Karel the Radio Host Gets Booted After Joe the Plumber Comment

Wall Street Journal ^ | November 4, 2008 | Sarah McBride

[SpaceBar]

Joe the Plumber has ticked off a lot of pundits, but over the weekend, he cost one his job, at least temporarily.

Charles “Karel” Bouley, a weekend radio personality on San Francisco’s KGO, had just gone from a listener phone call into the top-of-the-hour news feed, with his microphone off– or so he thought. Instead, his mic was still live, broadcasting his musings on that night’s news to thousands of listeners to KGO, the Bay Area’s #1 radio station.

He didn’t have nice things to say about Joe Wurzelbacher, the unlicensed Ohio plumber who ended up caught in the tug of war between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain over tax policy.

Bouley bellowed a few obscenities over McCain’s comments about the suddenly famous Ohio everyman. (The clip is here.)

Now, Bouley is off the air while station executives at the Citadel Broadcasting Corp.-owned station ponder his fate. “It’s a personnel matter and it’s under review,” said Jack Swanson, operations director at KGO. “It is clear what happened wasn’t intentional.” Bouley’s evening timeslot this coming Saturday is pre-empted by a football game anyway; the station still hasn’t announced who will fill in on Sunday.

[rvoitier]

Very surprising to me even though he should be in jail awaiting trial. But this will do.

[exist]

I’ve had the displeasure of listening to this ‘Karel’. He is, quite possibly, with the possible exception of Arianna Huffington, the most annoying human being to ever live.

[DemforBush]

"cost one his job, at least temporarily."

The Fairness Doctrine will guarantee him lifetime employment.

[Dudoight]

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Will wonders never cease?

[SpaceBar]

I found this out by looking at the KGO online schedule, and Karel’s timeslot was marked “special programming” all week, so I did some snooping and came up with the above story.

[SpaceBar]

They’ve pulled his “personality” page as well from the station website.

[CanadianMusherinMI]

“cost one his job, at least temporarily.”

nothing to see here...just a time out in the naughty chair.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Don’t worry Swanson, you nitwit. I’m sure you’ll find another mentally disordered sex offender to take his place in short order. Just go down to the street and grab the first person you see.

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe Swanson can hire his wife to take Karel's slot.

-PJ

[MinuteGal]

After things cool down a little, he'll be back.

We're embarking on an era of goodness, forgiveness, compassion, cooperation and reaching out to mankind.

Leni

[gaijin]

1. He was on that station forever
2. He was on simply because it’s politically unacceptable in SF to have no gay talk show host
3. He rarely prepared for his shows —Lee Rodgers on KSFO prepares...6 or 7 hours every night
4. His voice was so effiminate that he made Liberace seem like John Wayne

[LoneRanger]

I’ve had the displeasure of listening to this ‘Karel’. He is, quite possibly, with the possible exception of Arianna Huffington, the most annoying human being to ever live.

While I agree that Karel is annoying, NO ONE is more obnoxious to me than (Up)-Chuck Schumer who never misses a chance to place his mug in front of any camera around.

[Ammo Republic 15]

The FILTHY BASTARD!

[bergmeid]

Great news, I helped with that. Sent a bitch email to the station manager. As a matter of fact, I’m sending lots of bitch emails these days. Starting to keep templates, helps speed things up. ;-)

[Navy Patriot]

But this will do.

Don't settle, we got Bernie slimebag pedophile Ward 7 and a half in the Federal slammer. 20 minutes with Karel's Mac would probably get him 20 years.

[ChetNavVet]

Karel, or whatever his name is, is just upset that Joe might have an impact with fence sitters - because he, (karel) has none. Shame on KGO for not firing this guy oficially. This guy will have to go to the “Gay Mafia DOM” himself and beg to get any job now. Hey Libtard, too bad you weren’t black, you woulda got away with it.

[Navy Patriot]

She won’t work at KGO.

[alexander_busek]

(The clip is here.)

Where? Where is the clip?

So I had to go to the site and fetch the hyperlink myself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym0nyGyhjxw

This is perhaps off-of-topic, but does this (former) radio announcer have a pronounced lisp? Is voice-training no longer a prerequisite for this kind of profession?

Regards,

[stripes1776]

This is perhaps off-of-topic, but does this (former) radio announcer have a pronounced lisp? Is voice-training no longer a prerequisite for this kind of profession?

Thanks for the link. It was a typical liberal rant. Those libs are so tolerant and compassionate!

And yes, he does have a lisp (and I don't mean a programming language--I have always been fascinated by that programming language).