Weenie bashes weasels and foreigners, prospers

Just when I thought Michael Graham was at home looking into podcasting, maybe, or comparing brands of fish sticks on his blog, along comes Marc Fisher with the depressing news that Graham's become something of a hot property since getting canned. Graham rails against "corporate weasels" and "oversensitive" Muslims who took exception to his caricaturization of Islam as a "terrorist organization." He fills in at talk radio stations across the country via a studio at the Heritage Foundation while he weighs job offers. But what he really wants is to return to D.C.

"For me to be sacked for saying what I believe -- it is heartbreaking for me to leave WMAL," Graham told Fisher. "I just don't get it: I got your station more publicity than you'd had in five years, and you fire me? What did I miss?"

He may have missed the fact that it wasn't exactly the kind of publicity WMAL was looking for, but more important that ratings plunged when Graham was on the air. For a guy who makes his bones supposedly seeing through b.s., I'm surprised he hasn't addressed this part of the story.