Topic: HIV Prevention
Summary: Kirby spends 15 minutes trying to find callers as outraged as he is about how the Oregon Department of Education provides facts on the website instructing drug users on how to avoid contracting HIV. My conclusion: Kirby hearts drug-users with HIV.
Classic Quote 1:
KIRBY: This is the equivalent of saying 'if you're going to rape someone, do it safely. Put a condom on!
Classic Quote 2:
KIRBY: And I know, the thinking is, we love our kids, we don't want to see them get hurt, we don't them to pay a price. There's a price to pay for bad behavior, and as we minimize that price, do what we can to minimize that impact on our kids, we just make it easier. Don't we? Or am I just an old dinosaur and a prude?
Time: 00:15 - 01:00
Topic: Health care for immigrants
Summary: Kirby obsesses on how illegal immigrants get kidney dialysis in a Texas hospital, and asks whether listeners would have the balls to let them die in the street instead. After all, denying people life-saving health care is the Christian thing to do.
Classic Quote 1:
KIRBY: Could you look these people in the eye and say don't? Don't? You can't come in and get the service? Could you really do that? If you can, you're a better man or woman than I am. And we can do that by the way. We have to. We have to find a way to stop hemorrhaging that money. These people come here, and they are probably sicker than the average American for a lot of different reasons. And we're obligated to care for them. Hospital can't say no.
Time: 01:00 - 01:30
Topic: NIE
Guest: General Tom McInerney, Fox News Analyst
Summary: Kirby talks about all of the great news that wasn't leaked from the "Bush has made terrorism worse" National Intelligence Estimate: Al Qaeda leadership is disrupted, if we win in Iraq it will get better, etc, etc, etc. Additionally, the lack of liberal callers at 6am (vs. 8:30 am yesterday) indicates that Democrats suck and must have missed their talking points to rebut him.
Time: 01:30 - 02:00
Topic: Dinner at governor's mansion
Summary: Kirby discusses Governor Gregoire's decision to rescind an offer from a political auction for a guest to dine with her at the governor's mansion. Kirby doesn't have a problem with it.
Classic Quote 1:
KIRBY: I would pay not to have dinner with her
Time: 02:00 - 02:30
Topic: Clinton's Fox interview
Summary: Kirby says that Clinton lied about having left a comprehensive terror plan and about the Bush administration demoting Richard Clarke, saying Clarke requested a transfer and was not demoted.
Classic Quote 1:
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 he lied about in that interview. He specifically said in that interview, and maybe we'll find an excerpt and if so play it for you. But he specifically said that 'I left a comprehensive terror plan with the Bush administration', and 'they demoted the best guy in the country to run it, Richard Clarke.'
Classic Quote 2:
KIRBY: Well, I hate to tell you this, but there was no plan that was given to the Bush administration, and they did not demote Clarke. So what was the President talking about? Maybe they don't even know.
Classic Quote 3:
MINITER: Notice how he invades repeatedly Wallace's personal space.
KIRBY: Right, I though he got a little bit close there. I was worried about Chris a couple of times.
Classic Quote 4:
KIRBY: So much of this has shown to be wrong. If you read the 9/11 report, I've read it, I've underlined it, I've annotated it. In Chapter 4 where it talks about efforts to get Bin Laden, time and time again, we're talking about indecision, inaction, failure to make a decision, they never take decisive action. The guys on the ground get very frustrated because they have Osama in their sights several times, but nothing happens because Washington can't make a decision. Is that a fair representation?
Time: 02:30 - 03:00
Topic: Drop in gas prices
Guest: Toby Smith, Fox News Market Analyst
Summary: Kirby asks a Fox News "analyst" whether Bush has manipulated the gas market to help in the election.
Time: 03:00 - 03:30
Topic: Republican rift
Guest: Ryan Sager, Author, The Elephant in the Room
Summary: Kirby talks to an author about what's happened to conservatism since 1994. Evidently Bush was never really a conservative.
Time: 03:30 - 04:00
Topic: Seattle budget
Summary: Kirby talks talks about the mayor's proposal to increase the general fund by 10% next year, complaining about the focus on the environment and social issues instead of cops.