Northern Kentucky University Recruiting Students On Soft Porn Site: Suburban Cincinnati College Ads Are Popping Up Amid Sexy Photos

Sexploitation Photos Like This

[UPDATED: NKU protests to WLW, demands ad's removal. See below].

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- There is plenty of T&A exposed on this

Clear Channel radio station sexploitation site in Cincinnati where Northern Kentucky University has been running advertising spots.  Not exactly the kind of place where one would expect to find a publicly funded state college extolling its educational merits.  This is hardly Ivy League -- fig leafs would be more appropriate.  Northern Kentucky University has about 15,000 students on its suburban Cincinnati campus -- more than half are female.  Of course, NKU's spot is sandwiched in among some other noted outfits -- PNC Bank was seen running an ad on the sexploitation site.  There are nearly 70 pictures of women -- some of whom do not look to be of legal age -- in various states of undress that show up in the photos on Sexy Oil Spills.  All of the women seem to be rubbed down with body oil or some substance that makes their bodies glisten.  NKU says in its promotional material that that its goal isn't slime, but to "mold" its student body:

 

Click on NKU ad T&A

"You know the kind of place that offers a comfortable, safe, energetic learning environment - a place that will get the most out of you and mold you into a person who will shape the future?  We're that kind of place.  Welcome to Northern Kentucky University, a growing metropolitan university of more than 15,000 students served by more than 2,000 faculty and staff on a thriving suburban campus near Cincinnati.

"Located in the quiet suburb of Highland Heights, Ky. - just seven miles southeast of Cincinnati - we have become a leader in Greater Cincinnati and Kentucky by providing a private school education for a fraction of the cost. While we are one of the fastest growing universities in Kentucky, our professors still know our students' names.  And while growth in numbers and reputation is wonderful, we are not satisfied with this success. We want more."

The guess here is that the university brass didn't actually choose to run its ads amidst all the skin.  After all, no one in academia is openly trying to be Bourbon Street State U; they wince in Boulder and Athens whenever Colorado and Ohio University make the list of top party schools.  But the fact that NKU's ads are sprinkled around on a soft porn site leaves it looking like Boob U, as well as a school that is run by boobs and nitwits.  Clear Channel radio station 700 WLW -- the 50,000-watt voice of right wing talk in SW Ohio -- has a spot on its website dedicated to Babes.  Somehow NKU landed with the Babes.  As well as well-oiled women, you've got women in thongs and women in nothing much else but a smile.  You've got a link to a site with women who are passed out in alcoholic stupors.   You've got a link with photos of women putting their faces into other women's breasts.  Northern Kentucky University probably didn't directly order up a spot among all that skin -- if it did someone should be fired.  Clear Channel probably stuck the college with the nudies.   But why?  And the college -- which most likely didn't set out to get embarrassed -- winds up getting skinned by a corporate ad department.  Too bad, because the school claims it really, really wants to make this corner of the world a much better place.  It says this:  "And yes - we want our students prepared to enter that workforce. But we also want them ready to lead, to change it for the better. We want them ready to make our community and region a better place.  Students at NKU improve themselves - then they improve the world.  That's what we're all about here at NKU."

[UPDATE: 11/15/10, 10:19 am -- NKU officials have sent The Daily Bellwether an e-mail saying they have demanded that 700WLW remove the university's advertising from the web feature.  NKU spokesman  Chris Cole said the ad was not authorized by the school.  NKU wants an explanation from Clear Channel, and has suspended all advertising with the radio chain.  Here's the full-text of the e-mailed statement:

"Mr. Sloat,

"Your blog posting from Nov. 13 was brought to my attention this morning. As you suspected, the Northern Kentucky University marketing office did not authorize an NKU ad to be included in 700WLW’s “Sexy Oil Spills” web feature. In fact, the university isn’t even currently advertising on 700WLW. The ad you saw was a free toss-in on an older advertising package for added value. We were unaware of it until your post.

"That does not make its appearance on the site acceptable. We have contacted the station and demanded that the ad immediately be pulled. We have also suspended all advertising with Clear Channel stations until we are both satisfied with an explanation as to how this occurred and are confident nothing like this will ever happen again.

"Thanks for bringing this to our attention. As you can imagine, we at NKU take our image very seriously and we are pursuing this vigorously.

