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If you can’t beat them, silence them.<\/p>\n Andy Barnett, of KNSI-AM 1450’s morning show, Hot Talk, has been fired.<\/p>\n I listened this morning to Barnett’s interviews of two St. Cloud City Council Ward 3 candidates, John Libert, and Karen J. Langsjoen.<\/p>\n Langsjoen displayed her mean spiritedness right off the bat when Barnett mispronounced her name (well, who the hell wouldn’t?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (A radio host who’d done all <\/em>of his homework in a heavily Scandinavian area, replies the Norwegian-American blogger. But then, if everyone on the air who flubbed a name got fired, Hugh Hewitt would be working at a Burger King in Pomona)<\/p>\n Langsjoen, whom one could tell is as liberal as the year is long, took great umbrage with Barnett’s quizzing both her and Libert on their stances regarding the sanctity of life.<\/p>\n To put it mildly, Langsjoen had a cow, saying that Barnett had no call to question city council candidates on their stance toward abortion.<\/p>\n Barnett countered that it was indeed relevant on a number of levels; including the notion that many of KNSI’s conservative listeners (yes, KNSI is a station heavily geared toward conservatives) would assess the pro-life stance of candidates as a barometer of the candidate’s character; additionally, Barnett brought up the fact that the Council may have to choose city employees’ health plans, and voters may be interested as to whether Langsjoen would approve a plan that paid for abortions, and\/or domestic partnerships (read: Gay civil unions)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What a concept – candidates actually being asked tough questions, and, in a relatively conservative area like Saint Cloud (outside the University) in an interview MCed by an overt conservative, being asked questions that matter to the right.<\/p>\n Immediately following the interview, Langsjoen apparently stormed into the offices and threw what could be described as a whiny hissy fit to Leighton Broadcasting ‘s general manager John Sawada, who, after reportedly apologizing to Langsjoen up and down, fired Barnett.<\/p>\n First of all at the start of the interview, Langsjoen had stated that she “always was interested in getting into politics.”<\/p>\n Word to Langsjoen: If you can’t take the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Radio’s an ugly business. I’d be interested in hearing Leighton Broadcasting’s rationale for this firing; it seems on the surface to be simple caving in to political pressure.<\/p>\n Which is nothing new in the world of radio.<\/p>\n But caving in to some pissant City Council candidate?<\/p>\n Read Leo’s piece for the rest of the details; expect more from the rest of the St. Cloud area blog community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speaking of radio… Up in Saint Cloud, Andy Barnett – host of the excellent “Hot Talk” morning show – was fired for holding a liberal politician’s feet in the fire asking a liberal politician about her stance on abortion. Leo from Psycmeister’s Ice Palace, a St. Cloud resident and one of Minnesota’s better bloggers, has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/Owner\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\")
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\nLeo from Psycmeister’s Ice Palace, a St. Cloud resident and one of Minnesota’s better bloggers, has the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n