So, when one of your drive-time jocks makes a racially insensitive remark on the air (in this case, a retarded riff on Sen. Joe Biden’s description of Sen. Barack Obama, with deejay Sam Allred calling him a “clean darky”), who do you get to replace him? Kinky Freidman. maybe not the wisest choice.

Too bad Ann Coulter wasn’t available to drop the F-bomb on listeners – “faggot.” Oh wait, we’ll probably hear all that on her next appearance on The Today Show. Why mess with small potatoes like KVET?

Point is, once they’re on the national stage, there’s nothing people like Coulter can say to get their pundit passes revoked.

UPDATE: In the unlikely event Coulter finally created enough blowback to be politically radioactive (we’re not holding our breath), the folks at Talking Points Memo raise an interesting question: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney received an enthusiastic endorsement from the anorexic, peroxide mongrel on Saturday. We can’t help but wonder how he feels about that now.

This article appears in March 2 • 2007.

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