Unhinged update: SF radio host who threatened Joe The Plumber fired
That San Francisco nutball who issued a death threat against Joe The Plumber on his KGO radio show has been fired, along with his engineer.
Naturally, he’s playing the victim card and blaming the engineer for his unhinged outburst.
Maybe he can apply for a job with the state of Ohio.
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Good. As he should’ve been.
Issuing death threats on the air? Inciting violence? And now fired?
What took so long?
He will probably be assigned air time after Rush when the Fairness Doctrine is implemented.
He’ll be on Air America in no time.
but, Ha Ha!…. dipstick.
He has been picked for Obamas cabinet. Probably the secretary of propaganda.
Typical extreme left reaction. Demand accountabilty and responsibility from everyone else but not yourself. Make up as many excuses as possible to defend what you do and call out everyone else for what they do.
Enough double standard crap. He deserved to be fired. I’m surprised it took this long. Only the extreme left view gets the benefit of the doubt and can hang on this long after spewing hate and promoting violence on radio or TV.
Maybe him and Bernie Ward can reminisce about “what could have been”.
Idiots.
SoCal beat me to the punch line.
Of course, when the liberals have two – three hours a day for every conservative radio voice, will the conservatives get to issue death threats too?
He said he thought the mike was off. Maybe that’s true. Both Reagan and Bush, Jr. issued “death threats” when they thought the mike was off. Reagan ordered a bombing raid on Russia — the biggest death threat known to man.
As someone who deals with this sort of situation every day, I’m just going to toss out some things without commenting.
1. There would have been no way for him to know his mic was going over the air. His mic would have been hot, and sending to the station, but it was the board operator’s job to make sure it wasn’t on the air.
2. The first thing taught to anyone who works around a microphone is always assume you are on the air.
So, yeah, I will comment. He deserved to be fired; for stupidity, if nothing else.
Shocking.
Hey,its lgm.Where have you been since your boy got elected?Haven’t heard much from you.I hope your working so you can pay a bunch of taxes while the rest of us are in the reeducation camps.Or are you slated to be one of the instructors?
Ha, ha, ha. Ho, ho, ho. And a couple of laa dee dahs!.
Don’tlet the door hit you in the keester on the way out.Great to see some action against these 8-balls.
As someone who has worked in TV production, I can attest to this.
Definitely deserved to be canned…engineer more like collateral damage.
Don’t go away mad…JUST GO AWAY!
Hugo Chavez is always looking for left-leaning loons to help him with his propaganda. Maybe you could catch a ride with Danny Glover, Sean Penn, Medea Benjamin, or one of Pelosi’s advisors. They seem to be there alot. Now…please leave!
On November 12th, 2008 at 11:17 am, lgm said:
He said he thought the mike was off. Maybe that’s true. Both Reagan and Bush, Jr. issued “death threats” when they thought the mike was off. Reagan ordered a bombing raid on Russia — the biggest death threat known to man.
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Reagan said he had “outlawed Russia”; something rather difficult to take as anything other than a joke. That being said, he probably should have taken Radiojoe’s advice and “always assumed the mike was on”. So should the deejay in this case (who apparently used much stronger language and had a much more geniunely threatening tone).
the stupidity is amazing. reagan wasn’t president when joked about bombing russia…DUHHHHHHHHH he couldn’t ORDER anything
I feel bad to an extent for the op. He made a silly mistake, that 99.9 percent of the people who’ve done that job have made. And while there’s no excuse for making it, his real crime is that he made it at the worst possible time.
I’ll also note that although I don’t know one way or the other, the odds are that he had no connection with the show itself.
Wonder who or what put the pressure on…
C-CS
lgm: You will save money on dry cleaning bills if you remove your hat before using the bathroom.
I like how the article tries to paint Michael Savage as a “loose cannon” and thus tries to make the point that The Savage Nation is permitted on the air, but not this Karel individual.
Dr Savage can get pretty riled up, but I’ve yet to hear him make death threats against anybody…
Hey, what’s the deal with the Gays?
Seems like lately there’s non stop stories and videos in the news of homosexuals threatening violence on anyone that isn’t gay.
What’s up with that?
his real crime is that he made it at the worst possible time.
I have to disagree, Joe, as I feel that his “real crime” was saying it. People say what is in their heart. hearing his rant indicates he meant it. His voice wansn’t casual. His statement was a heart-felt rant!! Typical liberal behavior!
Hot mic. Always. Remember never point a gun at something you don’t intend to kill? Same principle.
Firing really was the only option. It’s a shame he’s playing the victim card. Free career advice: He might get some mileage out of an apology.
cicero, I think Joe was referring to the engineer who got canned.
He sure has a face for radio.
IIRC, Reagan was doing a mike test before a press confrence and he said something to the effect “I’ve just informed the Soviet Union the bombing begins in five minutes” as a joke.
