Talk Radio

Joyce Kaufman Says Allen West Would Have Beaten Patrick Murphy, Had He Paid Her 20 Grand

Conservative radio talk-show host Joyce Kaufman, who was appointed to be Republican Congressman Allen West's chief of staff back in 2008 because, well, she's just as batshit nutty as he is, lamented West's loss to Patrick Murphy on her radio show on WFTL-AM (850) on Wednesday. Kaufman blamed the de ... More >>

Sid Rosenberg Returns to South Florida Airwaves Today

If you've found yourself thinking lately that your life has been sorely lacking in obnoxious troglodytic sports talk radio, today is your lucky day! After being fired from 560 WQAM last April following a DUI arrest (broken by New Times) that apparently included weeping, curling up in a fetal positio ... More >>

Sid Rosenberg DUI Arrest: Charges Filed; Arraignment Set for End of Month

Charges for DUI and driving with a suspended license have been filed against former WQAM-AM (560) sports radio host Sid Rosenberg, who was arrested April 5 after police say they found him crying and vomiting in the middle of the road.His arraignment has been scheduled for April 30 at 9 a.m ... More >>

Sid Rosenberg DUI Arrest: His Addictions, in His Own Words

Popular Miami sports radio host Sid Rosenberg was fired earlier this week after being arrested on DUI charges. After news of his arrest broke on the Pulp last, details of the arrest came out and showed this was no ordinary drunk-driving stop -- according to police, Rosenberg was lying in the road, c ... More >>

Sid Rosenberg Arrested on DUI Charges (UPDATED)

UPDATE, 4/6 12:15 p.m.: Hollywood Police Department has confirmed that Rosenberg was arrested Thursday on alcohol-related DUI charges, but that the police report would not be ready until next week. Broward Court Records now also indicate there are as-yet unfiled charges for DUI and driving with a su ... More >>

American Fine Wine Competition Hosts Wine Carnival at Bogart's

​What's better than a carnival with its games of chance, prizes, bright lights, and crazed toothless carnies?  How about a carnival where the games are wine centric and everyone practices good dental hygiene?The American Fine Wine Competition is hosting a Consumer Challenge Wine Carnival this ... More >>

Muslim Nezar Hamze Kept Out of Broward GOP Committee Amid "Pit of Discrimination"

Photo by Mike RiceNezar Hamze (left) across from local radio host "Joe Citizen" in a July protest outside a Margate mosque.​Nezar Hamze -- a Muslim and executive director of Florida's Council on American-Islamic Relations -- is no stranger to taking heat from right-wing politicos in Broward County ... More >>

Ellisa Martinez, in Prison for Joyce Kaufman-Driven Broward Schools Lockdown, Speaks Out

Broward Sheriff's OfficeEllisa Martinez​Ellisa Martinez -- the woman who recently received a two-year prison sentence after sending a threatening email to right-wing radio host Joyce Kaufman, leading to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools -- has finally given her side of the sto ... More >>

Best Object of Political Hatred: Joyce Kaufman

joycekaufman.comJoyce Kaufman -- Best Object of Political Hatred​New Times Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition is here, folks.Even as Gov. Rick Scott continues to go lower and lower in the ranks of sanity every week, Joyce Kaufman is still the area's number-one object of political hatred.Kaufman, R ... More >>

Allen West On Keith Olbermann: Vengeance Is His

I'm digging up what one source called "game changer" in the continuing Scott Rothstein saga today, so in the meantime I'll give you the Reader's Digest version of this weekend's Allen West speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday. West hit a lot of ... More >>

Jared Lee Loughner: Patriot?

Just doing what he's told.​When Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabrielle "Gabbie" Giffords through the head and murdered six other people outright, it really was because he was "insane" and "deranged," as Bob Norman put it in his heartfelt open letter to Joyce Kaufman. Loughner's most coher ... More >>

The Tucson Shooting: An Open Letter To Joyce Kaufman

The following is an open letter to WFTL-850 FM radio host Joyce Kaufman, whose incendiary political rhetoric included a Tea Party rally remark that, "If ballots don't work, bullets will": Dear Joyce, How does it feel when you hear about the horrific shootings in Tucso ... More >>

Joyce Kaufman Stays In Florida to be "Your Biggest Nightmare"

Flickr: ValentinaLWeisKaufman: Still talking.​"I would have been some quiet little chief-of-staff," Joyce Kaufman told listeners on her WFTL-AM (850) radio show. "It's gonna be your biggest nightmare that I didn't go quietly off to Washington." Ah, yes. The woman who urged "bullets" over ballots w ... More >>

UPDATED:Joyce Kaufman Heads to Washington With Allen West; Conspiracy Theorists Rejoice

UPDATE: That was fast. Kaufman announced today she has declined the chief of staff post, after a threat emailed to her radio station led to a lockdown of Broward County schools. New Times columnist Bob Norman has the scoop.Flickr: ValentinaLWeisKaufman and West will make history together.​Joyce Ka ... More >>

Charlie Crist: Bubba the Love Sponge Is Swaying the Election

KendrickMeekdotcomWonder how Meek feels about Bubba supporting Charlie.​Is Bubba the Love Sponge swaying next week's election?The syndicated radio host (Bubba the Love Sponge is his real name; he had it legally changed) has been encouraging his listeners, known as "The Bubba Army," to vote for hi ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Asks for Intimate Time in Palm Beach Mansion With a Young Lady

