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HA! The FBI was caught lying about North Korea being responsible for the Sony hack!
[ABOVE: This is where the FBI and Obama Regime wants you to believe the hacking of Sony took place, somewhere in North Korea….which is a country that looks mostly like the picture here. This assertion is as laughable as someone rolling up to my apartment in Chicago with an iPad and some duct tape and asking me to land a rover on a comet hurtling through space. I guess the people in the picture would be flattered to know that the FBI thinks they are capable of hacking Sony Pictures…just as I would be bemused to learn you think I could manage the comet-landing without any of the equipment or expertise in the field to handle that. Does the Obama Regime really believe that people are so stupid that they will believe this stuff?]
The FBI has been caught lying about the "North Korea hacked Sony!" baloney.
This matters because since 2008 the various departments of the federal government have been repeatedly caught lying and being used as political tools of the Obama Regime. First, the Justice Department (which has been used as an instrument to stir up racial violence). Then the IRS (which was used as a weapon against conservatives in a strategy to get Obama re-elected). And now the FBI (which was used to blame North Korea for a computer hack that was probably committed by disgruntled Sony employees).
I don't know why the Obama Regime wanted North Korea blamed for the Sony hack. But, every day more computer experts call out the FBI as ridiculous for blaming North Korea. The red flag for me was how lickety-split the FBI rushed to blame North Korea…and how fast the Obama Regime trumpeted that "The case is closed! Nothing to see here! North Korea is EVIL!"
That's not how the White House and FBI have ever operated in the past with things like this.
Let's speculate on why they might have done this:
(1.) Sony wanted to "crisis manage" the situation and blaming North Korea would make Sony the victim/martyr and North Korea the villain. This took attention off Sony and distracted from all the embarrassing things that Sony executives said in the leaked emails. I know the stuff about Sony thinking black people only watch black movies got the most attention, but what I think was most damaging to Sony was how generally insipid their executives sounded in all of the emails. Terrible spelling and grammar. Writing like grade-schoolers most of the time. Backstabbing and badmouthing each other. What an unprofessional company Sony Pictures proved to be. All that kind of got forgotten once North Korea was painted as this super powerful computer mastermind with ninja-like hacker skills.
(2.) Sony wanted to create an "event" around The Interview and blaming North Korea for the hack was a "crisis management" strategy intended for marketing purposes. The movie is crap. It's not funny and even fans of James Franco and Seth Rogen admit the movie's grating and its stars are irritating in it. I believe someone at Sony was smart enough to Olivia Pope the situation after the hack happened (for the record, I believe that Sony was a victim of a hack…but I think it was disgruntled Sony employees who were behind it, not North Korea). There was a meeting. They realized the hack was damaging. They also realized they had a movie coming out about North Korea. So, some marketing genius and "crisis manager" realized they could turn this crisis into a golden opportunity by claiming that North Korea hacked Sony to stop the release of this crappy movie. And after they made that claim, they'd pull the movie from theaters to create demand and interest. And people would go into patriotic mode (however much is left of that in 2014) and they'd rush out to see the movie at whatever theaters were brave enough to show it (and that's what happened, with it selling out wherever it played). The movie also made millions on VOD (video on demand) and YouTube, where it streamed for a fee. Which brings me to…
(3.) Was this all a test to see if same-day VOD and YouTube streaming would be profitable for a movie playing in theaters? Once again, I believe the Sony hack was real and that Sony as a company had nothing to do with it (but that it was committed by disgruntled employees). Again, in the "never let a good crisis go to waste" mentality of the Left, I think Sony might have wanted to see if VOD and YouTube and other streaming platforms could take the place of traditional distribution systems for new movies. Here, they had The Interview, which was a forgettable film that they probably focus-group tested and realized would be a turkey. They now had the "crisis" of the hack and the embarrassment it caused. They wanted to take the heat off Sony and put something new in the news…and they also had this interest in testing out VOD as a moneymaker for Sony. No major film had ever been released in theaters with same-day VOD. Some movie had to be the first. Why not The Interview? It sure seems reasonable that Sony executives decided to seize the opportunity to toss this movie out there, with all the buzz that the "North Korean hack" created, and test VOD as a distribution system for new pictures.
