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precursors of apes.

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She is -- according to one of her own bios -- a widow. My three-minute google search limit doesn't reveal if Espinosa is her maiden or married name.

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I guess they came up with the magazine title <i>Arizona Highways</i> because they didn't expect anyone would want to spend any time in their state.

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In what respect, Charlie?

Apes broke off from simians before we broke off from apes, and so I believe it would accurate to say that our common ancestor with chimpanzees was an ape. Monkeys and apes share common ancestors, and hence monkeys and humans, but our ancestry does not pass through Cercopithecoidea (old-world monkeys) or Platyrrhini (new-world monkeys)

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She appears to have show on at 7PM on Wednesdays on KFNX, which is an AM wingnut talk radio station, very heavy on the syndicated shows. They don't have Rush or Hannity, so maybe they're not the prime outlet in Phoenix.

I have far exceeded the amount of time I should have allocated to this bimbo, so I believe I'll go cut down some manzanita.

Oh, and Espinosa is a widow, but I don't know if that's her maiden or married name.

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I've looked at the station's website. I believe you can buy time from them for your very own show.

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Maybe Barb is playing poker.

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welcome to your 15 minutes barb.

hope you like it.

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Wow, she really is retuuuurrrhhhh... ridiculous. Barbara, honey, if you're gonna attempt to use evolution as your defense, you gotta realize that monkeys are not apes (it's right there in your cut'n'paste you moron), and it's apes from which we evolved, not monkeys.

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I'm guessing there's more that could be said, but it sure was as scorching as the Arizona sun.

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Wow, kudos to the portraitist, that really captures her perfectly.

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This is exactly the kind of ugly mindlessness I'd expect from, say, Rush Limbaugh.

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More than that, free speech guarantees <em>our</em> right to call her a racist for being racist and a moron for not understanding how free speech works. And also to say "Burn Her!" (as long as we're not addressing a pitchfork wielding mob in her near vicinity)

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That voice! Who else applied for the radio host job and didn't get it? What on earth did they sound like? Brakes with no pads at the bottom of a five-mile hill?

It would be bad enough if she had nothing to say. But she's just got to get her racist on. On the airwaves owned by the public that her radio station pays nothing for.

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"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back"?

"Barack the Magic Negro"?

"Halfrican American"?

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Most of the time he does try to maintain plausible deniability, I agree, but sometimes he just can't help himself. Maybe it's the drugs, or maybe he's just not as smart as he thinks he is (he's definitely not as smart as he thinks he is).

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