Many talk radio hosts found out about the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy as they prepared to board planes to take them home after the Conservative Talk Radio Bootcamp in Arlington, VA. At nearby Dulles Airport on Wednesday, All The Excess! got reactions from several well known right-wing gabbers.WRWB/Jacksonville's Damon "The Master Hater" Seed: "Good thing we didn't know about this until now. The Bootcamp parties were off the hook as it was, and with this news, a good two dozen of us might be back in rehab already."
"When I heard Ted Kennedy had died, I almost drove off a bridge!" joked KBSH/Austin host Paddy Labelle.
"They called him the Lion of the Senate, but now it's just the Senate of the lyin'," eulogized KVUH/Fresno's Janelle Nipsey-Russell. "Instead of singing karaoke at the bar, we all could've danced on Teddy's grave, if Bootcamp had just been scheduled a couple of weeks later."
Here in New York, faithful listeners to Derf Kimbrough on WNGT (Wingnut 860) heard only a one-hour "Best of" show followed by two hours of infomercials for products like Prostate Foam and The Head Lice Zapper, with no mention of Kennedy's passing.