Let's face it: with the giant TVs that people have now, in hi-definition, and the giant hassle and expense of going to movie theaters, studios are looking at a bleak future. Add into that the fact that violence is happening in movie theaters across the country now (and I'm not talking about what Hollywood puts on the screen, but about what's happening with brawling and shootings in theaters) and you have millions of people every year deciding that they want no part of going to the movies. VOD is the future. Did Sony see a chance to dip its toes in that?
What's really troubling is that the FBI seems to have played along here, which diminishes the FBI's credibility going forward.
I feel that the White House pressured the FBI to pin this on North Korea. If the FBI didn't, I bet the White House would have claimed the FBI is just racist…because it did not do what the black president wanted it to do. So, the FBI jumped when Obama commanded.
Obama needs Hollywood to promote his agenda and to continue to generate propaganda and sing his praises. Hollywood wanted North Korea blamed for what was probably an inside hack at Sony. Obama wanted North Korea blamed because Hollywood wanted it blamed. The FBI did what Obama wanted because the FBI is no longer concerned with getting things right or following trails of clues but has now apparently become a political tool of the Obama Regime, much like the IRS.
This is part of the continuing and very troubling trend of having Democrats in the White House. They bring the Left with them, and the Left sees all arms of government as tools to be used for political purposes.
This is why I can never vote for another Democrat for anything: I do not believe that the agencies of government should be used for political purposes or that law enforcement should be used as a palace guard for politicians. I am sickened that this has been happening in this country for the last 6 years and it needs to stop immediately.
Maybe the FBI being humiliated by this "North Korea hacked Sony!" nonsense will be the first step in a major and much-needed turnaround.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Guess who was brawling inside the Rock n' Roll McDonald's in Chicago on 12/27/14?
So, here's another example of how civilization is just collapsing in Chicago and a wilding is happening, where the "youth" of the city cause massive property damage and bodily harm to others and the Chicago police are afraid to put a stop to any of this. Without watching the video, can you first guess who you think will be committing the violence in the Rock n' Roll McDonalds?
(a.) The Amish
(b.) Homeschooled kids from the suburbs
(c.) Kids with stable two-parent homes or kids in private school
(d.) Chicago Public School students or graduates
Ding, ding, ding! If you picked (d.), you are a winner!
Those of us in Chicago lose, as always, because this is where political correctness has taken our city. The police here are afraid to stop this kind of behavior from the "youth" because they're scared of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson turning one of these thugs into the next "gentle giant". They commit crimes and hurt people…but if the police intervene and stop the criminals and the criminals are injured, then the Justice Brothers waddle out and threaten a race war.
White people are scared to death of a race war…but I wonder how it would look any different from a Saturday night at the Rock n' Roll McDonalds.
If Chicago can no longer keep tourist areas like Navy Pier and the Rock n' Roll McDonalds off Michigan Avenue safe anymore then the city's in really bad shape. All during Mayor Daley's administration, there was violence on the South Side and the other terrible parts of town…but it never bled into the tourist zones. Now, nowhere in Chicago is safe. The thugs beat and rob and murder in Boystown, Michigan Avenue, Navy Pier, the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park. It's no longer just the South Side that is Murder Central.
ANOTHER AIRPLANE VANISHES INTO THIN AIR: How long will the public believe it's just a mystery?
Another airplane has gone "missing".
This time, it's an AirAsia flight en route to Singapore.
I remind you that this is just 10 months after Malaysia Airlines flight 370 also supposedly vanished without a trace. In the year 2014. Poof! Nothing to see here, folks!
Here's what I think is really happening: hackers are taking over these planes and causing governments to shoot them down (I don't think it's a terrorist network at work…I think it's something ridiculous like Millennials eating pizza in a dorm room somewhere, behaving like real life is a video game). But, the governments who have to shoot the planes down don't want to admit they are doing this. So, the governments involved are lying to the public and pretending they don't know what happened to the planes, knowing from public relations consultants that the public loses interest after about 6 months and people stop caring.
