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Radio host on RNC protesters: ‘Mow ‘em down, baby!’

By Andy Birkey | 04.07.08 | 9:42 am

The Twin Cities’ newest conservative talk show host has an idea for managing the thousands of protesters coming to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September: machine guns.

Chris Baker, formerly a talk…

A Lapse with Letters — and a WWW Smackdown

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.01.07 | 2:39 pm

Partisan Pique: In a Star Tribune letter to the editor entitled “Tainted by politics,” Andy Brehm on Wednesday chided columnist Nick Coleman for his essay on Paul Wellstone’s death saying he took “political cheap shots at the Minnesota

Cities 97: Boss Ban is Bunk

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.01.07 | 2:03 pm

Imagine Clear Channel banning music from its stations for political reasons. Not hard to do since the radio conglomerate distributed a list of singles it suggested not be played at its stations, including John…

Media Monitor: March 1

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.01.07 | 7:31 am

Our own private Limbaugh: KTLK’s Jason Lewis is one of the few conservatives in the media to defend Michele Bachmann’s Feb. 9 claim of knowledge of plans by Iran to partition Iraq. Asking “why is this a story,” the radio…