Mike Stark's Interesting Moment With Harry Reid

[Bob Geiger]

Well, the first YearlyKos conference is now in the books and one of my favorite parts of an amazing event was getting to meet other bloggers whose work I have long admired, but who I had never met in person.

For example, I met Mike Stark, who I also got to spend quite a bit of time with in the YearlyKos media room and elsewhere. Mike runs the Calling All Wingnuts blog, on which he runs audio of the many instances in which he humiliates right-wing types on their radio shows after he somehow manages to get on the air -- which he does with astounding regularity.

You can really see Mike's impact in the way he now has these people so paranoid that, on a recent Rush Limbaugh show, the Oxycontin King went nuts on a totally innocent caller because he was so sure he had finally nailed Mike. You can read about that and listen to it here.

But I mention Mike and his site today because of something he has posted about a brief interaction he had with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid -- Mike told me about it after it happened -- that was short, but very interesting.

As I said in my previous piece on Reid's excellent speech, the Nevada Senator was mobbed like a rock star as he left the massive hotel ballroom and, like me, Mike managed to get close enough to shake his hand. But I'll let Mike tell you what prompted his close encounter with Senator Reid:

"I approached his exit path and ended up standing about 10 feet from him when I said, loudly enough to be sure he heard it, 'Cut Holy Joe loose, Harry. He’s deadweight on our Party.'

"Well, Harry is no coward. He continued on his exit path which took him right by me. Of course he was shaking hands on his way out. He shook my hand, leaned into me and said, 'I heard what you said.'"

From what Mike told me later, it was obvious from his manner that Reid understood Mike's sentiments about Joe Lieberman and embraced the thought himself. Short, but interesting and sweet.

And by the way, you should make it a point of regularly visiting Mike's site. In addition to driving people like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly nuts, it was Mike himself, who made the National Review's Byron York flee when he offered to debate York, on video tape, about that favorite GOP subject, abortion.

York avoided him like the plague for the rest of YearlyKos -- which made me even more happy to have met Mike Stark.

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[Pirate Smile]

1. I love him and his calls. It is great. I would bet some DU'ers would

enjoy doing it.

Go check out his site and see if it is something you would like to do.

[durrrty libby]

2. I went to listen to the Rush call

How can anybody listen to this blowhard on a regular basis?

[nxylas]

7. Some people have no choice

I've worked in offices and even taken a bus ride where I was subjected to a non-stop diet of hate radio. You try to tune it out, but it's not always easy, particularly when you have someone like Limbaugh SCREAMING AT YOU the whole time.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Great stuff. That's how to do it.

:)

[gordianot]

4. Joe should go to trial if the current criminals are held accountable.

He moves behind the scenes and is too slick to get caught like Cheney and Rove.

[Scout1071]

5. Welcome to DU Bob.

Excellent post. And I'm totally jealous about YKos. I couldn't make it due to work (shit), but you better believe I'll be there next year.

[PBass]

6. Bumping this up after hearing El Rushbo lose his marbles

on the air, at Mike Stark's website.

DELICIOUS!!!