Radio host suspended for airing anti-Palin protesters' numbers

[BlueJessamine]

Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau

Anchorage AM radio host Eddie Burke has been suspended for a week for broadcasting the phone number of women involved in organizing a protest against Sarah Palin.

The women later received threatening phone calls.

In a statement, KBYR-AM 700 station manager Justin McDonald said broadcasting the numbers last week was "breaking station policy." Burke will be suspended for one week without pay, he said.

"Though I do not agree with some of the comments he made, as a licensee, we attempt to respect everyone's First Amendment rights, including Eddie Burke's, our listeners' and our nonlisteners'," McDonald's statement said. "That does not mean I condone inciting violence or harm in any way to people wanting to voice their opinions with peaceful protest."



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[Junkdrawer]

1. Can his wrist take all that slapping?

Oh, the humanity...

[gateley]

2. Jeez - no kidding!

Isn't it breaking the law or something? I hope these women get a lawsuit going.

[DeSwiss]

9. Problem is....

...the same people who called them will be on the jury.

[StopTheNeoCons]

13. Right wing terrorist quotes

"All liberals should be killed because they are ruining the country." Jim David Atkinson, killed 2 people in a church in July, in Tennessee

"Liberals are the enemy within our country, an enemy more dangerous than Hitler." Michael Savage

"I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself or if I would need to hire somebody to do it." Glenn Beck

"The dream end of this is that this keeps up until the end of the convention and that we have a replay of Chicago 1968, with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots." Rush Limbaugh

"The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them." Rush Limbaugh

[StopTheNeoCons]

14. Right wing radio terrorosts

"All liberals should be killed because they are ruining the country." Jim David Atkinson, killed 2 people in a church in July, in Tennessee

"Liberals are the enemy within our country, an enemy more dangerous than Hitler." Michael Savage

"I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself or if I would need to hire somebody to do it." Glenn Beck

"The dream end of this is that this keeps up until the end of the convention and that we have a replay of Chicago 1968, with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots." Rush Limbaugh

"The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them." Rush Limbaugh

[superconnected]

3. Nothing like a bunch of gun toting fundies who are angry with you having your phone number

and hence able to trace it to your address.

Palin is crazy. Her supporters who do watch the news and know what shes about, are crazy too.

[Anexio]

11. "Palin is (supporters are) crazy" - No they are not!!!

They are what I call voters.

For every fundie nutjob out there that is voting for Palin we need someone that actually votes for Obama just to break even.

Please, register and get Democrats to the polls this November.

Best regards.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Excellent.

They should go all the way and fire his fat ass.

[Bennyboy]

5. Good my call did something.....

I am going to call again to say what a sham this is and he sohould be fired.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. FYI - KBYR is a FOX NEWS station. They broadcast right wing extremist evangelicals....

...like multi-million dollar Preacher James Dobson who created a video asking viewers and listeners to pray for bad weather to interfere with Obama's Democratic National Convention speech.

Anyway, look around the right wing website for the radio station: http://www.kbyr.com/

If you'd like to write to the @-hole that put Eddie Burke on suspension, here you are:

[e-mail]

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. K & R! nt

[salguine]

8. Can somebody post Eddie Burke's phone number online and forward it everywhere?

[stlsaxman]

10. that's a call i'd be willing to pay for...

just to say two words-

"Fuck you".

[chatnoir]

17. You'll find it in the comments

Poster Torin

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-women-reject-palin-rally-is-huge/rally64/

[LeftinOH]

12. From his own website: "He is a normal Alaskan. A high school dropout..."

What a dumb f*uck. Alaska doesn't sound so exotic anymore..mostly just creepy.

http://www.kbyr.com/ebs/

[bettyellen]

15. more idiocy: " help Alaska become the state that we all know and love"

how the fuck do you "know it" then?

[mitchum]

21. "It's like a third world country for white people!"

as a coworker said last week

[chatnoir]

16. A week's suspension? That's a freaking joke

This hateful blowhard should have been fired.

[libodem]

18. The Ed Schulz show was broadcast from Alaska today

and it was a doozey. Well, worth the listen. I think they had about 98 people out for Palin and about 1500 hatin' on her ass.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

19. maybe when he comes back from his week vacation

he can explain why, when speaking of liberals, socialism is something for maggots, but apparently is ok when practiced by a Republican Governor, and benefits him personally. I would really like to know why it is ok for Alaska to share in oil company profits, but no where else is it in the US.

[mitchum]

20. His mush! time audience will miss his idiot blatherings

[Bluenorthwest]

22. Thugs supporting lunatics

Alaska is a real pip. This Burke and McDonald should both be fired.