Mark Madden, who made his reputation with bold, outlandish attacks on famous people, has been permanently removed from the air by ESPN.
His dismissal, which came down from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., came five days after he made a scurrilous remark about U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on his 1250 ESPN talk show, which ran from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays.
"I'm very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated."I wonder if he got a card from the Kopechnes." Read on...
It took five days to make this call? That's pretty sick, but at least they took this buffoon off the air.
Soon, gone will be the days of right-wing radio types. Their house of cards is starting to shake...
Mark Madden was immediately notified by the RNC that he'll be a keynote speaker at their national convention this year.
Fox news is already offering him contracts.
big ass stupid buffoon. May he get all that he deserves in this life and the next.
A little slow in responding but good. Even corporate America is beginning to catch on that about 90% of us have had it with Republicans and their mouthpieces.
Nice guy. Wonder if he kisses his family members with that vile mouth of his -- or if they let him, more to the point.
Gee,who says Conservatives aren't funny?
Right-wing Christian Family-Values.
4 no longer a proud american Says: big ass stupid buffoon. May he get all that he deserves in this life and the next.
Maggots, spiders and night-crawlers?
Free speech doesnt make someone a buffoon. Humor is the only thing that makes this life worth living.
I couldn't believe it when a "classic rock" jock here in San Diego said something like, "If the Democrats get elected we'll be attacked". This was before the '06 election. I think he was reprimanded, I don't think he was fired.
great. another unemployed fat racist redneck douchebag.
coward
ESPN = Disney = Right wing propagandists and GOP enablers.
My guess is if they could have kept him on the air they would have. After 5 days they decided they couldnt, or wouldnt, risk the fallout
Just more stupid white trash....both him and his listeners.
Seeeeeeeeeeeeee ya...........wouldn't want to be ya.
Looks like you'll have to move back in with Mom, unless your trailer is paid for, Redneck.
Damn, why do people even go there?
Another thing-I feel awful for the Kopechne family. Every time Ted has a problem, these people use Mary Jo Kopechne as some sort of personal baseball bat against him...
I wonder how many of these self-righteously indignant mopes could name Laura Bush's dead BF? The one she killed in a car accident. What about the names of any of the guys killed on the Forrestal during McCain's 'wet start.' Or any dead people from Iraq, for that matter.
Fat bastard looks as if he's had a frontal lobotomy.
I was always under the impression that ESPN was a sports cable channel not RW hate talk radio thing.
Just out of curiosity... what the hell does Teddy Kennedy have to do with professional sports?
I'd also like to point out that right wingers making jokes about killing liberals has become pretty mainstream. Coulter does is, Malkin does it, Beck, Limbaugh, Savage etc etc all do it. But if some annonymous poster on Democratic underground or the Huffington post makes a similar joke (instead this time it's about killing a conservative) all hell breaks loose.
Frankly, I think on both sides of the political spectrum ppl need to stop making these types of jokes. Mostly because America is a country with a history that tends to show make political assassinations not so funny: Kennedy, Lincoln, Bobby Kennedy, the attempt on Reagan, Martin Luther King, etc etc.
I'm pretty sure ppl could make some very mean joke without having to hope for an assassination. For example, people will make jokes about how things would be better off if Ann Coulter were dead. Why? There is an untouched gold mine of jokes all about how Ann Coulter is a lonley, unloved, unwanted, crusty, old, childless, middle aged, menopausal, spinster woman.
Jeez, what an assh*le.
And good points, all, Miss Kitty @ 18.
Judging by the link to the Pittsburgh paper, I can SEE why this guy was on radio. Looks like an overweight, loud-mouthed, redneck.
That said, there are a lot of very cool people in Pittsburgh.
Just Thinking. @ 10:
Free speech doesn't make someone a buffoon-although what you choose to say definitely can.
By way of example,I could submit that I find tasteless jokes about assassination funny,which would be my right,although it probably expose me a gaumless pin head.
The curious thing about AC is that she is rather misogynistic and was caught and photographed at the opening evening of a new gay restaurant in DC.
Shes a mystery that one, claims to hate everything but secretly does what etc, just remembered ah well just another typical closet self hating Republican.
