Topic: Man incorrectly accused of luring a child
Summary: Kirby spends two hours discussing a Seattle Times story about a local man who spent four months as a suspect in a child luring case, asking callers to opine on whether he should be compensated for his inconvenience. While a minority of callers defend law enforcement's right to accuse anyone they want, most callers say "eh, sure. pay him a bit".
Time: 02:00 - 02:30
Topic: Foley fiasco
Summary: Kirby discusses a Harpers story that revealed how the original Foley page probing emails were distributed widely to a variety of media outlets as much as a year ago. He sees a conspiracy of Democratic dirty tricks in the distribution of "the list" of gay congressional Republicans to various right-wing organizations such as Focus on the Family.
Classic Quote 1:
KIRBY: Isn't it interesting that at the same time the Mark Foley story comes up, there is an attempt to further a civil war in the GOP. I mean, the Mark Foley story is designed to, uh, slam the whole GOP as a bunch of molesters, even though Mr. Foley isn't really guilty of any crime that we're aware of at the moment. Certainly he is a pervert, and certainly he is overly friendly, and there is no question in my mind that he is rightly out of congress, but now the whole GOP is under fire for this.
Time: 02:30 - 03:00
Topic: North Korea nukes
Topic: Rich Johnson, Fox News
Summary: Kirby talks to a Fox News dude about the supposed nuclear test performed by North Korea, saying that more and more experts suspect it was just a big TNT explosion, and not an actual nuclear device. Also - an exciting preview of Bush's upcoming press conference! zzzzz...
Time: 03:00 - 04:00
Topic: Cursive
Summary: After a brief chat with John Carlson (who knew he was still around?) about the need to kick ass in Korea, Kirby turns to a critical issue: the demise of cursive among America's youth. zzzzz....