"Chris Cole
Director of Media Relations and Communications
Northern Kentucky University"

WLW 700 AM Radio Talk Show Host Bill Cunningham: Ripped As Ruthless Businessman

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Taxman blog, a conversative site, posted an unflattering item today about Bill Cunningham, the conservative Cincinnati talk show host. It's about Willie's, a local bar and restaurant outfit that uses Cunningham's nickname. Seems to have some inside info. Check out the crunch lines:

"Last year, given that the stores were losing money, the principal owner, Brad Orr, gave ownership of the Kenwood store to the accountant Barb for cover the debt they owed her.Apparently, Cunningham wanted the store back so he could give his jerk wad of a kid a store to manage. But he didn't go to Barb to buy her out. Instead, knowing that the store was on a month to month lease, went to the landlords and offered a sizable rent increase if they would evict Willie's out of the spot; which they promptly did.So now Willie's is attempting to reopen on Galbraith road where the old Gentry Shop used to be. And Cunningham is looking to start his new place where the old one used to be."

Sluts and Sleaze: Tribune Co. Cooking Up TV Political Show With Two Cincinnati Hams

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- This is what passes for creativity in today's corporate media executive suites: Let's match Jerry Springer against Bill Cunningham in an unruly political debate show. They can rhetorically mudwrestle about which political party is responsible for Tiger Woods' tastes in women, which they did (see below). Springer is a liberal former Cincinnati mayor who made it big as the ringmaster of an afternoon TV freak show. He was famously reelected after he paid a hooker with a check. Cunningham is a Cincinnati radio talker who makes the most rabid conservatives on earth sound reasonable -- he may be to the right of the Taliban. Chicago-based Tribune Co. is experimenting with a pilot that is airing in Midwest markets. The first one was screened in Cincinnati Sunday night. Few noticed.

Blogger Chris Johnson caught the first show and his review said it wasn't much. Johnson wondered why anybody would think the broadcast world needs another talk show pitting a Democrat vs. a Republican. It's a tired concept that started on CBS' 60 Mnutes nearly 40 years ago, then gained traction on CNN's Crossfire, a show that came to grow so boring and predictably talking head the cable network killed it off. The Cincinnati Beacon spotted Johnson's post and linked to it, for which the Bellwether is grateful. Johnson was struck by the abject lack of reasoning displayed by Cunningham. It involved Tiger Woods:

"In perhaps the most incoherent moment of the show, Cunningham claimed that Lyndon Johnson is responsible for the whole Tiger Woods mess because Welfare took fathers out of the home. Therefore, children have had no role models in the home and have had to look to celebrities like Tiger Woods for inspiration.
The show closed with both of their hopes for the new year. Springer wants health care for all and Cunningham wants Obama to be impeached so Biden can become President. Can someone tell me why we need this show? Real conversations about important issues are already few and far between within the corporate media, I don’t think that we need more of this nonsense on the airwaves."

Bill Cunningham's Talk Show Bombast Triggers Backlash: He's Popularized 'Hussein'

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Last February, the righty radio talker from Cincinnati's WLW-AM was scolded by John McCain for overdosing on Obama's middle name while warming up a GOP campaign rally. Now there's a slew of new "Husseins" appearing around the United States. The name is being used in a move to show solidarity with Obama, and Husseins have been materializing ever since Cunningham shot off his mouth. From today's New York Times:

"New Husseins began to crop up online as far back as last fall. But more joined up in February after a conservative radio host, Bill Cunningham, used Mr. Obama's middle name three times and disparaged him while introducing Senator John McCain at a campaign rally. (Mr. McCain repudiated Mr. Cunningham's comments). The practice has been proliferating ever since. In interviews, several Obama supporters said they dreamed up the idea on their own, with no input from the campaign and little knowledge that others shared their thought."

There's a link to the Times' story and more here on Rightpundits.

At the time of the "Hussein" incident in the run up to Ohio's March presidential primary, Cunningham was all over FOX and other cable talk shows proclaiming how he planned to vote for Hillary Clinton. Cunningham huffed and puffed and described his coming party switch from R to D as revenge because McCain had dared take him to the woodshed. But Cunningham did not vote for Hillary in the primary. His bloviating turned out to be a charade, all feigned anger and self-promotion probably intended to pump ratings for his radio show. When the Daily Bellwether checked primary day polling records, it discovered Cunningham had actually cast his ballot in the Republican presidential primary. So all his talk about supporting Democratic New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was nothing but gas -- cheap gas at that. Many in Cincinnati believe that Bill Cunningham's show is to verbal gas as Saudi Arabia is to oil -- the planet's largest supplier.

Bill Cunningham's Talk Radio Ruse: Voted Republican In Ohio, Faked Hillary Support

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Righty radio talker Bill Cunningham got the national publicity he wanted -- he was all over FOX News and the cable channels the week before Ohio's presidential primary. But Hillary Clinton didn't get his vote.

The Daily Bellwether today checked precinct records from Ohio's March 4 presidential primary and discovered Cunningham's much ballyhooed endorsement of the Democratic New York senator turned out to be pure poppycock. Or a ratings ploy. Or a political stunt. Cunningham was not among the thousands of crossovers last week. The conservative talk show host pulled a Republican ballot in Sycamore "W," when he voted at the St.Paul United Methodist Church in suburban Cincinnati. His feud with GOP presidential candidate John McCain now has the aroma of a hoax.

Cunningham on Feb. 26 warmed up a crowd for a McCain rally in Cincinnati and used language that accused Democrat Barack Obama of being tied to Chicago corruption. He also repeatedly used the Illinois senator's full name -- Barack Hussein Obama. McCain apologized for Cunningham's behavior. The talk show host then was all over the airwaves ripping McCain and proclaiming his support for Clinton. On Hannity & Colmes, Cunningham said:

"I'm going to follow the lead of Ann Coulter. I've had it with John McCain. I'm going to endorse Hillary Rodham Clinton for president because she would do a better job in the Oval Office, I think, than the liberal John McCain. I'm done with him."

On his own WLW-AM, 700 talk show, Cunningham said of McCain:

"He just threw me under the bus to the national media. I've had it with McCain. I'm going to endorse Hillary Clinton. I'm going to throw my support behind Hillary Clinton."

On CNN:

"McCain should lose this election and let the Democrats win. . . I've had it with John McCain. He's off the list. I'm joining Ann Coulter and supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton."

There's more here about his fervor for Hillary ahead of primary day. But the whole thing now looks fake. Immediately after McCain apologized last month, there was speculation that the olive branch for Cunningham's conduct was feigned. There was suspicion it was a staged event to portray the Arizona senator as a principled candidate who wanted to take the high road as he campaigned for president. McCain may have meant what he said. But it seems clear from the voting records that Cunningham was just hustling headlines and attention for himself.

Ohio GOPers Getting Calls From Ken Blackwell: McCain Is A Reagan Republican

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Ken Blackwell is now working the phones for John McCain. The robo calling -- in the wake of the dust up with Bill Cunningham -- pits a genuine Cincinnati social conservative, Blackwell, against the publicity addicted radio talk show host. Blackwell is urging Republicans to "please join me in voting for John McCain" on primary day, March 4. Cunningham says that he won't vote for the Arizona senator, who apologized publicly Tuesday for Cunningham's bombast at a Cincinnati campaign rally.

[UPDATE: 2/28/08 7:20 a.m -- A Republican I know well and see often just sent an e-mail: "Bill, what the heck does the "J." in J. Kenneth Blackwell stand for. Is he hiding something?" Of course, the note was was meant tongue-in-cheek to play off the Barack "Hussein" Obama flap. But what the heck does Blackwell's first initial stand for -- Jeb, John, Jehosophat, Jesus, Joshua, Janice, Jill? In nearly 30 years of covering the guy, I have to confess I have no idea.]

Blackwell says McCain represents the values of Ronald Reagan. Here's the script:

"Hello, this is Ken Blackwell calling for my friend John McCain with a special message for all Ohio Republicans. On Tuesday March 4, please join me in voting for John McCain. Like me, you want a president who is a solid Ronald Reagan conservative who will cut taxes and eliminate wasteful spending, who supports our values and has the military and national security experience to best lead our country in the war against radical Islam. John McCain is that man. He will never waiver in his commitment to conservative principles. His character, honor, and integrity are unmatched. Join me and thousands of other Republicans in voting for John McCain."