Ask anyone on the street if they remember the missing Malaysian airlines crash and I'd wager you'd hear "Didn't they find that plane?" or "What Malaysian airline crash?" (or, if you're talking to a Chicago Public Schools graduate, "What's Malaysia?").
The AirAsia disappearance just happened yesterday. Drudge has it flashing on the homepage in red right now as a breaking story. Maybe by morning the plane will be found, safe and sound…or debris will be spotted floating in the ocean this time. But at the moment I'm wondering if the hacking of Sony and the Christmas morning hacking of Playstation and XBox are related to these two airline disappearances.
Is this a pattern that's all the work of rogue computer hackers out for "Lulz"?
I don't believe it's Muslims who are behind this. And I don't believe it's North Korea. I think the people behind this are smarter and are not tied to Islam or a nation state.
I'm wondering if this is a Matthew Broderick in War Games kind of scenario. Are hackers out there having some "Lulz" (as the Internet calls using computers to engage in "pranks" like these, even if they have horrifically real consequences) and exploiting holes in airline security in Asia? For the uninitiated, a large swath of male Millennials has withdrawn from society and essentially lives in front of computer screens, waging war against one target or another.
The call these "faggot raids"…where people (usually Millennial males) who grew up on video games like "World of Warcraft" blur the lines between fantasy and reality and engage in cyber warfare against an appointed enemy in real life, as if they were playing a video game. "Faggot raids" are what these gamers-cum-cyber-terrorists call themselves. "Raids" are what World of Warcraft calls a group of players coming together for a mission in the game…and somehow Internet parlance called taking on these "missions" in real life "faggot raiding". It's my understanding that they don't mean this as a homophobic pejorative, but as some self-awareness at how pathetic they are for behaving this way.
Trolls organize to bring down a target…but lose interest pretty quickly and have to move on to something new. Could these hacking attacks against Sony, Playstation, and X-Box be linked to the missing airlines? What if the "faggot raiding" parties have grown bored with their usual stunts and have taken their "raiding" to the next level?
Would governments admit that "faggot raiding" parties of civilian Millennials are behind these atrocities?
It seems crazy to me to believe that North Korea perpetrated the Sony hack. The FBI sure moved fast to pin it on North Korea, though…and the White House was falling all over itself to repeat that line. When does the FBI ever move that fast to pin the blame on someone? I don't remember the FBI even admitting that Al Queda was behind 9/11 until some time later. With this Sony hack, the FBI was like Commissioner Gordon figuring out it was The Riddler at work and firing up the Bat-Signal before the first commercial break.
And after that, there was a big "nothing to see here, folks" embargo on any proof that the FBI was telling the truth. Did North Korea — a country that is pitch black from space at night and is as backwards as things come in our modern world — somehow hack Sony and mostly just screw around with payroll documents (you know, like a juvenile hacker in a "faggot raiding party" would)? That has never made any sense to me. If they had the ability to hack computers like that, why didn't they hack the computers at Hoover Dam and cause it to explode…or hack the federal government's payroll operations…or hack Wall Street? Wouldn't those be things that North Korea would do…if North Korea could do those things?
That whole "pin this on North Korea" thing feels like something Olivia Pope would have come up with on the TV show Scandal. North Korea is the last politically correct villain left in the world. Have you noticed that all recent movies involving any kind of attack on the country have been using North Korea as the bad guys (instead of Muslims, the Chinese, or Russia?). The Red Dawn remake (North Korea invades the US!). One of those "Die Hard in the White House" movies, I can't tell them apart (North Korea attacked in one of them, for sure, and either Aaron Eckhart was President or it was Jamie Foxx, I don't think anyone really knows). Hollywood is afraid of offending China and losing ticket sales there by having Chinese villains. And Hollywood is afraid of offending Muslims by accurately portraying Islam as the driving force of evil in any movie (because Hollywood executives are afraid of jihad retaliation for such accuracy). Ain't nobody scared of North Korea because the North Koreans are the bad guys in just about everything produced in the action genre in the last five years.
