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Profile of Mike Malloy on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Mike Malloy  
   
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Date of Birth: 22nd March 1976
   
Place of Birth: Metairie, Louisiana, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Michael D. Malloy

Michael D. Malloy is an American journalist and popular progressive radio talk show, host of The Mike Malloy Show, syndicated by Air America Radio. Beginning his radio career in the early 1990s, Malloy was originally heard on Atlanta station WSB, where he gained an early following among Georgia liberals. However, when WSB moved his show from evenings to middays against Rush Limbaugh on WGST, Malloy was unable to continue his initial success and was eventually released by WSB. When an opening arose at WLS in Chicago in 1996, Malloy applied and got the job; although he was the station's biggest ratings-getter at night, WLS fired him in April 2000 in a gradual purge of their liberal-leaning air talent. Malloy first gained national popularity with a radio audience when his program was syndicated between October 2000 to February 2004 on the now defunct I.E. America Radio Network. The Mike Malloy Show features monologues, occasional guest interviews, brief musical interludes and listeners' calls. Prior to his radio program, Malloy was a news writer with the Cable News Network from 1984 to 1987, and publisher of the weekly Atlanta newspaper Creative Loafing. His educational background focused on English and Political Science, and included study at N.C. State University in Raleigh, the University of Toledo in Ohio, Georgia State University in Atlanta, and Jacksonville University in Florida. His wife, Kathy Bay, is the show's Executive Producer.

While his on the air style features of variety of moods and themes, he is well known for his mocking, ad hominem, relentless satire and polemical criticisms of U.S. Republican Party, Democratic Party, George W. Bush, right wing Christians, politicians (especially rightist conservatives and neo-conservative), racists and homophobes. Malloy is unabashedly political and following the 2004 U.S. presidential elections with the defeat of John Kerry and the victory of George W. Bush, Malloy made public that he would remain a Democrat but no longer donate money to the leadership Democratic Party -- which in his opinion had become weak and docile in comparison to the Republican Party. He has subsequently made public overtures to the Green Party while still occasionally speaking at selected Democratic Party fundraisers. Malloy is known for being challenging and even abrasive and impatient with rightist callers with whom he pulls no punches.

Trademark catch-phrases

Malloy is frequently heard employing a number of catch phrases that have become trademarks of his style, among them are:

  • "Have I mentioned (yet), tonight, how much I hate these people?" a recurring phrase he uses when referring, variously, to supporters of the Republican Party, neo-cons, right wing conservatives, racists, fascists and the like. Some listeners of the program believe this to be ribald humor and not hate speech, while others take it at face value.
  • The Bush Crime Family - referring to Bush political family including George W. Bush, his father, George H.W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Prescott Bush and their associates, not necessarily related by blood to the Bushes. Accusations of criminal acts include the illegal invasion of Iraq (2003), Laura Bush's conviction of vehicular manslaughter, and Prescott Bush's illegal trading with the nazis.
  • Pickles - referring to Laura Bush
  • The flying monkey right - referring to the right wing media pundits
  • The giggling killer - referring to George W. Bush and what Malloy maintains is Bush's tendency to giggle arbitrarily when talking about situations when death is involved, eg capital punishment or killing terrorists.
  • President Bunny Pants, Too-stupid-to-be-president, Too-stupid-to-chew-a-pretzel- referring to George W. Bush
  • Simple Scotty - referring to White House press secretary Scott McClellan
  • The Pig Man (and his parrot, or little piglet) - referring to conservative radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity; varieties include Drug-addled Pig Man in reference to Limbaugh's drug use
  • The OxyMoron - another reference to Rush Limbaugh, mocking his addiction to the prescription drug OxyContin
  • The Baby Jesus - another reference to Sean Hannity
  • The 5'9" sack of snot - reference to Ann Coulter
  • Truth seekers - referring to loyal listeners of the show
  • The Bugman - referring to US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay who used to be an exterminator
  • The Cloud Being - referring the god of christian fundamentalists, if he actually exists
  • Jeff (me love you long time) Gannon - referring to White House correspondent and gay escort James Guckert aka Jeff Gannon
  • End your day screaming- with Mike Malloy - a commonly played and pre-recorded tagline of the show
  • Devil Demon Dobson - referring to James Dobson, the chairman of the controvesial Christian non-profit organization, Focus on the Family.

Music

  • Opening Theme
    • First hour: Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd (orchestral version)
    • Second hour: Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (orchestral version)
    • Third hour: The Story in Your Eyes by The Moody Blues
  • Closing Theme
    • First hour: Talking Out of Turn by The Moody Blues
    • Second hour: With or Without You by U2
    • Third hour: Poles Apart by Pink Floyd
  • Bumper: Pink Floyd - Echoes

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