One of the radio stations has a pair of morning talk-show hosts who discuss the issues du jour in a slightly edgy manner. August 27 the mayor caught a bit of their show and decided she was offended. Or, maybe, one of the professional whiners caught a bit of her show and decided the mayor should be offended. Whatever the case, Mayor Fargo suggested everyone write the FCC to have the show pulled off the air. Now, go figure, Armstrong and Getty regard this as a threat, and they're fighting back. Today they broadcast their show (which is simulcast on a tv station) from the park across from City Hall, with a bullhorn to invite the mayor out to discuss it. One of them took the pile of supportive emails to her office, too. (People had called the mayor till they closed the phones and shut off their emails.)

One of the things they suggest is that Mayor Fargo, who is in trouble locally because all she's done is everything twice (moving the youth hostel back to where it started, two tries at the parking meters in Old Sac) looked back to Mayor Serna, the Saint, who objected to one really bad racist joke by some radio jock and got this guy fired. Of course, she's also aware of Opie and Anthony. Maybe she thought she'd get a lift from this in the polls. I Don't Think So.

Armstrong and Getty intend to rebroadcast the "race-hating" show on Thursday. Today they had a call (pre-scheduled, but it fits in so well) to Larry Elkins, a "self-hating black man," according to his detractors. He told a story of pulling up to a gas station in his top-of-the-line luxury car, and next to him two barely-educated white young men with their 66 jalopy, barely able to limp into the station. He looked over and thought to himself, "These guys are supposed to pay ME reparations??"

Most of the people who have come by have been supporting Armstrong & Getty, and the two or three who didn't made it to the air. The dissenters didn't seem to make sense to me. These two are hardly shock-jocks (which another city councilcritter, who has never heard them, called them) and they discuss things that need to be discussed. Sometimes, no doubt, they offend, but only the supersensitive, I believe. (I think I heard them when priests were in the news and they told a couple of jokes that made me cringe, but the jokes were appropriate: it's the situation that's cringeworthy.)

Fortunately the station is behind them. The Bee hasn't written about this, because the Bee tends to miss most news, especially if it's bad for Democrats. I hope they survive this little contretemps (and that Mayor Fargo doesn't? I dunno. There's no indication that the next mayor would be any better. And she's not my mayor, t.g., anyway.)

One thing I notice is that the news is read by an infobabe. As she's not officially on TV, she doesn't have to make up, she can visibly read the news, and she's charming. I thought Bernadette could have done something like this. (Of course, radio is such an insecure job.)

The Democrats have to pay fines for Campaign Finance Violations. Surprise. Jonah Goldberg adds; "I particularly like the part which notes that the fines would be bigger except that too many of the corporations Clinton took money from were dummy fronts for Chinese contributions."

Lawrence takes on Pagan's wordlist.

ObGoe: Robert Forward died. More company for Gerhard.