Can someone explain to me why this guy is on XM Left

[bigdarryl]

I listened to this idiot for ten minutes and had turned the station when he started calling Obama the P word ending in SY and to think XM took off The Bill Press Show FOR THIS NUT JOB I though I was listening to right wing radio with some of the callers calling in talking about how bad Obama is http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2008/02/the-tgb-inter-1.html

[valerief]

1. Is that the Alec Bennett moron? He's ruined my morning commute. nt

[bigdarryl]

2. YEP what the fuck was SiriusXM thinking putting this guy on in place of Bill Press

[valerief]

7. Probably all the $$$$$$$ they got from the right wing. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Alex Bennett - he's awful.

I can't listen to him at all, and not just because he isn't "liberal" enough. He's also just stupid and sophomoric. Too bad; they used to have Bill Press in that slot, followed by Stephanie Miller (who is now on later - but too late for the morning commute).

[bigdarryl]

4. why wasn't this move boycotted it's just NUTS what they did

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Maybe if enough people wrote in and complained they would do something.

I think that's what needs to happen.

[hlthe2b]

5. I, in fact stopped listening to XM Left at all because of that dunce...

I listen to MSNBC in the evenings but got tired of having to jump up to get his disgusting ass off my airwaves when he came on early in the morning. A search will find many postings of my own complaining about this asshole. I've also complained to XM. He is one of those disgusting Sirius imports that those of us on XM got stuck with, after the merger.

[bigdarryl]

8. I've known about him being on but was under the impression he was a Progressive

the only reason I heard him this morning is because Joe Madison is playing reruns on his show because he is in Sudan I normally listen to Joe and tape Bill Press and listen to him later

[SlimJimmy]

9. I was able to handle about ten minutes as well. In addition to dropping

the f-bomb every other sentence, I found his show to be quite lackluster in content. Bring Bill Press back, please.

[hlthe2b]

11. Last time I heard him, he'd hired some "cool young female"

that he obviously was quite taken with. I found her totally disgusting as she thought discussing anal sex and other aspects of her sex life to be quite riveting--as though the horny men in the audience would all flock to the show, like moths to a light. It was not.

[SlimJimmy]

13. Geesh. My problem now is what to fill that time slot with. I have XM so the

only other *sorta* left choice is POTUS, and that's really more like left light or independent. I suppose I could go with NPR.

[hlthe2b]

15. My alarm always used to coincide with the Bill Press show...

Which is VERY early in the Mountain Time Zone.... Now that Bennett has three hours starting at 5 AM, I just gave up and set it to NPR... At least my BP doesn't go off the scale listening to it as I get dressed...

I had my issues with XM programming over the years, but damn, when the merger occurred, too much of the Sirius "baggage" was kept. Crap...

[SlimJimmy]

17. I agree. I liked XM just the way it was prior to the merger. (nt)

[doc03]

10. His language may be a little overboard but Obama has pretty

much lived up to the title so far. Myself I can't stand to listen because of his language f--- this f--- that, the same goes for Malloy he gets old pretty quick also.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. It's not even that - it's that he's a sort of leftish (sometimes) Howard Stern

but without Stern's occasional wit or cleverness. He's just boorish and juvenile, apparently trying to emulate an AM radio "Morning Zoo" style with a little politics thrown in.

[GentryDixon]

14. I have had Sirius since 2004.

I stopped listening to Sirius Left during the primaries. Lynn Samuels was over the top on her hatred of Obama. Alex Bennett was a foul mouthed disgusting piece of work. I have not missed the channel at all. I come up for renewal in a few days, and it will be sayonara.

[MaeScott]

16. We need to collectively complain. Put Bill and Stephanie back on. Nt

[JoePhilly]

19. They are still there .... but there are 2 sirius left channels now.

And recently, the moved Steph and Bill from one to the other .... Steph's show is actually split, first hour on the one sirius left channel, and then hours 2 and 3 are on the other sirius left channel.

[JoePhilly]

18. XM moved the channels around ... you should still be able to get Bill Press ...

Here's the deal ... for a long time, I'd listen to Bill Press and Stephanie Miller on XM ... they were on like channel 147.

Then they moved to 853. And then recently, the cut Steph's show up, so she starts out on 853, for the first hour, and then for hours 2 and 3, I have to go to channel 127.

Now ... this is when I use the internet to listen from my computer.

When I use my droid, there I also can find two sirius left channels, under politics ... here too, the one shows up as channels 127, and then another (not sure what the channel # is), but I can see both under politics.

I too hate that other guy, and I change from the one sirius left channel to the other one when that idiot comes on.