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StumbleUponTune into AM frequency 600 in Montana's Flathead Valley, and all you'll hear is static now. It's an audio milestone in the West's prolonged amble toward reasonableness. Notorious shock jock John Stokes, the former owner of radio station KGEZ in Kalispell, used that frequency for nine years to broadcast vicious attacks against environmentalists, the government and the very idea of respecting the other side in a disagreement. "The Edge," his daily talk show, reached listeners up to a hundred miles away, and coverage of his rants by the likes of The New York Times reached a much wider audience. Stokes was outrageous, even by the standards of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. He didn't just blame environmentalists for wildfires and the logging slump, he labeled them "Green Nazis" and "vile vomit ... pure, unadulterated satanic evil." And he didn't stop with words: In his "anti-Earth Day" rallies in 2001
'The West's Biggest Bully' gets his
"Shock jock" John Stokes loses his radio station in a battle over bankruptcyDocument Actions
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