LOL AJ my thoughts too. When the Fairness Doctrine is put into effect, he’ll be teaming up with Rush.
The attempt at equivocation fails. Take the quote from Reagan. Anyone breathing can see he was making a joke.
The quote specifically is…
LOL….legislation….that outlaws another country…seriously….do you even REALLY bother reading this stuff before you post?
Obviously satire. Meant to be funny. The F word never appears in the quote.
However, this guy goes on a rant about killing someone. The obvious nature of the conversation and rant he went on says exactly what we need to know.
Apples and oranges, lgm….apples and oranges.
Heh. Yes, I was referring to the engineer. The host definitely deserved it.
Far too many of these aggressive and emotional liberals get off with nothing more than a wrist slap. It is about time that actions have consequences, and that forgiveness comes after the consequence rather than before it. I am also waiting to see what happens to the ignorant woman who abused Joe the Plumber’s records and the idiot kid who hacked into Palin’s personal e-mail.
Yes. The engineer is responsible for the hot mike.
Remember that Joe the Plumber is just an Average American Citizen that we have far too much information on (and that information is almost all negative) thanks to a far left media (the Obama Press Corp). The more troubling thing is that this wack-job is one of way too many people out there who who have hatred toward Joe the Plumber and feel that that is a justified feeling. I have actually met people in bars (albeit on the Upper Left Side of Manhattan) who would agree with this DJ. These people are truly the “Useful Idiots” of the Obama Party. Be afraid, be very afraid. Glad to see someone in San Fransisco had the guts to fire this moron (Of course after much legal counsel prior to giving him the axe).
Good… Finally, something good that has come out of the last couple of months. That and the Catholic charities axing ACORN $$$$.
Hi Michelle,
Just wanted to say that it should be KGO, not KSFO. When I first read this I was wondering who at KSFO would go after Joe The Plumber, since KSFO is the conservative talker out here.
post 29″Far too many of these aggressive and emotional liberals get off with nothing more than a wrist slap.”
That’s what curdles my milk: where is the outrage from the left? “Nappy-headed ho” gets world-wide media attention and death threats is socially accepted behavior amongst this group of idjuts?
I would like to thank the engineer who probably left that microphone hot on purpose. As we were privy to witness, that DJ is a real idiot and I am sure that that engineer was the subject of too much abuse from him. Just like you shouldn’t piss off your waiter/bartender, so goes your engineer.
This bozo blames the engineer for letting his rant go out over the air when it was only meant for the clowns in his chat room? So in his mind it’s okay to call for murdering Joe the Plumber over the internet even if he didn’t mean to do it on air?
He needed to go.
ECS
Good point, Bob. Most of the engineers I work with wouldn’t do something like that (unless perhaps, they were VERY provoked
).
…and the radio host’s a** is responsible for the words he effartly let loose. A gas-bag finally got his just reward.
How long before Gavin Newsome rushes to his defense?…or hires him?…
I expect he’ll run for office with a ‘D’ after his name.
Worked well for Don Imus, didn’t it?
It IS Sodom by the Bay after all–they were most likely trying to determine if it was truly a threat or just a little S&M role playing. I bet it got Gavin Newsome and Chris Matthews all excited and tingly for awhile.
It IS San Francisco-where the Cable Cars stop at every bath house.
I need a shower.
Aside from dead is dead – they got the message.
AJ beat me to the punch.
lgm,
I didn’t see you go by and say “thanks” to our Vet’s. Would it kill you?
P.S.
lgm,
Do you get paid to be stupid or is it just on a dare?
Brings back memories of Jessie Jackson wanting to cut Obama’s **** off.
This guy should have been fired. His engineer didn’t cut the mics but it still came out of the hosts mouth.
So the world isn’t completely crazy. There are still a few sane people running things, apparently.
Savage lost his TV show when he, also believing he was off-air, went off on a gay caller who baited him. IIRC Savage told the guy he hoped he got AIDS and died.
The difference being that the KGO guy was saying this in reponse to McCain just mentioning Joe. Savage was confronted by a caller whose objective was to get him fired.
And THAT is the kind of leader we need now!
Too bad he didn’t joke about bombing France. They would have immediatly surrendered and offered trouble-free terms for the occupation. We’d still be enjoying free French wine and cheese instead of listening to their Obasms.
I wouldn’t care if Kapo Lgm said thanks to the Vets since he doesn’t seem to care I would consider his/her apology to be the same like Murthas’
Not worth the air or spit it took to say it!
With citizens like lgm and murtha, who needs enemies or ulcers. I would rather have the thanks from citizens who really appreciate the sacrifices we made from most of the people who post here. Especially from our hostess who gives us a place to play and post. (Thanks MM
!
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
Yeah, this was just like Reagan….
Good grief, are people like lgm really as stupid as they seem to be?
