As per Max 910, I finally got around sent a fairly bitter email to Portland’s Entercom General Manager saying a bunch of things, but mainly that I have ceased to listen to all Entercom Radio stations, and that I hope Charlie FM proves to be a spectacular failure. I received a cordial enough response, thanking me for my passion and such. (More vigourous and more … um… hard-core acts by others who care just a whiff more than I can be found at blogs and message boards previously mentioned on this blog.)

Phil Hendrie will turn up on the air on Infinity owned 970 AM, which is where I had imagined it would turn up since it fits, and I imagine the station needs to rejuvenate itself from its 24/7 canned comedy, pumping out an LA based network “All Comedy Radio”.

UPDATE: A note of interest on the future of radio programming:

Thank you for your note. I read the article in the Oregonian and had the same thought as you. Those shows are too good not to be heard. We’ll talk about it internally.

Dennis Constantine
KINK Program Director
Infinity Broadcasting

Yes. Just move over the entire programming line-up of “Max 910”, and do you have anything? (Note of interest: Infinity destroyed Seattle radio, so Portland is free of their Seattle-based crimes.)

Unfortunately, Clyde Lewis… Explain him to the suits back East… may become the new Ace Hayes… which is to say… you’d probably have to look that name up to figure out the reference.

Back when the “Libertarian National Socialist Green Party” was all the rage (well… no, not really), I noticed that they were going to have a representative on the Alan Colmes show. Curious, I looked up to see where and when I might hear the Alan Colmes Show (who made an appearance at the Rose Garden — to a fan base of whom, I do not know — a year back… I know that only because I saw his name of the “Appearance board.) He’s on at 1 am. The appearance by the “Libertarian National Socialist Green Party” was pre-empted to fit a Blazers game, and so that they could still broadcast Michael Savage.

As per the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party member… the only question I wanted to have an answer to is: “Um… Huh? Can you please explain the seeming contradictions in the name of your outfit.”

As per Alan Colmes, I heard some of his show a week or so ago. He had on… a leader of an Aaryan Nations unit (one which . For what reason, I do not really know. During this last summer, he had on a great number of porn stars (who were releasing books from one Rupert Murdoch imprint or another.)

There was a telling moment with the Aaryan Nations guy. His overblown suggestion of the power he yields, and the supposed number of “sleeper cells” he can unleash if he wants to, and a loose organization with Islamic Extremists, had a caller chime in with “This works in with what I’ve believed all along: Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda were involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing.” (something that goes along with various newsmax conspiracy theories that cannot let go of the early reporting of Arab-looking suspects.)

Anyway… I could point out that Alan Colme’s show being available for 1 to 2 in the morning and the expanded KPOJ line-up (shuffle Thom Hartmann in) means that you now have 24 hours of straight liberal talk — if you blur the lines with Alan Colmes enough. But it’s mostly a Jim BoHannon, with a habit of bringing on Militia types and porn stars, working with Fox News precepts of what is the news of the day, with a calling-list of Sean Hannity listener-types. The effect is strange.

Jim Douglas has announced that he is not running for the Senate seat vacated by the retiring Jim Jeffords, Independant. With that, I hereby project Bernie Sanders, Socialist, the next Senator from the state of Vermont.

Actually, you can project something something interesting from this into the future. When Patrick Leahy gets around to retiring, and after Howard Dean’s stint as head of the DNC concludes, a Senate race between Howard Dean and Jim Douglas, his successor as Vermont governor. I don’t know what that means, or if it’s terribly dramatic in any way shape or form, but there you go.

The Nebraska Senate race brings us a curious side-story where Republican Senator — Chuck Hagel (R) has not endorsed the Republican challenger to Democratic Senator Ben Nelson. I suspect the same sort of chubby relationship that plagues Oregon’s set of Senators, where they’re not going to campaign against the other candidate and more or less want to work with the other candidate in perpetuality. (Beyond which, the state-level politics of Nebraska are devoid of ‘d’s and ‘r’s…)

I want Alan Keyes to be the Republican Senate candidate for the vacant seat in Maryland. Why not?

