"KKKOB" -- Eric Griego is Just the Latest

Current mood: amused

Recently, I had heard about one of our intrepid legislators referring to local radio station 770 KKOB-AM as "KKKOB." Here's the article in the Albuquerque Journal and the associated video clip.

Anyway, I ran a Google search on "KKKOB" NM, and learned that this gaffe from Eric the Red is merely the latest in a string of such comments, some of which go back years.

Here's the earliest such that I found on the internet:

Talk radio could play a key public role, if . . .(Insight and Opinion)
The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM)
July 04, 1998
http://accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-108362053/talk-radio-could-p...

Byline: Kate Nelson

I could call it KKKOB-AM.

I could tell you to listen to a different radio station.

I could recommend that fair-minded business owners yank their ads off its schedule.

But I won't.

I'm not a speck shy about saying this: I regularly turn my tuner to 770 on the AM dial – not because Larry Ahrens is the always-on-target observer of the political scene and not because Chris Jackson is such an uplifting fellow.

Rather, I listen because I enjoy hearing what "people on the street" are thinking. I like getting regular updates of local and national news. I need the traffic reports to help me cope with my . . .

There's these comments posted on NMFBIHOP – 19 December 2007, 3 March 2008 and 23 July 2008.

Over at Democracy in New Mexico – 3 March 2008 and 13 May 2010.

"eideard" posted on Kate Nash's Green Chile Chatter on 28 July 2010.

"justaUNMstudent" posted a comment at N.M. Politics – 30 April 2010.

At DailyKos – 7 October 2009.

At stinque.com – 7 April 2009.

The SWOP blog – 1 July 2008.

At Walled-In Pond: 19 December 2007.

It isn't limited to political discussions, either: here's a link to a posting at The Lobo Lair – 24 December 2010

And it's not just 770-AM that's received the "KKKOB" nickname – it was applied to KOB-TV on 29 December 2006.

NOTES

1. Reposted –
   
   
   1. Personal blog
   2. KCUF Media
   3. The Weekly Sedition
   4. Tyranny Response Team of New Mexico
   5. Darth Mike
   6. New Mexico Liberty / NMPolitics.org