An outrageous radio stunt!!!

Well stunt probably isn't the right word for it, but something happened on Milwaukee radio in the past week. Unfortunate but it seems radio is a bitter clash between different personalities and it can get person as it had in this incident...

MILWAUKEE -- A former alderman and controversial radio talk show host said he's happy the mother of his radio rival is dead.

Michael McGee Sr. made the comments during his radio show on WNOV-AM Thursday morning. Charlie Sykes is a radio talk show host on WTMJ-AM. Sykes' mother, Katherine B. Sykes, died in a house fire Tuesday. The Ozaukee County Coroner said Thursday that Sykes died of smoke inhalation.

McGee's words quickly spread on the Internet as bloggers picked up the story. At least one radio host talked about it on his show Thursday afternoon.

McGee and Sykes have been publicly battling for years, but even in the world of talk radio, some are saying the comments made are extreme.

"Mother Sykes, she dead. To me it's the vengeance of God. I ain't got no tears. Matter of fact a woman that would have a fool like that deserve whatever is coming her. She raised a sure enough idiot," McGee said on his radio show. "My instincts say Charlie Sykes killed his momma, cuz she live out in this big palace in Mequon all isolated. He got tired of waiting for her money."

McGee's comments came about 15 minutes into his show. He went on for about five minutes and then moved on to a different topic, but later in the show a caller asked about it.

"Mike McGee Senior," the caller began, "You really don't mean that, about your enemies families members being dead -- killed."

"Man, you don't think I mean that, man, you out of your mind," McGee replied.

You know I've only heard about Mancow Muller's bitter rivalry with Howard Stern with Howard actually calling in to Mancow's show with Howard hanging up after a maybe a minute. If I understand the story correctly Stern made some nasty comments about the death of Mancow's late father. This happened years before I ever started listening to the show.

Ironically Mancow is no longer on the air in Chicago but he can be heard in other markets around the country. Stern on the other hand can be heard on satellite radio instead of on broadcasting where he can get away with more riskier things than he was able to under a broadcast radio contract. Let's get back to Milwaukee.

I saw the video of this story. I was looking at the long beard and the dreads, and I was thinking that he looks crazy enough to make those comments. I probably just made a superficial comment right there, but that was my first though. What he said were very horrible comments that, whether serious or not, he probably should apologize for. I wonder though what's the basis for this bitter rivalry and prompted this verbal broadside on Sykes by McGee.