Now the wheel has started turning. It is about time that people began to realize how malicious and terrible these talk radio hosts are. Hopefully, this will start to be a trend. After all, they won't respect "equal time" on the air. So, it's time that the radio (and televsion, by extension) producers and news directors develop a conscience and do something to get rid of these guys. They've been allowed to say their filth for too long. All they use the airwaves for is to denigrate and attack women, people of color, gays, lesbians and transgendered folks without being caught.
Therefore, they have instigated an entire generation of blowhards who see these radio fascists' dysfunctional behavior as open season to attack anyone who does not fit the ideal perception of an American. As a result, the blowhards' behavior (as demonstrated by their talk radio fascist idols) is echoed in the work-place, on-line, within families in the public space and so-forth.
I am for Freedom of Speech, like the next person. But I think that talk show hosts like the one featured in this thread abuse this Amendment and then use it to cover his behind when they get caught.
Speaking of other RW radio denziens, I wonder how long will it take for Neil Boortz to go? That man is yet another radio fascist that won't disappear.
people love these far right assholes. Why is Fox so popular?
miss_kitty @ 18:
I guess it's okay when repubs kill people. Seriously, though, you're right they wont let up on Kennedy for his accident but you never hear about Republican mistakes, no matter how many people pay with their lives.
How many people listen to "sports" radio?? Must be a bunch of reich wingers anyway. The reich wing was busy buying up progressive stations and then going to "sports talk" or religious talk. Must be hundreds losing money and folding.
pinkobait @ 24:
correction:it WOULD probably expose me AS a gaumless pin head.
Like being unable to type properly.
brokenarrow @ 16:
Mom is probably also his wife and sister...
Any relation to that other sports-oriented Madden guy?
I think he's realted to this peach.
Just to get it right, this guy wasn't a far right radio talk show host. He was a sports jock who, like a lot of sports jocks around the country, are hired to get ratings by being a jerk with overamplified opinions. He would say stupid things about a lot of people, mostly in sports. His show did not have a political agenda.
Maybe he can get a job at Radio Ruwanda
Another tool of divisive patriotism gone, let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
RonDumsfeld @ 32:
John Madden? God, I hope not!
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miss_kitty @ 18:
BAM, you nailed it!!!
And don't forget Lori Klausutis, who used to be an active member of her local Republican Party - until she was found dead in Congressman Joe Scarborough's office.
Within days of her death, even before her remains were conveniently cremated, her life had been erased so throroughly that even her college pictures had been removed her university's web site. The police declared her death an accident before the coroner examined her and later admitted they did it to "spare Scarborough" any bad press.
That radio blowhard doesn't even know about her I bet, because 98% of America never heard of her, or her suspicious death. It was covered up so fast and so completely its as if she never existed.
But they all know Joe Scarborough. He quit Congress right about then, to "spend more time with his family". Then he promptly left his family, went to New York and got a job on MSNBC.
Don't we wish. Don't count on it happening any time soon. As long as people listen, and as long as they make money, we'll always have idiots like this one.
Joe Blow @ 31:
It's all relative...
Remember the missing and murdered children in Atlanta in the late 70's an early 80's? A body was found one day and the early morning radio shock-type jocks said something (I don't remember what) and played "Another One Bites The Dust". They were fired before the song ended which was the immediately correct response!
rooth hussein @ 39:
I left her out, because I see her brought up here all the time. No different. The Kopechne and the Klausutis families should not be bitch slapped with the memories of their daughters in such a fugly manner, every time these guy f up or get sick.
One local pittsburgh blogger's been commenting on the lovely Madden.
Here and
here and here.
Richard @ 34:
Yes he was clearly engaging in sports commentary when he made his career ending comment. Who are you? His agent?
#23 Brokenarrow said: "Judging by the link to the Pittsburgh paper, I can SEE why this guy was on radio. Looks like an overweight, loud-mouthed, redneck.
That said, there are a lot of very cool people in Pittsburgh."
True, and there's one less since I left the city where I grew up. Seriously, I've known this prick Madden for years and he should have been fired more than a decade ago. But like some others here, I suspect Fox will pick him up within the next year.
Just look at this guy. I hate to judge a book by its cover but come on.
I find that he is posed for the pic with his mouth closed interesting. It must have been hard to go that long without breathing :)
repugs and death go hand in hand.
wvguy @ 47:
he looks and sounds like a hill supporter
Rico @ 46:
Oh, assuredly! He's their kind of guy. Bombastic, stupid, and a bully; what a fit!