But, we're supposed to believe that North Korea hacked Sony because it was upset about a James Flacco (sic…spelling courtesy of Obama) movie?
And we're also supposed to believe that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 just vanished out of our dimension, possibly out of our time stream?
Isn't a much simpler explanation that rogue computer hackers are behind all of these things?
I actually believe that most times in recent years that airplanes mysteriously crash that they were in fact shot down by governments. That could be our government, or it could be others. But governments don't want to own up to doing this. How many mysterious crashes of planes have reports of rockets in the air, spotted by people on the ground?
What if the common thread in all of these mystery crashes is really that in every one of them the planes were shot down by governments because the planes had been hacked and the fear was that the planes would be used in 9/11 style attacks?
The governments shoot the planes down…and then disavow any responsibility for the action. The planes just "vanished".
In other instances where a villain is needed, just trot out North Korea. Can't blame Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden anymore. So, just say that North Korea did it. Otherwise just say "the plane disappeared".
Am I the only one who can so easily see Kerry Washington holding a big glass of wine and wearing her giant white hat, standing in the Oval Office set of Scandal, telling the actor playing the President on the show to do things like this?
I think this might have actually been an episode of Scandal from Season 1, come to think of it.
DIVERSITY! Huge brawl ruins WinterFest at Navy Pier in Chicago
Yesterday (12/26/14), thugs in Chicago took the term "boxing day" literally and engaged in an all-out brawl at Navy Pier, ruining the WinterFest carnival. Would you like three guesses as to the sort of people who were brawling? Was it…
(1) The Amish?
(2) Homeschooled children from the suburbs?
(3) Kids with a father living at home with them or who attend private school?
(4) Chicago Public School students?
Ding, ding, ding…if you picked #4, you are a winner.
Note that the news reports go out of their way to NOT describe any of the perpetrators and NOT show any of the thugs committing the crimes, despite there being eyewitnesses taking video (that the media won't show). When the media refuses to report on the race of a criminal it's like the international media refusing to say that the person who blew up a building or exploded a bus was a Muslim. You're just left to guess and read between the lines.
We're in an interesting news cycle that's kind of a perfect storm: black "youth" viciously attacking the unsuspecting across the country, but Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have revved things up to such a degree in the politically correct media that people are afraid to talk about it (and of course with Obama in the White House, no opportunity is wasted to make race relations in this country more divisive than ever). If the police respond to any situation where black "youth" are robbing, beating, or murdering people, then the thugs become the poor misunderstood "victims" and martyrs…even if they're caught on film engaging in a melee.
In truth, I think people are out of their minds to go to Navy Pier to begin with. That's just Mistake Number One and is asking for trouble on any day of the week (let alone Friday). It's not someplace that most Chicagoans go to anyway (unless you are going to the Shakespeare Theater there, which I guarantee you is safe from any spontaneous brawls erupting during the middle of Pericles). Really, Navy Pier is just a place that tourists go to…and where criminals go to then prey on the tourists. It's the equivalent of a watering hole on the serengeti…and the rich white tourists are the prey. You have to be deaf, dumb, and blind if you can't guess who the predators are.
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Have you seen the flash mob "Let It Go" Frozen video from England?
I have to admit that while I think flash mobs are silly (and tired at this point), I thought this was adorable. Though it was filmed in England, it reminded me a lot of the last day of school before Christmas break in Cleveland when I was a kid. We'd have mass that day and then some sort of Christmas assembly, where there would be singing of various degrees from wonderful to meh. I remember being wildly excited the whole time and there always being rainbow candy canes that tasted like cherry and everyone had on either red or green sweaters.
