Jessica McBride is an airhead.  I don't listen to her radio show, so I didn't pick up on this until I was making the blog rounds today:

WTMJ-AM 620 rightwing talker and blogger Jessica McBride stages a fake interview with one of her frequent targets - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel local columnist Eugene Kane - - and supplies chicken squawking sound effects as Kane's answers, since he didn't accept the interview invitation.

Via Jay.  Tim Cuprisin puts it very well:

Even without a talk radio climate affected by the Don Imus firing and the Mike McGee suspension, using the murder of a  4-year-old in a feeble attempt at comedy merits some comment.

I honestly don't get the talking heads and their pure hypocrisy.  They rightly complain about how people were insulting Jerry Falwell too soon after he died.  They rightly complained about Michael McGee's trash regarding Charlie Sykes' mother.  They ask for leadership and acting like adults when Summerfest invites Ludicrous to perform.  Yet somehow it's funny and cool to use the tragic death of a poor little girl to score political points against a rival columnist?  Who's acting like an adult now?  Who's being compassionate now?  Did you even talk to the parents first Jessica, before you used their child's death for your own advantage?  Or did you just assume they'd understand?

I complained about this before when NBC showed so much of the video from the VT killer right after it happened.  The girl is not even in the ground yet.  That family has barely begun mourning.  And you pull a stunt like that?

Airhead is not the right term.  Moron.  Idiot.  Cold hearted.  How would you like it if that were your child being bandied about to score rating points, and for a laugh?  If I were that girl's father, I would have been waiting outside that studio so I could bitch you out in person.  There are certain things that you just don't do in the name of basic human decency.

You'll notice someone is now missing from my blogroll... permanently.

Update:  I guess I'm officially the first "non-left" blog to comment on this.  Tim doesn't think I'm actually a righty... and he's correct.  I'm a libertarian, but I do associate with the righties, so this is probably as close as you're going to find.  After all, condemning Jessica McBride is like condemning Charlie Sykes' sister... and that's a might dangerous thing to do on the right.

Update II:  McBride is being replaced.  I've been asking people for some time why they thought she was still on the air.  Her listenership has never been that great.  I figured she was just cheap to keep, so they did.  I hope this wasn't in response to her latest comments.  As I said with McGee, I think its important to have all viewpoints on the air, even if we disagree with them, if for no other reason than to be able to disagree with them.  Not that I'm comparing what McGee did to what McBride did.  I think what McGee did was much worse, and what McBride did was just in extremely very poor taste, and offensive to a suffering family.

Update III:  Nobody has asked, but I figured it would be good to mention, that although we share a last name, WTMJ General Manager Jon Schweitzer and I are not related in any way.  His name is showing up in a lot of press releases regarding this whole thing, and I thought it would be prudent to point this out.