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On Friday’s Radio Show…

It’s the Friday Night Free-For-All with:

• National Review Online columnist John Derbyshire, whose most recent book is Unknown Quantity

• Conservative comedian Vinnie Brand

• Daily Beast columnist Tracy Quan, author of Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl…

Is This Our Next Supreme Court Justice?

Elena Kagan wanted to succeed Larry Summers as president of Harvard but, as it turned out, the Dean of Harvard Law became the Solicitor General of the United States.  The person who argues for the administration before the high court is often looked at as a likely nominee for the court.  The Boston Globe profiled her in January.  She was looked upon as someone who made changes at Harvard Law great and small.

Kagan reportedly met president-elect Barack Obama when the two worked on the University of Chicago Law School faculty in the 1990s. She started teaching at Harvard in …

Right-Wing Talker Suspended For Slurring Mexicans

Boston conservative radio talk host Jay Severin was suspended by his station for ignorant, racist comments about Mexicans.   Severin blamed Mexicans for the swine flu, calling them “criminaliens,” “primitives,” “leeches,” and “women with mustaches and VD.” Radio writer Michael Hood says it’s no wonder Republicans don’t enjoy the good will and the votes of the nation’s burgeoning Latino population.

Radio hosts, who serve as Republican surrogates these days, imitate Rush Limbaugh and make bombastic remarks grazing the outer edges of taste and political correctness to goad the respectable media into raising a ruckus, and thence: getting them into the papers.…

Michael Reagan To Stephanie Miller: “I’ll Stay With God; You Stay With New Hampshire”

I just got off the phone with Michael Reagan.  When he answered I said, “It’s the state of New Hampshire calling and I’d like a few words with you.”  At the end of a discussion on gay marriage on CNN, Michael said to Stephanie Miller, “I’ll stay with God, you stay with New Hampshire.”  Way to piss off an entire state, Mike.

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