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Picking Fights From Virginia To California

Virginia blogger Mike Stark thrust himself into his state's U.S. Senate race last year by initiating confrontations with Republican Sen. George Allen on the campaign trail. He went so far as to file charges against Allen campaign staffers who tackled Stark because of one such videotaped confrontation, though prosecutors never pursued the case.

Now Stark has picked another fight with a radio station across the country in California.

The New York Times mentioned Stark's Friday call-in encounter with KSFO as part of a larger story about bloggers who organized a campaign against the station. The bloggers, led by one called Spocko, believe some of KSFO's hosts are guilty of racist and violent comments, and they taped and distributed digital segments of those comments to make the case that advertisers should boycott the show.

The station dedicated three hours of programming to the issue Friday, and Stark was among the callers. One of the radio hosts dismissed Stark as a "creep" after this comment: "You've spoken of the number of apologies you have tried to make. How many apologies does a professional get before they realize they are an incompetent and move on to another line of work?"

Stark's account of the call-in segment is available at his blog, Calling All Wingnuts, and Crooks & Liars called the show "an obvious PR stunt" to smear liberal blogs.

Posted by Danny | 09:00 AM

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