Ben Stevens, About to Be Flushed, Starts Jumping on the Handle

An excerpt from a Ben Stevens radio interview with Bill Allen's replacement right-wing nut for the Daily News, Dan Fagan:

At one point, Fagan started to ask Stevens about Allen, but Stevens cut him off.

"I'm not at liberty to talk about that," Stevens said. "It's under investigation. I'm under investigation by the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS, the National Marine Fisheries Service. I'm not talking about that."

FAGAN: (Allen) has turned people against the oil industry and you were part of that.

STEVENS: Look, he might have done something wrong. You know, obviously he admits he did. You know. But I maintain my innocence, big man. I was working for the state of Alaska. I was pushing the governor's bill.

FAGAN: So when Bill Allen says that he paid you ... You, you think he's doing that just to save ...

STEVENS: Bill Allen will do anything at this point.

The Unholy Demon-Child Stevens (R) keeps calling Fagan "Big Man," which seems a little less like pushiness and a little more like borderline personality disorder. (Note to Fagan: Alas! the poor, blameless oil industry! Please. ) A reminder to our non-frontier brethern: Little Stevens is the guy who took $700,000 (you read that right) for his work as the Honorary Chairman of the 2001 Special Olympics. There is only one word for this service: Special.

It will take many years for Alaska - which is not yet grasping the ramifications to public and private investment - to recover from this clusterfuck of sleazebaggery, but only if the bribed of all parties come clean. If not, it will become decades, it will fester, and Alaskans will gain a unshakable and unfortunately deserved reputation.