Cataldi’s Predictions As Right As Ever

Remember during football season, when Angelo Cataldi was all “A.J. Feeley is a better quarterback than Donovan McNabb” in his Metro column? It was so stupid I didn’t even blog about it. Well, it turns out Cataldi’s predictions aren’t just bunk for football.

From his Kerri-Lee TV American Idol blog, posted a few hours before last night’s show:

I really don’t need to see the final show to know who has won. How it came about during the intense last round of competition was fascinating, though. By all appearances, David Cook tanked the final night. He handed the title to David Archuleta[.]

As you may have heard somewhere possibly maybe, David Cook won American Idol in a rout.

‘Idol’ Odds From, Um, Andy Reid

Steve Odabashian, the Andy Reid impersonator I did the story on last year was on 610 WIP this morning talking about American Idol. Of course. The audio’s embedded after the jump; plus he’s going to piano duel with somebody who Angelo Cataldi likes.

Maybe it’ll be Barack Obama!

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Barack Obama On, Uh, 610 WIP

Barack Freaking Obama called in to the 610 WIP Morning Show and was interviewed by Angelo Freaking Cataldi today. I can only assume Obama’s on his way over to my place later today so we can watch some old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. Oh, man, that would be sweet!

Obama even said he wanted to stop by the studios sometime! Plenty of softballs from Cataldi — he’s in Obama’s pocket!! — but he did ask him, “Why should we elect you president?” That’s a question I think commentators on TV don’t really ask, instead focusing on Barack Obama’s pastor and how he offended Pat Buchanan so much he stopped hating gays for a second.

So, yes, if I had a choice of the national TV news covering this election or Angelo Cataldi, it’s 610 WIP’s morning show hands down.

Suburban Radio Station Praises Suburban Candidate

This morning, future mayor of the combined city of New South Jersadelphia — “The City of Brotherly Something Or Other” — one Milton Street showed up to talk about his campaign on 610 WIP. But of course, you say! Right. The Inquirer’s very own award-winning headline writer, Peter Mucha, liveblogged the whole thing, which is a pretty nice service for those of us who don’t want to listen to it.

The brief recap: Cataldi says he’s supporting Street and “his brilliant new strategy.” Milton’s brilliant new strategy, apparently, is to tell black people to stop killing each other: “You’re never going to take white’s folks taxes… and put ‘em in the black community so black folks can stop killing each other.” Well, ehm, okay.

Milton Street also is backtracking on his promise that if 5,000 people don’t show up at his rally March 3 at City Hall, he’s going to drop out of the race. He says that just a lot of people will do.

Despite not living in Philadelphia, Cataldi says Milton Street has his vote. (Yeah, I’d put in the “well if Milton can run for mayor while living in Jersey” joke here, but Cataldi already made it.) Then, after the interview, former Eagles defensive end/ambassador of fun/Terrell Owens attacker Hugh Douglas became the voice of sanity:

“That was a shame. That was a shame. I don’t even know what to say after that … You know, two crazy people on the radio shouldn’t talk to each other. … It’s ridiculous. I can’t believe you did that.”

Anyway, I feel that since Cataldi is a Milton Street supporter, he should go the extra mile and run on his ticket for the position I just made up, Vice Mayor. Hey, if an indicted New Jersey resident can run for mayor, I don’t see why a suburban radio host can’t run for a made-up position. Cataldi is expected to run on a platform of tax breaks for Steven Singer and tax-exempt status for wing-related events.

If you have a better stomach than I do — oh, who am I kidding, I was up at 6 to listen to it — 610 WIP has the whole thing up as an MP3.

Milton on the Morning Show [610 WIP, .mp3]
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