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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Great Moments In Talk Radio Punditry

From the Valentines Day 2006 edition of the John Carlson show:
CARLSON: Kirby, you and I are very familiar with George Allen, going back to his record as governor, which was stellar. Go ahead and tell our listeners more about the man you hope to be president....


Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Iraq vs. WWII

The debate over the leaked National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism continued on the September 27th edition of the Kirby Wilbur Show, with the host discounting the importance of the many new terrorists the Iraq war is creating. He made use of a World War...


Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Kirby Wilbur Lies About Clinton

On the September 26th edition of The Kirby Wilbur Show, the host made the claim that Clinton lied in his Fox News interview:
KIRBY: Bill Clinton made some, well to be honest with you, he lied. Not that anything's new, but he lied. And I'll tell you what...


Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Radio vs. Reality

From Kirby Wilbur, 9/25/2006:
KIRBY: And by the way, those of you out there who are really Clinton partisans, empirically consider this. When Clinton bombed that aspirin factory in Sudan that later turned out to have nothing to do with terrorism, a lot...


Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Great Moments In Talk Radio

Memories of 1998, courtesy of the September 25th, 2006 edition of the Kirby Wilbur Show :
CALLER: And furthermore, you know that interview [of Clinton on Fox]? I saw that interview on television yesterday. You know? I thought at that moment, that he...


Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Help Carlson's Fight Against URAPUS

As we approach the Labor Day telethon season, it's important to focus attention on a rapidly growing and highly debilitating disease referred to as URAPUS, or Uncontrollable Republican Anxiety and Panic Urination Syndrome. Symptoms include an irrational...


Monday, August 28, 2006
Carlson Misrepresents Facts of Valerie Plame Outing

On the August 28th edition of John Carlson's radio show, the host made a series of false statements about the Valerie Plame spy-outing scandal. His central theory is that a recent Newsweek article proves that the entire investigation was a waste of time...


Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Enabling Anti-Semitism

For the second day, John Carlson devoted a segment of his show to discussing Mel Gibson's anti-semitic outburst and asking listeners whether he should be forgiven. And yet again, Carlson left me wondering whether he even knows what anti-semitism is....


Monday, July 31, 2006
Carlson: Mel Gibson's Tirade Not Anti-Semitic

On the July 31st edition of The John Carlson Show, the host took the opportunity to speak up for actor Mel Gibson after his hate-filled weekend tirade that followed his arrest for drunken driving. After calling critics of Gibson's The Passion of The Christ<...


Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Animus Towards Gays? Inconceivable!

On the July 26th edition of The John Carlson Show, the host spent considerable time lambasting the four Washington State Supreme Court justices who dissented in the decision to uphold a ban on gay marriage. Carlson was particularly incensed by Justice Mary...


Monday, July 24, 2006
Real Debate Causes Revealing Slip

One of the things that kicked off the development of this website was the 2005 effort by John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur to run an entire statewide initiative campaign over the public airwaves. For two months they made an almost daily effort to attack the gas...


Sunday, July 23, 2006
The Questions They Don't Ask

One of the amazing things about talk radio is how often hosts choose to blindly stay on message and sacrifice opportunities to make real news. The July 20th edition of The John Carlson Show was a perfect example, where the guest was none other than Grover...


Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Ann Coulter: Stem Cell Research Expert

A key topic of the July 19th edition of the John Carlson Show was stem cell research, and John found a highly respected scientist to come on and educate his listeners: Ann Coulter. According to Carlson, a vituperative right-wing pundit with a law degree...


Wednesday, July 12, 2006
"Illegals": Nativist Code for Hispanics

Right-wing radio hosts such as KVI's John Carlson have gone to great lengths to focus their immigration rhetoric on "illegals". Their goal is to hide their nativist sentiments behind a law-and-order, not-really-about-race camouflage. However, if you look...


Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Carlson Misconstrues Blog Post, Applies it to All Liberals

On the June 20th edition of the John Carlson Show, the host repeated a time-honored tradition in talk radio:
  1. Find a short post made by a random user of a liberal blog
  2. Misconstrue the meaning of the post
  3. Paint all liberals as evil people who agree with...





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