Miller: Fox: "Comedy Central for Liberals....right-wing freak show"

[AnnInLa]

sorry if this is a dupe

On Radio, More Laughter From the Left

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 13, 2005; Page C01

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."




Stephanie Miller launched her radio show last fall. (Democracy Radio)

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, Ohio, and Anchorage, the former stand-up 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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As recently as 2000, Miller hosted a popular show on Los Angeles' KABC but had trouble getting syndicated, and then, she says, "I was fired for being too liberal." (She also says the station didn't like the "racy content" of her show, where she sometimes referred to male callers as "love puppet" and "stud monkey.") There was, she concluded, no place for liberals in a talk radio world dominated by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. 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."

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Much of that attention has been lavished on Air America, which says it is running ahead of projections, with an average of 222,000 people listening at any one time (compared to the roughly 4.4 million that Limbaugh averages at any one time on 600 stations). Franken, who spent part of his award acceptance speech ripping O'Reilly, says the industry is no longer laughing at liberal radio. Hannity's liberal co-host, Alan Colmes (who joked at the conference that there are some liberals at Fox -- on the janitorial staff) is now heard on 70 stations.

more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/12/AR2005061201593.html

[chalky]

1. Okay, I've got to hand it to Alan Colmes for this one:

"...there are some liberals at Fox -- on the janitorial staff."

I'm embarrassed to say that I've never listened to Stephanie.
I stream Air America at work and it's just too easy to stay there. I confess that I've just been too lazy to seek her out, but I promise that will change.
(Can't say the same for Ed Schultz. Saw him on Franken last year--when Franken was first on Sundance--and wasn't impressed.)

[teenagebambam]

4. You really should have a listen

She's freaking hilarious.

Also not impressed with Schultz, and Franken's starting to wear on my nerves as well!

[chalky]

8. Damn. I missed streaming her this morning.

Are her shows archived somewhere? Didn't see her on the White Rose Society website.

On a positive note, she comes on the same time as Jerry Springer.
Jerry can get a little tiresome--it's nice to know I have an alternative to stream. (If I can stream her. Looks like they use something other than realplayer or windows media. Hope they'll let me download that platform.)

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Not a fan of Schultz myself

He reminds me voice wise too much of Rush. Millers show comes on when I'm still asleep sadly and the show isn't archived. :( I wish it was. I heard her interview John Conyers and enjoyed it.

[Pirate Smile]

2. "is in talks with CNN about a satire show" PLEASE, yes!

[Pirate Smile]

3. Here is some more"

"Watching Fox with Miller makes clear where she gets her material. Hannity teases the next segment by saying Rep. Charles Rangel "compared the war in Iraq to the Holocaust -- did he really mean it?"

"They always pose questions like that: 'Is Hillary the spawn of Satan, and should she be burned at the stake?' "

Miller is amused when Hannity, listening to Rangel insist that the Bush administration "preplanned" a "preemptive strike" against Saddam Hussein, declares: "There's no such evidence that exists, and you know that." The congressman tries to offer some, which Hannity dismisses as talk about "black helicopters."

Says Miller: "He just starts talking over them or laughing or slamming his notebook up and down while people are talking. I'm continually amazed that Democrats go on there."'

[skippysmom]

5. I love her show

Don't get me wrong, I like the people on AA, but she is just plain funny while AA can be very serious.

[Ian David]

6. Damn. I was hoping you meant DENNIS Miller.

Would have been nice to see him flip-flop back to liberal again now that is shitty show has been flushed down the right-wing toilet.

[chaska]

9. Am I the only one that could care less what they say on Fox...

Why do Miller and Franken have to always tell us that stuff.

I don't find Miller that funny. I much prefer Marc and Mark, for funny and substance.