SHOCK JOCKS on radio, no matter the country, will do anything to get attention, which was proved in an interview with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard this past week. Howard Stettler verbally assaulted Julia Gillard with questions about whether her live-in partner was gay, because he’s a hairdresser. This sorry audio spectacle came at the [...]
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Alec Baldwin, the New Tom Snyder of NBC Late Night?
After that move was announced, speculation immediately began about who might succeed Mr. Fallon at the “Late Night’ show. Now the mutual interest between Mr. Baldwin and NBC about opening a late-night spot for the actor could result in three new late-night hosts for NBC. – Bill Carter THAT’S THE reporting from the New York [...]
Ann Romey: Quit Beating Up on My Husband
IN AN interview in Iowa, Ann Romney turned her ire against her husband’s critics. “Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring,” she said. “This is hard and, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for [...]
A Personal Note
I met my husband Mark ten years ago today. When you do the work I’ve done over my life having a solid relationship is at best difficult, in reality impossible. Then I met him. I’d just moved to Las Vegas to launch my radio show under what we all knew were impossible odds. It was [...]
Listening to Men on Easter
“The problem is you’re sober.” – The Lives of Cowboys, Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keiller “I don’t consider Andrew Sullivan to be a religious authority, okay?” – Rick Warren, ABC “This Week” I love the boys, but I’m tired of hearing them preach. Why do we care what Rick Warren thinks? Not to pick [...]
Squealing Partisans
It’s as if Democratic and Republican partisans think our country is made of feathers. What’s most important has been left largely unexamined: if one of these candidates actually becomes president and advances his or her policies, what would be the consequences for the nation? – What If Obama Loses? Every election season we hear about [...]
Talking Women, Health Care and Civil Rights with Rosie O’Donnell
updated Rosie read “In Pelosi’s House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out” over at Huffington Post, enjoying it very much, which was the jumping off point for the interview with Rosie on health care. As an aside, Wednesday, December 2nd, is going to be a lobby and national action day in D.C. on the issue of [...]
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Election Tuesday Eve: Palin Hits VA with Ralph Reed
updated Tom Davis, a former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, said he still believes the race is a tossup but also expected Scozzafava supporters to swing toward Owens. “This is not a Sarah Palin district, and they tried to make it that way. In a three-way race, you could have gotten 35 to 40 percent [...]
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Rush ‘Crashed and Burned’
–updated– … [...] This is just an attack on all of us who are conservatives. Look, they’re scared. Conservatism is in ascendancy. Conservatism is rising. Conservatism is growing. Obama’s in trouble, folks. You can’t take the politics out of me in this, ’cause it’s not about the National Football League. It’s just the latest vehicle [...]
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Republican Male Angst Over Sarah
This was revealed after the Palin – Newt shuffle orchestrated through the incompetence of NRSC Chairman Sen. John Cornyn reached critical mass, when he couldn’t even navigate the complexities of booking a single speaker to last night’s big GOP fundraising event. The day after, pick your headlines. From Politico: Sarah Palin makes little splash at [...]
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Radio Host on Waterboarding: ‘Way worse than I thought it would be’
“Justlen” already put this “In the News.” Don’t try this at home, folks. Mancow wanted to find out if waterboarding is torture. He learned the hard way. “It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke,” Mancow said, likening it to a time when he nearly drowned as a child. [...]
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‘TM-DC’ Launches
I’ve gotten a lot of emails on when in I’m going to start doing podcasts again. Well, we’ve begun and we’ll be tweaking things as we go; some things still in the working out stages, which happens when you have new equipment, etc. “TM-DC” is the new name. The first podcast is going out as [...]
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Specter: ‘This is a painful decision…’
“The (Republican) party has shifted pretty far to the right.” – Arlen Specter” Specter says his stimulus vote was the tipping point to his decision to change parties, but listening to his smackdown on the Club for Growth it’s clear that the efforts to “purify the party” is not just political business to Specter, it’s [...]
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TM-DC, Testing
The video contains just one of the subjects I cover in the first TEST installment of TM-DC, my first podcasts since landing in Washington, D.C. Call it a dress rehearsal, but what the hell. Thought I’d share them anyway. New equipment set up that I’m just getting used to, quick trigger buttons, but it’s fun [...]
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A Word About the Blog
Now that I’m finally settled in D.C., I’d like to talk about what’s going on around here, which actually started after the primaries last year. Big changes, good changes, with more to come. There has been a change in the community, too, and that’s not over either. First, I made a risky decision to focus [...]
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