Steiger"weird" Watch!

Yeah, I'm a talk radio junkie. Locally, KDKA radio offers up mostly right wing, conservative screeds from local and national personalities. Lately, a local sports guy has turned to hosting a political talk show, his name is John Steigerwald.

While I've enjoyed Steigerwalds commentary and interviews related to the Pittsburgh sports scene, his political talk show creds show that he should have stayed with sports.

Recently, I tuned in and heard him chanting the latest conservative mantra of "Drill More Oil!". His favorite catch phrase is Shutup and Drill. So, I called in to ask a simple question of the host. I asked John why the oil companies are not currently dirlling on millions of acres of land that they lease from the government (us, that is). Well, John proceeded to stammer, spit, and cough and just couldn't come up with a quick quip of an answer to that one. His best was "We have to trust the oil companies to know how and when to drill."

Good one, John. Trust the oil companies.

Actually, to be fair, his initial answer to my question was "Oh, that's the Democratic answer!" In return, I asked "Well, what's the reailty, John?" Which was the trust big oil line. However, he still couldn't give a reason why drilling was not currently being done on leased land. Well, I asked another...."Why isn't drilling being done now with the thousands of dripping permits already issued to oil companies?" Again, spit, stammer, and cough.

Oh well, all I wanted was to give John a chance to show how much research he's done on a subject that he clearly is passionate about...unfortunately, all he cares about is getting T-Shirts made that say Shutup and Drill.

Guess we just need to sit back and trust that big oil will always do the right thing.

We'll check back in on ol' Steiger"weird" on occasion just to see how its going.

Wakeup, Americans!