Disney achieved something remarkable with "Frozen" and it appears to have been totally by accident. My boyfriend Justin has a job freelancing with some companies that work peripherally with Disney and people in that industry all attest that the House of Mouse had no idea that "Frozen" would be a hit. I don't think it's the Broadway style music, though, that made it so popular (though that did help).
I think it was the setting and the characters and the fact that it was not a forced multi-culti offering. Disney put out a product that was not pushing "diversity" for the sake of "diversity" and people went nuts for it. They had hungered for it. I doubt Disney will learn any lesson from this, though. The MBAs in the C-suites over at Disney have probably invented all sorts of reasons why Frozen was such a hit, but I doubt they will admit the truth: it was a lovely movie about European princesses, sisterhood, and a gorgeous, snowy background. There was no racial tension, no "the historic first this" or "the groundbreaking first that", or any of that PC-garbage.
Every year I wonder if this is the last year that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (the Justice Brothers) will be allowed to race-bait and provoke hatred and division wherever they go. I wonder if this is the year that Americans wake up and say enough is enough with all of this garbage. I've been working on a project with Megan Fox for the last year that has really shown me how mousy most Americans have become and how afraid they are of both the media and the Left's PC-brigades. People are truly in a constant state of fear of these people on the Left. They fear them the way that people in Chicago feared Al Capone's gang back in the day…only this is a national fear.
I think "Frozen" was so successful because people could escape into that movie and live momentarily in a world without any of this garbage. The Left has been pitting Americans against one another in a long tribalist siege, dividing everyone along lines of skin color or imagined "nationality" (anything to keep people from just seeing each other as "Americans"…so instead everyone has to be African-American or Mexican-American or Whatever-American instead). Sadly, even good people do this, without realizing it. I was at Christmas party today and was having a lovely time…until someone asked, "What's your nationality?" Of course, "American" is not accepted as an answer. This person wanted to play that tribalist, "nationality expert" game. And you know what? At 38 I am just too old for that.
I'm from Ohio (Cleveland, specifically), so I talked with this person about growing up in Cuyahoga County as if it was a foreign land steeped in magic and wonder. If the intent of the nationality experts is really to learn about a person and where he is "from", then they should be thrilled to listen to stories about northeast Ohio in the 1980s for an hour. The answer these buffoons want, however, is some tribalist tripe about one great-grandparent or another being from somewhere in the old Holy Roman Empire that no longer exists anymore. But I think this game is just so stupid that I won't play it. I don't think anyone should play this anymore either.
That's my biggest Christmas wish this year: that in 2015 and beyond we can, as Americans, start wising up to what the Left's up to and that we as a people stop voluntarily dividing ourselves along these tribalist lines. My family's from Ohio. I'm really proud of that. Though I live in Chicago now, I'll always have a special place in my heart for the city of lights, city of wonder, that is Cleveland. But I don't give a damn about where anyone related to me a hundred years ago lived in Europe. I'm an American and I'd love to see an America where the Left didn't win time and again by disuniting us psychologically, emotionally, and so casually.
This isn't done to anyone living in England, where they get to be just "British". It's not done to anyone living in Australia, as they are just "Australian". People in Canada are just "Canadian" and people in Mexico are more or less getting ready to pour across our unsealed southern border. The few remaining there get to just be "Mexicans", though.
But Americans always have to be split into something else, even at a Christmas party. I'm tired of it and want to do something about it in 2015.
I want the nationality experts to just "let it go" and take pride in being an American. Hasn't the Left had enough decades of this tribalism already? Can't we turn the page and start something new in 2015?
What think you?
NAACP: ID Required to Protest Voter IDs
If the NAACP was ever actually an organization dedicated to the advancement of colored people, I am certainly too young to remember. Throughout my adult life it seems the NAACP is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the liberal/progressive political wing. If "colored people" happen to align with their politics, great. But anything not part of the official Democrat platform is ignored or outright opposed.
A great example of this last is the NAACP opposition to school choice laws, which have been shown as fairly successful for black children in many communities. You would think an organization supposedly dedicated to helping advance black people would actually want to help advance black children, but since Democrats oppose school choice, you would be wrong to assume so.
