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Kanye West And Talk Radio

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Joseph_Gallant

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Last night (September 2nd), during NBC's live (to the Eastern and Central time zones) telecast of a benefit to help victimes of Hurricane Katrina, rapper Kanye West made controversial comments, attacking President Bush.

While you can talk about his comments and whether the benefit was the place for him to make such comments over on the "Off The Air" board, I'd like to ask here the kind of attention this controversy is getting on talk radio.

I realize that since this is a Holiday weekend (Monday is Labor Day), it's very possible that a lot of local and nationally-syndicated talk shows this weekend will be running "Best-Of's" instead of live programs.

But for those talk shows that are live, I wonder what kind of attention Kanye West's comments are getting. I personally would think that those talk shows that are live this weekend (which will probably be a relative few, given the holiday weekend) are going to be "All-Kanye-West-All-The-Time".
 
Hannnity said he'll be on this Monday. He was intending to take last Fri.
and this Mon off but no, he'll be on live.

> I realize that since this is a Holiday weekend (Monday is
> Labor Day), it's very possible that a lot of local and
> nationally-syndicated talk shows this weekend will be
> running "Best-Of's" instead of live programs.
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> (Sean) Hannnity said he'll be on this Monday. He was intending to
> take last Friday (September 2nd).
> and this Monday (September 5th) off but no, he'll be on live.

But with the death of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Hannity (and those other radio talk shows that will be live the balance of the weekend) may be talking about the Supreme Court and not about Kanye West's remarks.

Otherwise, West's remarks would have been "the talk of talk radio" at least through Tuesday.
 
I'm sure Sean will briefly mention it and say "this is the Left
politicizing the hurricane the way they politicized the war". It'll
briefly get talked about but with Rehnquist's death, the future of the high court
will indeed dominate the show.

> Otherwise, West's remarks would have been "the talk of talk
> radio" at least through Tuesday.
>
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