Talk Show on the Go

Over a month ago CBS Radio, after kowtowing to the demands of uber-racist and innocent-cop-life-destroyer Al Sharpton, fired Don Imus for what are dumb, ridiculous and simply stupid comments. I never listened to Imus because of his politics. I make it a point not to listen to dottering old fools….explains why I don’t listen to Andy Rooney, either.

I bring this up to move forward. Recently, CBS Radio fired another morning team – The Dog House with JV and Elvis – for an on-air prank phone call where they called a chinese restaurant and proceded to, in essence, mock their ability to speak English. The show aired once without issue. But, when by chance a rerun of the program aired, it was met with staunch opposition. The show hosts were suspended. Three weeks later, they were fired. A link to the story can be found here.

So, where is the double standard? Two words – Rosie O’Donnell. More than two months ago on THE VIEW, Rosie O’Donnell was talking about how strange the show must seem to people who don’t know the language. (Rosie, I know the language. Its not the show that’s strange. It’s you.) So, Rosie decided to demonstrate how it must sound to those in China. You can find that video by clicking here. She even followed it up by letting people know that she wasn’t trying to offend, “…that’s just how my brain works, you know?.”

And herein lies the double standard. It’s the same offense. It’s the same level of disgusting anti-Asian sentiment. Hell, its the same damn routine. CBS should be firing this JV and Elvis for plagurizing. Not only were they stupid, they weren’t even original! But why do they get fired and Rosie doesn’t? It’s exactly the same, and yet Rosie still appears each weekday with more and more vitriol and ignorance.

Does ABC have more relaxed standards than CBS? After the CBS News/Dan Rather Liar-Liar-Pants-On-Fire-Gate scandal, are they now the beacons of morality? Is this Bizarro world? Next thing you’re gonna tell me is that France elected a pro-American president.

They did? Really? Sacre bleu!

I am waiting for the MSM (that’s Main Stream Media for those of you who actually watch Katie Couric) to pick up on this story and ask the hard question……if we fire people for what they say, and even if it happened before Imus, why isn’t Rosie out the door right now. Why is it different for Rosie O’Donnell? It can’t be because she’s a comic and therefore its ok. Imus’ show was – so I’m told – a comedy show. And these two dj’s were obviously doing a comedy show – or trying to. So, what makes Rosie different than the three white, straight male radio hosts who got fired for racially insensitive material?

Hmmmm…….

Carthago Delenda Est!
I am John Doe.

Recently my travels have placed me in California more than ever before. In all, I have spent 13 of the past 30 days in either San Francisco or Los Angeles.  I have driven the 5, the 405, the 101 – all at extremely slow speeds.

It was during my visits to LA that I had the opportunity to be at a fire station in Porter Ranch. Now, for those of you who have access to Google Earth, Porter Ranch is off the 118 (wonderfully renamed the Ronald Reagan Parkway!). It is North and West of what most would consider Los Angeles proper. It is a very wonderful, beautiful and growing suburb. They have Starbucks….they have great sushi. I can live without the Starbucks as I can burn my own coffee, thank you very much.  The crunchy yellow tail roll was incredible.

I come to this fire station because I have a business partner (not associated with Talk Show On The Go) who has a 2 and a half year old son that is convinced that he is a fireman. Not that he will grow up to be one….he is one right now. Everything is about being a fireman and fire trucks and ladder trucks and fire hydrants and fireman hats and fireman pants.

The fire station was having a community party to say farewell to a Captain Casper, who – as people told the story – was retiring after 50 years as a firefighter. So the community got together to say goodbye and thank you. There were burgers and cookies and juice boxes and ice cream. There were banners and posters made up by a local 1st grade class. There were kids all over the place with unfettered access to all of the fire trucks and ambulances. Climbing on them and sitting behind the wheel and smiling at their dreams come to life of actually being able to interact with the real fire trucks. My friend’s son could not stop smiling or climbing. Who needed the ice cream when there were fire trucks….REAL fire trucks!

Soon the festivities started, and the 1st grade class was assembled and did the pledge of allegiance, and then sang a rather long and rousing rendition of God Bless America. And I said to myself…..but we’re in Los Angeles? How is this happening?