In the latest bit of whacky weirdness, the NAACP organized a march to protest voter ID laws. Prior to the march, they distributed a flyer with DOs and DON'Ts. One of the DOs? "Bring photo identification and keep it on you at all times"
In my present state of mind, I am beyond the point of feeling angry about this. The hypocrisy among political power players is so rampant, so obvious, so egregious that I just can't help but laugh.
Maybe I am laughing the laugh of the damned.
Update on Kevin, HillBuzz
It's been a long while since I've posted. Many (good) things have been happening in my personal life which have required my time for the last many months. Things are settling down a bit for me now and I'm planning to start posting again. Things are happening in this country that MUST be brought into the light!
My first order of business is to update you all on Kevin. He is currently recovering from pneumonia, which he contracted while recovering from his latest surgery. He misses writing and really misses HillBuzz, but he is doing what he must do to focus on his health and well-being.
If you pray, I ask that you please pray for Kevin, his health, his recovery, and his happiness!
WLS-AM's "Talk Star" Contest 2013 — live transcript play-by-play
WHAT: The WLS-AM "Talk Star" Contest for 2013 LIVE! Finale
WHEN: Today (August 21st, 2013) at 6pm CST
WHY: Support our friend Megan Fox for the win!
HOW TO LISTEN: Go to the WLS-AM website here: http://www.wlsam.com and then click on the LISTEN button in the upper right of the screen. It's a poorly designed website and they make it hard to listen live, but it's worth it to stare at the screen until you figure it out. There's also some kind of APP thing for the phone that says "I Heart Radio" but Hell if I know how that works.
VOTE FOR MEGAN FOX — text STAR to 68683 and then choose MEGAN FOX
[ Click above to embiggen: the 2013 finalists for WLS-AM's "Talk Star" ]
Our good friend Megan Fox has entered herself into the WLS-AM "Talk Star" competition again this year; she wrote all about that HERE if you didn't see it already. I thought we could all listen to her show together and figure out how to vote for her so she can win…but the WLS website gives no indication whatsoever how to do that. Did you ever watch that show "Newhart", the one in the 80s where Bob Newhart played the owner of an inn somewhere in Vermont (not the other show, where he was almost the same character but was instead a psychiatrist in Chicago in the 1970s)? I feel like his character from that show whenever I go to the WLS website…because it's like crazy people or children who are supposedly more precocious than they really are built their site. I could not find information I'm looking for there if my life depended on it. I swear I'm only 37 but that site makes me feel like I'm 80 and can't figure out how to get the VCR machine to stop blinking. It's just bad.
The only time I ever go there is when Megan's in some kind of contest, and year after year that site just never gets any better. I almost think it's on purpose at this point, like they just don't want people to find the information but they can claim it was on a page somewhere but people were too befuddled to find it. If you are sharp enough to spot how to vote for Megan in this contest anywhere on the website, please chime in below in comments and tell me or email us at (email@example.com). I sent Megan a text thingy and asked her to give me good instructions so I can post it here, but I never know if I sent that text to the right person. My boyfriend Justin usually handles all this technical stuff but he's in Arkansas right now visiting his parents…and that leaves me to manage year-2013 technology with my year-1993 capabilities, which is never pretty.
500pm CST – Waiting for the contest to start. On the radio, there's a lot of commercials for cleaning companies and things. Chicago's a dirty place, evidently. It's so weird to hear commercials, since I stopped watching live network tee-vee years ago and I almost never listen to the radio (unless it's Rush…but even then I just don't tune into the radio much). I watch everything on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Instant, or sometimes on the websites for the various networks…so encountering commercials is just bizarre at this point. It's especially strange because the ones on WLS radio are all for the aforementioned industrial cleaners or concrete companies or home improvement project people. It's hard to pay attention to any of them.
