Spotted in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Don't hold back tell us what you really think.

Of course if you asked him he would tell you that he has nothing agaisnt them queers so long as they keep their sinning to themselves, and has at least one black friend who knows to stay in his place and not get all uppity.

(Source.)

Wait, why does that shirt seems so familiar?

Oh, that's right.

Mudflats digs deep in Bill Fulton interview.

Bill was very impressed with Jeanne Devon's reporting during the Schaeffer Cox trial, and in response reached out to her to see if she would be interested in an interview.

She was.

That interview can be found here.

I think one of my favorite parts is this explanation of the part he played in radio shock jock Eddie Burkes' run for office:  

And I like Eddie. I don’t believe everything that he believes, but I kind of like Eddie. He’s a big, gruff, kind of rude guy, a Navy vet with lots of good stories. And I kind of used him as my… what do actors use to get ready for their roles? He was my case study. Eddie Burke was good for business at the shop, and he was deeply embedded with the fringe right wing, which you know. And if one is playing in the world of the fringe right wing, there’s nothing better than helping their poster boy run for public office.

 Of course my interactions with Burke were far more adversarial as he was an aggressive Palin defender who did everything he could think of to destroy my credibility after the Splitsville story broke nationally. The things he did on behalf of Sarah Palin, to a number of people, were some of the ugliest things I have ever seen.

Just another example of the things that Bill I have agreed to disagree about.

Of course there is much more to Jeanne's post. so I urge to take the time to read it.

Fanatical Palin-bot Eddie Burke at the scene of a murder in LA? Things that make you go "Hmmm."

From the Hollywood Reporter:

A man police believe was connected to last month's murder of publicist Ronni Chasen shot and killed himself Wednesday night in the lobby of the Harvey Apartments, a former Hollywood hotel-turned-apartment complex.

Beverly Hills police were serving the man, identified as a "person of interest," a search warrant related to the case at the time.

THR spoke with Harvey Apartments resident Eddie Burke, who said police had been casing the building during the day. Burke, 48, moved from Alaska with his son, an aspiring boxer, to the Harvey two weeks ago. After a visit to a local gym Wednesday, they returned to the property at about 1:30 p.m. and saw the building manager talking with two men in the lobby that Burke surmised were plain-clothes police officers.

"We figured out that they were attempting to identify this person they had a lead on and therefore were talking to the manager," Burke told THR. He and his son left the building and returned about two hours later, at around 4 p.m. He said police had assembled outside the building. "Everything made sense," Burke said.

So a guy under suspicion for the murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, is found dead in LA.

The guy happens to be black.

The reporter interviews a neighbor who recently moved into the same apartment building, named Eddie Burke.

This Eddie Burke.

Wasn't it Sarah Palin herself who said, "There are no coincidences?"

I am just saying.

P.S. If you click the link to the Hollywood reporter you can see the video of Burke's interview.  I tried to embed it, but it was being difficult.

It is virtually impossible to get an interview with media shy Todd Palin. Unless of course you happen to be a white supremacist.

From Little Green Footballs:

So who’s Todd Palin palling around with up there in Alaska these days?

Todd and Sarah won’t give interviews to the “lamestream” media, but they’ll make time to meet with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain.

Really not that surprising considering Sarah Palin's obvious racist tendencies and Todd's connection to the AIP, which is not exactly brimming over with brown skinned members.

As some of you may remember this Stacy McCain guy was part of the right wing smear campaign that went after me when I posted the story about the Palin's marital woes, which the new Vanity Fair article recently confirmed. 

What I remember about him is that he had the WORST research skills I had ever witnessed. He seemed to have become convinced that he had discovered some link between myself and the Obama campaign and went way off the rails with this huge conspiracy theory that I was paid to smear Sarah Palin. I actually read it and have absolutely NO idea how he reached the conclusions that he reached.

By the way I have a friend who ran into Todd yesterday and told him who had just interviewed him.  Todd only agreed because  ex-right wing radio host and failed Lt. Governor candidate Eddie Burke told him to trust the guy. You remember Eddie don't you?

Oops. Talk about your "lamestream media!"

WAKE UP ALASKA! IT'S ELECTION DAY!

Alright my fellow Alaskans it is time to wipe the sleep dust out of your eyes, slam back a pot of coffee or two, and exercise your constitutional right to help choose your next Republican/Democratic candidate for Senator/Governor/Lt. Governor today!  Can't you just FEEL the disappointing lack of excitement!

