Subject: David Sirota

• David Sirota vs. Stephen Colbert, Round Two

  May 29, 2008

• David Sirota carries no water on AM 760

  David Sirota. Jay Marvin, the morning host for AM 760, Clear Channel Denver's progressive talk outlet, has been out of commission of late, after undergoing gall bladder surgery. He's on the mend and expected to be back at the microphone next Monday. In the meantime, however, his most frequent fill-in, syndicated columnist David Sirota, has acquitted himself well due in part to his willingness to speak his mind even if he's got critical things to say about figures on the liberal end of the polit

  March 17, 2009

• Taking Debate

  Dennis Prager and David Sirota face off.

  September 11, 2008

• Politics of Anger

  David Sirota describes an uprising.

  July 10, 2008

• PoliticsWest Gangs Up With Gang of Four

  The Post's Gang of Four blog is turning into a cyber-soap opera thanks to a pair of melodramas co-starring columnist David Harsanyi.

  September 27, 2007

• Mike Rosen, David Sirota debate Barack Obama's first 100 days in KOA/AM-760 simulcast

  David Sirota. As every political pundit acknowledges, assessing a new president after his first 100 days in office is artificial and unfair -- but if Barack Obama is embracing the notion (he's holding a primetime news conference tonight), what the hell? Hence, a plan for KOA conservative Mike Rosen and AM-760 progressive David Sirota to debate Obama's performance to date during a 9 a.m.-to-10 a.m. session that will be simulcast on both stations. AM-760 producer John Turk is looking forward to

  April 29, 2009

• Listen to the Mike Rosen-David Sirota smackdown

  Mike Rosen. A blog yesterday teased a KOA/AM-760 simulcast of conservative host Mike Rosen and progressive yakker David Sirota debating Barack Obama's first 100 days as president -- and the program itself, broadcast earlier today, turned out to be diverting. Rather than an imbalanced back-and-forth of the sort that frequently takes place during the Dan Caplis-Craig Silverman show on KHOW (which Caplis tends to dominate), the exchange turned out to be quite evenhanded, with Sirota actually seemi

  April 30, 2009

• An update on Jay Marvin's health crisis

  Jay Marvin. The serious health issues AM 760 morning-show host Jay Marvin has been battling since late February aren't getting any simpler for doctors to tackle according to Mary Marvin, Jay's wife, who updated David Sirota, his most-frequent fill-in, during an appearance on the station yesterday. As first reported on the DenverRadio.net site, Mary noted that Jay has a three-inch balled mass located between vertebrae in his back. Even worse, the mass is connected to what she referred to as a "

  May 7, 2009

• Jay Marvin talks about his health crisis

  Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin in his Denver home. AM 760 morning talk-show host Jay Marvin has spent the last several months fighting for his life. He's been in and out of the hospital for a variety of serious health concerns since early March, and aside from occasional updates provided by his wife, Mary, on the radio and his Facebook page, most of his fans have only an inkling about how he's really doing. To address this issue, he invited yours truly to his Denver-area home yesterday afte

  June 9, 2009

• No guarantee that David Sirota will be returning to AM 760

  David Sirota. In today's blog about AM 760 morning-show host Jay Marvin's continuing health crisis, I note that syndicated columnist David Sirota, who's been filling in for Marvin on most days, will be gone for several weeks on a trip to China. When he returns, however, he's not certain if he'll step back behind the microphone. Shortly after the publication of the item linked above, Sirota posted one of his own on the AM 760 website -- a letter addressed to the station's listeners. The tone of

  June 9, 2009

• John Turk to fill in for Jay Marvin on AM 760 next week

  John Turk. With AM 760 morning host Jay Marvin still battling a serious health crisis and his main fill-in, David Sirota, in China for several weeks and uncertain if he'll be taking to the station's airwaves again upon his return, some listeners have worried that Clear Channel Denver, the outlet's owner, will be content to schedule syndicated programming for the foreseeable future. It's a good sign, then, that John Turk, Marvin's regular producer (who served the same role for Sirota), has been

  June 12, 2009

• Nerdivore: David Sirota's nerd blog now open to the nerdy public

  Denver-based "everything for nerds" site Nerdivore is taking the great leap into Web 2.0. From now on, you, the nerds of the world, can contribute to Nerdivore. Until now, Nerdivore had been the more-or-less sole province of political columnist, New York Times bestselling author, Denverite and, apparently, giant nerd David Sirota, currently ranked #41 on Mediaite's Power Grid in the Newspaper/Online Columnist category. The site's mission is summed up nicely by these lines from the About page:

  July 15, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 15 edition

  Danielle Ate the Sandwich -- and then punched it, hard. Put up your dukes. Today in Backbeat Online: • Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Better than a bag of poop on fire! • Last Night: Paul Sprawl at the Laughing Goat in Boulder. • Hearsay bits: City Hall, Speakeasy Tiger, Torch the Wagon, Patrick Porter, Magic Cyclops. • The Mars Volta and Yeah Yeah Yeahs to headline Monolith. • When DJ Dragon wins, everybody wins! Today in Cafe Society: • Tonight: Frasca chef competes on Top Chef: Mas

  July 15, 2009

• Twitter Tuesday: Feel good, learn stuff, lean left

  Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @Gaiam: The Twitter feed of Boulder-based company Gaiam, which makes "products for a healthy mind, body, home and planet." The firm's three-person Twitter team tweets contests (win a composter!), and links to content like their recent yoga guide and other stuff perfect for your Earth-friendly, health-conscious lifestyle. You don't ev

  August 4, 2009

• Don't expect a Mike Rosen-David Sirota debate sequel

  Mike Rosen.​In April, KOA conservative Mike Rosen and AM 760 liberal David Sirota participated in a debate of President Barack Obama's first hundred days in office that was simulcast on both stations. And while those with ideological axes to grind disagreed about who won, the general consensus was that Sirota cleaned Rosen's clock. Click to hear their faceoff and decide for yourself -- since the two probably won't be going head-to-head again anytime soon. Not that Rosen has suddenly decla

  September 11, 2009

• Denver journos talk about saving the news

  ​"Saving the News: Denver and the Future of Journalism," which gets underway at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway, takes place just over six months after the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, and speakers include former Rocky editor, publisher and president John Temple and one of the tabloid's standout investigative reporters, Laura Frank. But Kim Humphreys, one of the get-together's organizers, and another ex-Rocky employee, emphasizes that "Saving the News

  September 16, 2009

• Come hear the Curious Theater (and me) examine the mysteries behind the DIA conspiracy

  Land at Curious for the DIA conspiracy​If you've lived in Denver for any amount of time, you've probably heard any one of many strange rumors about Denver International Airport: connections to the New World Order and the Freemasons, murals that depict horrific future events in 2012, an underground military base, spirits disturbed from an ancient indian burial ground, haunted sculptures, aliens, shape-shifters and... the Queen of England? In conjunction with their new play Yankee Tavern,

  October 8, 2009

• Is this anti-Obama billboard racist? You be the judge

  Obama meets Sambo? Click the photo to enlarge the image.​So... whaddya think? Is this billboard, on display outside Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, a bold (and legitimate) statement of displeasure with the Obama administration that has the guts to link the shootings in Fort Hood, Texas, with Islamoterrorism? Or is it an offensive throwback to the Little Black Sambo imagery that typified race baiting for far too much of the 20th century? The general mana

  November 20, 2009