Alaskan host Eddie Burk suspended for on air remarks
By John Amato Monday Sep 15, 2008 5:00pm
Yes, we can do some good here. I posted about Eddie Burke's cowardly act yesterday when he called the Alaska Women Reject Palin--maggots and exposed their personal information so they would be attacked.
Today I found out that he has been suspended:
Anchorage AM radio host Eddie Burke has been suspended after broadcasting the phone numbers of women involved in organizing a protest rally against Sarah Palin over the weekend, his station manager said Monday.
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."
Acting like Michelle Malkin does have some consequences after all.
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This guy will be a right wing hero in 3...2...1...
Haha... Eddie is telling his listeners "not to threaten people, it's not good for the public discourse".
He says this, of course, a day after calling the protest organizers "a bunch of baby killing Maggots. That's right. Maggots."
This type of idocy and hypocrisy makes me want to puke.
HIS personal information needs to be exposed. Let's know HIS name and HIS address. He exposed women to harm. People need to fight back. no more of this Micahel Savage-like coward BS.
His position is that he is exercising first amendment rights, but really he's trying to quash said rights for others via intimidation.
I sent a complaint to the station yesterday and encouraged others to do the same, here in the comments section. Hopefully others did as well. It's not too late.
"we attempt to respect everyone’s First Amendment rights"
Will someone please explain to the right wing radio crowd that you have a right to free speech, not the right to have a radio show?
Ha! He should be fired!
Now that's called getting the job done!! Now let's go Bloggers and get this guy elected. www.BarackObama.com
Guess who will be Limbaughs guest on his show this week? The pity party will be a pukefest. Malkin tactics are alive and well in right wing radio.
If I had a blogsite,
I'd invite everyone to post, with no rules. An open marketplace of ideas. No restrictions.
I don't blame the radio station for being scared. It's about time the FCC started yanking the licenses of radio stations that incite violence against people. They should have yanked the license of radio stations that broadcast Limbaugh's incitement of violence.
Anyway, the suspension is one thing, but those women should still sue the radio station. Don't take the suspension as the end of it. They're just trying to cover their ass.
What, or which cowardly ownership maintains that station's license? Probably Clear Channel... they are some of the bigger maggots on earth. The next time it's up... for renewal, it should be vigorously challenged!
A one week suspension!! Thats a slap on the cretin's limp wrist.
jeffrey feldman has an excellent post up titled "the winning frame has emerged" that i think many here might appreciate reading.
here's a tease:
http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/2008/09/frameshop-the-w.html
This makes me wonder,... what would this clown have to do to actually get fired ffs.
Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
And, this guy gets only a week off? Less than a slap on the wrist and probably some other right wing nutcase wannabe will take his place for that week and whine and whine.
The woman is so frightedned to speak out that she has to be pixelated???
That speaks volumes about how people fear this PTA mom....Hockey my ass!
This numbskull but these ladies lives in jeopardy the station laid him off for a week.
Now tell me why did we let these fuckers join the US of A.....oh that's right oil and
polar bears to kill.
Why do all these right-wing radio/TV dipshits look like child diddlers?
McCain now lying, saying staff never said he invented the BlackBerry
I think some diligent and enterprising soul ought to find eddie's address and phone number and put them up on some demented, satanist site...
Darth_Romney @ 16:
Therapy?
VietVet8666 @ 8:
For about a year, a guy nymed "Peeder"--a disaffected Kos-sack--ran "Political Flesh Feast" which operated like that
One week? That'll show him.
BTW: Your comment:
"Acting like Michelle Malkin does have some consequences after all."
You're probably referring to the publication, on her site, of the names of student demostrators out here at UCSC.
All of these names and numbers had been published locally before Malkin got them. She copied and pasted.
Surprise, surprise. The Right Wing radio host is a fat, balding coward who likes to pick on woman.
The neo-cons have so perversely dominated the talk radio spectrum that every nobody with a microphone wants to be another Rush, so these nobodies become more outraged and outrageous in their senseless blather, that invariably they cross the line, and quite often so. That our society is at the point where someone who is privy to a microphone can so spew wanton hatred to the extent that it jepordizes the lives of citizens who only want to exercise their inalienable rights as Americans, sadly shows how low we have descended into the labyrinth of incivility. The GOP and their acolytes have elevated poor taste, incivility, division and intolerance to an art form. Even the longest rope has an end, and the dark days of conservative/GOP domination are mercifully coming to an end.
