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ESPN has a radio station in Pittsburgh? I wonder, did both listeners hear this classless piece of crap, or was one in the latrine at the time?

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This firing is a travesty.

Mark is the funniest, most intelligent radio personality in Pittsburgh, and now he’s no longer on the air. He took sports talk to a new level, one that won’t approached by his successor or his ‘competition’. It’s just that true; look at the numbers when the ratings come out for the rest of this year. If people want G rated entertainment, just check out the rest of what Disney provides. There is an enormous void right now in sports talk radio in the Burgh; hopefully another station in the area has the sense to see their ratings skyrocket by hiring Mr. Madden.

Mark is now a liability. No one is going to hire him, simply because his mouth writes checks that other people have to pay out on. FCC is still “looking” into this, and bet your ass, calling for the assassination of any politician, much less a Kennedy, is a career ender as far as the Federal Communications Commission is concerned. Period.

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This firing is a travesty.

Self inflicted. Joking about the assassination of public figures on the air is not exactly a career enhancer!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Oh please, this was not a call to assassinate the man and you know it. Way to overstate what happened to enhance your point of view. It was humor, something Mark was very good at on the radio. And don’t bother acting all offended at that type of humor. Unless you live in a bubble watching G rated movies you know that comedy knows no boundaries. Besides, Michael Savage did much worse poking fun at Kennedy’s health issues and remains on the air. Now we in Pittsburgh have to suffer listening to actual boring sports talk again.

Again, Mark is now a liability. As for ESPN on the radio, what could possibly be more boring than watching unemployable idiots talk about sports? Listening to unemployable idiots talk about sports. Ellis Cannon and Albie Oxenreider are bad enough. Espn radio is the sludge left in the bottom of the port-O-potty tank after the honeywagon sucks out all the crap.

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Oh please, this was not a call to assassinate the man and you know it.

Macht nichts! There are some things, in the public eye, that you just don’t joke about.

Now we in Pittsburgh have to suffer listening to actual boring sports talk again.

Explain to me again how Kennedy’s assassination was sports talk, and we’ll talk. Otherwise, invite the guy to your house and buy him a beer.
He did this to himself.

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

MM: This one’s for you!

Sometimes when you think you’re important,
Sometimes when you’re feeling in bloom,
Sometimes when you take it for granted
You’re the most qualified in the room,

Sometimes when you think that your leaving
Will leave an unfillable hole,
Just take this simple example
And see how it humbles your soul:

Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in up to the wrist.
Take it out and the hole that’s remaining
Is the measure of how you’ll be missed.

You may splash all you wish as you enter
You may stir up the water galore
But just wait for only one minute
And you will find it’s the same as before.

Now the moral to this little story
Is to do the best you that can.
Be proud of yourself but remember:
There’s no indispensable man!

-Saxon White Kessinger

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

And yet..it was a joke. You can say that it shouldn’t be joked about all you want but I was just refuting what someone else had said when they made the comment “calling for the assassination”. This was clearly NOT Mark calling for Kennedy to be assassinated. And again, Savage did it and much more so and he gets to keep his job behind the mic.

No, it wasn’t sports talk, that’s the whole idea. Sports talk shows that are ONLY sports talk shows are BOO-RING. Mark was able to use sports talk as a springboard for any kind of entertainment he wanted. He was entertaining, just look at his ratings to see how many people agreed with me. 1250 is done in Pittsburgh except for their national morning show does destroy whatever local yokles 970 puts on in the AM.

I don’t know Mark personally but even if I did, having him over for a beer would not be a replacement for his comedy on the airwaves. Fortunately for me, I no longer have to spend a lot of time in the car so I won’t be forced to listen to Bendl or whatever clowns 1250 have on the air talking all over each other.

And yet..it was a joke

You keep saying that as if it made a difference! Morton Downey Jr. made a joke that used the word “Chinaman”, and that was enough to get him fired.
Rush Limbaugh speculated on why a mediocre black quarterback got such rave revues and he got fired from his sports commentary job.
Isaiah Washington used a politically incorrect word on the set of Gray’s Anatomy, and when it was reported, it was enough to get him fired.
When you have a high profile job, you have to watch what you say. End of discussion.
If you truly had a tested IQ of 166, I wouldn’t have to use such small words, repeatedly, to make you understand!
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The fact that now you have to listen to boring radio is NOT a factor.

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

I will have to take into account the fact that you must be uninformed about Mr. Madden’s show. Otherwise, you would have realized that my “name” here has nothing to do with my IQ or my opinion about my intelligence level. It has nothing to do with me at all actually but the faithful Madden fans know what I am referring to.

I wish the fact that I have no real radio choices now was a factor! But gee, thanks Dad so much for telling me otherwise...(insert eye roll here)

Wow that Isiah Washington thing...I’d forgotten about that one. He really got the shaft! What a shame it is that we live in a country full of pansies now....

you would have realized that my “name” here has nothing to do with my IQ

No, that was self-evident!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

No, that was self-evident!

Well at least you have a sense of humor!

Hey, do you have any broadcasting experience?

testedIQ: what gives? only 166?

testedIQ: what gives? only 166?

It’s just something Mr. Madden used on his show....

It’s just something Mr. Madden used on his show....

football references. that’s obscure.

I wonder, did both listeners hear this classless piece of crap, or was one in the latrine at the time?

oh, mr. madden. as in the radio guy and not the lady’s shoes guy? the radio host? that’s obscure too.

maybe now he can get a reader blog on SA.

Hey, do you have any broadcasting experience?

Back in my sordid youth, when I assisted Mr. Marconi, I was the program director/dj for my college radio station and then went on to everlasting glory in a MOR station in Northern California. Or not. I played a lot of Los Indios Tabajaras, because I loved to say: Los Indios Tabajaras!
A little bit of voiceover work after that. Take that poem about the hand in the bucket, substitute “pinkie” for hand and that about sums it up!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan