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- FUN RECESSION NEWS: A half-dozen AM-radio wingnuts have lost their shows/jobs in California, because nobody’s listening and there are no ads. [Fishbowl LA]
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The Fairness Doctrine has come to pass.
They can always find work in one of those good American jobs the immigrants steal from good hardworking Americans–things like picking lettuce or doing yard work.
WHAT? How is it possible that there is a market that has escaped the “Turn your old gold jewelry into cash!!!!!1″ ads?
One thing that’s always astonished me about right-wing radio is how every town in America seems to have a dozen local right-wing radio show hosts. How the fuck is that possible?
Serolf Divad:
Didn’t Raygun close down the mental hospitals?
Casualties include Mark Larson in San Diego, Larry Elder and John Ziegler in Los Angeles, Melanie Morgan in San Francisco, and Phil Cowen and Mark Williams in Sacramento.
Wasn’t Ziegler that guy who made the Palin documentary? And Melanie Morgan…ugh, so annoying. Who the hell thought it was a bright idea to do a wingnut radio show in San Francisco?
I noticed John “Pushpoll” Ziegler seems to be among those wingnuts.
Until Savage goes down the war continues. Fuck that guy.
If an unemployed radio wingnut speaks but there’s no microphone, does he make a sound?
Where does this Wingnut Ad revenue come from?
Lonestar Beer
Flags
GWB Legacy Polisher
Intolerent Religious Factions
SarahPAC
And that’s drying up? Too fucking bad.
One good thing to come from this Cali recession. I look fwd to going Ayn Rand on their ass when they’re on streets begging for change.
Dave J.: Dude that’s what Savage does. He is literally down the street from any office in San Francisco. That douche.
Look everyone, it’s the “Life Isn’t Fair Doctrine.”
The programming has been replaced by the music of the Thousand Tiny Violin Symphony Orchestra.
Actually, the Rush Limbaugh business model involves premium mint snuff and Ecuadoran gold mine futures (I wish I was kidding, but I’m not).
In these difficult economic times, I propose that these gasbags be repatriated to the Northern Alaska Zeppelin Refueling station.
THE WIZARD OF UHHH’S ECONOMY ACORNS AND SOCAILISM = FAIRNESS DOCTRINE !!!
Serolf Divad: It’s one step up from crazy person handing out religious pamphlets in the mass media scale of pathetic.
But for all the anti-tax swagger and the occasional stunts by personalities like KFI’s John and Ken, the reality is that conservative talk radio in California is on the wane. The economy’s downturn has depressed ad revenue at stations across the state, thinning the ranks of conservative broadcasters.
For that and other reasons, stations have dropped the shows of at least half a dozen radio personalities and scaled back others, in some cases replacing them with cheaper nationally syndicated programs.
Casualties include Mark Larson in San Diego, Larry Elder and John Ziegler in Los Angeles, Melanie Morgan in San Francisco, and Phil Cowen and Mark Williams in Sacramento.
Awwwww. I don’t know who Mark Larson, Phil Cowen, or Mark Williams are, but Larry Elder is a moron, Melanie Morgan is just a horrid woman (I believe she was banned from PBS’ Newshour after behaving like a right-wing talk radio host on the show; Jim Leher, if I remember correctly, said “get that c*nt off my fucking set!”), and John Ziegler is just delightful. There is nothing more endearing than cussing out Nate Silver, kissing Sarah Palin’s ass, or pettily and inaccurately attacking David Foster Wallace shortly after his suicide, because he wrote truthfully about you once.
When I drink my drinks on the morrow, for Ireland, they will be drinks of sorrow, in solidarity with these poor people.
El Pinche:
THE WIZARD OF UHHH’S ECONOMY ACORNS AND SOCAILISM = FAIRNESS DOCTRINE !!!
NEEDS MORE TELEPROMPTER!
shortsshortsshorts: Why don’t you set up a “honey trap” in a nearby men’s room? A toe-tappin’ incident could end his career. If you want to get him off the air, you’re going to have to sacrifice to do it.
After all the capitalist claptrap I’ve heard from these geeks and their fellow travellers over the years, I hope their last shows are dedicated to discussing the proposition that the unfettered free market is always right.
Sometimes, like now, I think it can be.
BTW: How costly can it be to broadcast a one-dork radio show? If THEY’RE tanking, perhaps it ain’t just another sign of the market downturn, but a symptom of a nation FINALLY coming to its senses???
One can dream….
Melanie Morgan! See ya, you festering HAG!
