Kurtz writes Stephanie Miller column: "Static on the Left"

[DeepModem Mom]

Static on the Left
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 13, 2005; 8:11 AM

NEW YORK -- Stephanie Miller is watching Fox News, as she does every night, looking for laughs.

"It's like Comedy Central for liberals," says the Los Angeles radio host. "They don't know they're funny -- they just are. It's a right-wing freak show."...

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Miller's presence here at a weekend radio conference sponsored by Talkers magazine -- which gave Air America's Al Franken its Freedom of Speech award -- suggests that left-wing hosts are gaining a foothold in a conservative-dominated field. Eight months after launching a show in a handful of towns such as Columbus and Anchorage, the former standup comic is on in 30 cities, including such major markets as Boston, Washington (on WRC-AM), and Los Angeles, where she manages to be funny at 6 a.m....

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Liberal radio is still a relative blip, but the turning point, says Miller, is that stations stopped putting on ex-politicians like Mario Cuomo and turned to professional broadcasters. "The minute we think it's a political movement, we're dead," she says. "You've got to get ratings. It's about money."

Miller isn't delicate when it comes to language. She told listeners last week that the argument by Hannity and Bill O'Reilly that "we're the only ones who support the troops" is "making me projectile-vomit." She gloats that "the Republicans have their panties in a twist" over this or that issue. She challenges the veracity of some conservatives with a jingle called "lying sack of crap."...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I often have long drives through loads of traffic in the morning lately

Stephanie Miller made me LOVE traffic. It means I get to listen to her longer :D

[devilgrrl]

7. She cracks my shit up too.

Unfortunately, she interfers with my Democracy Now listening. :-(

[tishaLA]

8. She's the best thing about LA traffic!

[CambridgeDem]

2. Hilarious

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Hi CambridgeDem!

Welcome to DU! :toast:

[OnionPatch]

3. I've never heard her show

Is there a link to stream it online?

I love talk radio and I've been wishing I could hear her.

Edited to add: Welcome to DU, CambridgeDem :hi:

[movonne]

4. kick

[BringEmOn]

6. Here are two links I use

http://www.wavz.com/main.html

http://www.bostonnewstalk.com/main.html

[kaitykaity]

5. Stephanie has arrived if Howie-Whore decides to

take his predictable childish swipes at her.
Howie-Whore, ever predictable.

[Mythsaje]

9. I wish

they'd replace Ed Schultz's show here in Seattle with Stephanie Miller. I can't stand him--he's an apologist for the weak-spined Democrats who'd spend what political capital their sturdier brethren manage to collect by conducting a campaign of appeasement to the Reaper agenda.