Paper Posts Addressess of Homes with McCain Yard Signs

If you live in Seattle and happen to have a McCain-Palin yard sign, watch out.  The Obamabots have targeted you for who knows what.

The Seattle "newspaper" The Stranger published an article listing homes in the Seattle area that displayed their support for the Republican campaign via yard signs.  They've included photos as well.  We're not really sure the purpose of this but given other Obama efforts to muffle dissent it presents a disturbing picture.

One internet poster says that in Seattle if your car has Republican bumper stickers, it will get keyed.  That's Democratic tolerance for you!

However since the story was picked up by Internet linker Matt Drudge,  As of now, The Stranger is redirecting the URL http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=729360 to the story back to Drudge's site.  How incredibly odd. (Within the last few minutes as I write this, Drudge has removed the story from his site).

Hillary to Drop Out?

Following her big defeat in Iowa - and the prospect of similar results in New Hampshire and subsequent Southern primaries - Drudge is reporting that some Hillary Clinton campaign key staffers are advising the Senator to consider dropping out of the race. Though some advisors are urging Hillary to stay and fight, others think it's time to drop out before she piles up any more defeats.

This is obviously good news for John Edwards and Barack Obama. And get ready for a bloody campaign.

Stay tuned.

Franklin Avenue Scoops Drudge; Is McIntyre on Way Out?

We mentioned it here but it looks like our favorite little bohemian eastside blog Franklin Avenue scooped mega linker Matt Drudge on the resurrection of Don Imus.

Drudge reports that the "I-Man" has inked a 10 figure multi-year deal with Citadel Broadcasting, the new owner of ABC Radio for a show on their new york outlet, WABC (apparently replacing morning hosts Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa and civil rights attorney Ron Kuby).

The good news for Imus could be bad news for KABC morning man Doug McIntyre. KABC is also owned by Citadel.

We remember that Citadel went to the mat with KABC to bounce Marc Germain, formerly known as Mr. KABC, in order to air a two hour syndicated program from WABC hosted by right wing nutjob Mark Levin (I'm a hardcore Republican and even I don't find two hours of yelling at liberals or bashing Bill Clinton entertaining). As a domino effect this also led to the departure of Kevin James from KABC in order to air a syndicated and ill-fitting late night program by longtime morning man Peter Tilden.

Obviously Imus is a far bigger name than Levin and with a tens of millions of dollars on the line potentially, you've got to believe its only a matter of time before Citadel tells Doug McIntyre they're giving Imus his slot and if he wants he can have Al Rantel's 45 minute slot at 11:00 a.m. (maybe).

McIntyre - though hosting an intelligent, substantive and popular morning show - has never been able to break past the ratings behemoth that KFI's Bill Handel is. Handel has a years ahead jump on McIntyre on the slot and the benefit of a far more powerful signal that reaches most of Southern California as opposed to KABC's weaker signal that is concentrated on LA and most of Orange County. Though KABC's listeners skew higher demographically than KFI and gets them high end sponsors, Citadel still may find it more economically practical to air syndicated programming.

Companies like Citadel are turning to offering syndicated program on their local outlets as its more cost effective and can earn more profits. Nothing wrong with that and no we don't need a government solution for it.

What we can do is change the channel - and let KABC know that if McIntyre is let go, its hasta la vista baby. It probably won't work but they at least need to hear from us.