Mark Williams in Sacramento was laid off almost 3 years ago because his contract was too expensive. And Phil Cowan’s popularity problem is that he’s on opposite Jabba the Rush (Sacramento’s gift to journalism. Also Mort Downy Jr. Our motto? Putting the NUT in Wingnut since Marconi was a pup.)
This is no sea change.
Brendan M.: Can I just say “Ewwwwwwwww”? So much for having lunch today.
Dave J.: The Wingnuts love to get all “in your face” here in San Francisco because they think somehow it shows how courageous they are “standing up” to a bunch of gay-loving over-educated hippies. We also are targeted yearly by a giant Fetus Defenders March for Life. They want ugly counter-protests so they can whine about how “intolerant” we are here.
— Are you one of the best? Fox News Radio is looking for a freelance news anchor, whose copy is crisp, delivery is sharp and FOX-like. If you’re a strong, tight writer who is proud of your work, with at least 5 years’ experience reporting or anchoring radio news, then Fox News Radio wants to hear from you. —
http://careers.foxnews.com/2008/11/25/radio-anchor-at-fox-news-network/
PS: -must be willing to relocate to NY, where it’s m-f’ing COLD!!
The war is not over until the entire geriatric segment of FOX viewers starves and gets eaten by vermin in their unheated houses. Because that’s what the free market does - thins the herd.
These people should be culled from helicopters.
Ha ha John Ziegler now has to suck off Nate Silver for cash.
Giant Robot:
There’s hidden rightwing code in that blurb:
“strong” = republican
“tight writer who is proud of your work” = do know how to follow directions and memos
“with at least 5 years’ experience reporting or anchoring radio news” = jackass, moran, asshole, loudmouth,cocky fucko
In the car today I tuned into AM to try to catch the Obama speech on small business. I was spellbound for 30 seconds listening to Rushit because I’ve never listened to him. 30 seconds, that’s all I could stand–the negative stink in the car was palpable. I hope he’s next.
Another voice of freedom has been silenced. http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/melanie.jpg
Does Lars Larsen still have a job in Portland? If so, the job ain’t over yet.
Dammit, I’ve been a longtime listener but not yet a first time caller. I’ve been biding my time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to call up John Ziegler and blame brown people for my shitty life. Grumble grumble.
shortsshortsshorts: Amen brother. This is the long war.
Let us all have a moment of silence for these talk show hosts… and then play a “comical” sound effect during said silence just to fuck with them.
All these unemployed right wing radio hosts means a spike in the consumption of Manwiches. Also, sloppy joes.
shortsshortsshorts: That guy (Savage) is profoundly scary. With Rush at least you can tell he’s half joking. We’ll still have Dr Laura, though. She’s eternal.
Larry Elders off the radio and all it took was the world economy coming to a screeching halt?
Thank YOU God !
Nuts taking wing.
V572625694: Dr. Laura is the scariest beeyotch you can imagine. When she was first starting out at KFI here in Los Angeles, she totally back-stabbed another woman psychologist host.
The funniest thing about her was that Vanity Fair story where her older married lover snarked her out. He said he called her “Ku Klux” because she was “a terror under the sheets.”
Then of course she followed Doris Day and became a virgin.
Please say that they were all replaced by immigrant labor.
Please say that they were all replaced by immigrant labor.
Please say that they were all replaced by immigrant labor.
Giant Robot: Don’t kid yourself, all of the AM-radio republicunts here in Cali have already fucked someone at Fox multiple times for a job, only to be told the next day that they’ll have to fuck someone to be considered for a job. They’re so motherfucking stupid that they just keep showing up at a secret Fox-owned warehouse in Long Beach with a copy of their resume and their ass cheek spread.
El Pinche:
“delivery is sharp and FOX-like” = must be able to say insanely stupid shit as if you believe it is based in reality. Radio is a good place to start out because you can stay high on crack without having to clean up for the cameras.
You liberals think you have won. But someday soon, somewhere in Orange County, a plaque will appear saying “In the early days of Civil War 2, guerillas - mostly talk show host- placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They talked here alone and gave up their minds, so that this nation should not perish from the earth, or at least not become France. And we will be right back after these messages.”
And also, my local paper that I get delivered every day is going Internet-only. How the poor paperboy is going to leave the whole Internet on my doorstep is beyond me!
Now if the economy could just flush Rush and Savage out of their hiding places so the bean eating hobos can have wingnuts spit roasted over a barrel fire. The big one could feed a hundred people. Post-apocalyptic cannibalism: Totally worth it, depending on who gets eaten.
i take it the wingnuts don’t consider their own unemployment to be a natural consequence of market forces? what’s that old adage about silver linings again…
Barry is indeed diabolical– instead of doing a frontal assault by bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, he purposely trashed the economy so that right wing radio stations lose advertising dollars and have to let go all of their wingnuts. Now all he has to do is figure out a way to depress the Oxycontin market and say buh bye to Rush.
