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February 20, 2005
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Al Franken reprised his role in "Trading Places" and went ape today on the Michael Medved show when he arrived at Michael's table on radio row for a brief appearance to find John O'Neill of SwiftVets fame sitting next to Medved prepared for a "debate" with Franken.
A crowd quickly gathered hoping for another RNC-Habib like outburst and, although disappointed, was treated to Franken tossing a chair and then Franken angrily denying that he tossed a chair ("it fell over when I walked away").
Franken'e eyes literally bulging out of his head. I was 3 feet free Franken and the corner of his mouth was twitching and his hands were curled up in close to a fist...
There are pictures and even video of Stuart losing it at the link above.
UPDATE: There are more pictures in
"EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Franken’s Little Fit".
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Posted in StuartSmalley
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February 15, 2005
There's enough MP3s of Mike Malloy to fill your iPod to the brim with wackiness over here. Could someone listen to the "best of" ones at the bottom of the page and let me know the wackiest things he says?
"Cell Whitman" over at DU recommends "Brother Sky Blue".
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February 12, 2005
Majority Report Comes to Aspen
Janeane Garofolo and Sam Sedar of Majority Report and Air America Radio are blogging from Aspen and the HBO US Arts Comedy Festival over at ThinkProgress.
Eric Alterman is there too...
Like other good lefties, Eric Alterman is staying in his tent 5 miles outside of town. Just kidding!
Eric is staying at the St. Regis:
The St. Regis Resort, Aspen is the perfect environment for winter skiing, summer sports and the arts. The hotel provides 179 guestrooms and suites, a heated outdoor pool, fitness center, and 20,000-square feet of function space. Plus, the new Remede Spa offers 15 treatment rooms and an exquisite menu of body treatments and massage therapy.
He's probably not opted for the Remede Spa Package: just $950 per night. Rather, he's probably opted for one of the more reasonable plans, ranging from just $575 per night to $795 per night for the Aspen Powder Package.
To the barricades and the slopes, comrades!
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Sorry, I read the title wrong: "Randi Rhodes is hinting she believes in LIHOP."
For those not in on the loop, LIHOP stands from "Let It Happen On Purpose."
laura888: I'm amazed and scared for her...
mopinko: said it outright. a caller said it, and she said, yup, i think so too...
Laurab: There was a time I would have thought all of you were loony. Not anymore. Add me to the (at least) LIHOP, believers. After a few years of *co and their evilness, I put nothing past them...
See also "Here's what Randi Rhodes isn't saying on AAR re: 9/11 and NORAD":
(This is above ground in the mainstream media: Associated Press, Toronto Star, Aviation Weekly, BBC, etc. I suspect she is trying to establish the beginning of this story without going deeper before Americans can handle it...I hope. I've sent this to both her and Al Franken.)
Posted in RandiRhodes
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February 11, 2005
I'll be shortly covering that magic live in this post starting at 10pm Pacific.
Rather than covering the wacky things they say, to save bandwith and typing I'll be concentrating on the normal things they say.
Ward Churchill to be on the show after 11pm Pacific, stay tuned truthseekers.
WC: [the attacks on me] are being coordinated... We're free to talk as long as there's no one to listen...
WC has no second thoughts on his 9/11 essay. He might have explained some things better...
MM returns to his favorite conspiracy theory
WC, slightly less loony than MM, blames our support for the Mujahideen via training, but doesn't echo MM's conspiracy theories. He does admit it's possible, but then again so does your blogger.
WC thinks it's racist to assume that brown people couldn't mount 9/11 all by themselves.
WC: "until I have concrete evidence indicating some form of conspiracy, I'll hold that in abeyance..."
WC: "I'm more concerned about what the Clinton crime family did [with sanctions] than the Bush crime family..."
MM is starting to stumble and fumble. It was probably the bit about racism and Clinton that did it...
MM is now doing his Bobbie Dooley impersonation as WC tells us what we need to do to be safe again...
WC says his professorship is safe and there's little "they" can do besides faking criminal charges against him... he says local police and federal agents have surveilled him throughout most of his adult life, so that's the best "prophylactic" against such a fake charge...
Thankfully, like me and Mike, WC has nothing better to do so he'll be back after the break...
MM - without making a "value judgment" - asks WC a question about his very anti-U.S. statements, such as wishing that the U.S. government would disappear...
WC says he's more like a bedrock conservative in a constitutional sense...
MM has gone strangely silent...
WC has changed the minds of even "rednecks" to his view point...
WC: the use of the word "fascism" is not just rhetorical, all the parts of fascism are present...
Just four more minutes of WC, after the break. Fasten your seatbelts, truthseekers...
MM: how should people educate themselves in order to avoid the slide to fascism, aside from the academic context?
WC: suggests, among other things, comic books as education tools... WC says those who organize "peace" meetings and the like should get over themselves and stop with the 15 minute recitation of rules at the beginnings of meetings: "no loud talking, no smoking, etc."
MM: thinks there will be a House or Senate resolution calling WC one of Satan's minions... what's next for WC?
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MM: Ward, it's been very... interesting talking to you... take care.
Posted in MikeWho
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February 10, 2005
With the other Air America DJs, you need to listen to a few minutes of their shows before they say something stupid or shocking.