I don't know if you remember, but Megan Fox entered this "Talk Star" contest last year and I still have bad feelings over what happened to her and several other contestants back then. I actually think that WLS-AM violated the Communications Act of 1934 (the 1960 amendments)…because I don't believe the contest was fair last year due to the activity of one of the hosts, a jackass named Bruce Wolf. The Communications Act was amended in 1960 due to the public outrage over the "Quiz Show Scandals" of the 1950s…where popular quiz shows were rigged so that the people the producers wanted to win would win the prizes after receiving unfair advantages. During last year's "Talk Star" contest live-on-the-air, Bruce Wolf purposefully interrupted, talked-over, and otherwise stole air time from several of the contestants…but not the woman who ultimately won the prize (a woman named Stephanie who marketed herself as a black female conservative…which sure seemed to be the person that WLS marketing and PR wanted to win the contest all along). Stephanie, by the way, repeatedly said over and over that she had no interest in being a "Talk Star" but only entered the contest so she could win the vacation trip being offered.
Megan Fox was one of the people that Bruce Wolf screwed over. I just realized how weird it is that they both have "animal last names"…so it almost sounds like this happened in a cartoon, where "Wolf steals Fox's time". But, that's what happened last year. Megan would try to talk, but Bruce Wolf would interrupt her and would tell fart jokes while she tried to do her on-air audition for the contest. I couldn't believe it. Bruce kept insisting that he'd eaten onion rings or curly fries or something at the restaurant where the contest was taking place…and he just had to let all the listeners know that the food he ate at the restaurant had given him explosive gas. Meanwhile, Megan (who was up first in the contest) kept trying to speak and Bruce wouldn't let her get any thoughts out; Bruce was just too obsessed with telling the radio audience about his newest farts. It was so bad, he had to have been doing it on purpose to take her air time away from her…but he did NOT do this same thing to the two black contestants on the show (Stephanie and a man named Faraud Muhammad).
I could live to be 100 and I'll never forget this, because it was just so blatant. Bruce did it to Megan and then did it to a few other people…but when it came time for the woman who ultimately won, Bruce got astonishingly quiet and allowed her to talk as much as she wanted. He similarly allowed Faraud to speak unhindered as well. This is my own personal opinion, but I don't think that's a coincidence. Remember that I was a registered Democrat until the year 2008 and I do not believe in coincidences where elections or contests are concerned. I'm just saying that if I was hosting a radio contest and I wanted a certain person to win, I could think of no better way to stack the deck in favor of that person than what Bruce Wolf did last year…by just interrupting, talking over, and generally ruining all the other contestants' time on the air…but leaving the person he wanted to win alone.
That's what I think violated the Communications Act of 1934 and the "Quiz Show" amendments of 1960…because Congress made it illegal to rig contests like that or to stack the deck in anyone's favor. But, that's exactly what I believe Bruce Wolf did last year. I don't think I'll ever let that go. There should be a giant neon asterisk whenever that "Talk Star 2012″ contest is mentioned due to Bruce Wolf's meddling in the process.
I just want to be really clear that I don't speak for Megan on that. While I think she should have won — and would have won last year if not for Bruce Wolf's interference — that's just my own personal opinion. She's a friend of mine, but this is my site and it's my opinions and she's probably horrified that I am writing about this. But I just can't get over the unprofessionalism of Bruce Wolf…especially when big prizes are at stake. Megan does not feel the same way as I do about this and has told me repeatedly to get over it and that she believes it was "God's plan" for Stephanie to win…but I remain convinced that Bruce Wolf did what he did to stack the deck in Stephanie's favor at the expense of the contestants whose time he ate up with his incessant fart jokes.
In addition to getting the opportunity to do a two-hour show on WLS (it's a one-time thing, but that two-hours on the air results in a professional demo tape that's worth its weight in gold for someone who wants to have a career in broadcasting) there's also a trip to Mexico on the line too. Personally, that sounds horrible to me, because Mexico's such a terrible place…but a vacation is a vacation in this economy (and no doubt scores of people would risk Montezuma's Revenge and other perils in that failed state for some R&R in the Gulf). The woman who won the contest last year said on the air she just wanted the vacation and didn't care about being on the radio, which I think is just a slap in the face to people who actually want to use this contest to break into the radio business for a professional career. Megan says this woman is very nice and has become a friend of hers now so I promised not to say anything bad about her…but she really said that thing about just wanting the vacation. She can't take that back and rewrite history now…but I won't say anything bad about her regarding it. I sure can think it though. Because even if she really felt that way it was still a dumb thing for her to keep saying over and over again.