Gotta love the drivel on the link provided: “Karel played disco and house music, but is suprisingly sharp in a range of topics. He could take apart a car engine, for example, and talk at length about cars and technology and economics.” Wow, a talk radio personality that can talk about cars and technology and economics. And he’s GAY no less!
Why was he fired, and in San Francisco of all places! Now what are we going to complain about?
No doubt his next gig will be as an Olbermann / MSNBC Special Correspondent.
I believe that there will be openings in the Civilian Security Force.
Get to be President and you geta pass. He wasn’t, he loses.
ADIOS amigo…
MarcoPolo said (#56):
For bad guys on the air, nobody holds a candle to Fox — Ollie North (felony conviction overturned on a technicality), Newt Gingrich (escaped prosecution because the evidence was obtained illegally), Karl Rove (person of interest).
Sleep well tonight my friends-the Thug Thizzles, Cripts, Bloods and Fruit of Islam is on patrol-La Raza, AZTECA and 16th Street Homies down here on the border.
A Leftist/Liberal thanking a vet? “Ho, Ho, Ho Che Minh is going to win” is not my cup of tea. Thanks, but I need to cut the lawn.
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That every man be armed-you too ladies.
America First
America Alone
Americans Come Home
buh and bye. buh bye.
lgm – why dont you start trying something new for a change. If you are gonna post, try not to misdirect with your argument.
Do or do you not condone this man calling for Joe the Plumbers Murder? Do you think it right?
If you wanna start batting around names…here’s one for you. Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers both got off on technicalities…continue to be unrepentant…and are both gainfully employed and “respected” in their professions.
lgm,
You get paid – you have little doubt about it now.
-you have left-
Nope…The Obamunist will appoint him to be the Commander-in-Chief of the Brown Shirt Brigade.
Huh! San Fransicko firing someone for being anti-conservative? I don’t get it?
Our former poster Watershed would be perfect for that job.
The firing of this HateBall was long overdue.
Would you expect anything less than from KGO??? They spun the likes of Bernie Ward! http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10326294
lgm,how about these,just a tip of the iceberg:Barney Franks,Chris Dodd,Laura Richardson,Helen-Jones Kelly,NYT,LAT,Ayers etc,etc.They are crooks,theives,liars and traitors.Minnesota may be included after they let an election be stolen.But then they may be of your ilk.
On November 12th, 2008 at 11:17 am, lgm said:
Let not your selective memory be tempered by the fact that largely due to Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union disintegrated without a missile, a bomb, a grenade, or a bullet being fired.
The Greaseman was shown the door immediately after his “joke” about Lauryn Hill 9 years ago. This guy issues an actual death threat and it took two or three weeks to fire him??
Work for KGO and get fired or imprisoned and fired! ha ha ha ha . Next liberal please!
On November 12th, 2008 at 1:37 pm, lgm said:
Excuse me? A guy that wanted unrepentant domestic terrorists’ pal to be POTUS is talking about “bad guys?”
BTW – if new evidence emerges implicating William Ayers in domestic terrorism from years ago, should President Obama demand prosecution? What do you think, lgm?
Karel is a gay voice in the SF community?? Wow! He should have called it a “rhetorical flourish”. He should have said he wanted “to spur discussion”. What he did was associate the radical gay community even more strongly with the domestic terrorism of the KKK. When Robert Byrd retires, Karel should run for Congress. Somebody has to carry the torch. That’s not a pun.
But these are good people, so it is okay.
On November 12th, 2008 at 3:06 pm, greenfairie said:
Karel (who years ago played “Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead” from The Wizard of Oz when Ronald Reagan passed away) was a goner as of last Thursday. His show is only on weekends and when he fills in for daily hosts. So to my knowledge, his final broadcast was last Sunday, the day after the incident.
An East Bay liberal bemoaned his canning on Craigslist by demanding KGO broadcast Bernie Ward from prison.
I predict Karel WON’T have a stellar career after KGO. What a loser! He was full of hate. I think the only reason he kept his job was political correctness. Way to go Mickey and Jack!
Karel, dear, EVERY microphone is “open”,
just so’s ya know. Buh bye.
On November 12th, 2008 at 12:28 pm, KaosKlerik said:
Savage was on camera, broadcasting live. There was no excuse for what he said, and he deserved to be fired.
The key to surviving people who bait you is not to take the bait.
fairyfoose wrote:
It’s gotta be a weird time for Luckoff. He’s just had to fire one host after his kiddie porn indictment, and had to fire another for profane, hateful comments.
On the other hand, KGO has topped the Arbitron books for a stunning 30th straight year and Mickey’s just been inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Chuckle about the firing if you like, but you’ll notice he wasn’t fired until AFTER Obammy was elected so it’s just a little “housecleaning” on the part of the radio station to “improve” their “image”. They’ll just hire another Useful Idiot to promote The Messiah. Nothing has really been gained.
