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Thinking mic was off, Wilson slams callers

KGO host Pete Wilson will probably be more careful in the future about what he says when he thinks his microphone has been turned off. During a heated discussion yesterday (Feb. 16) with callers about the Cheney shooting incident, Wilson vented his frustrations during a commercial break, Chron columnist Leah Garchick reports this morning. The only problem was that his microphone was still on. Garchick wrote: “Wilson riffed: ‘That’s right,’ the veep was drunk or perhaps ‘leaning up against a tree” while ‘blinking some woman” or getting (an act unfit for a family newspaper but sometimes performed by White House interns). To a person who tuned in exactly at that moment, those comments may have sounded a teensy bit disrespectful to the second-in- commander-in-chief.” Wilson later told Garchick that he was frustrated with the callers and was being “completely sarcastic.”

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