My email to the radio station and to clear channel:

I am a military parent of two and I am sick and tired of channel flipping only to hear these nitwits at KLSD, San Diego, calling my Son's Commander in Chief names.

Get rid of them. Put something respectable on our radio again.

No, Mary, far better we put something respectable in the White House again. If you haven't figured that out yet, you so aren't paying attention.

Mary must not notice that the right-wing stations engage in name-calling all the time. I guess freedom of speech is not one of the things Mary's kids are fighting for.

We let regressives speak, and then we refute them. But the right either doesn't let us on the air, or calls us names and hangs up on us before we can say anything.

I'm a senior citizen. When the last liberal talk show host was forced off the air in San Diego, I did what any freedom-loving citizen living behind an iron curtain would do: I bought a shortwave radio. For years I listened to the BBC and to Radio Canada, Australia, and other shortwave stations until KLSD made it possible for me to listen to local radio again.

I'm surprised that Mary prefers a Soviet-style system, where only the government's views can be expressed and the government can't be criticized. Are other rightwingers also unaware that what they are proposing is a hard-core totalitarian Communist system?

My wife is exactly correct. The name calling wacko's are falling off the air in San Diego because nobody wants their advertising to be associated with such antics of the left. The two percenters of America just don't get it. Your trash radio does not work and when it doesn't you scream "CONSPIRACY". The reason it does not work is your two percenter message is lost on 98% of America......

[This totally explains Mary, but now we gotta wonder about you. Brought over during the fall of Berlin for your weapons development expertise were you, Mr. Mary?]

This is for you, Mr. and Mrs. Mary: click here.

Mary, your son's CiC is a mass murderer--and he started by blowing up frogs as a child. Conservatives have one thing in common: they are greedy and don't want other voices heard. Turn the damn dial if you don't like it.

Great info, Miriam. A format change such as what they're suggesting for KLSD in San Diego would be a terrible loss. Especially the local programming. A lot of progressive radio stations have flipped over the last several months, but a few have been stopped by public outcry, so this is definitely do-able.

I'm hoping there's a huge crowd at Monday's 7:30 am rally at the station.

This is an example of a SAVAGE republiKKKan tactic to say that you're a "military parent" : . . .

#1 & #4

Clear Channel shut down all 3 Ohio affiliates just days after Howard Dean credited them with winning the 06 election there. They are career sponsors of Bush and the very company itself was funded at start-up with the gains investors made when Bush conned Arlington, Texas taxpayers into building him a new stadium. I've always thought their participation could be a dirty trick.

The solution to this is the same as with the right wing trickster's takeover of the AM radio dial, creating a dirty disinformation operation which the 10-year Annenberg School study found duped 50 million listeners and swung 5 of 6 national elections:

The Democratic Congress FOR ITS OWN SURVIVAL must hold high profile hearings exposing how right wing dirty tricksters, many from the original Nixon squad, pirated the AM dial into a disinformation operation that would make Goebbels blush, have taken over and wrecked the Federal government. There is no way to beat them otherwise as they hold the balance of power.

Exactly, let the corporate owners only out to reap their million dollar tax cuts and ownership-limits waivers feel some heat. They respond to Dem Congress takeover by rolling out Dennis Miller on 150 stations, while ratings winner Ed Schultz can't get heard in 7/10 of the country. Let them feel the heat, and be reminded that we are poised to strike hard when we take the White House if they don't provide the balance NOW on our airwaves.
Can't wait to hear what CC's excuse is when they try to shut down KTLK in L.A., which has Bank of America and United Airlines as advertisers, who also won't advertise on hate radio.

Stacy Taylor and Randi Rhodes are FRAUDS. Taylor used to be a hard rightwing nut. Randi Rhodes wants to be famous. She's in this business to make alot of money, so she can continue her freaky obbesesion with plastic surgery. She has had over 8 surgeries.Just spent over $25,000.000 for capped teeth. She's having more surgery in a few months. Everybody who has worked with her has left, because they soon realized what a phony she is.

Tim - I've never met Randi Rhodes and can't speak to whether she's had plastic surgery or not, though I fail to see what relevance that would have to her political views or her effectiveness as a talk show host.

Stacy, however, is a true convert. He used to have a show on a conservative station, but his philosophy was more libertarian than Republican, favoring gun ownership but on many other issues, he dissented from the station's viewpoint.

But like many people, when Bush took office, Stacy had enough of the right-wing mindset. He also supported the grocery workers strike here, over objections of the conservative-owned station he was with at the time. Stacy gradually came to support more and more liberal and moderate viewpoints and has emerged as a powerful voice for progressive politics both locally and nationally since finding a home at KLSD. I have interviewed Stacy in depth on his views and it's clear he is sincere in his change of outlook.

Stacy is hardly the only prominent personality who has changed parties or views; examples of this abound. Earl Warren, arguably the most influential liberal Supreme Court Justice in history, was appointed ironically by a Republican President who thought he would be a reliable conservative.