It was beyond me that in LA, of all places, a group of kids would be allowed to get together and sing songs that said something positive about the United States. They said God, more than once. Not just said it, but sang it loud! And this was not a Norman Rockwell painting of white kids. This was a mix of white and black and brown. Asian and Latino and Indian. And I want to bet a nickel on the fact that while I could not identify the nation, the Middle East was represented as well. And these kids, as watched by their parents, grandparents and other members of the community, thought it socially acceptable to sing out loud in a government building, “God Bless America. Land that I Love.”

And that’s when I realized that I could live in LA.

It is not a godless place – as we had all been led to believe by the Los Angeles Times. It was not just the home of atheist Leftists and pseudo anarchists. Los Angeles is not just the home of the tyrant loving, hate mongering Sean Penn. Los Angeles, when you get out of the extremely small but voraciously vocal Hollywood circles, loves America. Their kids sing about it and no one complains. No one, in this crowd of over 250 people, said this was wrong. No one demanded that we sing something else. No one was trying to figure out how to use these young children as walking bombs (never forget what Islamo-Fascists are thinking…..never!) They sang and they celebrated a man who spent 50 years making sure that kids just like them could grow up to have kids just like them. They celebrated a Captain Casper (whom I never met, unfortunately) with food and laughter and song; and they did this together.

It is a reminder that in Los Angeles (as it very well could be with other cities throughout the US) the majority believes in America. We are the Shining City Upon A Hill. Our greatness has yet to be realized. When a town you are lead to believe hates the nation sings “God Bless America” for three verses, you have to come to the realization that Los Angeles (as it very well could be with other cities throughout the US) is in the majority in America.  We love our nation, and we know we have not yet achieved the start of our potential. Those at CBS News and CNN, those at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and unimpressive people like Sean Penn and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) should take note. You might control the press, and you might have control of the House and Senate and you might even force bad movies into our local theaters; but you can not control our spirit, nor the pride we instill in our children, nor the belief of the masses in a higher power and the greatness of our Republic.

God Bless America.

Carthago Delenda Est!
I am John Doe.

Every now and again you can get hit with a thought process, a belief, an opinion or supposed statement of fact which is so unbelievable and inexplicable that you can only give it the following description – dumb. With that, I give you Sheryl Crow.

Let’s be clear, not one of you can name more than three Sheryl Crow songs. The coolest thing about the girl was not her fling with cyclist Lance Armstrong; it was her long time romance with rock god and guitar genius Eric Clapton. And ever since they split, I have a hard time figuring out what she is good for. I think Lance came to the same conclusion, and quickly got rid of this pseudo rocker chic. But everyday the left wing press like to inundate us with visions of Sheryl Crow. She’s a humantiarian (says who?). She sells millions of CD’s (really? I was shocked to find out the number is 20 million or so to date). She has won 9 Grammys – which only goes to prove how worthless a Grammy is. I mean, Milli Vanilli won a Grammy, too….but at least they could dance.

Now, Sheryl Crow has become the poster child of Laurie David. Laurie David’s claim to fame is being the sexual partner of Larry David who helped create the smash hit Seinfeld and is the current star of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Sheryl and Laurie, Laurie and Sheryl. The Newest Odd Couple…..really rich women with very marginal talent who crusade for the planet by having a touring rock concert. I didn’t know a rock concert could eliminate global warming. After all, Keith Richards has to be personally responsible for half of the ash that has been spewed into the atmosphere – make him sign Kyoto!

So they are on tour, riding from college to college (after all, who else but misguided college students would attend this concert?”) on their bio-diesel bus to help kids fight global warming and Halliburton. Ok, I added the part about Halliburton. I figure that any concert involving Laurie David and college kids has to end up with yelling obscene things about President Bush and Halliburton. Otherwise, the kids would have to listen to Sheryl Crow sing. I mean, really listen.

And on this tour, Sheryl Crow comes out with her answer to helping to save the environment. She believes the answer lies in toilet paper. Yes. Toilet paper.