Advocating violence on women? Sounds like the rightwing has their next major celebrity.
This bigot reminds me of another one.
George Allen: ‘Americans are not addicted to oil, they’re addicted to freedom.’
Hahahaha!! I love republicans, uptight, racist fuckwads , they're like an endless well of unintentional comedy.
DAVE @ 3:
He's exercising his first amendment rights - but they're "socialist, baby-killing, maggots" for expressing theirs.
Rethugs are ever juvenile, abusive, cowardly, despotic and obscene. Along with being . . . .
~~ the party of immature, rapacious, doughy white, cowardly, angry, bigots, racists, perverts, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes, misogynists, stupid women and liars.
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woody, tokin librul @ 20:
With no restrictions, I'd end up detained by the Secret Service or Blackwater. C&L comment policies keep me from being waterboarded.
http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/2008/08/frameshop-mccai.html
If Obama wins the election, one of the first things he needs to do is staff the FCC with people who will aggressively counter these right-wing hate stations. Yank licenses for things like this. Just yank them. Let their parent companies fight it in court, and yank another and another and another. Let them choose between going out of the hate business and going out of business altogether.
This isn't a question of free speech-- it's a question of abusing the public airwaves. The airwaves belong to all of us. When the dial is dominated with right-wing radicals urging their listeners to hate half the population... they aren't serving the public interest and FCC *should* pull their licenses.
McE @ 4:
That was my first thought. He has NO right to exercise free speech on the radio. He serves (and speaks) at the whim of his station - which I assume is getting pretty good ratings out of him for them to dodge and weave like this. First Amendment? What? Where does it say you have the right to your own radio show in the First Amendment?
If you've seen the MySpace pages of Sarah Palin's gun toting kids and their friends, you realize how serious this recklessness is.
Darth_Romney @ 16:
Because they are.
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Don't get too cocky about "we can do some good here" unless by "here" you mean collectively the bloggers around the country. Here is where I think it broke on the blogs in Alaska about Eddie a day earlier: http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-women-reject-palin-rally-is-huge/
and Alaska has been able to manage getting other radio jockeys suspended just this summer I think before the national spotlight got turned upon us.
good
They should also dress him up in a moose costume and tie him to a tree near the Palin house.
Oh Dear! Suspended for a week! The Cloak of Martyrdom will hung over his shoulders by the idiot-fringe who listen to that kind of crap.
The manager sounds as if he only did it because he was forced to by station code.
JD @ 33:
Looks like Alaska may manage to get its governor suspended as well, unless McNasty succeeds in shutting down the investigation.
If my wife were suddenly harassed because of Burke's stunt he'd have a bullet hole in his head the size of a human fist.
You dont fuck with family.
kuvasz @ 38:
damn.
Jo @ 14:
That's never gonna happen.
No matter what.
And nothing like it, either.
That's what happens when you scrap good regulations.
They die.
Like the Endangered Species Act the fucking asshole goddam miserable bushit fascisti are trying to gut and clean now. If they succeed in modifying it, it will be effectively dead, because the bureaucracy will "heal" over where it had been and just move on.
In public life, once they've killed it, nothing good ever comes back.
StirFry @ 39:
i agree, tony soprano. :)
StirFry @ 39:
you ever notice, it's always liberal talk show hosts who get offed by antagonistic listeners?
This "suspension" is total bull anyway. When something like this happens it should be the FCC who REVOKES your on air license. Even if the station fired him like those posters before me mentioned it would be a vomitous pity party for this reptile and he'd come back stronger on a better conservative station with a bigger pay check and a bigger audience. Plus on top of that hed get weekly bookings on fine broadcasts like "Glen Beck" cause now he will be a "draw" for fellow reptile viewers.
What if one of those women whose names and numbers were divulged got tracked down and murdered by someone like that great christian tennesee fellow who shot up the church. I say in this climate what that f*ckstain did was a crime. He willfully endangered lives.
I have an belief that the rift between liberal and conservative in America will surpass the hatred of even that of the civil war. I can see it like a suni/shia hatred. I really can. Fast forward 50 years from now... Personally I can see my great grandchild taking up arms against the descendants of Tom Delay and Neil Boortz, I really can.
Apparently it's all right for Burk to use his constitutional right to free speech, yet, he attacks those who would legally and peacefully use their right to free speech. They have every right to carry out the protest that they have planned, despite what Fuhrer Burk exhorts. If his name calling and condemnation and over the air call to vigilantism should cause any harm to the people who protest, HE should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And the radio station he works for should be boycotted by all advertisers and listeners.