The campaign paid for the Blackwell calls. No mention of Cunningham, but the timing should help McCain neutralize any damage that the righty talker could inflict. Blackwell, who served two terms as Ohio's Secretary of State, was the GOP gubernatorial candidate in 2006. He is out of office but serves in conservative and religious right think tanks.

Ohio's Wacky Willie Cunningham: GOP Getting Complaint Calls About 'Juan Pablo' McCain

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- In Willie World, the alternative universe where Bill Cunningham dwells, the Hamilton County GOP headquarters is taking heat about a certain Republican senator from Arizona:

"He's not my candidate. He's not a conservative. I'm a conservative Reagan Republican, and John McCain embarrassed himself. The local Republican Party . . . has received dozens -- dozens of calls complaining about John Juan Pablo McCain. They're getting complaint calls."

Cunningham had the audacity to proclaim himself a Reagan Republican during the FOX TV appearance. But he didn't mention he has been accused of shilling for tax increases for corporate welfare projects. In the 1990s, there was a sales tax increase to build a new football stadium for the Cincinnati Bengals, and he was viewed as a leading proponent.

The Push-Button Brain Of Bill Cunningham: Will Rant For Money

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain, an Annapolis graduate, is an officer and a gentleman. Cincinnati talk show host Bill Cunningham is a mindless guttersnipe who is a savant at self-promotion. His political philosophy -- seen as glib in some GOP circles -- is actually redacted from the short phrases that are imprinted on bumper stickers. By now, the world knows that Cunningham warmed up a crowd at a McCain rally Tuesday and McCain apologized for the couthless idiot with the block-head and overactive mouth who appeared on his behalf. Just last year, Cunningham was apologizing for himself. He had witlessly remarked that Reds outfielder Adam Dunn was playing drunk. Cunningham had to eat those words, which were untrue.

Cunningham, of course, is not an original political thinker. He's a sock puppet, the Oliver J. Dragon who delivers his ventriloquist's talking points. He's famous for being an apologist for the powerful, and for being wrong; in 1989 he insisted there was no believable evidence Pete Rose bet on baseball, and consistently insisted Rose was innocent until Rose admitted guilt. Cunningham, thus, couldn't spot a lie when it was staring him in the face. His talk show philosophy, boiled down to its essence, is warmed over Rush and Hannity. He lacks originality and creativity. Like a cockroach, he picks up the conservative crumbs that drop from their plates. Even now, after McCain apologized for Cunningham's behavior, the Cincinnati talker could come up with nothing better than to say he would follow Ann Coulter's lead and vote for Hillary Clinton. In his snit, the conservative cockroach stayed true to form, that of an insect species which survives on detritus, and scurried to run off with a Coulter crumb. Cunningham again proved he was a follower -- this time behind Coulter -- because he lacks all ability to deliver an original thought. As the election year proceeds, WLW listeners can expect bumper sticker talk like this as Cunningham expounds on:

• Education: Ten Commandments, Barack Hussein Obama.
• Crime: Willie Horton, Barack Hussein Obama.
• Iraq War: Support the Troops, Barack Hussein Obama.
• Trade and Globalization: Wal-Mart, Barack Hussein Obama.
• Marriage: Gays, Barack Hussein Obama.
• Mean Jean Schmidt: Nancy Pelosi, Barack Hussein Obama.
• Capital Punishment: Guillotine, Barack Hussein Obama.
• Taxes: Welfare queens, Barack Hussein Obama.
• John McCain: Swiftboats, Barack Hussein Obama.

Ohio Righty Talker Bill Cunningham: Muslims After Sex With Children

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Talk show host Bill Cunningham, whose nickname is the Cunning Ham, has riled up the Islamic community by saying on the air earlier this week that the goal of their religion is "sex with children for eternity." Cunningham's weekday radio show on 700 WLW-AM goes into national syndication on 325 stations later this week. He takes over Matt Drudge's Sunday night radio time slot at the end of the month.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is irate and demanding a rebuke of Cunningham from Clear Channel, the station's corporate parent. So far, nothing, says CAIR's Cincinnati executive director Karen Dabdoub. Cunningham was on the air railing against Islamic militants Tuesday when he said their goal was to die violently, meet virgins in paradise, and diddle kiddies. The way he constructed his sentence appeared to make child sex a tenet of the Muslim faith.

