SF Radio: Former KSFO Talk Host Found Beaten

A Moraga, CA woman is in jail after allegedly beating her mother, a former local television personality and conservative radio talk show host, on the front lawn of their home this week, according to the Mercury News.

Police were called after neighbors said they saw Patricia Simpson, 42, kicking her mother then dragging her inside their home. Patricia Simpson has been arrested and charged with felony elder abuse.

Her mother, 77-year-old Barbara Simpson, a former KSFO 560 AM radio talk host and news anchor for KTVU and KQED, was taken to John Muir Hospital where she was treated for numerous bruises and a concussion.

Monday's incident was not the first time police have had contact with Patricia Simpson, who has been arrested on public intoxication charges and an outstanding warrant in the past. Last year, she was reported missing by her family. Barbara Simpson is known to many radio listeners as "The Babe in the Bunker," titled after one of her columns in which she described what it was like to be a conservative in the ultraliberal Bay Area.