VietVet8666 @ 8:
It's really not that hard. Actually, all you need are fingers to type and a brain and you can have your own blog. There's hundreds of sites that are free to start up a blog. Have at it. I'm sure people will swarm to your intellect....oops. You're lacking one of the two above. can you guess which one?
Eddie Burke down,now wouldn`t it be nice if someone on WLW 700 would look into the racist tripe that Bill Cunningham spews on his show.Some jerk called in during the blackout of some 800,000 home as Hurricane Ike`s remnants blew through Cincinnati Sunday afternoon, killing 4 people(downed trees) with gusts up to 75mph,and sustained winds of 45 mph.First tropical storm in this area in my lifetime(64 years). Here`s the gist of the conversation:
Jerk--Bill,there`s going to be a war if Obama win this election.
Bill: Well there definitely will be race riots if he loses,but there will probably be riots if he wins,but tonight the show is devoted to finding out how much damage is out there.We`ll have plenty of time to discuss this topic later.
There you go.Mini-Rush says there`ll be plenty of time for racial slurs,but tonight we`ll stick to the first tropical storm in the history of the mid west.Wonder if he believes in Global Warming.
johnnynewguy @ 43:
Neil Boortz fucks sheep, so he's not gonna have any off-spring that live...
VietVet8666 @ 8:
Good luck,Dude.Another concerned troll?
Lars Larson will fill the slot for now.
Contact:
Justin McDonald – General Manager
KBYR AM 700
Anchorage, Alaska
907-278-5228 Phone
myopinion@kbyr.com
http://s521.photobucket.com/albums/w335/frsbdg/Alaska%20Women%20Reject%2...
A tearful, apologetic Eddie Burke pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanour charges for grabbing at a waitress’s crotch, then offering to pay her $400 to keep her from reporting him to the police. Burke, owner of a downtown gas station and former Anchorage Assembly candidate, was fined $1,500 for assault and compounding a crime. Prosecutor Susan Wibker said Burke was out carousing that April night, going from strip joint to strip joint in a white limousine with friends. After midnight, Burke stopped by the Peanut Farm, a restaurant and bar on Old Seward Highway.
“He was intoxicated and he was sexed up,” Wibker said.
Burke approached a waitress from behind, pinned her against a cash register and stuffed his hands into the front pockets of her apron, groping her between the legs and laughing, Wibker said. Later, he assaulted a bartender, putting him in what Wibker described as a headlock.
Anchorage Daily News (AK) {PUBLICATION 2}
July 22, 1994
Section: Metro
http://www.kbyr.com/ebs/
This letter was put on another forum but speaks about how a lot of Alaskans don't want Sarah Palin to be VP.
"We own guns, we hunt, we fish,we enjoy moose burgers and caribou and salmon and halibut. We pick blueberries and cranberries and harvest gardens. We have sailed in Prince William Sound, the Gulf of Alaska and in Southeast Alaska. We have hiked and kayaked in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other wilderness areas. We are active citizens, always vote, have raised two children here, and are proud to live in Alaska. But Governor Palin would never be our choice vice-president. "
There is much more but it comes from a credible source.
Operation Chaos, remember that coverup for dissafected Republicans? Rush hates his own listeners more than we do. They are just too stupid to have realized it yet.
Rosanne @ 11:
Ah, a week off to go beat off, talk to his "heroes" (O'really, Slaggage, Limpballs), do some meth, shoot some moose, slap the little woman around--not necessarily in that order.
Have a nice vacation, putz.
Press charges, press charges, press charges! Sue, Sue, Sue! The only way that these high-school dropout radio hosts will get the message is if you put them in jail and/or take their money.
StirFry @ 25 says:
"George Allen: ‘Americans are not addicted to oil, they’re addicted to freedom.’
Hahahaha!! I love republicans, uptight, racist fuckwads , they’re like an endless well of unintentional comedy."
Interestingly, these shameless Republicans KNOW they look stupid and fake when they wrap themselves in the flag, wave a bible in each hand, and spew endless bromides about apple pie and the American way. But they also know that acting that way will win over 90% of the morons, and if they can also convince about 20% of the thinking electorate to hold their noses and vote for them in spite of the theatrics, they'll win every time. That's the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Republicans are willing to dump their dignity and self respect if it means winning an election. Democrats, by contrast, would rather lose an election than look silly to the thinking voters.
greg @ 44:
Somebody needs to teach a seminar in the meaning of "freedom of speech."