On the other hand, Mike Malloy is the fruitiest, most densely-packed fruitcake around. I.e., take a few hundred pounds of fruitcakes and then expose them to tremendous pressure so they shrink to the size of just one mini-fruitcake that weighs a ton.
In other words, there's no empty air on the Mike Malloy show. It's like a gold mine, a black hole of nutty radio.
Tonight, he went off on the NYT article "9/11 Report Cites Many Warnings About Hijackings". Shocking, yes. However, Malloy cranked it up just a tiny notch.
Quoting Mike Malloy verbatim:
"Let me go on the record. They [i.e., Bush and his administration and/or "the Bush crime family" --LW] were complicit in the murder of 3000 people in the United States."
[later:]
"They - the Bush crime family - have committed an act of war against the United States..."
[later:]
"They wanted this to happen if they didn't engineer it to begin with."
I mean, I could go on except I'd probably be here typing for the next four hours.
On second thought, perhaps with Mike Malloy my goal should be different from that I use with the other Air America DJs. Perhaps what I should do instead is note the non-nutty things he says. But, if I did that, how would I fill this category?
UPDATE: Mark your calendars: on Friday, February 12, 2005 Malloy's special guest will be Ward Churchill...
Posted in MikeWho
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Tom Greene, alledged comedian and admitted Canadian: "[I went on a USO tour, the next day the hotel we were staying at was bombed, etc. etc...]"
Janeane: "[how did that make you feel? .... what if that had happened when you were there... ... .... .... I mean ... would it have been worth it? ... ... if you, Tom Greene, had been .... blown up.... what would it have been for?...."
Tom Greene, supposed comedian: "[... we weren't really in any danger...]... but, I understand what you mean.... I just went there to support the guys...]"
About midway through the last, Greene realized he was on "liberal" radio and gave a polite nod to Janeane's stumbling inability to articulate any reason why someone might support our efforts in Iraq.
Greene ended by suggesting that one day Janeane should go on a USO tour herself. She mumbled something quite non-commital.
Coming soon: tape recording these shows and transcripts!
Posted in Janeane
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"Franken not running for Dayton's Senate seat":
WASHINGTON - After speculation that Al Franken would run for the Senate seat Mark Dayton is leaving open, the comedian says he is not going to be a candidate.
The announcement was made just before 2 p.m. in Washington D.C. during Franken's national radio program Air America.
Franken had said last year that he wanted to run for the Senate seat held by Norm Coleman in 2008. However, after Dayton said he would not seek a second term, he told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that he was considering his candidacy for next year...
I see no upside in this announcement. He probably would have lost, and he probably would have had to give up his show, perhaps making way for Mike Malloy to move into prime time.
Posted in StuartSmalley
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February 07, 2005
Mike Malloy - Air America's forgotten and never-heard-of host - earns his own category with this bit from just minutes ago on 1150AM:
"Sometimes I wish Jesus was sitting in heaven with this God creature taking notes... what Bush, and Hitler,.. and Pinochet,... and Newt Gingrich were doing..."
"...[imitates born-again Christians talking about the Left Behind series...]"
"...The pile of dead bodies is getting high enough that the rapture is going to come and rescue [we born-agains]..."
He said some wacky things earlier but I didn't jot it down. He also treated us to a several-seconds-long maniacal laugh that made him sound like he was insane(er).
UPDATE: Whoa boy! He thinks Bush was involved in 9/11 in order to initiate fascism. He's not just one of the "Bush Knew!" types, he's certain that Bush was involved somehow.
While it's certainly possible that Bush was involved or knew about 9/11 beforehand, and it's possible that if he wasn't involved he decided to make lemonade out of lemons, it's also possible that none of that is true. Mike Who? doesn't allow for the latter possibilities.
Posted in MikeWho
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Yes, indeed. They've got a new station: Clear Channel's KTLK 1150AM Los Angeles. Here's the line-up:
The Morning Sedition: 5AM-9AM
Al Franken: 9AM-noon
Ed Schultz: noon-3PM
Randi Rhodes: 3PM-7PM
Janeane Garofalo: 7PM-10PM
Al Franken is broadcasting live from Hollywood's Magic Castle; if that continues throughout the week I might try to disguise myself as a "liberal" and see if I can get in to the show.
There's a short interview with Stuart about his triumphant return to L.A. in Reuters Canada's "Franken's Air America Bounces Back With Bush Win". It includes this disturbing news:
...Clear Channel executives have said they might double to 44 the number of their stations converting to a "progressive talk radio" format by year's end...
Local coverage is provided by Steve Young in "Liberal talk radio comes back to Los Angeles". Billboard reports here.
Ed Shultz' press release is here:
The people in Los Angeles are about to get a double-barrel of a gun-totin’, meat-eatin’ liberal... I can’t wait to give the listeners in L.A. a chance to push back against the conservative noise machine that has crowded the talk radio airwaves for too long.
Posted in Meta
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February 04, 2005
UPI's Hollywood correspondent:
Talk radio, for years regarded as something of a home field for conservative politics in America, is making more room for liberal politics with a rapid expansion of the progressive-talk format...
Details about BoreAmerica's rating "coups" in second-tier markets follows.
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