D aren Muhammad has been kicked off the WOLB airwaves and, wouldn't you know it, there's a conspiracy there.
For years, Muhammad has had a public-affairs show, the radio equivalent of vanity publishing: He paid the station to air it.
He offered city politics chitchat juiced up with cloak-and-dagger stuff, like how the deaths of former City Councilman Ken Harris in September, city contractor Robert Lee Clay in 2005 and federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna in 2003 are connected - and covered up by the news media, which, of course, are controlled by the Jews. (Oy vey!)
WOLB officials told Muhammad on Friday that they wouldn't air him anymore. The reason Muhammad gave The Baltimore Sun's Justin Fenton: He's been raising too many questions about Harris' death.
Muhammad recently attached himself to a faction in a family feud among Harris' relatives, who've established rival memorial funds. He's on the side of Sylvia Harris, the late councilman's mother. Muhammad said he lost his radio slot after a lawyer for Harris' widow, Annette, called the station to complain about statements he'd made.
"For obvious reasons, I have no intention of repeating some of the on-air statements made during the recent broadcasts of the program," said the attorney, Neil Duke. "Suffice it to say that there were inappropriate statements directed at Annette Harris, her family and even the late Kenneth Harris that were so discourteous that the family felt it necessary to voice its concern to the radio station."
But WOLB general manager Howard Mazer said Muhammad was axed for other reasons. "It has nothing to do with Ken Harris," he said. "It's a business decision."
Mazer did say the decision was based on the "content of the show. There's been different things that have happened, and we decided that, you know, it's time to make a change."
Muhammad has offended before. Back in 2006, he speculated on the air about then-Comptroller William Donald Schaefer's love life. (Must have been a slow conspiracy day.) I'm not sure Schaefer has ever minded attention of any sort, but his spokesman complained, and Muhammad was suspended for several weeks.
In July, former Baltimore City police spokeswoman Ragina Averella sued Muhammad and Radio One in Circuit Court, claiming he'd spread false rumors on the show about her romantic life. The suit seeks $500,000 in damages. Averella's lawyer, Stuart Arnovits, said that the case is "in the process of being resolved."