Before your time, lad, but it was the “USSR” back then. And instead of having to blow it up, President Reagan just took it apart piece by piece until it fell under it’s own weight of Obamaism…er, Marxism.
And cheers to the crazed left-wing (redundant terms, I know) radio dipstick as he asks the tiny Air anti-America, which specializes in issuing death threats, for a new gig!
L.N.Smithee, Jack Swanson, Station Mgr of KGO is also Mgr of the sister station KSFO. As KSFO has evolved, he’s had to fire a number of hosts. Jack and Mickey run a successful business because
there are lines you don’t cross. Even Jack’s wife, an on air personality was gone due to economic cutbacks. They run a tight ship, that’s why they make $$.
It wasn’t becuz Karel was gay. If he had declining ratings, he was fill-in.
Karel can blame it on who he wants, the words still came out of his cake hole.
Typical Progressive that he is crying about someone not cleaning up after him.
As I said, what a Loser.
HA Ha…. Your OUTTA HERE lol.
Geez … all this craziness and anger… just because the guy asked a simple question lol.
Liberals are like a crying spoiled brat of a baby. If they cant get it their way… they throw a temper tantrum.
Ahh, yes, because Reagan making a cold war joke is CLEARLY equivalent to a radio host calling for the death of a private citizen for daring to, gasp, ask Obama a question.
You libs and your moral equivalence. Next you’ll be telling us raping children is the same as having sex with the wife.
cake hole.
Too kind,fairyfoose. I think gays call it something else…
xblade…..Liberal Progressives don’t understand humor. They can’t tell the difference between a joke and venom. You wait to hear all the hate speech that will be detected against our New and Glorious Leader, The One.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy. We need more conservative activists to go after nutjobs like this and give them a taste of conservative activism.
I used to catch some his show when he broadcast out of Los Angeles about 7 years ago. If I remember correctly, he lead in to the phil henry show which was always good for a laugh. Usually his show was about silly topics, once it was about cell phone rings, another time about interior house paints, but sometimes he would talk about world events and he was not appreciative to people who called in that did not agree with him. Usually karel, being a coward, would hang up on the caller then belittle the person when they could not defend themselves. That station, i believe clear channel, is all conservative now. There is a dj who does a morning drive show who says all the time that clear channel is all about the money, they do not care about the format, if it makes money, liberal or conservative, it is on.
Frontierguy, ….and if Karel can’t make the Company money in San Fran with his schick, I don’t know where he’ll be able to make money. I couldn’t stand to listen to the topics he discussed. I’d turn it off.
Ad revenue has been falling for a while in Radio, that’s why some of our local
hosts are gone, replaced with syndicated programs. It’s cheaper. Radio Companies are altruistic. Liberal
Progressives don’t understand/can’t comprehend that concept.
I see Kapo lgm is still a moral imbecile.
Sorry…Radio Companies ARE NOT altruistic.
fairyfoose wrote:
You don’t have to tell me about Jack Swanson and Melanie Morgan. Lee Rodgers has been my alarm clock setting for years.
L.N.Smithee,
I suspected as much. But there was one of the initial KSFO Hosts when the station first started that Jack had to fire for being mouthy. Then another for
leaving and having dead air.
Willie Peter…don’t lump us all in together, I don’t claim that dumb*ss. I think he should go to jail for threatening and intimidation like all thugs do.
But, hey, that’s just me. I mean, it is in the law, right?
Fairyfoose…yeah, i reread my post and it sounded kinda scattered, i’m glad you were able to decipher it and clarify the point i was trying to make. Liberals do not get that media format is still talent driven, not ideological, and it is talent that brings the audience and then the money. Ideology will get you an initial following, but if you have nothing more than angry rants as your format, you will not keep that audience. Air America is a great example. They lost their station in San Diego, owned by clear channel, all the local hosts did was claim it an evil intention of clear channel to silence them. As if clear channel had no idea what kind of format they were going to have from the beginning.
I don’t mean to be long winded, but I listened to Air America in their last week and one day the morning show host took calls and personally knew everyone that called in. So either he was only talking calls from people he knew or had a very small audience. That told me that their failure was their own.
LGM ,,,why are you so slow in answering or not answering at all? I have many questions for you and you can’t even answer the current ones let alone the ones you have ignored the past year. So you think this is ok for gays to wish death threats on the air?
A left wing nutjob’s actions actually had consequences???? Color me shocked.
I thinking I may create a new online persona that channels LGM’s left brain in order to answer all of those unanswered questions.
I’m thinking: ‘IamLGMsLeftBrain‘
feebiebabe said(#62):
I don’t condone death threats. Was this a death threat? I don’t know. One day I came home to find my kid had made a huge mess in the kitchen. I said: “I’m gonna kill him.” Death threat?