From her blog of the tour as reposted by BBC.com, she suggests that we use, “only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.” The problem with Sheryl’s plan is that she is an anorexic woman. She doesn’t have anything to expel. She can easily get away with one square. I am curious to know what constitues a “pesky occasion.” Perhaps two Chicklets with her glass of water?

This constitutes dumb. It is a dumb suggestion from a dumb woman who is surrounded by dumb friends. The idea that global warming is cured because we limit our toilet paper usage is the talk of a blathering 6 year old child who knows nothing of the world outside his or her own living room. For a grown woman to actually make this suggestion aloud is proof positive of the disconnect shared by those of the religion of Environmentalism. This religion must be eradicated, and it’s leaders killed and converted to Christianity. (A twist on the original quote from Ann Coulter – still works today!)

Most importantly, the idea is dumb because it will do nothing to stop global warming. This is based on the faulty assumption that the warming of the planet is man made. History, and scientists, say otherwise – and I’m with them. Does that mean we should continue to gobble oil? Of course not. I love the bio diesel bus. It may not be perfect, but its a start. (I’ll take ethanol, and I’ll take hydrogen!) Does it mean we should all burn our tires in the middle of the road while shooting spray paint laden with CFC’s into the sky. My gosh, no. It means that Sheryl Crow is dumb for saying it and criminally insane for believing it. Laurie David is equally dumb and insane for not looking at Sheryl and asking her if she is off her mind. And the only people who can use three squares of toilet paper and be ok are Sheryl Crow, Paris Hilton and Karen Carpenter. The rest of us American fatsos are sticking with quilted two ply and taking two or three passes at it. Unless, of course, we have one of those “pesky occasions.”

And for those of you who think I have been too offensive to Miss Crow, let me quote her. “All I want to do, is have some fun.”

Now, name two more songs.

Carthago Delenda Est!
I am John Doe

On Monday, the three lacrosse players from Duke were released from their man-and-woman made hell when all charges against them were dropped. It helps that the charges were brought about by a liar. It didn’t help that the DA in the case, Mike NiFong, wanted to believe in the multiple story lines of the lying stripper more than in the facts. It didn’t help that NiFong needed to get elected and tried to destroy the lives of three young men to do so.

Now that the case is thrown out and these three student athletes were found innocent, we can look forward to the ethics charges against NiFong that are being filed by the North Carolina Bar Association and the almost certain civil action against him. I have my own thoughts on how to handle this lawyer.

As for the liar – she is a destructive force who has hurt (more than anyone else!) women have really been raped. Her lampooning of such a disgusting and vulgar act causes other women to be wary when coming forward. It makes it harded for the community to believe. Women who lie about rape must be held accountable for their crimes; lying to a police officer, lying to a court and endangering the lives of those women who actually have been abused.

Carthago Delenda Est!
I am John Doe.

Just a link to my guest hosting gig on Neo-Fight.tv. I was at the CTIA in Orlando, Florida checking out the new cell phones and incredible technology. I had a great time, and I hope you enjoy it.

You can find it by clicking here.

Carthago Delenda Est!
I am John Doe.

As this is VideoBlogging Week 2007, I thought it important to contribute to the cause.

And it is a cause. It is also a death knell to old and Main Stream media. The beauty of blogging and vlogging is that I get to have a career. Not just a hobby, but the start of something that allows to me to be expressive, to get my point of view across, to help start a dialogue within communities (mine and others I know nothing about) and, yes, hopefully affect some worthwhile change and provide hope where others see hopelessness.

Now, your vlog may just include fart jokes. That’s up to you. Afterall, who am I to decide? The point is that we are the media. We get to make decisions. No one is stopping me except me. And no one is stopping you except you. Is there anything more incredibly profound than that? You can do anything, and most probably you’ll find an audience.

As for finding sponsors, well, you’re on your own.

Carthago Delenda Est!
I am John Doe.

Oh, yeah. I referenced a bunch of sites in this vlog. Here are the links. Enjoy them….or not. Your choice.

Jet Set Show - cool things for and about cool kids
Galacticast - sci-fi parody site……just great
Kity Kity.com - just a mom and her camera
Lo Fi St. Louis.com - your community is the muse
1 Track Mind - funny and tongue in cheek “dirty” talk
French Maid TV - the only good French thing there is.

