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What The… This Is Not Okay

I was just listening to Al Mascitti on WDEL and this happened.

A song was playing in the background and Al asked if the song was by Nicki Minaj and Gary Mullinax said something along the line that she wasn’t the only one who “slutted” it up this week.

WTF?

He then went on to say that new feminism = whatever women want to do.  I’m sorry, does Gary have a list of what women shouldn’t do?  (It seems he does)

Earlier he went after domestic violence victims – pretty much saying that only poor women can be abused, because, you know, Rhianna is rich. (For reasons why the abused don’t leave the abuser watch this video – pay careful attention at the 11 minute mark – Gary, you need to watch the entire video.  But I’m sure this woman’s story won’t count in Gary’s eyes because she was successful – and should have known better.)

And this isn’t the first time he’s crossed the line.  A while ago he went after Lorde’s looks – a 17 year old child.  She wasn’t pretty enough for him.  And that’s really creepy.

Nothing like listening to an old man talk about sluts.  Can we stop pretending that Gary Mullinax is the Minister of Culture.  He’s not.  He’s an old man telling kids today to get off his lawn – and focusing pretty much on girl kids.  And Jason330 pointed this out in 2009.  Good going, J!

Seriously, Gary Mullinax, clean up your act – or get off the air.

Call to Support the WDEL Feed A Friend Drive Now!

Today’s the day! The WDEL Feed a Friend Campaign is officially on starting at 9AM. Remember that this event raises funds for the Newark Area Welfare Committee, the Sunday Breakfast Mission, the Emmanuel Dining Room, YWCA Delaware and the St. Paul’s Church Outreach Center — all great organizations working to feed our neighbors who might need a little help. For each $11.50 you can pledge, these groups can buy a case of food — a great deal for the money. We’re encouraging all of DL’s readers and commenters to call WDEL — 302-478-9335 — during Al Mascitti’s show from 9 til 12 to pledge what you can to this worthy cause. If you can, please help spread the word to your Facebook friends and ask them to call in too. Here’s some suggested text if you want to cut and paste:

I just called WDEL to support the Feed A Friend Food Drive, helping the Newark Area Welfare Committee, the Sunday Breakfast Mission, the Emmanuel Dining Room, YWCA Delaware and the St. Paul’s Church Outreach Center buy food for our neighbors who might need some help this season. $11.50 buys a case of food for these organisations — call this morning at 302-478-9335 to pledge your support.

So start your War on Christmas right — call WDEL and pledge to help the Feed A Friend drive. SNAP has been cut and there are threats of more cuts, so please be generous!

WDEL Feed A Friend Campaign

Every year, WDEL devotes a day of programming (at least from 9 til 4 or so) to raising funds for a number of great institutions who are trying to help feed Delawareans in need — the Newark Area Welfare Committee, the Sunday Breakfast Mission, the Emmanuel Dining Room, YWCA Delaware and the St. Paul’s Church Outreach Center. And it is a great deal too — every $11.50 pledge buys a case of food to help feed some of our neighbors in need. Tomorrow — Thursday 5 December — is this year’s Feed A Friend Day and we encourage all DL readers and commenters to call WDEL during Al Mascitti’s show from 9 til 12 to pledge what you can to this worthy cause. Why Al Mascitti’s show? Because Al has a goal of raising $10,000 tomorrow AM (he’s going to do a 10% match up to $1000.00); because his show is the only local one working at deconstructing right-wing memes; and because he takes El Som off of our hands for a few hours during the week. 😆

We’ll post the phone number to call in the morning, and remind you to call and pledge in multiples of $11.50. (They’ll take credit cards.) After you pledge, it would be really fantastic if you’d go to your Facebook page and ask your friends to call in to pledge too.