It means that the Government may not suppress or punish speech. It does mean one's employer may not do so, and employers do so routinely.
No sanction on Burk imposed by his employer for his speech is unconstitutional. The station could--and arguably should--have fired the obnoxious asshole. But he probably makes 'em shitpots of money.
JD @ 33:
Maybe Gov. Palin and Mr. Gov. Palin (the shadow Governor/heartbeat away from being the potential shadow POTUS) were onto something with their group advocating that Alaska should secede from the United States!
It's starting to sound like a DAMN good idea! Wonder if we can do it before the election? I don't think the head of the country of Alaska can become Vice, right?
Suspension is meaningless. I hope they get a big, fat settlement from both the radio station and the moron neo-con herself.
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 57:
Oops. I meant himself
StirFry @ 27:
I hear you. I (try) to respect the parameters of the site here, as a self-control exercise as much as anything.
My probation officer and sponsor approve...
Captain ENOUGH Kangaroo @ 50:
Thanks for the post. I think EVERYONE who intends to vote in this election needs to read the entire article you linked to. They just might get another impression of Palin. That is if they aren't the narrow minded Evangelicals who vote based on one issue, abortion. She's a phoney with a pretty face(I don't think so) and squeaky voice.
[Deleted. Worst spamming concern troll ever. BTW, Aco!, you're banned. Site Monitor]
Bummer Eddie... I guess you ain't no Johnny Fever dude..... Maybe you should just try playing records and leave the weakass Falin crush at the door. Just an idea, or you can change careers and pick trash up off the side of the road for all I care...JD
Please, Please, please, please don't let mcpalin win. I left Alaska cause I didn't want to hear about it anymore. I hated the cold, the dark, I can't take 8 years of pitbull jokes. Bad enough I have to hear them from my dad.
Could it be that tucked away in the far corners of America some conservatives really do still have values?
If any of those women get hurt, Burke and his station will be sued.
But, of course, idiots like Burke don't think about the consequences of their actions.
fastfeat @ 52:
I used to do meth in the 60s.I`ve never heard of moose.Is itgood.Can you snort it?
someguy @ 64:
Umm...no. the only values conservatives have is phony outrage. At least the ones we hear on talk radio or the million dollar pulpits. All these people claim to stand for values. The simple truth is they stand for the tax breaks because they are the upper two percent. So they energize their base pretending to stand for values. When will the Evangelicals open their eyes and see the truth behind the Dobson's, Perkins', Limbaugh's and Hannity's. It's the money not the values. If there is a god the people doing the preaching are going to be in big trouble and the people following them will be kicking themselves in the ass in the end.
Why do Republicans and their bought-and-paid-for talk show hosts hate America? Why do they hate free speech unless they're the only ones to enjoy it? why do they hate women?
Write to this radio station and threaten boycotts of its sponsors.
sully18 @ 66:
I used to smoke meth up until a couple of years ago. I'd imagine smoked moose is probably even better (at least for you...), but it's probably a pain to cut it into small enough pieces to fit in the pipe...
Acting like Michelle Malkin does have some consequences after all.
We posted her address and harassed her when she did it to the students, so there will always be backlash for underhanded tactics.
Ironically enough, even as a strong union man myself, he is probably union himself and will appeal through the grievance process to get his suspension reduced and his back pay. I hope they jam it up his ass.
Suspended?
No, fired would be more like it, he should be fired for this.
Oh Billy @ 60:
A must read!
Funny that it is always wacko conservatives who make these threats, shoot liberals in churches, etc. But liberals need to come right back at them. Give the recorded threats to the police. Get their phone numbers and do the same. And if any nut is stupid enough to show up in person SHOOT THEM. It's called SELF DEFENSE. If these cowards ever thought they would be in danger, they'd have a very different attitude.
You have a right to express yourself, yeah. But why would someone release people's contact information over the radio, Dumbass!
C&L, you rock. I'm sure that your stellar coverage had something to do with Burk's suspension. This creep should have been fired immediately for such disgusting behaviour. Shame on the radio station that still employs his services.
Ah, the power of the internet tubes and cables. Gotta love it!
Burke: Call them and express your opinion, but don't threaten them, that's not good for the public discourse.
This guy acting like he cares about public discourse is laughable. Anybody that retreats to the tried and true "socialist...babykiller" line does not care about public discourse. This guy only cares about pushing his hateful on-air doctrine. What a piece of shit!
hiw did I know this guy would be a bloated, pastey, fat-headed cliche? there's nothing new under the sun.