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That’s all it took. Even less time than to create this quick and simple post.

Go to the good people at Google or the fine people at Yahoo! and type in, quite simply, “Fire Melting Steel”. The second listing on Google and the third listing on Yahoo! are of a story done by Popular Mechanics which goes into 9 pages of detail – debunking every 9-11 myth they could get their hands on.

This is prompted by Rosie ODonnell’s comments on The View that she doesn’t believe that 9/11 was solely the act of terrorists and may, actually, be an inside job. Are you surprised? She hates America, so don’t be. She hates Christianity – comparing radical Christianity to Radical Islam (you can see my response to her in a previous post). She thinks anyone who doesn’t like Clay Aiken is a homophobe – click here. For Rosie ODonnell, chicks rule – Christian Americans drool. (I don’t know how she feels about the Christian American Lesbians. She probably thinks its impossible to be all three.)

Crackpots exist. Ward Churchill, the professor from Colorado, thinks those who died on 9/11 deserved it. Spike Lee believes President Bush blew up the levees during Hurricane Katrina because he hates black people and wanted them to die. (But what about Condoleeza Rice? She’s black, and he doesn’t hate her – you say. No – says Spike – she isn’t really black. She’s just an Oreo! You walk away disgusted at his hatred. He walks away with his hate.)

It took Four Seconds to prove Rosie ODonnell is a fool. The fear is that in Four Seconds, a fool might believe her.

Carthago Delenda Est!
I am John Doe.

I was once watching a Conan O’Brien episode where he was doing that rountine “In The Year 2000.” And he stated that we will get to the moment where Starbucks opens a Starbucks in an existing Starbucks. He was right.

Just a casual observation on the streets of San Francisco before I make my way back to Tampa Bay. On one side of the street, a Starbucks. On the other side, a Starbucks. I know it has been observed by many comics and talk show hosts just like me, but here is my twist. Of course Starbucks surrounds you on all sides, making you feel weak and defenseless against their powers. For what other reason would you go in to a Starbucks? You really like burnt coffee? Really?

When I go (and I do go, as the choices in Tampa are VERY limited), I get plain old decaf coffee, and proceed to add half of the vanilla powder that is avaiable. Then, throw in two Sweet-N-Low’s and a bunch of half and half……bam! Instant somewhat palatable hot brown water!

The Coffee is bad. The Marketing is damn genius.

Carthago Delenda Est!

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Republicans, in the main, are wimps.  The label that President George Herbert Walker Bush (aka Daddy aka 41 aka Bill Clinton’s Wing Man) made famous is being reborn again in the current President Bush. 

I write to you from the VON conference in San Jose, California.  And while this is a short post, (and I do promise many more videos to come in the next few months), it is important to address this issue of the wussification of the entire Republican party.  You would think they were Michael Richards being scolded by Jesse Jackson about ethics.

Repbulicans, to gain momentum, admiration, traction and slightest amount of respect have to start fighting back.  And that starts with telling every third rate reporter and news station, and every Liberal Leftist Socialist Democrat out there that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez is staying put and those who don’t like it can go straight to hell.

Say it just like that, then pardon Lewis I. “Scotter” Libby.

The Attorney General didn’t do anything wrong, and that is all that matters.  The AG has the right fire US attorneys at will.  The President can fire US attorneys at will.  They need no reasons, they need no probable cause.  Heck, they can send e-mails to anyone they want any time they want and it wouldn’t matter one bit.  The AG and the President have the right and the power to fire US attorneys.

So for what reason would you let Democrats paint you as rotten, evil, twisted abusers of power for doing something that you are allowed and entitled to do?  How dare you let them tell stories of how the timing looos suspicious, and give them opportunity after opportunity to create stories of your improprieties?  If there is one thing Democrats can do, its create a story – and they will create a yarn of deceit and deception so deep and convoluted it will make this past season of LOST look like See Spot Run.