WHYY/WDEL Debates for Governor, House, Senate Races Set

Mark your calendars! The local General Election debate season is upon us and this notice is of a series of three debates being sponsored/presented by WHYY and WDEL for the Governor’s race, the House Representative race and the Senate race. The (edited) press release with the details follows:

WHYY TO CO-PRESENT, BROADCAST THREE DEBATES FEATURING DELAWARE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR, HOUSE, SENATE

What: WHYY will co-present with WDEL three Delaware debates, including the first between candidates for Delaware governor, hosted by Widener Law.

Following are the debate dates and featured candidates:

• Tuesday, Oct.16: Incumbent Gov. Jack Markell (D) vs. Jeffrey Cragg (R) and Mark Perri (Green)
• Wednesday, Oct. 24: Incumbent U.S. Rep. John Carney (D) vs. Tom Kovach (R), Bernard August (Green) and Scott Gesty (Libertarian)
• Wednesday, Oct. 30: Incumbent U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D) vs. Kevin Wade (R), Andrew Groff (Green) and Alexander Pires (I)

WDEL news anchors Peter MacArthur or Mellany Armstrong will moderate the debates, which will be broadcast live on 1150 WDEL-AM and at WDEL.com and Law.Widener.edu. WHYY-TV will broadcast the debates Oct. 17 for the governor’s race, Oct. 26 for the U.S. House race and Oct. 31 for the U.S. Senate race, all at 5 and 11 p.m.

Members of the public are encouraged to attend. Free parking is available.

When: Oct. 16, 24 and 30 from 8 to 9:30 a.m.

Where: Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom, Widener Law, 4601 Concord Pike, Wilmington

First off, I’m delighted that all of the candidates on the ballot are included to this debate, and many thanks to WHYY and WDEL for that organizational inclusion. I’m not sure if other debates are including the 3rd party candidates, so if you are interested in seeing what they have to say, I’d take advantage of this opportunity. Second, I posted this up abit early so you could make arrangements to be at these morning debates — if you are like me, you’ll need to make arrangements with your employer to be late that day.

Hope you’ll come out or at least tune in!

h/t Brian Rossiter at WHYY

NCCo Executive Debate — WDEL

There is a debate tonite between the Democratic contenders for NCCo Executive. This is hosted by WDEL and the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce at the NCCo Chamber Building located at 12 Penns Way, New Castle, DE 19720. Don’t know if this is open to the public, but WDEL is broadcasting this live from 6 until 7:30.

WDEL is 1150AM or you can listen online at WDEL.com. If you are listening, feel free to use this post to live blog what you are hearing.

Is WDEL Intending To Mislead?

Headline on WDEL yesterday:

DE pilot: Doubling up not the answer in air traffic control towers

I think we’ve all heard about the recent incidents where air traffic controllers have been sleeping and planes have had to land without direction. An FAA official was forced to resign over the issue. Investigation into one of the incidents found that there was only one controller on duty and he had worked a double shift. I am certain there will be new regulations coming, probably relating to how many shifts can be worked and perhaps making sure a back-up controller is present, so I was interested a headline with a contradictory point.

Delta pilot Mike Protack says he doesn’t see doubling up personnel as the answer to air traffic controllers nodding off on the job.

He adds planes land frequently at airports without any air-traffic controllers on duty.

It looks like WDEL left out some information here. Mike Protack is a pilot, that’s true, but no mention that he was also a Republican candidate for Senate, governor and county council? No mention that he is currently running for chair of the Delaware Republican party? Does Mike Protack’s answer to the question have anything to do with his political ideology? We know there is a contentious relationship of the Republican party with air traffic controllers in the past.

I don’t doubt that Mike Protack has knowledge of flying and landing at airports without traffic controllers, but it seems an odd point to make. Larger airports need air traffic controllers because there is a lot of planes landing and taking off. We were lucky these recent incidents didn’t end in tragedy but they very well could have, so it seems odd that his answer is we don’t even need air traffic controllers.

