Yeah, this kind of got a little dicey for us SF people. Many took it personally, and just about everyone was pissed, naturally.
For those who understandably don't want to read through 50+ pages of postings to derive the current events, here's some tidbits.
link to video coverage of the protest rally:
http://www.afferent-rapture.com/barf/CBS%20News_Live105_Motorcyclists.wmvlink to interview with Bay Area Yamaha Dealership man (a sponsor to the station, who was ironically plugged immediately following the idiotic rant against lanesplitting) with the idiot DJ's. He's so not happy with them. Offers to pay for the Motorcycle Safety Course for all three of the morons, and loan them a bike so they can try riding through traffic and see how it goes. Yup. Worth a listen even though Woody is really damned irritating. That man could backpedal an aircraft carrier at mach 2.
http://www.stanc.net/stuff/Live105_motorcyclists.mp3important evidence that cats, who do not have thumbs, should not operate powersports vehicles. Especially while in non-english speaking nations.
Excerpted from the East Bay Express:
"Three Stooges
Last week, Live 105 luminaries lamely introduced their new morning crew of Jeff Fife, Tony Mott, and Renae Ravey [the idiots who advocated hitting motorcyclists with cars] as the perfect "grassroots" hosts for the station's new "co-op" format stressing listener participation. The three will replace Howard Stern at the beginning of next year after the shock jock switches over to satellite radio. In a press release, KITS-FM general manager Steve DiNardo waxed dull about the trio, saying, "Their grassroots experiences have always played on involving their listeners, and we're confident that's just what they'll do on Live 105."
In light of Fife and Mott's past antics, Feeder wonders exactly what Live 105 execs mean by "grassroots." The DJs are better known by their handles Woody and the Whipping Boy. The two got canned from a station in St. Louis two years ago after offending a crusading conservative listener. According to a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from the time, some of their "grassroots" activities included wet T-shirt contests as well as a Halloween competition where dudes painted their girlfriends' butts to look like jack-o'-lanterns."
Contact info for Infinity (people to complain to i.e. the company that owns the group that runs Live 105.3 the station with the idiot DJ crew)
MEDIA CONTACTS
Karen L. Mateo
Vice President, Communications
(212) 846-7638
Shavonne Harding
Communications Coordinator
(212) 846-3906
Dana McClintock
Senior Vice President,
CBS Communications Group
(212) 975-1077
Further evidence that cats are also secretly swashbuckling pirates:
