Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Why is Michael Steele Trying to Split the Tea Parties
Almost a year ago, I made plans with friends to attend a Tea Party in Conton Ohio.
None of us brought signs or had any formal connection with any of the other attendees. I'm not sure the other five people who came with me have had any formal involvement with the Tea Parties since that time, but I know they all agree with the goals of the Tea Parties.
Using a Google search, I found the Tea Party Patriots
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Daily Jim Sumpter Stupity
The advantage of being a "syndicated" talk show host with no research staff in 2010 is that you can just browse the internet and read other people's material, and comment on it like they are a REAL talk radio show host
The disadvantage of being a "syndicated" talk show host with no research staff in 2010 is that anyone can just browse the internet and read other people's material, and comment on it like they are a REAL talk radio show host.
Since it is almost Valentine's day, Sumpter is blabbing about candy and Vermont Teddy Bears and demonstrating his limited understanding of women, and perpetuating stereotypes, and generally pleasuring himself over the air waves. This guy needs to go. He is a blight on conservative radio.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Bad Talk Radio Hosts
Once each millennium, on the 9th day of the second month of the 10th year, we like to pick some terrible talk radio hosts.
In no particular order, we chose Bob Lonsberry of KNRS "Family Values" radio in Utah, syndicated host Doug Stephan, and "syndicated" host Jim Sumpter.
Lonsberry and Sumpter are just freeloading off the karma of the conservative moment and Stephan is a grumpy old curmudgeon.
Stephan is a sort of a cyst on the ass of conservative talk radio. Take a look at his Web Site and see if you don't think it's the most cream-of-wheat irrelevant talk radio web site you've ever seen. Doug Stephan is basically filler for radio stations that don't want to pay for decent content early in the morning.
And what the %^$& is a "Doug Buck"?
What the %^$& is the "Doug Club"?
Dough Stephan is for retired middle aged ladies who spend their days drawing teddy bears on wal-mart sweat shirts and double checking their crock pots.
Sumpter, on the other hand, is a jackass and an embarrassment to the conservative moment. Visit his Web Site, and catch his web casts, see if you don't agree with me. If you listen long enough, you can probably catch his jealous rantings about anyone more successful than he is.
Finally Lonsberry is just an angry man, albeit in love with himself.
Why attack these guys? Simple. They're bad for talk radio and bad for the conservative moment. They're rude, arrogant, presumptuous, irrelevant bottom feeders who ought to be squished out of their profession to make room for real talent. But otherwise they're ok.
Check back at this location in another thousand years. We'll pick three more broadcast losers.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
NY Times, Washington Post, Salt Lake Tribune Cover Up Story of Civil Rights Violations
This is the big one. This is where history would get robbed, if we had to depend on mainstream media. This is the Rosa Parks story of 2009; and I'm not writing it for readers in the year 2009, but rather for the historians of 2059. This is simply amazing.
As you can see below, a Google News Search on the phrase "This used to be America", brought up only three articles.
At an August 25 2009 town hall meeting in Reston Virginia, Officer Wesley Cheeks asked a man to put down his sign, saying, "If I told you once to take it down and you put it back up, I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with."
"This used to be America," said the man.
"It ain't no more, OK?" answered Cheeks.
Five days later, August 30 (see the graphic below), a Google News search lists only three articles covering this situation.
As far as the Washington who Rick Holmes really writes for.
Newspapers have so blurred the lines between opinion, fact, columnist, reporter, and blogger.
Here's his column: http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/lifestyle/columnists/x1194151696/Rick-Holmes-Why-newspapers-are-in-trouble-and-whats-at-stake
He seems like a nice guy, but he's another media insider who doesn't realize that Americans recognize lazy biased journalism, and we pulled the plug on it.
Rick says:
Opinionated writers are easy to find, and a lot of them blog for free. What's expensive is hiring someone to report the facts on which we base our arguments, and if there's no one to pay professionals to do it, we'll only have the facts those with a vested interest want us to have.
Sorry Rick. We figure you do have a vested interest, at least on the national level. Lots of us watched bitterly while CNN, the New York Times, and Boston Globe buried the facts and pitched biased stories at us, until we finally canceled our subscriptions and turned the channel.
Rick says:
A newspaper does more than make money by transmitting information. It builds a healthy community. It connects people to their neighbors. It helps set community priorities and guide public debate. It serves as an invaluable watchdog on government, business and politics.
That's the problem Rick. Newspapers don't even transmit information any more. It's like all the editors and reporters want to do is get home for dinner on time. They don't care about the news -- except the "big news", and we get that in multiplicity, redudantly, from TV, radio, local newspaper and national newspaper.
Rick you want the public to mirror your pro-Newspaper cultural bias. And when we don't mirror your bias you want to cast us as uneducated yokels who are too stupid to appreciate what you have done for us. Did you ever hear of "last ink"? That's the phenomenon, typically in a local newspaper, where the editor orchestrates one or two reasonably factual stories about an issue or political candidate and then pours on the hate juice. It used to be that the candidate's only recourse was to send out his own mailers or just suffer. The internet has changed all that, and we're never going back again.
And here's a guy who got it right.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Great Article by Joe Weisenthal
The article is titled "You idiot, of course there's going to be a newspaper bailout".
Here's the link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/you-idiot-of-course-theres-going-to-be-a-newspaper-bailout-2009-5
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Another Newspaper Columnist who Got it Backwards
I can't even tell who Rick Holmes really writes for.
Newspapers have so blurred the lines between opinion, fact, columnist, reporter, and blogger.
Here's his column: http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/news/lifestyle/columnists/x1194151696/Rick-Holmes-Why-newspapers-are-in-trouble-and-whats-at-stake
He seems like a nice guy, but he's another media insider who doesn't realize that Americans recognize lazy biased journalism, and we pulled the plug on it.
Rick says:
Opinionated writers are easy to find, and a lot of them blog for free. What's expensive is hiring someone to report the facts on which we base our arguments, and if there's no one to pay professionals to do it, we'll only have the facts those with a vested interest want us to have.
Sorry Rick. We figure you do have a vested interest, at least on the national level. Lots of us watched bitterly while CNN, the New York Times, and Boston Globe buried the facts and pitched biased stories at us, until we finally canceled our subscriptions and turned the channel.
Rick says:
A newspaper does more than make money by transmitting information. It builds a healthy community. It connects people to their neighbors. It helps set community priorities and guide public debate. It serves as an invaluable watchdog on government, business and politics.
That's the problem Rick. Newspapers don't even transmit information any more. It's like all the editors and reporters want to do is get home for dinner on time. They don't care about the news -- except the "big news", and we get that in multiplicity, redudantly, from TV, radio, local newspaper and national newspaper.
Rick you want the public to mirror your pro-Newspaper cultural bias. And when we don't mirror your bias you want to cast us as uneducated yokels who are too stupid to appreciate what you have done for us. Did you ever hear of "last ink"? That's the phenomenon, typically in a local newspaper, where the editor orchestrates one or two reasonably factual stories about an issue or political candidate and then pours on the hate juice. It used to be that the candidate's only recourse was to send out his own mailers or just suffer. The internet has changed all that, and we're never going back again.
And here's a guy who got it right.
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