Flickr: vistagrandeLooks a little like a young Ann Coulter, doesn't she? (No offense, Ann -- or Kathryn.)​She's half Rush Limbaugh's age, but don't worry, she's still plenty legal. He's 59. And this weekend, the nation's most notorious blowhard will marry Kathryn Rogers, 33, at his Palm Beach mans ... More >>

New Times Best Of Readers' Poll Voting Ends Next Week

Unless things change in the next week, Paul & Young Ron will be your winners.​If we ended our New Times Best Of Readers' Poll right now, Paul & Young Ron would walk away with Best Radio Personality by a landslide. That's after tons of early votes for fellow 105.9 jocks Erin Lee and John Sp ... More >>

Stormfront Scion Derek Black Hosting Radio Show on WPBR

Stormfront's Derek Black jumps into the talk radio fray.​Joining a list of decidedly eccentric squawk radio hosts in South Florida  -- from both the right and left -- including Joyce Kaufman, Dick Farrel, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Foley, and Randi Rhodes, Stormfront's poster boy, Derek Black, is n ... More >>

Faux Ho Hannah Giles to Speak at West Palm Tea Party Tax Rally

Flickr: alyxwiHannah Giles​The South Florida Tea Party has landed itself a minicelebrity for the anti-tax rally tomorrow in downtown West Palm: Hannah Giles, the young woman who in August 2009 pretended to be a prostitute for a pimp seeking help with tax evasion and human smuggling from ACORN, the ... More >>

Do Not Mention "Perennial" Around Andy Martin

Here's a radio interview that must be heard to be believed: That's Andy Martin, who used to be a constantly campaigning candidate in Palm Beach County and has since taken his constant campaigning to Illinois, where he's a candidate for U.S. Senate.Martin​As you can hear for yourself, the interview ... More >>

49 States Green With Envy Over Florida's Environmental Progress

Radio Green Earth: Making the world safer for tree frogs​Bet you thought South Florida was a lot more likely to win accolades for "best strip malls" or "extra egregious decimation of natural wildlife" than for anything much greener than development dollars. But it turns out Florida is among the to ... More >>

Dorm Daze

Limbaugh Traveling Billboard Draws Attention to Huge Douche

Democrats unveiled the anti-Rush Limbaugh traveling billboard in West Palm Beach yesterday, showing that party leaders never learned that you're supposed to ignore a bully to make him go away.The billboard, plastered on the side of a truck, reads: "Americans didn't vote for a Rush to failure." As so ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale "Tea Party" Protest on Tax Day

Tania GailBesides gnashing one's teeth or making fun of Timothy Geithner's dweebiness, there is little frustrated taxpayers can do about the spiraling-out-of-control federal deficit. To channel their rage, fed-up conservatives have been organizing "tea parties" around the country, mimicking the Bost ... More >>

Conservatives Rise Up, Hit Local Streets

This week, even his most ardent haters had to be stunned at Rush Limbaugh's remarkable political sway. The conservative radio host, who broadcasts from a "bunker" in Palm Beach, got an "Obama bump" when the prez dissed him publicly, casually remarking that Republicans ought to stop listening to his ... More >>

Palm Beach's Limbaugh to Head Failed GOP Party; Pride Fest Teases Right Wing

Limbaugh, from his Auschwitz days.The White House has anointed Palm Beach resident Rush Limbaugh as head of the failed political organization called the Republican Party, which is now made up of abortion protesters, religious zealots, and aging prison guards from Auschwitz. The administration's knig ... More >>

Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Radio Personality

Dirty jokes, canned fart sounds, rambling jibber-jabber -  some radio DJs rise above these standard industry tricks; others turn them into an art form. Which radio host has a crazy accent, an uncanny ability to rile up guests, or a knack for making you laugh on the Monday morning commute? Tell ... More >>

Limbaugh Grants Rare Access to Silly Ideas, Contributes to Poop Problem in Palm Beach

Rush Limbaugh granted a rare interview recently to a reporter from the London Telegraph, even giving Nigel Farndale access to his secret lair. Nigel reports that he went to a nondescript building 100 yards from the ocean that was fairly accessible and included no imperial stormtroopers:He calls it h ... More >>

Make Me Laugh, Funny Man

Don Imus Back On South Florida Air

WDJA-AM 1420 Switches to a Caribbean Format

Anybody Notice What Happened To Randi Rhodes?

Avenged Sevenfold

Letters for November 1-7, 2007

Talking Up a Storm

Radio host Joyce Kaufman wins fans by flaying a new enemy: undocumented immigrants

Roaring Silence

America phones in, and the emptiness is deafening

Radio Waves

Rush's Babe, Stacy Ritter, Gets Radio Show

DeGroot, Vonnegut, and The Sun-Sentinel

Letters for January 4, 2007

The Dirty Dozen of 2006

They're all graced with an ineffable South Florida quality

Rush's Airport Boner

Don't leave Santo Domingo without one.

Rush's Airport Boner

Don't leave Santo Domingo without one.

Letters for October 6-12, 2005

Doctor's Orders

South Florida's Smut Doctors broadcast filthy radio to the world

Foot Farewell

New name, same tasty wings

Best Radio Personality

Neil Rogers WQAM-AM (560)

Hop on Down

Beer, Babes, and B.S.: The name speaks for itself

The First Team's Last Stand

With four professional teams in South Florida, sports radio should be big business. It isn't.

Undercurrents