Just Thinking. @ 10:
What if they use their free speech to say stupid things all day?
Is Colin Cowherd still on the air? I quit ESPN radio when he started doing Kerry jokes. Gee, thanks Disney!
moe testers found the bottom ,
I must say, since Disney acquired ESPN, that network has been completely unwatchable.
It's bad enough they whip up any drama they possibly can that's sports related, but weren't they way more laid back a decade ago with their dress code? Maybe I'm thinking it was the Deuce but this network has become decisively unchill for my viewing tastes.
We all know that the death of Sen. Kennedy is something they've been wishing since we knew about his health problems. Let us not act shocked. They want it to happen to Sen. Obama, and everyone else who is descent. It is sad though, that something like this happens and they, that consider themselves good christians, wish for stuff like that.
Rico @ 46:
They happily hired Brian Kilmeade from local hate radio, who now merrily continues his spewing of car bombing enemies and attacking people on Faux. Go check Youtube for Brian Kilmeade, rather shocking.
miss_kitty @ 6:
Only his sisters.
If these stinking CON's want to kill so badly why don't they join the Army? Oh wait then they might get killed themselves, never mind.
Fuck that greasy haired hick. I hope he chokes on his pickled eggs!
no longer a proud american @ 4:
From your mouth to God's ears!!! :-)
Attila the Appeaser @ 19:
Too funny!!!! Thanks for the laugh!!
RW @ 59:
Pickled eggs or something else less acceptable to the Repugs!!!!!!! :-)
Tarro @ 58:
You are so right on the mark !!!!!!!!!! They are scared shitless of being "hurt" in any way !!!!! Baffoons !!!
Well, what can you expect from a jerk who got his big "break" as a pathetic announcer on that Southern-fried WCW rasslin? lol
One Stupid Redneck down and i hope there will be more to Follow.
miss_kitty @ 18:
Boy are you good!!! Thank you for this!!! No mention at all about the dead BF!!! Can you imagine Hillary getting a free ride on this ????? I bet there are so many people who have no idea what we are even talking about!!!!!!!!! Sad and pathetic!!! She is sooo useless, except to give Georgie the go ahead to be such a jackass!!!! Like father like daughters !!!
Darth Chaos @ 64:
OMG !! too funny!! Thanks !!
I hope he lives long enough to have a heart attack.
Scratch that. Shouldn't be too long...
He can replace that other fatass LimpBalls when he retires. Too bad that idiot doesn't know how much Ted Kennedy has probably helped his own family with his policies on abortion, minimum wage, and no child left behind, but he's too stupid to realize that.
Knowing full well my utter contempt for Ronald Reagan, my mother asked my reaction on the day his Alzheimer condition was (officially) made public. I said it was a terrible shame, and that I wouldn't wish such a fate upon anyone. Damned if I don't think that answer somehow reassured her about my own humanity- that she raised me right (I quickly added he had surely been afflicted in the latter stages of his presidency, to which she agreed). People like this DJ clown will always be with us, of course, but, when all is said and done, they should be more pitied than censured.
Ivan @ 68:
Are you that Shock Jocks stupid brother?
Looks like a Dallas Cowboy fan,or a Giants fan.
harley @ 57:
HA! Love it.
Brad @ 17:
Because they are too stupid to know any better. I bet you $100 bucks he doesn't even know why he hates him.
He looks like the bastard child of Hillary,and Zell Miller.
Hate radio ought to be illegal. That remark is like threatening to harm someone using the us postal service, in my opinion. Hate radio is above and beyond free speech.
Their having casting call's for (Wrong Turn 2).They need a inbred,toothless redneck.
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Dude got the job with his mouth, dude lost the job with his mouth.
No sympathy required.
He should be fired. What's with the right wing hate machine anyway? Do they have even an ounce of human kindness?
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Poor guy, he won't be able to afford doughnuts anymore.
C&L readers - check yourselves.
What if he'd said the same thing about Cheney? In France? wearing a keffiyah?
I have no love for cretins like this nor the type who listen to sports talk radio but do we really want to defend the "people should watch what they say" mentality? You go down that road too far and you'll be supporting blacklists, book-burning, etc.