Get a Brain Moran

Well O’Donnell thug and journeyman political loser, Matt Moran is back in the news.  This time he is at the center of the O’Donnell-WDEL video lawsuit. Make sure you watch the video.  You can clearly see Christine prompting Matt to do his job as a pitbull.  It’s disgusting.

O’Donnell’s campaign manager, Matt Moran, called WDEL and demanded that the video be immediately turned over to the campaign and destroyed. Moran threatened to “crush WDEL” with a lawsuit if the station didn’t comply.

For those of you hoping to get your Matt Moran action figures, there are plenty of action poses Mr. Moran can assume, but most of them are common on elementary school playgrounds.

Here is Matt Moran blocking someone that wanted to videotape Christine O’Donnell on the National Mall.  Matt is the guy in the blue shirt.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO4E1SDY3-g[/youtube]

Matt Moran is also the staffer that got his victim on at the WDEL debate by complaining (and disrupted the debate) when he complained that Christine was getting asked first on too many questions.

He is also the punk that blocked the very intimidating Ginger Gibson from a press conference.  I can’t seem to get my hands on the video right now, but he is the creepy guy that goes out of his way to touch Ginger’s bare arm.

Matt Moran isn’t the only thug on Christine O’Donnell’s payroll, but he is the public face of her thugism.

Calling All Liberals! WDEL’s Feed A Friend Food Drive Needs You!

Al Mascitti is in the middle of WDEL’s annual Feed a Friend Food Drive which buys food for the Newark Area Welfare Committee, Sunday Breakfast Mission, The Emmanuel Dining Room, YWCA Delaware and St. Paul’s Church Outreach Center. They’ve set this up so you buy food by the case, and $11.50 buys one case.

You know you all listen to Al in the morning, so call 302-478-WDEL to pledge for a case of food or two. Tell them that Delaware Liberal sent you. And apparently you can also pledge online too. All of these agencies that they are supporting do a pretty marvelous job.

Help feed some of your neighbors who need it this season.

Is Beau Biden Annoyed He’s Running?

Comment Rescue of a response from Geezer to yesterday’s polling thread:

If you heard Beau interviewed by Allan Loudell yesterday, I wouldn’t start celebrating too soon. He sounded as peevish as the old man used to, back when he deigned to speak to Delaware media.

WDEL did put up a podcast of Allan Loudell’s complete interview with Biden from yesterday. Biden did say he was suffering from losing his voice, but he is not sounding happy to be in this conversation — you can hear the whole thing here at WDEL’s website.

So he is “considering” a race where he is currently dead even and he’s peevish about this?

Accidental Listening: Vigilante Edition

I was accidentally listening to Rick Jensen a few minutes ago.  He had the Mother of a boy from Kirk Middle School on the phone talking about the problem that her 7th grader had with being set-up by some bullies in the school.  It is a heartbreaking story and deserves its own “helpkyle” website.  Sadly, Rick’s weak mind is unable to think rationally.

Rick suggested something like this:

It amazes me that in this day and age that these kids that victimized your son haven’t had their names put out on the Internet.  I’m not suggesting that you do it [Kyle’s Mom], but someone could put these kids names on the Internet, where it will stay forever.  And it will come up every time they try to get a job or go to a school.

I wish I was making this up.  Rick Jensen is suggesting that someone apply Internet-style vigilante justice to a bunch of 7th graders.

I have no sympathy for bullies.  I was personally bullied at Kirk Middle school when it was Ogeltown Middle in the early 80’s.  But to have a media personality calling for an Internet smear campaign for kids in 7th grade is despicable.

Comment Rescue: Jason330 On The Radio

I figured I’d better repost this, since Jason330 put this on the “Delete A Comment” thread. He’s such a tease.

Comment by jason330 on 12 September 2009 at 8:47 pm:

McNubins is a no heart chump. and I;m going to be on the radio.

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/

So, listen to the Rick Jensen *gag* (sorry, momentary gag reflex kicked in) to listen to Jason330 and Tyler Nixon discuss the burning issues of the day.