Some thoughts: The landscape looked terrible for the Democratic party going into the 2004 election. A whole mass of Southern Democrats were retiring, and all the tough Senate races were in red states. By election day, you got the feeling that even if Kerry won, he’s be having to deal with a Senate that was more Republican than it was before the election… which, I guess, is a nice little by-product of the Bush “Campaign to the Base” strategy.

2006 looks better for the Donkey than 2004 did. Looking on the list: I don’t expect Maria Cantwell to be facing any real danger, and the impetus of Nebraskans to demand a Republican instead of their most conservative Democrat is faded away due to the current configuration of the Senate. (I also point out that Harry Reid’s recent attempted “compromise”, rejected by Bill Frist, was aimed more or less specifically at Ben Nelson. Muse over this, and Frist looks even more obstinate.)

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BTW: I started a new blog on a completely different topic, not really sure how long I’d continue it or how often I’ll tend to it (very easily tended to, as it is low-maintenance). If you want to find it, you’ll have to look for it yourownself, or ask me for the coordinates.

Probably in 1995, though I could be a year off in either direction, I saw Rush Limbaugh on his television program showing in a state of dismay some material found at the DNC website. A computer screen blown up onto a projection to the studio audience, Limbaugh got out his pointer, and yep! There it was! Some somewhat sophomoric humour: “And Remember: Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, and a Newt is a slimy Lizard.”

I don’t really know what Limbaugh’s point was. Was the RNC website devoid of such arrows against Democrats? If it was, that probably only really shows that the DNC website was further ahead in the ways of Internet culture than the RNC website. (And of course, there’s the fairly obvious statement: this is Rush Limabaugh speaking.)

I’m not a fan of the Randi Rhodes Show, and don’t make it a practice to listen to her. I understand she recently had some troubles after a comedy bit featuring a president and shooting and whatnot. Drudge let the gossip fly: Secret Service meet with Randi Rhodes. The cable news cabal picked up on it and ran with it from there. For her part, Randi said her greatest regret was that the bit was simply stupid. (It tends to work out that way.)

Fly over to the (ahem) flagship program of Fox News, “Fox and Friends”, and an online poll is thrown out. “Air America Apology. Is it Enough, or is it Time To Get Tough?” The answer to that question has to be “Time to get tough” for no other reason than to learn what that is supposed to even mean.

Ah well.

Curious to note how the “flagship” Jack Station (for America at least) is doing in the Arbitrons:

A big shout out to Jack in Denver…. which managed to tie for 20th with a 1.8!!

Winter 2005 = 1.8
Fall 2004 = 2.4
Summer 2004 = 2.4
Spring 2004 = 1.2

But the same thread at “pdxradio” informs me that it’s a “rimshot frequency”, which apparently means you must measure the ratings on a curve… or something like that.

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The moniker “South Park Republicans / Conservatives” re-emerges as an essay from 2002 is expanded or replayed into a book. (That they mocked the Terri Schiavo situation tells you how full of poppycock the phrase really is.)

The author of the book in question helped answer a question I had been pondering. As per the study showing Fox News viewers having just plain wrong impressions on the war in Iraq… perhaps there are mistakes that the survey left out for, say, the highly-praised NPR listeners.

Apparently not.

The “wrong impressions” Brian Anderson believes should be included that would show NPR listeners’s liberal bias include:

That the US invaded Iraq unilaterally. Yes. No. Fine.

Bush used the phrase “Imminenet Threat”. Well, his legions of suppliers sure did.

Bush said that Saddam tried to purchase uranium from Niger. Fine. He said that the British said that Saddam tried to purchase uranium from Niger. What is your definition of the word “is”?

Fox News loses. NPR wins. Take it from there.