I'm not referring to the Republican National Convention, though that qualifies. Zell Miller! Whoo! Use that to scare children! And Ahhnold, an Austrian who can't get his own WWII history straight. Amongst other things.
No, what I'm referring to is Victor Boc's tenure as a talk jock at KPAM News-Talk 860. The reign of terror ended sometime this last spring when KPAM was de-Boc'd. The Tribune's Pete Schulberg:
"On the other side of the political spectrum, conservative talk show host Victor Boc has been given his walking papers by KPAM. Moving over to Boc’s 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. slot is Los Angeles-based host Larry Elder; he’ll be followed from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. by a locally originated show featuring former weekend host Victoria Taft.
Boc’s downfall was his inability to hold onto Sean Hannity’s afternoon audience; scuttlebutt also has it that he had been butting heads with Clapper."
The "Clapper" Pete refers to is one Gregg Clapper, which goes a long way toward explaining why KPAM's programming has been so dreary and why Sean Hannity has a cozy home there. Clapper has run with the know-nothing, tax-reactionary Don McIntire/Bill Sizemore, more-neocon-than-thou crowd in the past. He long had a habit of registering single-person PACs with long absurd names like the "Let's Not Elect a Soft-On Crime, Democrat Contributing, Liberal Judge-Backing Republican for Governor committee" (yes, that was really its name. He used it to slime Ron Saxton) simply to run Loren Parks-funded commericals with the name on the end. Sort of a series of neocon jokes without any detectable punchline. Long on sneer, condescension, and distortion of opponents, short on actual facts. Just the kind of person that have screwed politics into the ground over here in Orygun.
I digress. Anyway.
I can see the 'butting heads' now. Two forces of nature coming to bats at each other. Something had to give. I wonder who they got to clean the blood off the walls after that meeting.
And, in as much as someone of Clapper's calibre is running any part of the show at KPAM, it remains unlistenable, and the energy you would have used to dial in 860 KHz would better be put to some other use, like self-gratification. Or playing a few levels of Descent. You make the call.
Over on slenderintellect.com...er, sorry...victorboc.com, all that's menched is that Victor has left KPAM over a "parting of the ways". Cliched, but diginfied. At least he showed some on his way out the door.
"Dear President George W Bush:
Could you please make the Mars colony project go faster, so we can send Victor Boc there? I mean, he might get back on the air somewhere.
Sincerely,
Sam Klein (age 42)
Portland Oregon"
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