March 21, 2011
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“KKKOB” — Eric Griego is Just the Latest
Current mood: amused
Recently, I had heard about one of our intrepid legislators referring to local radio station 770 KKOB-AM as “KKKOB.” Here’s the article in the Albuquerque Journal and the associated video clip.
Anyway, I ran a Google search on “KKKOB” NM, and learned that this gaffe from Eric the Red is merely the latest in a string of such comments, some of which go back years.
Here’s the earliest such that I found on the internet:
Talk radio could play a key public role, if . . .(Insight and Opinion)
The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM)
July 04, 1998
http://accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-108362053/talk-radio-could-play.htmlByline: Kate Nelson
I could call it KKKOB-AM.
I could tell you to listen to a different radio station.
I could recommend that fair-minded business owners yank their ads off its schedule.
But I won’t.
I’m not a speck shy about saying this: I regularly turn my tuner to 770 on the AM dial – not because Larry Ahrens is the always-on-target observer of the political scene and not because Chris Jackson is such an uplifting fellow.
Rather, I listen because I enjoy hearing what “people on the street” are thinking. I like getting regular updates of local and national news. I need the traffic reports to help me cope with my . . .
There’s these comments posted on NMFBIHOP – 19 December 2007, 3 March 2008 and 23 July 2008.
Over at Democracy in New Mexico – 3 March 2008 and 13 May 2010.
“eideard” posted on Kate Nash’s Green Chile Chatter on 28 July 2010.
“justaUNMstudent” posted a comment at N.M. Politics – 30 April 2010.
At DailyKos – 7 October 2009.
At stinque.com – 7 April 2009.
The SWOP blog – 1 July 2008.
At Walled-In Pond: 19 December 2007.
It isn’t limited to political discussions, either: here’s a link to a posting at The Lobo Lair – 24 December 2010
And it’s not just 770-AM that’s received the “KKKOB” nickname – it was applied to KOB-TV on 29 December 2006.
NOTES
- Reposted –
- Personal blog
- The Weekly Sedition
- Tyranny Response Team of New Mexico
- Darth Mike
- New Mexico Liberty / Patriot Action Network / NMPolitics.org
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