Never mind the economy; forget about Iraq, even socialism and the race card can be pushed to the last segment. Radio talkers must talk about Rush Limbaugh. ~ Bill O'Reilly is talking about... Rush Limbaugh. Glennn Beck is talking about... Rush Limbaugh. Sean Hannity is talking about... Rush Limb...

Lowbrow conservatism, name-calling, neocons, bullying bluster, blind loyalty to George Bush and the abandonment of elitism on talk radio have allowed carny barkers to run away with the right. Although we've said similar stuff many times, this time it's an influential conservative magazine. (...

Conservative talkers are starving for access and decent interviews and cleave unto small potatoes skirmishes that get their names onto such sites as Drudge and Huffington Post. ( photo: Look who's in the front row now- Helen Thomas and Ed Schultz) It's a new political universe with the Obama...

Having head fat doesn't always mean you are a fathead... so says medical researchers, but it's a no 1 symptom. We've always known Fox News "anchor" and radio host Glennn Beck (KTTH m-f, 6-9a) as a hypermanic, pop-eyed, chubby-cheeked, arm-flapping, spittle-spraying, race-baitin...

A new day dawnin' for US media. Barack Obama says he'll nominate Julius Genachowski, 46, FCC Chairman. And we've finally read those sweetest of words for which we've waited so long: Kevin Martin will resign. Effective Inauguration Day. A former Harvard Law School classmate of Obama&#...

In a smug fugue of self-righteous gloatation, Billo told Fox News viewers Monday he brought down Seattle's "nutty-left newspaper," the Seattle Post Intelligencer, after confronting Publisher Roger Oglesby who refused to be "interviewed" as he stepped out of his car at his Cap...

~~ She got the gig! Tina Nole left CBS Radio wednesday to start Air America Thursday where her duties as yet announceable. "It feels like home here with all these progressives!" she says. The longtime Dave Ross (KIRO m-f, 9a-12p) producer left for NY in 2007 and produced, among other thing...

MSNBC's blithering, blonde bottle-blonde Chris Matthews told staffers Wednesday he would not run for the Senate in 2010 from Pennsylvania. The thought of the diffuse, self-mentioning, hard-blowing Matthews being the subject of political stories instead of the butt of media stories was disturbing...

Kirby Wilbur said it Friday: if there were no holiday displays in the capitol building, "it would be better than the mess we've got down there." Our sediments exactly! The atheists may have won one for once. The strategy behind their controversial sign was that no holiday messages and ...

Is it the mainstream media's march into 'young and smart?'  It's official: David Gregory is the new permanent moderator of NNBC's Meet the Press. It's a change of generation as well as style for the venerable news show, inarguably the most prestigious in all of teevee, ...