Get on the offensive, and let America know that these attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President.  If he wishes to fire them, he can.  The AG has the same right.  So, for what reason should the Attorney General Gonzalez have to step down?  None.  No reason at all.  Republicans need to fight back and ask the hard questions.  Or at least send back the same absurdities that are being fired back at you every day.  Step up!Democrats are going after AG Gonzalez because he is Hispanic!  What’s the problem, Senator Schumer, Senator Boxer, Speaker Pelosi?  Can’t handle the fact that Hispanics can do more than mow your lawn?

As a conservative, its things like this AG debacle that make me shun the Republican Party.  I look forward to the day when there is an actual conservative in the White House who will fight the lies and utter hatred of the left….along with Islamo-Fascism.

Save us Obi-Newt Kenobi, you’re our only hope.

Carthago Delenda Est!

Hello all….or y’all, if my brief stay in Texas will allow me the privilige. I am on day four of the South By SouthWest conference in Austin, Texas. As I write, it is just after 1am, and the rain is pouring down and has been for over 3 hours. I am sitting in the atrium of the Hilton hotel, and it is a really wonderful sound.

You would think all of this rain would just be, well, rain. But I am willing to believe as sure as I am sitting here that someone out there in Austin is looking at all this rain and blaming it on global warming and George Bush. 41 or 43…..leftists don’t worry about the distictions, just blame a Bush whenever you can. Yes, the problem of global warming is all the fault of America and their dirty exploitation of the poor third world countries through their imperialist conquests of little brown people. Wow……got all the Liberal craziness into once sentence. Not bad.

And I guess it isn’t even worth mentioning that there are an ever growing list of scientists that disagree with the soothsayer former Vice President of the Unites States Al Gore. After all, those who disagree with global warming are psychopaths who are being paid off by the Bush administration (with Haliburton money, I’m sure!) to give these statments about the lack of human emphasis on global warming and that it is just part of the natural ebb and flow of the time line of planet Earth which can be proven by things like facts and historical data….or so Leonardo Dicaprio told me.

But now, as reported by UPI, Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic has called environmentalism a religion based on political ambitions and not science. He went on to state that environmentalism seeks to reorganize the world order as well as social behavior and value systems.

I will do a quick paraphrase that will hopefully do the President of the Czech Republic proud. Environmentalism is about money. It is about restructuring wealth and seriously punishing the United States above all things. How else could anyone come up with the Kyoto Protocol; a document so poorly devised and pathetically planned that it does not require China and India to be a part of it. The two biggest polluters (if not now, in the next 5 years) in the world will be exempt and other nations will have control of the internal affairs of the United States. This is a treaty so horrible that President Bill Clinton would not even present it to the Senate. What kind of people would sign a treaty like this?

Well, environmentalists. Those who believe that we are guilty and should pay, regardless of the geo-political and economic fallout. And former Vice-President Al Gore, who signed the Kyoto Protocol in a show of support, even though the signing was an utterly symbolic gesture to those within his newly founded church – the Church of It’s America’s Fault.

President Klaus, who is not being paid by Halliburton and does have a mind of his own, sees the problem. It’s not about a need for a better fuel source and the need to ween off oil. (Bring me ethanol, and bring it now!) Thomas Friedman, of New York Times and book fame, was right when he said that the term “Green” isn’t about tree huggers and hippies, but it’s about power, strength, money and the future of power on the world stage. It’s not about doing what we can to conserve energy and coming up with ways to increase solar and, dare I say, (dare…DARE!) nuclear power.

It’s about environmentalists using scare tactics and false information to shame us all into giving up power and giving up wealth. It is a concentrated, coordinated effort to bring about Socialism in the United States, and throughout the world. It is not about the environment. If it were, China would be held to account. A true environemntalist would not just punish those who created pollution in the past, but they would make sure that it did not get created in the future. But those in the Church of It’s America’s Fault aren’t interested in a better future. They are interested in punishment, in shame, in fear and in Socialism.

Oh, and Oscars.

Carthago Delenda Est!

***NOTE***Instead of taking a vacation in France, why not spend your tourist dollars in the Czech Republic before the Church tries to do away with air travel. Visit Czech Tourism and tell them that Tony Katz sent you.