V572625694: Dr. Laura gives me a pounding headache. Even as a person who subjects himself to most of those bastards on a regular basis, that bitch makes my eyes roll into the back of the head.
shortsshortsshorts: And Glenn Beck. http://www.glennbeck.com/images/news/2009/03/030109fusion.jpg
What about Truck Nutz ads? Won’t Truck Nutz fund the crazy?
Atheist Nun: I don’t want to start a whole east-coast vs. west-coast thing here, but Boston AM radio is the hands-down KING of crazy. Your LA guys only get to stand in that warehouse line because Howie Carr says they can. Yeah you guys can bring the crazy but our guys bring it with a stupid accent.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: FTW!
Die, Clearchannel, Die.
Canuckledragger: Bose Wave radios, head-on and homeopathic dick pills can only buy so much of the airwaves’ ad blocks.
Giant Robot: Do they say “Ayuh?”
Giant Robot: LOL… I’ll take your word for it, as I rarely subject myself to the ramblings of our west-coast radio wingnuts, they all seem to have some sort of overblown persecution complex that makes them especially shrieky, and I cannot abide high-pitched noises.
Whatever happened to Kevin James (not the fat King of Queens dude), but the one that Chris Matthews eviscerated & showed for all the world that RW nut cases don’t have to know anything about history or politics or what appeasement means?
Wow! And Ron Silver just croaked as well! Maybe there is a Dog!
CaliforniaMike: Ayuh.
Zorg: “Wow! And Ron Silver just croaked as well! Maybe there is a Dog!”
Let me know when Alex Jones, Limbaugh and Beck are all found deceased in some sort of Dominican viagra tryst.
But, but…Melanie Morgan has enormous breasts! They can’t take her off the air!
Atheist Nun: Our guys go more for the macho baritone “I’m the only one with the balls to stand up for the poor white guy who’s kid can’t get a job because of the Mexkans” type of shit. It’s absolutely mind numbing.
shortsshortsshorts: You had me at “Dr Laura gives me a pounding.”
Serolf Divad: By law, or regulation, or Papal Bull, every AM station is 10khz apart on your dial, between 530 and 1710 khz, leaving about 119 slots per town. Of course, some of these frequencies are taken by big stations running 50kw a night, so you can hear them from Maine to Mazatlan. But let’s assume that in any town, there’s only a tenth of these slots available: about 12 slots for these nutters–9 or 10 if you then account for the lower power Spanish stations around 1120 on your AM dial. So the numbers sort of proof out. Upshot: one guy buying gold bling for cash cannot support all these freaks, and where’s he gonna find gold: on the Bloated White Fuckhead show, or on 93 JAMZ or whatever?
Alternative theory: right wingers were in the catbird seat, haz lots of stations, then the whole thing was revealed as a fraud. Hmmmm
Fivetree: When you can’t afford hobo beans to satiate your appetite, just think of Micheal Savage.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: That’s very funny, but also sad, because I’ve started to see “WOLVERINES!” used without irony by some of these people.
Texan Bulldoggette: (http://krla.townhall.com/pages/KEVINJAMES) He does “Intelligent. Conservative.” talk radio, so he’s still on the air.
Zorg: Look, his commentaries were extremely stupid and his attempt to change the time-line for his own personal gain were pretty evil, but he wasn’t a monster deserving of death.
ForTheTurnstiles: You’re reading my mind. I hope that turd goes down in flames next. I’ll happily piss on his career’s grave.
This is a recession news I can cheer!
This will undoubtedly disappoint the several dozens of drooling oldster black heli psychos who still have AM radios - but at least the neighboring coyotes won’t have to listen to them shout at their Paul Harvey customized Boze until 3 a.m. every night. So there’s that.
Giant Robot: haha..that’s right, the most important characteristics of a foxnews drone.
In a knife fight, Suze Orman would disembowel Dr. Laura then use her skin husk as an elegant yet subtle table cloth.
No problem.
Since you’ve lost your talk radio job:
WalMart always needs greeters.
And SOMEBODY has to yell at those rowdy teenagers who insist on walking on the grass.
In todays economy, you have to look hard to find opportunities.
Now about all those wasteful government benefits like unemployment, job search assistance, etc.
Do they still seem wasteful when YOUR job goes away?
I didn’t think so.
RobPetrified: I hope they’ll find COBRA is pretty handy too because if there’s any justice, they’d lose their health insurance too. It’s easy to scream “socialized health care” when you have health care. Not so much when you don’t.