The trade journal Inside Radio reports: “While not exactly shopping the GOP’s 2008 vice presidential candidate, sources say Palin representatives have been quietly testing the waters to see how much interest radio syndicators have for her.” Perfect! This is how Palin does everything now: passive-aggressively “gauge interest” and if people don’t kiss your ass enough, even though you commit to nothing, just say Fuck ‘Em and move on to the next assholes who won’t give you the proper respect. Then you can write a poem about it, on Twitter. [Inside Radio via Political Wire]

• 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]

Loser pill-head Rush Limbaugh has an AM radio show during the daytime. His audience of bitter old white retirees and home-appliance repairmen was instructed to go out en masse and vote for Hillary in open primaries, so that liberal Latino-American John McCain could at least have a small chance of winning in November. But it totally failed, so now Limbaugh is suddenly pretending he really wanted his listeners to vote for the black guy. MORE »

This forbidden-lobbyist-love scandal is a stroke of good fortune for John McCain. Revelations that he may have landed a sizzling hot blonde half his age have brought a new aura of virility and sex appeal to the Spanish-American war hero’s ancient carcass. He is also being hailed by Christian conservatives for having the good taste to conduct a heterosexual extramarital affair. And now we learn the scandal has brought conservative talk radio’s most lovable personalities flocking to his bosom. According to Politico, “they have a common enemy” now. Meaning, of course, the terrorists. At the New York Times. MORE »

Michael Savage, the eponymous host of conservative radio’s Savage Nation, filed a lawsuit Monday against the Council on American-Islamic Relations for essentially calling him a bigot, of all things! He claims that CAIR illegally used a 4-minute clip from his Oct. 29 program, during which the compassionate host said American Muslims “need deportation.” Savage and his law people say the Muslims “repackaged” these words to make them more shocking. Hmm…. Unless the words before were “Everyone is special and all groups and religions are super equally awesome and no smiling, culturally equivalent Muslims ever” [need deportation], then we’ll probably side with the non-Savages on this one. MORE »

Do you have opinions that do not properly respect everybody? Well watch out, because liberals are coming for your job! MORE »

Bronx-born Berkeley grad Michael Alan Weiner is one of the last merry pranksters of the North Beach beatnik-poet scene. The “free love” alternative-medicine guru and very dear friend of the late homosexual poet Allen Ginsberg realized his lifelong dream of being a subversive comedian like his hero Lenny Bruce, when San Francisco’s KGO allowed him to “prank” the talk station’s listeners in 1994 with his outrageous Andy Kaufman-esque creation called “Mike Savage.”

Learn about his hilarious run for the White House — watch out, Arabs & Mexicans! — after the jump.

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• A time is on the table: more troops may be need in Iraq to assist with stability for the next 12 to 18 months until Iraqi security forces take over. [WP, NYT, USAT]

• All the big names of the Bush Administration made it to the White House lawn for “Radio Day,” to reconnect with conservative supporters who live in wooded cabins without TV or internet. [WP, WP]
• Only the most broke and desperate candidates want President Bush to appear with them. [NYT]
• NRCC circulates list of 33 that would meet that description. [The Hill]
• Dennis Hastert and Tom Reynolds went before the House ethics committee, offered conflicting stories. Investigation may be winding down, but no answers til after the election. [WP, NYT]
• Tennessee Senate seat hinges on Harold Ford’s ability to woo racist voters on rocky top. [WP]
• Hillary Clinton has Dick Cheney’s vote locked up for 2008. [Reuters]

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