Karike @ 76:
Let's start with that nutball fatman Alex Jones. He goes around calling people "retards" when they don't agree with his cockamamie cuckoo fruit-loop twoofery.
Ditto - to ALL of the above!!
the libertine @ 77:
He can be the next Sling Blade. lol
Breaking news...CNN hired this guy to combat the "liberal bent" of Glenn Beck.
JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin @ 86:
So it's not enough for Glenn Beck to be a pompous ass. Now he has to rip off Hannity & Colmes. I'll pass.
Explain to me why this guy is qualified to talk sports. He doesn't look like he could run across a football much less walk.
You know, you pile on a guy like this, & were shocked when Randi Rhodes was fired.
Free speech means free speech people.
Don't let the fucking door hit you in the ass,you dumb fat,sleazy piece of shit.
The Kennedy comments were typical of Madden, who built his following partly by his willingness to take on popular and important people.
I thought this meathead was paid to talk about sports.
Does this guy remind anyone of a child molestor on the loose? Figures....RW idiots.
Oh what the fuck...
They fire the ex-professional wrestling announcer whom NOBODY listens to..
But Michael Weiner Savage, who played a song by the punk rock group DEAD KENNEDYS (get it?!? har har har) over soundbites of Ted talking about his illness, keeps his job?!
Goes to show ya, once again. Money talks, bullshit walks, and hate keeps on walking as long as there's big money to be made.
Hypocritcal fucks...
Amazing, I thought right-wingers only get fired for getting blowjobs?
demographics........white trash
Look at that man (?) -- all he has is his hate.
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SweetAtheist @ 71:
Are you aware of the fact that I wasn't referring to Kennedy?
Mark Madden used to be a 2nd rate failed WCW Color Commentator.
to go from Pro Wrestling Color Commentating to Right Wing Radio Talk Show...............Woooooo!!!
Fire this man
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The Kopechnes?
Boy, there's a tired old reich-wing chestnut. Akin to calling us normal folks "commie pinko tree-hugging moonbats."
Well, GOOPers, we could bring up Pickles Bush's long-ago killing of her boyfriend, which also entailed a moving vehicle ...
Mark Madden is one sick puppy. It's incredible how corroded how civic discourse has become.
It's kindof a step up to go from wrestling(which I love) to ESPN, but the question is: Why was he discussing Ted Kennedy at all? What a fat, lousy, blowhard. Stick to RBIs and Free throw percentages, you moron.
pretzel logic @ 52:
Yeah, he's still on the air, claiming his non partisan bent. I miss Tony K in that slot.
the libertine @ 77:
Mutant, super human, inbred cannibals -- from West Virginia. Is that a stereotype?
Joanie @ 100:
Was she commenting on how much she just LUVS Chachi?
karl @ 96:
The trouble with the term white trash is it pretty much is the same as Obama's bitter holding on to guns and religion comment.
ysbaddaden @ 106:
You sorry ass Hillary disciples just can't accept the fact that that negative, race baiting, depressing, old style politicing bitch LOST ACCORDING TO RULES SET FORTH! Yet you insist to drag Obama down to her level of shit hoping and praying some will stick. She LOST! IT'S OVER! STFU and move the hell on!
ysbaddaden @ 106:
Obama is way too intelligent a guy to use a hateful term like that. His use of the term "bitter" did not have any mean or hatefully racist intent. You keep searching...loser.
I was arguing semantics, you've just gone over the edge.
"Explain to me why this guy is qualified to talk sports. He doesn’t look like he could run across a football much less walk."
Overweight, completely unathletic doofus sportswriters are the rule in that business, not the exception. Of course, I may be assuming too much in thinking he can actually write.
110 bluestatedon Says: “Explain to me why this guy is qualified to talk sports. He doesn’t look like he could run across a football much less walk.”
The producers probably think these attributes are identifiable with those who watch such shows, in other words, one of the guys.
The producers are proven right or wrong by the ratings.
"So I sez to myself, 'am I gonna be a crummy sports announcer all my life, or am I gonna take it to the next level?' And then there's Ted Kennedy layin there like a sittin duck. I gotta take the shot! Mebbe get me on O'Reilly".
ysbaddaden @ 109:
Semantics my round brown ass. The term "white trash" is a hateful term, just like the N-word and you know that. In spite of the fact that Obama has done everything he can to NOT make this campaign about race, people like you keep force feeding the ignorant and willing paranoid bullshit insinuations.
