCOM BUBBLE TO ARTIFICALLY INFLATE THINGS VIA IRRATIONAL EXHUBERANCE

    By Blogger Fatmouse, at 09 March, 2006 18:16  

  • "There's a GOP administration and a GOP-controlled Congress and yet AMAZINGLY all of these failures are not their fault."

    The republicans worked _with_ Clinton many times. I'm trying to think of an issue where the democrats weren't either outright obstructionist or at least pretended to be (such as with the patriot act, which they wailed and moaned about before overwhelmingly voting for it).

    "YOU WINGNUTS HATE AMERICA "

    We like it quite a bit - far more than any other country we know of. We just think it needs some improvements.

    By Blogger Fatmouse, at 09 March, 2006 18:20  

  • A couple of points from Mr. Goldberg's missive:

    1. AIR AMERICA RADIO is much stronger today that it was one year ago or six months ago

    Six months ago, AAR was in 16 of the top 20 markets. Today, that number number is down to 14 (and will soon be down to 12).

    3. AIR AMERICA’s ratings in NEW YORK went up substantially in the FALL 2005 book.

    AAR went from a 1.2 to a 1.4 in the last book. Problem is, they had already been at a 1.4 back in the Summer 04 book, so all they were doing is regaining ground they had previously lost.

    Overall, AIR AMERICA’s weekly audience as measured by ARBITRON has more than doubled from what it was one year ago.

    The difference between the 12+ ratings for Fall2004 and Fall2005 (he did say "audience", not "audience in money demo") is only an increase of 29%. Losing Philly & Phoenix obliterates that growth.

    Even worse, as the Winter05 Ratings start to trickle in, Total AAR ratings are down about 5%.

    By Blogger BF, at 10 March, 2006 09:08  

  • One advantage of a Galloway radio show is that we won't have to see him..

    By Blogger James Jones, at 10 March, 2006 12:38  

  • The DOTCOM bust was Clinton's fault too!

    Maybe not (though you'd have an argument that monkeying w/ the capital gains tax led to some selloffs.)

    For the sake of argument, let's stipulate that the DOTCOM bubble bursting was NOT Clinton's "fault". But if that's the case, then you can't credit him for the front side of the "bubble" either. So all of the "20 million new jobs" and "longest peacetime growth" we heard for those 8 years are hogwash. Again, if you stipulate that Clinton had nothing to do w/ the bubble.

    By Blogger BF, at 10 March, 2006 16:51  

  • Fill, he could have fired day trader Rubin, who I blame for the stock market crash. I lost several hundred thousand, thanks to trader Rubin.

    By Blogger tradersmith, at 10 March, 2006 18:23  

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