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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Politics / Media Kirby Wilbur Hates Rick Steves

Posted by Goldy on Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:11 AM

I have a personal fondness for Washington State Republican Party chair Kirby Wilbur. He always treated me fairly when I appeared as a guest on his old radio show on KVI, and he was generously helpful and supportive to me when I pursued my own radio career. But I gotta admit, he's a little nuts.

Take for example Wilbur's demand that King County Elections pull a PSA featuring travel writer Rick Steves. Wilbur is upset because Steves has endorsed Democratic candidates and the pot legalization initiative. "Being that he has very publicly endorsed both the candidate and the initiative," Wilbur wrote to elections director Sherril Huff, "having him on a commercial is a very strong conflict of interest and I ask that these ads be pulled from the air immediately.”

Um, that's just plain stupid. Elected officials do PSAs all the time, and you can't get much more partisan than them. Hell, as attorney general, Rob McKenna has been a PSA whore, and nobody ever demanded that his PSAs be pulled.

I've seen Steves' PSA. It's totally innocuous and 100 percent nonpolitical. You'd think Wilbur might make want to make better use of his time.

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Rick Steves kinda gets on my nerves too. But only because he's so sweet and disarming. He's like a secular Ned Flanders. Kirby Wilbur can go climb a wall of dicks.

Posted by GermanSausage on August 2, 2012 at 9:29 AM

" a little nuts"? ? ? ? ?

I'd hate to see what you consider to be a whole lot of nuts? ? ?

I mean, that guy is one obese moronic, super pseudo-patriotice douchey douchetard --- like that clown Medved, who prattles on about his spawn wanting to become a US Marine, as if that somehow excuses Medved from being another gutless pseudo-patriotic draft dodger.

Puuuhlease, already.

Wilbur is a completely uneducated simpleton.

A little nuts......

Posted by sgt_doom on August 2, 2012 at 11:04 AM

Did those electeds' PSA's run when they were up for election?

Posted by Reader01 on August 2, 2012 at 11:45 AM

Rick Steves is totes annoying.

Posted by K X One on August 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM

Is anyone really aware of anything political that Rick Steves has endorsed except for marijuana legalization?

Posted by madcap on August 2, 2012 at 11:38 PM

Watched good ol' Kirby today spewing his distorted history for the young of the right wing nut jobs. The exaggerations, lies, and distortions are the usual prattle about our founding fathers and their (really HIS) wish for a Christian nation. I'm sure Kirby has never read the 14th Amendment much less the Treaty of Tripoli. There IS supposed to be a Separation of Church and State. While the founding fathers could have been more clear about it, that was their desire as Jefferson states in the letter Kirby often cites, to the Danbury Baptists.
Willful ignorance it seems. Any facts, evidence, or argument that doesn't fit with his opinions are irrelevant and he chooses to ignore them.
Sad, but, as stated above, and un-educated bore.

Posted by Boogieman on August 3, 2012 at 1:59 PM

Just watched good ol' Kirby propagandize the Young America group of Republican youth.
The usual distorted history and lies you'd expect from him.
I wonder if Kirby has ever read the 14th Amendment or the Treaty of Tripoli? I bet he has but, like many of his ilk, chooses to ignore any inconvenient fact. Even the Constitution is a secular document Kirby!!. Religion is only mentioned twice and then in negative terms.

What a self serving retard.

Posted by Boogieman on August 3, 2012 at 2:15 PM