113 Left&Left
Interesting how you ignore Karl 96 comment.
But to get this thread back on track shouldn't such on-air personalities by suspended without pay rather than firing them and turning them into First Amendment "martyrs."
Additionally, wasn't he hired to make inflammatory comments?
It seems like we should be targeting producers and entire networks who program such material, not on-air personalities.
The only problem is right now cable is beyond the reach of the FCC and even the Fairness Doctrine if it's ever revived.
ysbaddaden @ 114:
I didn't ignore it, I didn't see it. Also #96 didn't try to indirectly connect that hateful term to a certain candidate he/she doesn't like.
ESPN radio listeners are truly bottom feeders. Just go to ESPN.com and read some of their listener's comments. Talk about appealing to the lowest denominator. Many of these fools still think Dubya is a great American President and Sadaam had WMD. Even the 28%er's would be ashamed of this lot.
I never much cared for organized sports, watching or listening.
I would lift weights or swim myself, but never watch sports.
Although there are exceptions to every rule, sports are often to build-up war-like skills, and take the place of medieval tournements, and the Roman colisseum where it was clearly war-like.
Only instead of bread and circuses it's now Cheesy Poofs and Nascar.
When are they going to start arresting and throw these nutcases in the slammer for spewing their hate and urging assassinations of people?
How fast would they be all over a liberal talk show host if they said the same thing about Bush or Cheney? Faster than a nanosecond and they know it!!!
Figures it would come from ESPN. After all, they are part of ABC.
White trash.
Nice Christian values Madden.
The ugliest pair of tits ever seen on a man, woman or beast.
If you smoke enough pot you can be guaranteed a mushy oatmeal face w/o features
and lactating breasts regardless of gender.
A Leiberman supporter no doubt . I agree #120 , white trash .
OK , OK , I "misspoke" , although it does apply I here by retract the "white trash" remark and will subsitute " F'n pig ". Thank you and good luck .
longnow @ 121:
A guy knows when he's falling out of shape, when he goes to the topless bar, and his are the biggest boobs in the place.
I wonder if Laura Bush got a card from the Douglas family when her husband got elected.
Nice to see this hatemonger meet justice.............this will qualify him at least in spirit , as a Republican advisor.
Mary Jo Kopechne? Maybe he should have made a timely Jane Fonda reference as well.
Madden was a rasslin' announcer when WCW was still a going concern. He wasn't very good at that, either.
If a real American (instead of a rightarded pile of treason) had said that, he would be in jail right now.
Ivan @ 98:
I think SweetAtheist was pointing out that you are engaging in the same guttural behavior as the hillbilly dude on ESPN. Of course you aren't running a sports talk show, just posting on the internets, so knock yourself out.
Ratface Says: people love these far right assholes. Why is Fox so popular?
Because hate sells in the US, I think it is the Republican version of sex. Personally I would prefer to listen to the pre-orgasmic moanings of a sultry woman urging me to buy mouthwash or a new Lexus, but for some it is the grating screech of anger and hate that puts the lead in their pencil. I don't get it but at least 27% of this country seems to be wired that way.
A special greeting for Ted Kennedy:
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just a fat(really) piece of garbage...Mark, you wont be missed by anybody...
I am from Pittsburgh and I assure all of you that most of us are not like that heartless bastard! We are known as kind, thoughtful people who will go out of our way to help a stranger. Ask any visitor to Pittsburgh.
RIGHT BACK ATCHA, MADDEN, YOU ASSHOLE!
God, are you listening???
134 Rosanne Says: I am from Pittsburgh and I assure all of you that most of us are not like that heartless bastard! We are known as kind, thoughtful people who will go out of our way to help a stranger. Ask any visitor to Pittsburgh.
RIGHT BACK ATCHA, MADDEN, YOU ASSHOLE!
God, are you listening???
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Actually no, He's too busy ordering a Philly Cheese Steak.
MN USA @ 80:
Nope!
JohnnyThief @ 90:
Yeah but Randi didn't make any assassination remarks.
Dr_Strangelove @ 128:
Madden made Tony Schiavone look talented.
solid @ 130:
;D
Right wing radio isn't going anywhere. Once it does so will all the left wing blogs. You can't have it both ways.
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