"The great war of this generation's time is the war against Islamic fascists . . . They do not live for life, they live for death. Only through death can they believe they can be with those 72 virgins in heaven and have sex with children for eternity, which is the goal of that religion."

CAIR said the remark promotes anti-Muslim hatred and will have a negative impact on America's image overseas. Cunningham's comment unquestionably will be spread far and wide by the Internet over coming days. CAIR has an audio clip of Cunningham's remark and called it evidence of increasing evidence of intolerance against members of the Islamic faith in the United States.

Cincinnati Reds Slugger Adam Dunn: Will He Sue Righty Talker Bill Cunningham?

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Radio talk show host Bill Cunningham -- known for provocative comments -- may have finally slid over the line by saying on the air Reds outfielder Adam Dunn was playing drunk. The Reds are looking for a tape of Cunningham's comments, and the possibility of a libel lawsuit hangs in the air like a long fly ball. Cunningham is a conservative talker who is rumored to be in line as a successor to Matt Drudge on Sunday nights.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has a nice account of the rhubarb today. Cunningham and other talkers have often pushed the envelope to hold listeners and prop up ratings. Is this his Don Imus moment? Ballplayers are millionaires and left fielder Dunn has the dough to find a lawyer who can make life miserable for Cunningham and his broadcast outlet. And Clear Channel, the media giant that owns WLW-AM, 700, may not have the stomach for a protracted court battle. Dunn may have made a costly error, but that doesn't mean he was soused. Cunningham may have swung and missed. The question: Is he out?

Matt Drudge's Radio Replacement? Ohio Righty Talker Bill Cunningham

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- The grapevine is buzzing: When Matt Drudge gives up his Sunday night Premiere Radio talk show at the end of September, Cincinnati's Bill Cunningham will step in to replace the legend behind the Drudge Report. Premiere is owned by communications giant Clear Channel, and Cunningham works for that company. So maybe the grapevine is on to something.

If it is correct, Cunningham will have mighty big shoes to fill because Drudge's program airs in 204 markets across the United States. Cunningham is pretty much a local personality who now does an early afternoon weekday broadcast on 700, WLW-AM. He's a lawyer, a Republican and his wife, Penny, is a Hamilton County domestic relations judge.

OhioMedia gets the credit for landing a scoop on Drudge's replacement. So far, though, there is nothing official.

Ohio Trash Talker Bill Cunningham: A Peeping Willie?

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Usually, WLW's Bill Cunningham is on the dishing end, reliably spouting conservative causes like a human geyser on his radio talk show that emanates each weekday in Cincinnati. Now he's managed to p.o the Christian Right, and one evangelical commentator has sprayed back with a dose of skunk juice, implying that Willie likes to leer at young women through their unshaded windows.

Definitely titillating. But that's really hard to believe, isn't it?

A lengthy commentary that mentions the ogling is online at Citizen USA, the web-version of a newspaper that circulates in many Ohio churches. There is no fairness doctrine that covers newspapers or online sites -- or radio talk shows for that matter -- so there is nothing showing Clear Channel talker Cunningham has responded to the commentary. Citizen USA says about itself that it is a "newspaper that represents the worldview of the Values Voter" and "challenges the liberal bias found is most hometown daily newspapers."

The passage that gut-punched Cunningham reads as follows:

"So why was Willie, usually the Conservative's conservative, blasting Phil Burress, David Miller, Bill Seitz and others? While eating lunch at (irony of all ironies) the West Chester location of the restaurant that bears Willies name, I overheard diners ate (sic) the table next door speculating that Willie had to be rescued from his roof not for inspecting dryer lint, but for inspecting the navels of young women in the neighborhood through their open windows. (Cunningham recently had to be rescued from the roof of his home, placing a famous but embarrassing 911 call to the Madeira Fire Department after climbing up a too-short ladder to inspect a dryer vent installation on his roof and becoming frightened he would injure himself getting down.)"

Maybe Cunningham just got Swiftboated by the right? After all, it was a navel attack.

UPDATE: 10:25 am EDT -- Just discovered that Right Angle Blog is conducting a poll to determine the most influential/popular conservative talker in Ohio. Cunningham is the first name on the ballot. He's definitely a force. But some people in Cincinnati have another nickmane for Willie. They call him the cunning ham. It will be very interesting to see who wins the RAB poll. Guess here -- Willie zips past all comers.