MALapropos

This bites; Michael Graham has been fired from WMAL radio in D.C.

Honestly, I rarely tuned in. However, the day I did is the day Graham made the remarks that apparently got him fired ... which blows my mind, 'cause I heard him firsthand, in context. Essentially, his point was that the bombings in London put even more pressure on Muslims as a whole to stand up and take their religion back from the extremists, which I guess on some people's radios sounded like, "Go forth and commit hate crimes against Muslims." So CAIR got involved, as in, "When you CAIR enough to proclaim the very best fatwa."

Graham's already been relocated from the WMAL website to the WMAL Memory Hole, but ironically, the WMAL home page still features something called a "Threat Advisory" at the top-right. Threat advisory? Elevated? What's that about? Is there some sort of threat we should know about?



Did something happen?

UPDATE: Drudge has linked to the story now, and I have to disagree with his use of the term "rant." Again, I wasn't a regular listener and happened across Graham's "rant" by chance, but I'd love to have the audio, along with the CAIR-driven calls the following week. Maybe someone with forensic audio software could isolate the part where Graham encourages violence of any sort against Muslims.