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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Jerry Springer: Thumbing his nose at power
Posted by Jill | 6:02 AM
We already know that Jerry Springer has made a career out of saying "Fuck you!" to decorum and exposing the dark underbelly of red-state America. But who knew that he was going to make a second career out of saying "Fuck you!" to the people who syndicate his radio show?

I know that Unfiltered fans hate, hate, hate Springer's radio show, but I've always found it to be at worst listenable, and sometimes even providing a valuable service in terms of Springer's name recognition with the red staters. But with Air America's reorganization, and Springer's banishment to syndication, he's obviously decided to thumb his nose at the AAR suits and remind them of their folly by having fired AAR hosts as substitutes. Springer absences used to be filled by guys like Jay Diamond and occasionally Paul Hackett. But last Thursday and Friday, it was the vocally anti-AAR (and for good reason) Mike Malloy doing his patented Mike Malloy ranting during the post-drive-time hours, and today and tomorrow it's the equally-screwed-over-by-AAR Marc Maron and Jim Earl, presumably bringing Sammy the Stem Cell and the Milfingtons.

Jerry Springer is an unlikely candidate for a real life Peter Gibbons, but if it gives us even a taste of the talent AAR was stupid enough to toss under the bus, well, we'll take it.

You should be able to stream this week's Fired Air America Host here.
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