No better example of what drooling right wing radio has done to this country than Tim. We prepare for an election to discuss critical issues like health care and war, then Tim's cohorts on every major AM station in the country derail all discussion into John Edward's haircuts. This led Walter Cronkite, the only man ever dubbed "most trusted man in America," to pronounce our Democracy dead after the 2004 election, saying we no longer had the "critical reasoning" to choose wisely. But who needs them big words when we gits to talk bout Randi Rhodes capped teeth.

The irony of "Mary's Husband's" turn of phrase, "name calling wacko's", is no doubt lost on him, I'm afraid.

Nonetheless, no matter the Mary's of the world, and their inability to understand what their own child is actually fighting for (in theory), we'll keep on standing up for freedom of speech, democracy, and against Soviet/Saddam-style broadcasts where every station has the same point of view.

Mary and her husband would do well to talk to their son when he --- hopefully --- comes home in one piece. They may learn something from him about American Values.

Terrific job on the story, Miriam!

A petition has also been started to save KLSD AM 1360:

http://www.gopetition.co...s/save-klsd-am-1360.html

Same thing happened here in Fresno...our progressive talk station was replaced by sports programming. I couldn't swear that it was also a Clear Channel move, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Whoever was responsible, I guess they thought that everyone would be good little soldiers and start listening to the other talk station in town which, or course, carries the Limbaugh/Hannity axis.

Maybe Mary and her husband work for "FREEDOM'S WATCH"! Ever think of THAT? That can't be discounted, did you see the Freedom's Watch propaganda commercials yet? Or hear them on the radio?

"calling my Son's Commander in Chief names."

hmmmm...sounds like Freedom's Watch to me!!!

...and then "Mary's Husband", the old "Yeah! I agree with (insert first shill's name here). The "testimonial"!

They espouse to Bill O'Reilly's view of freedom of speech: "SHUT UP! IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME!" It's "OK" if OUR side uses McCarthyism against the Democrats (see Limbaugh and Hannity). "The Democrats are aiding the terrorists!"

They want ONE view broadcast over the airwaves: THEIR view! They want only the Limbaugh's, Hannity's, O'Reilly's, and Savage's...ONLY...broadcast! Only THEIR name-callers!

Actually, I want to thank Mary and her Man. I was asking myself whether it was worth it to put all of my other responsibilities aside and make the one hour plus drive from where I live to San Diego on Monday morning in order to participate in the rally for KLSD. Mary and Man are what convinced me that I should do just that in order to help preserve a station and progressive format that helps promote the kind of dialogue, debate and dissent that is the essence of a true democracy, something that Mary and Man likely think thier son is fighting for but which they don't even want to promote here at home. They must live in some bubble blown out of Rush Limbaugh's arse if they really think that only 2% are in support of the message that KLSD and other progressive stations are promoting. I hope everyone who can will take the same challenge and attend that rally and let Mary and Man know that there are more than "6 or 7" of us out here listening to, learning from and promoting the Progressive message.

Somebody didn't do their "What is Corporate Media" homework.
And somebody didn't listen to what Their Own Sons say about Iraq.
Obviously another redundant sports channel is needed in their area, I mean hey, how are you going to keep the people in the dark.

And for the rest of you who are not brainwashed, The same basic thing happened here in Sacramento, where an Air America station got yanked for an ESPN sports station. (Like they don't already have enough of that crap already.)

The bottom line with Corporate Media is the Dollar. You want to educate the people about politics and government, you need to wean their ass off Sports and all this other Useless F*@king Crap they are watching.

It don't matter about liberal or conservative, it matters about the DOLLAR, corporate media DOES NOT SERVE in the PUBLIC's INTEREST!

Okay. If they didn't have Michael Savage, they would have some other stupid program that just wastes your time through the day, and doesn't teach you a damn thing about the real situation in America.

You wanna argue about liberal vs. conservative hosts, that's a different argument, but corporate media stations only interest is PROFIT.

If you want to put out something in your OWN interest, or the Public interest, or Educational interest, or be a watchdog on the Government, then go start a public access show (it's not that hard), and or just support public access.

Don't confuse PBS (Public Broadcast Service) with public access it's not the same. Public Access serves in the Public Interest, PBS does not.

There is now a petition you can sign to save San Diego's Air America station:
http://www.gopetition.co...s/save-klsd-am-1360.html

As for public access stations locally...One "public access" TV channel in the San Diego area (El Cajon) was misused by conservatives on the city council who paid $24,000 of taxpayer money to buy religious right-wing videos that they aired as propaganda before outraged citizens finally forced the City to take them down.

You folks who want to save "prog" talk at KLSD are living in a dream-world. If they were ranked in the top 5, hell even the top 10 in the S.D. market we wouldn't be having this conversation.

This is not about political ideology; it's all about ratings and revenue. KLSD has precious little of either. It's just business.....

Frau Mary und Herr Mary's Husband:
being a patriot doesn't mean you love your president (even if you voted for him or not) - it means you love your country and believe in your constitution. Last time I checked, we all live in the United States where it is our RIGHT to political discourse and our RIGHT to "call the commander in chief names". What you believe in is Anti-American at best, and at least political and social totalitarianism. Do you know what freedom means? Maybe you should build a time machine and live in Nazi Germany where you can be told what to think and what to say. 2 percenters? Please....