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Mike Siegal to be on KGTK 920 and KITZ 1400

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Tig1150

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/275674_radiobeat29.html

The Seattle PI is reporting that Mike Siegel will be back on the air in Thurston and Kitsap County.

Six months after his departure from Seattle morning-drive radio, longtime controversial talk host Mike Siegel is back on the air locally.

Sister stations KITZ-AM (1400) in Silverdale and KGTK-AM (920) in Olympia have added a one-hour call-in show hosted by Siegel at 6 p.m. weekdays.
 
Knowing when to fold-'em is a tough call...so ya gotta give kudos to Siegal for not pulling his cards. The fact remains that an hour a day on two suburban stations is quite a come down from replacing Art Bell on "Coast-to-Coast" just a few years ago.

It's like the story of the great hiwire acrobat who late in his career can only find a job shoveling elephant dung. A reporter recognizes him as the great acrobat he used to be and asked him "Why are you doing this job? You've performed before royalty all over the world and here you are shoveling elephant poop! Why don't you hang it up and retire?" To which the acrobat/shoveler responded, "What? And get out of show biz?"
 
Siegel was never a true believer. Just a guy with cornrow hairplugs who decided to jump on the right-wing bandwagon during the 90s. He fed raw meat to the Rush crowd until genuine Rush clones could be put in place to feed authentic talking points from the RNC. Once real right-wingers from thinktank factories came along, turncoats like Siegel and the Billaries (old radio guys who acquired a surface familiarity with GOP rhetoric around 1994 to keep thier jobs) no longer served a purpose. Siegel's career is an object lesson that you can't "fake it" forever, even on the radio.
 
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