Don't you just hate the "LIBERAL" media?
Maybe the Retardlicans call it that because that's who they smear and bash 24/7
iT'S LONG PAST TIME THEY TOOK SOME OF THESE RIGHT WING NUTBAGS OFF THE AIRWAYS! BRAVO
"Instigating" a violation of law isn't protected by the First Amendment.
A SCOTUS decision based on the National Defense Act of 1917:
"Freedom of the press may protect criticism and agitation for modification or repeal of laws, but it does not extend to protection of him who counsels and encourages the violation of the law as it exists."
Almost any dictionary definition of the word
"spastic" (h/t B E A S T I E)"instigate" arguably includes "counsels" and "encourages."I haven't heard the whole broadcast, but if the police are using the word "instigate," then it's likely not a First Amendment Issue.
A week suspension without pay? IS THAT IT? That isn't near enough..
I am reminded of a Lewis Black line: People should think about what they're saying before they say it....and then shut the fuck up...
(paraphrasing most likely)
calgarylady @ 75:
Somewhere in AK tonight, Ted Stevens is weeping.
Paul @ 74:
"Social networking," rightwing-style...
"You don't speak for nobody but your stupid individual selves!" (Think they left their number on the cell as a callback?)
Alaska: On the cutting edge of devolution. Anti-constitutional. Anti-individual. Give it back to the Inuit.
Too late. The damage is done and he'll be back probably even more popular than before.
Suspended for a single week? For inciting violence and intimidation against women? That asshole should never work in radio again.
One thing I noticed that I haven't heard anyone else mention anywhere. Burke's comments sounded like they were lifted off of the Hutu Rwandan airwaves back before the genocide there. Blasting out propaganda calling the Tutsi "cockroaches" and talking about exterminating them.
Last I heard, the people who orchestrated that were rounded up and tried in the ICC.
The Manson case from 1969 is also of relevance.
So, as other commenters have suggested, if anything were to happen to any of the ladies who were fingered by Mr. Burke, he will be up the creek without an effing kayak. We won't be discussing lawsuits here. It will be criminal conspiracy in second degree murder (I think...).
When michelle malkin gave out "liberal" home address info out a few months back, I researched and posted HER personal address info on here and got my hand smacked. rightfully so, of course. I was wrong for doing that. The lesson learned?....stooping to a conservative pig's level does not make things better.
I will say this, though; you can put lipstick on Eddie Burke, but he's still a pig...bwahahahahaaa
I like how he used the 'ole neojesus thumper "baby killer" slur. Yeah, it's too bad momma Burke didn't consider abortion. Hell, I woulda gave her the cash for the procedure.
The charming Dj says they are all " NOTHING BUT MAGGOTS " and then after being reprimanded for handing our the phone numbers says - " No one should threaten anyone ". What a bunch of hypocrites.
- JJ
If that radio station's stock in trade is spewing hate, its advertiser need to be subjected to mass boycotts of their goods and services.
That announcer who called the brave women protesters "maggots" really wanted to use the f word.
85 apple pie Says: “You don’t speak for nobody but your stupid individual selves!” (Think they left their number on the cell as a callback?)
Alaska: On the cutting edge of devolution. Anti-constitutional. Anti-individual. Give it back to the Inuit.
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Inuit that someone would say that.
So they gave him a thought provoking leave of absence.
I wonder what exciting new things he'll think up?
Actually, I believe he called them "baby-killing maggots." I'd say if you call someone a baby-killer and give out her phone number on the air, you expect her to be threatened and harrassed.
The more I learn about the people in Alaska the more thankful I am that there is a very large land mass seperating us and them...
WHAT A FUCKING SLOBBERING PIG THIS BURK IS. AS OBAMA SO SUCCINCTLY SAYS: IF YOU PUT LIPSTICK ON A PIG, IT'S STILL A PIG....
THESE REDNECK HICKS MAKE ARKANSAS HILLBILLIES LOOK SOPHISTICATED....
It's always interesting that right-wing nut jobs threaten violence or lash out when someone disagrees with their neanderthal grunting and chest beating. When they're called on it, they explain how they "really, truly do respect other people opinions", but only after they've threatened violence against the "disagree-er".
Those are some hate-filled people. They should change "country first" to "me first". That's their true motto.
Yes, and calling people "maggots" is great for the public discourse.
It is amazing! Intelligent life has been discovered in Alaska!
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