Staffers look for clues in drive-by at KPFT ("third" violent attack in 3 years)

Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug. 13, 2007, 7:49PM | By ALLAN TURNER

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A little more detail than before and some slow admission that there are left wing nuts who target the station for violence too, not just "the KKK".

No injuries when bullet busts window at KPFT radio (Pacifica Radio)

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Houston PING, here’s a followup.

The original article on Houston Chronicle also has some talk-back comments, including denials (which are shown to be LIES) that KPFT gets federal tax dollars (even though it appears in their budget).

[Triggerhippie]

Staffers look for clues in drive-by at KPFT ("third" violent attack in 3 years)

Are all the attacks Post-Katrina?

[VoiceOfBruck]

Odd caliber? Like “357” or “9”?

[weegee]

Nope, their radical activist base behaving in a radical manner is all.

[TexasCajun]

Democrat Playbook: Page 32

Attack yourself and blame conservatives.

Also, see John Edwards.

[martin_fierro]

Police said they have made no arrests in the 12:55 a.m. shooting, in which the bullet came within 18 inches of striking zydeco program host Mary Thomas in the head.

We need a Constitutional Amendment: NO ZYDECO AFTER 10 PM!

[weegee]

I don’t know, their editors are goofs. In this earlier article, they gave a pronunciation guide for the word zydeco:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5050211.html

“But Aguilar says Zydeco (ZY’-duh-koh) music was on at the time and he doesn’t think the shooting was directed at that particular program or any individual.”

[magslinger]

.30/.22? Now that’s odd, and IMHO foolish.

[weegee]

There is an internal power struggle. The hardcore anarcho-radical left trying to wrestle the station away from Yellow Dog Democrat liberals.

They are foolish to deny that their are dangerous elements in their midst.

But their staff claims it is in “retaliation” for the politics of the station. Actually it is the political listeners little tolerance to any airtime being devoted to music programming.

And they’ve had more than “3” incidents, but it is how they are tallied. They’ve had an arsonist set fire to the record album library twice. They’ve had internal scuffles between on air persons and terminated staff.

[TexasCajun]

I prefer Swamp-Pop to Zydeco.

"Thomas", what kind of Cajun name is that for a Zydeco program director?

[TexasCajun]

This station is in the heart of the "Art District".

Maybe the homosexual community was upset with KPFT for some reason?

[weegee]

Could be another demographic:

Sunday's Community Dialogue program, which airs at 11 p.m., often can generate "wild exchanges on the air," Bradley said. But Sunday's program, dealing with antagonism between blacks and Hispanics, was relatively uneventful.

[Doctor Raoul]

KPFT is a Pacifica station. You know, love, peace tolerance and Impeach Bush 24/7/365.

They'd have us believe that all we need to do is talk to the terroritst to find out why they hate us and there will be peace on earth. Yet these clowns shoot at each other.

[Doctor Raoul]

Go to pacifica.org and hit the FINANCIALS link. The govt $$$ is in one of the attachements.

[jonascord]

These are leftists. They LIE! Were I investigating this, the first thing I would do is establish where all the staff was at th time, and whether ANY of them own or have access to a gun of the right caliber.

It would not be the first time one of these socialists has phonied a "hate crime."

[Vinomori]

Sunday's program, dealing with antagonism between blacks and Hispanics

No potential for violence with that subject and those peaceful groups.

[magslinger]

.30/.22

[weegee]

There is a photo of the shell casing and window hole here...

http://kpft.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/additional-images/

[weegee]

It isn’t “phony” hate. They’ve had an internal power struggle and a radical audience.