Okay so let's run down the list of the major and minor players in today's election day political dramedy.

In the running for Lt. Governor on the Republicans side are Mead Treadwell (Whose first name sounds like a frothy alcoholic beverage, so Alaskans should LOVE that!), Jay Ramras (Who got an early election day gift from APOC when they decided NOT to investigate his obvious violation of state election law until after the election), and rabid Palin-bot Eddie "Rascist" Burke who is running a distant, distant third.(Interestingly enough after being Sarah's major attack dog in Alaska for years Burke has received not one iota of support, or even acknowledgement, from his idol. Welcome to the undercarriage of the Palin bus Eddie!)

On the Democratic side we have the wonderful, and extremely qualified Diane Benson and....well who cares who else is running? Diane Benson in the only viable candidate in my mind. Go get'em Diane!

Next up is the Governor's race.  On the Republican side we have Bill Walker, Ralph Samuels, and Palin political bookmark Sean "The Phantom" Parnell. (Who was SO busy doing his very demanding job that he missed several recent debates, as well as a visit by President Obama last November, and the funeral of Senator Ted Stevens just last week.)

(Whoops! I stand corrected. Sean Parnell WAS at Ted Steven's funeral.  I apologize for that, I was relying on information sent to me by somebody who attended and did not double check.  I apologize to Governor Parnell for making that error.)

The Democrats have an embarrassment of riches as represented by Ethan Berkowitz and Hollis French.  In my humble opinion both of these gentlemen offer substantially better leadership than anything the Republicans have to offer, which makes the choice more about who can beat the Republican candidate in the general rather than who would do the best job as the Governor of our state.

I find both of them to be very intelligent and capable men, so you really cannot go wrong.  Berkowitz has better name recognition, while Hollis might be the more cerebral choice.

This brings us to the race that is getting the most national coverage.  Lisa "Daddy's girl" Murkowski VS Joe "Look, another antler!"  Miller.

Miller has been getting teabagged with hundreds of thousands of dollars from The Tea Party Express for months now, and Sarah "Ram" Palin has taken to Facebook to beg for money on his behalf as well, which means this guy is doomed!   Alaskans HATE for outside people to try and influence our elections, and LOVE to tell them to kiss our ass!  So today they will send a message to Joe Miller, Sarah "I quit, I quit, I quit!" Palin, and the outside agitators to KISS OUR ASS!

Lisa Murkowski is a far from perfect Senator, and I don't agree with hardly any of her choices, but dammit she is one of us!  And that still counts for something up here in the Last Frontier.

So get up, and get showered Alaskans!  We have a democracy to participate in today!

P.S. Don't forget to vote no on Ballot Measure 2 also. (And remember it is on the BACK of the ballot, so you have to flip it over.)

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.

Stick a fork in him, Eddie Burke is done!

Rumors have been swirling for weeks but today it is official!

Eddie Burke, Racist pig, and Palin panty sniffer has quit his job at KBYR!

AlaskaWTF, has more juicy details here.

I just talked to Shannyn and apparently Burke called in during the third hour so I will put that up later when the podcast is available.

Well all I can say is that it could not have happened to a more deserving guy!  Gee I wonder who the Palin-bots will listen to on the radio now?

Update: I am learning now that Burke was supposed to quit on April 1st (How fitting!), but got into an argument with the President and VP of the station and simply up and quit (Oops take that back he was fired, fired, fired!) Tsk, tsk, tsk, gotta watch that temper Eddie!

I have heard some people talking about the fact that he can just go to a new station, but I have serious doubts about that as he is considered poison to the airwaves.  Even other conservative stations would be wary of having his brand of hate speech associated with them. (Just received an update on this as well, and I am told that NO station in town is willing to hire him!  Gotta love Karma!)

Update: He is being replaced by Glen Beigel. And for you trivia buffs, he is Celtic Diva's brother-in-law.  Small town huh? 

Biegel is pretty rabidly right wing as well.  But no longer a fan of Sarah.

All hail the glory that is Sarah Palin.

I have been a little tough on Palin and her supporters lately. I hope this will smooth things over.

You know the scary thing is that THIS is exactly how her followers see her.

(H/T to the artist who created and e-mailed this image to me.)