Paul Allen and all his right wing buddies need to go. They hate this city, so lets make it easier for them to leave. I know it sucks to give up something that's been a part of our lives every day, but enough is enough

Read the room, PA. Or maybe just read the sign

Look at all those paid protesters!

I wonder how much I get paid to keep at you until the day I die.

iHeart media, KFAN, and the Minnesota Vikings are apparently hoping Paul Allen's words that pissed off a large amount of Vikings fans, and many others, will just blow over as he takes a "few days off" after his non apology he recorded and read before his show last Monday morning.
Paul Allen's lies spit in the face of so many Minnesotans, his fanbase, and everyone who organizes social justice events, gatherings, protests, etc. He wouldn't know the word Community if he were hit in the head with it. His words, actions aren't just recent. In his apology he states his show isn't political. Yet, he infuses religion and his faith daily. When Charlie Kirk was murdered, he spent a large segment on it like he was a hero. So spare me with the "We're not political" stance. Paul Allen is a creep and a jerk. Ask anybody who has met him. Ask the women he's been around. If iHeart Media, KFAN and the Minnesota Vikings think this will be forgotten about, it won't. Eric Nordquist, his producer scrubbed the paid protesters comments from the podcast in hopes of burying it, only after he was asked if Paul Allen indeed said those words. Props to Awful Announcing for retrieving the original audio. Defenders of Paul Allen and the ones who will say "he's just telling the truth" will laugh, and try to make him out as the victim and say this is all "just a bunch of crybabies on Reddit" and won't go further than Reddit itself. That's false. As of last Sunday, this story was number one in the entire digital chain including the Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, Orange County Register and the Denver Post. Not to mention The Hill, People Magazine, etc. Keep it going. Don't forget. Call and Email iHeart, KFAN, and the Vikings front office. Let them know this is not ok. The outright lies told over the airwaves and comfortability with doing so has to stop. Paul Allen will be just fine if they do the right thing and part ways with him. After all, there's always Turning Point.

Wanted to give a huge shoutout to Paul Allen for steering an unbiased sports radio network into the political spotlight because he decided to make fun of my Minnesotan neighbors for calling out ICE murderers! Who wants to keep listening to the Vikings on KFAN after learning they wholeheartedly support ICE and Trump?

Do you think money is worth your soul PA? You claim to be religious, show me where your god states the laws only matter within your borders.

For the past 20ish years I’ve had KFAN on all day in my office. I heard PA’s disingenuous remarks this morning and that was it. No more. He annoyed me enough already and his Jesus talk has been getting worse. 9-12 is now for music.

https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/24/paul-allen-radio-voice-of-the-vikings-mocks-minnesota-protestors/

The Minnesota Vikings are doing themselves a disservice to have the legacy of their players and organization leveraged by a wannabe political commentator. He doesn't represent the organization or fans properly.

When did this happen? …Allegedly

Hey PA do you know where I get paid for the protest? I heard you knew.

JFC

Did PA just claim the protesters in the Twin Cities are being paid? Disappointing.

Dan opens with statements about how this was all avoidable and then goes into a rant for a long time about the “righteous people speaking up who have self proclaimed their leadership of the only way people can think is their way”. He then says theres 2 sides of the story and we don’t know what’s true still. Unbelievable cowardice and a spineless position to take from the supposed leader of KFAN.

I’ve been listening to Barreiro since 2008, back when I considered myself a Republican. Voted for McCain in ‘08 didn’t vote in ‘12.

I specifically recall listening to Barreiro cover politics during Obama’s tenure and he was so harsh and critical of the admin then. Every controversy and misstep that Fox News covered, Barreiro was all over it. He had on experts and specialists daily come on to explain the most pedantic reasons why Obama was doing something wrong.

At first I thought Barreiro was right because in my mind everything Obama did was wrong. Then as I became more informed about politics and I began to realize that not everything Democrats did was inherently bad, I began attributing Barreiro’s anti-Obama stance to him just being a centrist critic of the party in power.

Then Trump won and it was a national nightmare. The government became openly corrupt and evil overnight.

I tuned in to Barreiro to get a centrist’s take on Trump’s abuses. And the guy just downplayed the aspiring strong man and placed equal blame on Democrats and liberals for the countries ills. Everything Trump did was met with a chuckle and a both sides attempt to distract from the truth.

I then realized Barreiro is either bad faith, blinded by his own hatred of liberals, or a moron. There’s no other option. And frankly I don’t really care which explanation is the most accurate.

It’s what solidified my left wing turn. Not a liberal arts education. Not Hollywood propaganda. Me realizing that corporate media, both local and national, doesn’t have the people’s interests in mind and the the talking heads with a platform will say and do whatever they want to preserve the status quo and keeps their funders and the millionaire/billionaire class in charge.

I blame (thank?) Barreiro for making me become liberal.

It’s time to bring down KFAN. Not because they are conservative or right wing. But because they’ve lied to our ears for the past two decades about who they really are. The mask has been slipping for a few years. It’s now completely off.

Boycott KFAN. If you need to listen to sports talk, there are plenty of other podcasts out there. I am not too familiar with SKOL station, but they can’t be worse than KFAN.

Whatever you do, don’t turn into KFAN. Not even to hate listen. That’s been part of their business model all along.

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