Alaska politics goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. Homophobia, misogyny, and ignorance all in one plump hateful little package.

Usually when somebody loses their job interacting with the public for being too polarizing or embarrassing to their employer they take the hint and find another job away from public scrutiny.  But that is only if you are not an incredible ego maniac, completely divorced from reality.

If you were that person your name would probably be Eddie Burke.

Even if you live in Anchorage you may be asking "Eddie who?", because let's face it Eddie had a very small, very specialized audience.  You know those too ignorant to work the radio well enough to switch the station.

However to bring you up to speed, Burke was (until recently when he was fired) a local talk radio shock jock who specialized in saying hateful things on the air and burrowing his nose in Sarah Palin's naughty places.  He was a a Palin-bot from the top of his penis shaped head to the bottom of his over burdened feet. When she said "jump" Eddie tried desperately to get at least one foot off the ground in compliance. (To be fair that is a lot of pompous asshole to try to get airborne)

In other words he is a homophobic, bible thumping Nazi, gay bashing, tea bagging, racist, white guy bigot.

I know what you are thinking "Hey Gryphen, maybe you don't like the guy, but is that kind of name calling REALLY appropriate?"  Good question!  Let's see what Burke's response would be to my name calling.

Nope looks like we are in agreement.

Now believe it or not THIS GUY, this failed radio host, has now decided to run for Lt. Governor of Alaska.

No I am NOT shitting you!  I can prove it!  Just go to his poorly constructed website right here and see for yourself.

And just look at how much thought he put into his carefully thought out platform.

Pro-Life


Pro Small Government


Pro In-State Gas pipeline


Anti-ObamaCare

Gee I wonder how many seconds that took him to piece together? You have to wonder if he did not simply take the bullet points off of one of those rabid Right Wing Teabagger pamphlets he probably has laying around his house and simply copied it down. "There done! Boy this politicking thing is not to freaking hard after all!"

Eddie Burke has a long and sordid history of hateful self destructive behaviors, including giving out the personal phone numbers of the woman who organized an anti-Palin protest on the air and calling them "a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots", calling the superintendent of schools repeatedly to demand that I be fired because I had written that Todd and Sarah's marriage was in trouble (Even though he told me off the air it was probably true), and riling up anti-gay sentiments during the "summer of hate" last July. And that is only to name a couple of the unbelievably incendiary things he has said and done.

And in true Eddie Burke style his very first forays into the world of politics has already resulted in controversy.  Here is an interview with Matt Felling of KTVA.



Look Alaska is famous for having eccentric colorful characters run for office in our state. From Mafia Mike's run for mayor back in the 80's, to Theresa Obermeyer's bizarre antics as a school board member in the 90's, to Don Young's threats to bite another Congressman "like a mink", we have had, and still have, some very controversial and crazy ass people serving in public office up here.

But voting for Eddie Burke would be worse than scraping the bottom of the barrel.  It would be like turning the barrel over and scraping the moldy, smelly seepage that had leaked from the barrel and accumulated on the bottom of it. Yuck!

The guy is the kind of person who gives Alaska men a bad name. You know the type.  They walk around bullying people people they consider inferior to them ( like women or the gay community), and openly mocking those smarter and better than them, all while constantly carrying a gun on their hip in abject fear that somebody may someday retaliate against their hate filled rhetoric.

In other words Eddie Burke is a.....well here let Eddie tell you what he is himself using one of his favorite forms of expression.

Need I say more?