Will Dan Fagan Be Back on the Air Today? Of Course - Plus Other Miller Debris

I. After a one-day suspension for electioneering, KFQD-AM Radio talk show host, Dan Fagan, will be back on the air today during his regular time slot. He will have more listeners than usual, mostly praising him for his undaunted "courage" in the face of the big, bad, mean, vicious Lisa Murkowski machine, headed by that ubiquitous attack dog, John Tracy.

I sort of defended Dan here last week. On Saturday, Craig Medred wrote another twice-as-long-as-necessary essay defending Dan for The Alaska Dispatch.

Dan has as much right to free speech, after all, as does Fred Phelps.

II. Funniest article so far, tying Joe the Teabagger's storm trooper fetish, his obsessions with kiddie porn, the bondage thing with the handcuffs, and the cabin in Willow all together into a nice package, by my friend TBogg. An excerpt:

Back before semi-hirsute Joe Miller quit before he was fired from his government job, he started complaining that everyone was out to get him and that sea monkeys were stealing his lunch money and other such nonsense which, in Alaska, passes for “sane enough for government work”. He may well have felt threatened by, say, the Russian mob who operated right across the street in Russia or possibly by Barack Obama’s ACORN Time Traveling Swat Team attempting to thwart the takeover of America in 2012 by Grifter-Americans, but more likely he is just a paranoid schizophrenic which is probably why the military put him on waivers with two years left on his contract.....

III. Alan Boraas has once again showed that he's a keen observer of the interplay in Alaska between members of the militia movement, the Tea Party, and millenialist Christo-Fascism:

Militias went dormant during the Bush Administration and have resurfaced with the election of President Barack Obama. The Alaska Citizens Militia takes its ideology from a strict reading of the constitution backed by fundamentalist Christianity although, as far as I know, not Christian Identity in the mold of the Posse Comitatus. The two constitutional provisions most cited are the Second Amendment "right to bear arms" and Article One providing for a "well-regulated militia." A second Alaska militia is now forming in the Fairbanks area.

The Alaska Citizens Militia claims about 200 members and has a 20-acre compound in Nikiski where they wear camo and shoot guns on weekends. Unlike most Alaskans, many of whom also wear camo and shoot guns on weekends, Olson's group is in training for the Tribulation. In 1995 he told Christianity Today: "Where do we get this idea we are supposed to let a corrupt government get worse and worse. Our Lord told us to contend for the faith and occupy until he comes."

IV. This isn't another defense of Dan Fagan, but Media Matters (where they're keeping up the pressure to get Andrew Breitbart removed from ABC's coverage of election evening and night) has documented over 600 recent instances where FAUX News contributors have either slanted heavily toward the GOP, or have boldly gone where Dan went last Thursday.