KOMO's shake-up last week reduced live & local programming in Seattle talk radio, but a silver liniment might be: Ken Schram got his own show (KOMO m-f, 12-3p) and conservative talker John Carlson lost half a show.
The David Goldstein Show, the last live and local liberal talk show in Seattle was cancelled in 2008.
Schram isn't as progressive as fogeyist right-wing listeners accuse him of being, but he was too liberal for KVI: they had to take The Commentators back to KOMO because conservative talk listeners can stand nothing but what-they-want-to-hear-radio.
David Goldstein, (remember Goldy?) will appear on the John Carlson Show (remember John?) to speak against Tim Eyman's (remember Tim?) anti-pop and candy bar tax. Eyman, the chickenshit ja-mof that he is, will be nowhere in sight. (KVI Thurs. 3p).
It's a David Goldstein produced by a Tina Nole on a weekday show in a world without Ron & Don!
Wall Street, healthcare, R-1077, tea-baggers, Don Benton, the Great Arizona/Mexican witch hunt... what a great time for a live, local, loudmouth, liberal locutor to break the monotony of the Seattle mono-programming of right-wing blah, blah, blah!
An honest-to-gott liberal on The Commentators? Yes... and it's Goldy!
David Goldstein, political blogger at Horsesass.org and former KIRO talk host, will fill in for Ken Schram on March 23 & 24th.
"We're excited about having David join the team," said PD Dennis Kelly, "He's a great talent."
After Bill O'Reilly announced Governor Christine Gregoire's phone number over national teevee last night, and again on the radio today, phones in hers and other Olympia offices went mad with pissed-off listeners, according to a staffer in Lt. Gov. Brad Owen's office.
In the rancid War on Xmas foofaraw tonight on the O'Reilly Factor, the Big Fat Head called Washington Governor Christine Gregoire "weak and ineffective."
"We're going to get the governor," O'Reilly said, "whether she comes in or she doesn't. Well ask her directly."
What will he ask? He'll ask why she allowed the atheist sign in the Capitol alongside Xmas displays.
We know what that means: O'Reilly will send one of his pencil-dicked producers to stick a microphone in the governor's schnoz shouting do-you-still-beat-your-wife questions.
Daily Kos' Markos Moulitsas, a leading voice in the generational change-up of the Democratic Party, and the American left appeared on KUOW's The Conversation (m-f, 1-2p) today.
Also: local bloggers David Goldstein and West Seattle Blog's Tracy Record.
The topic was about bloggers letting commenters write pseudonymously and profanely on their sites.
Pseudonymous commenters, according to Markos, are stripped of everything but their message which will be judged on its efficacy alone. It's egalitarian communication.
Defrocked KIRO talk host David Goldstein, political blogger, (HorsesAss.org) and Dave Ross fill-in, will be on Meet the Bloggers with Cenk Ugyur.
Also appearing: Darcy Burner who's running against the coiffed Sheriff of Bland for the 8th District ( WA) congressional seat; Seattle's Joan McCarter (Daily Kos), and Matt Stoller (Open Left). They'll will discussing ways to bring about an end to the Iraq War. Specifically, they will focus on IT A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which Burner co-authored. Read the Responsible Plan here.