Kevin James, a well-connected radio talk show host (of course, a conservative) got nailed by Chris Matthews for parroting the talking points about ‘appeasement,’ based on the idiotic comments of the idiot-in-chief in The White House, who groveled in front of his masters in the Knesset (of which our Congress is a wholly owned subsidiary if recent events are any indication) and grossly insulted Barack Obama who seems unable to prove his utter craven fealty to Israel no matter what he says.
Here’s what happened. Note how James, like most conservatives in the media, struggles mightily to cover up his ignorance:
Here’s James’ page on KRLA radio which advertises itself as “intelligent, conservative, talk radio.”
Of course it’s an oxymoron.
I was canned as a radio talk show host on WJBC AM 1230 in Bloomington, Illinois in 2003, despite good ratings, as a political hit because I came out against the invasion of Iraq and questioned President Bush.
Of course, as anyone who listened to me knows, I would have been able to go on at length about what Neville Chamberlain did at Munich in 1938.
But my cowardly program director, RC McBride, and the cowardly General Manager Red Pitcher, like most American radio management, could care less about having intelligent people on the air. Pitcher, an American Legion/VFW hack, and McBride, a phony liberal, cared more about the powerful people in Bloomington/Normal than putting on great provocative radio.
And that’s what burns me the most about people like Kevin James. I’m sure I could run circles around him. But it doesn’t matter because in this country, corporate control of the radio industry insures well-connected morons like James will always get radio shows where they can spout their idiocy - as long as his politics are on the side of his corporate masters. And one can say, ‘oh that’s just the way it is.’ Well, then, we’re doomed as a nation to this kind of culture idiocy. Perhaps it’s what we deserve.
Damn right I’ll cop to being bitter. It was the most fun I ever had for pay and I was damn good at it.
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lynette // May 18, 2008 at 12:07 am
i’ll bet you were pretty kickass. what a shame you got canned by those bush bootlickers.
as to the james thing. oh. my. stars. how utterly delicious to see a right wing gasbag punctured and publicly humiliated.
it was interesting, too, to catch christ matthews interview with rachel maddow, who was sitting in for keith olbermann friday night.
he had much to say about the power of words to shut down arguments and how that very thing was so dangerous to democracy. he made passing mention of the fact that the media had something to do with allowing the runup to the iraq war to proceed without interference, largely due to the use of words which both terrified the population and also made suspect those who did not go along.
i thought it was a rare moment of honesty and it made me feel a bit more hopeful about him. better late than never, but i am still bitter and full of rage and so, so angry about what has happened here.
when people talk about bipartisanship and working together for change and all of that, i hear it. but the bigger part of me wants to punish these conscienceless bastards. lock them up. publicly expose their crimes.
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