“Inside the Mind of Mark Foley” will begin airing Sept. 22 on WSVU in North Palm Beach.

Foley taped his first show Tuesday. The station says Foley will explore the inner workings of Washington on the show.

Foley resigned his House seat in 2006 after being confronted with salacious e-mails and instant messages he sent to underage congressional pages.

He lives in West Palm Beach, and also works in real estate investment.

Foley represented parts of Palm Beach County for 12 years in Congress and built a national reputation as an advocate for tougher laws against child sexual predators.

During a May 28 show, one of the three hosts on KRXQ’s “Rob, Arnie & Dawn” show said he would hit his son with his shoe if he put on high heels. Another said he would tell a boy he was “a little idiot” if he asked to wear a dress.

Officials with Bank of America Corp. and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said Friday their companies pulled advertising because they found the comments offensive.

“We listened to the segment and the follow-up comments, and found it quite difficult to defend,” Bank of America spokesman Joe Goode said.

Representatives of Verizon Communications Inc., Nissan Motor Co. and Carl’s Jr. restaurants also said they stopped advertising.

Transgender advocates and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have sought an apology from two of the show’s three hosts, Arnie States and Rob Williams. The third host, Dawn Rossi, defended transgender people on the show.

“Our issue here is that Rob and Arnie advocated violence against children because of who they are and have failed to take responsibility for their dehumanizing and defamatory words,” said Rashad Robinson, senior director of programs at GLAAD.

John Geary, vice president and general manager of KRXQ, did not return a telephone message or e-mail Friday.

During a follow-up show Wednesday, States said he never advocated abuse. He said his comments were meant only as a joke and that he didn’t do anything wrong, according to a report in The Sacramento Bee.

During the May 28 broadcast, States and Williams discussed the California Supreme Court ruling upholding Proposition 8, the initiative on last November’s ballot that banned same-sex marriage. The hosts then turned their attention to transgender lifestyles.

“If my son, God forbid, if my son put on a pair of high heels, I would probably hit him with one of my shoes. I would throw a shoe at him,” States said on the air.

Williams suggested transgender people suffered from a mental disorder.

“They are freaks. They are abnormal,” he said. “Not because they’re girls trapped in boys bodies, but because they have a mental disorder that needs to be somehow gotten out of them.”

Weber’s body was found Sunday. His ankles were bound, and he was stabbed about 50 times. Wounds on his hands indicate he tried to fight back.

The 16-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday night in Middletown, N.Y.. His identity is being withheld until formal charges are filed.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the teen “made statements implicating himself” in Weber’s death.

Browne said that Weber apparently allowed the teen into his Brooklyn home after they met through Craigslist.

Local media in New York say that Weber had placed an ad on Craigslist looking for “rough sex” with a Hispanic man.

Long Island newspaper Newsday, quoting unnamed police sources, reported that the teen told investigators he saw it as an easy way to make money for smothering someone and engaging in other forms of rough sex.

Gay porn was reportedly strewn about the home.

The teen allegedly tried to clean up after the killing, then turned on the water taps throughout the home before fleeing.

Weber worked at WABC in New York for 12 years as the on-air reporter for popular shows such as “Curtis and Kuby.” He also had worked at stations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and Pennsylvania.

Dobson and FOF are longtime opponents of LGBT civil rights with Dobson frequently speaking out against gays on his nationally syndicated radio show. He also is a proponent of the so-called ex-gay movement.

The radio program appears on more than 1,000 stations across the country.

In a 2004 interview with The Daily Oklahoman newspaper Dobson said, “Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.”

Dobson will be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame on November 8 in Chicago.

The “ex-gay” movement, which claims homosexuality can be “cured” has been discredited by the American Psychiatric and the American Psychological associations.

Truth Wins Out, an LGBT group that opposes FOC’s “cure” methods has helped organize the demonstration and set up a website DumpDobson.com to pressure the Hall of Fame into rescinding its honor for Dobson.

The Gay Liberation Network and a coalition of Chicago human rights groups also are part of the protest.

The Hall of Fame said it intends to go ahead with the ceremony for Dobson and a half dozen other inductees.

“A broadcaster’s political, social or religious views never are considered when deciding to include or exclude a candidate. Likewise, the National Radio Hall of Fame does not endorse or support the views voiced by any nominee or inductee on the air or via any other platform,” said Hall of Fame chair Bruce DuMont in a statement.

Bob Schwartz of the Chicago-based Gay Liberation Network dispute’s DuMont’s reasoning.

“Bruce DuMont would never honor a Don Imus, disgraced for his anti-African American remarks,” Schwartz said  “Nor would 1930s radio icon Father Charles Caughlin —the widely syndicated pro-Nazi and anti-Semite— be feted. Yet, in honoring James Dobson, Mr. DuMont appears to promote a ‘gay exception’ to the standards of public civility and decency rightly accorded other groups of people.”

Openly gay political commentator Rachel Maddow, 35, is getting her own prime-time show on MSNBC, the cable news channel confirmed on Tuesday.

“This just completes our prime-time lineup,” MSNBC President Phil Griffin told the New York Times.

Beginning Sept. 8, Maddow will replace commentator Dan Abrams in the 9 p.m. time slot. Her show will initially focus on the presidential race but will become more of a general news program after the election.

“This is great,” Maddow told the Times. “Getting a regular cable show is something I’ve wanted.”

Maddow will be the first out lesbian to host a prime-time news or political commentary show on American television, and one of the very few women ever to do so. MSNBC does not have any other news or political commentary shows hosted by women.

Maddow currently divides her time between Manhattan and western Massachusetts, where she lives with her partner of 10 years, artist Susan Mikula.

Maddow has hosted a popular liberal talk radio show on Air America since 2004. She has also been a frequent guest commentator on political talk shows like MSNBC’s Tucker and CNN’s Paula Zahn Now, and is currently a regular panelist on MSNBC’s Race for the White House With David Gregory.

Last year, Maddow told PageOne Q she believed her career in television hadn’t taken off, “not only because I am gay, but because of what I look like. I am not a Barbie girl with Barbie doll-like looks. Because in television, what you look like is a huge deal.”

But if the events of Maddow’s career since then are any indication, perhaps America is warming up to women who are not “Barbie girls.”

In April, Maddow began filling in occasionally as the guest host on the cable network’s popular show Countdown With Keith Olbermann, and her episodes quickly became the show’s most-watched by viewers ages 25 to 54, a highly desirable advertising demographic. Shortly thereafter, she became Olbermann’s official fill-in host.

Last month, MSNBC’s Griffin hinted that Maddow was at the top of “a very short list” to headline her own show, and he made it official this week.

“We’re hiring Rachel because she’s a smart person,” Griffin explained to the Times. “Rachel goes far beyond politics. She’s an expert on military affairs. She was a Rhodes scholar.” Maddow was the first openly gay American to win a Rhodes scholarship.

When asked in a 2005 interview with Velvet Park magazine what it’s like to debate men like Pat Buchanan, Maddow responded:

They see me as a novelty. I’ve slipped through the cracks, this butch dyke. They always try to bring up gay marriage with me. We’re talking about Syria, Bosnia, Rwanda refugees on CNN and they’re like “Rachel, now how does this relate to gay marriage?” It’s also an interesting challenge to have to be so concise on TV, using language to bring people along with you and also to provoke them. People say, “Isn’t it hard to only have three minutes to argue against the death penalty?” But, don’t you rebel against the restraints, you work within them.

She also chalks up her debating skill to coming out at an early age. “You have to learn to survive and prosper in a hostile environment,” she said in an interview with AfterEllen.com last year. “It’s kind of a talent that gay people bring to everything we do.”