530pm CST — There's an obnoxious commercial on now for something called 1-877-Cars-For-Kids…which is encouraging people to give their cars to children for tax breaks. I think I know what they mean to say, and that's that people can donate unwanted cars to the charity and they will sell them and give money to children's charities. But, if you are an English-as-Second-Language person (and when the Cocktail Party Republicans force amnesty through to Democrats' thunderous applause in upcoming months that will be millions of additional people) then I wonder if you'd understand the whole "cars for kids" thing. The jingle just has a bunch of kids screaming into the microphone and "singing" about giving cars to kids…which just sounds dangerous. I wonder how much money it costs to have an ad on this station. Clearly, that "Cars for Kids" thing cost $100 or less to produce as a spot. Maybe the kids produced it themselves….while riding in cars. Cars that people gave them to ride around in for no reason. Because charity.
537pm CST — they're doing that little news break thing, talking about the San Diego Mayor who has been groping people but who refuses to leave office. I just give up, folks. I really do. The American people keep electing perverts and creeps to office…and even when they are exposed as such these guys still cling to power. It was not all that long ago that guys like this would have resigned in disgrace and would have never been heard from again. I think it was only 2006 when that happened…like when Mark Foley (who molested Congressional pages) and Larry Craig (who was caught toe-tapping for sex in an airport men's room) resigned in disgrace and ere more or less never heard from again after that. But, here in 2013 we have Anthony Weiner running around embarrassing himself…and actually competing with Elliot Spitzer to be the most disgusting human being seeking elected office in New York state at the moment. And on the opposite coast, there's this guy in Sand Diego whose name I refuse to learn. Because they are Democrats, the State Media allows them to continue their antics…but, really, these guys should walk away and disappear into the shadows. Before the "Golden Age of Hope and Change" that we've been enduring since 2008, I bet they would have.
Though, maybe all of this is a consequence of Bill Clinton's shame in 1998…and the fact that the Millennial Generation and Generation-Y (my age cohorts) grew up or came of age during the Clinton Impeachment Hearings…and maybe that normalized these types of antics enough for pollsters to conclude that guys like Weiner and Spitzer need to just keep running, despite being depicted as sexual deviants. It's such a weird time to be an American in 2013…because on one hand the Baby Boomers are in power, with the most radical of them shoving every crazy 1960s Leftist idea they've ever had down our throats at every available opportunity…and on the other hand we have the growing clout of kids-turning-into-adults who were raised in public schools that indoctrinated pure Leftism and hatred of America into their hearts. That's such a devastatingly destructive combination…and we have 15 more years until the Baby Boomers are either all gone or are in retirement homes.
Such a scary thought.
541pm CST — this is the point where I'm waiting for something to come on the air and I start thinking I'm on the wrong channel, because right now several idiots are talking about some kind of sports game. Specifically, they're talking about Tony Roma's having "big stats". I've had ribs and barbecue chicken at Tony Roma's recently (in Iowa, actually, on a road trip with my friend Penny) but I've never tried their stats. I think it's fascinating that straight guys will have long and involved conversations using all sorts of memorized numbers about sports. I believe they're talking about football, but it could be baseball. This is the cure for insomnia for a gay guy, let me tell you. But, in fairness, if someone was having a conversation about reigning supermodels of the early 1990s I could hold my own and whip out measurements and career highs for Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and the like. It's just kind of amazing to me that straight guys spend their free time memorizing facts about other guys who run around in tight sports costumes…but gay guys have their heads full of trivia about gorgeous women that you'd think the straight guys would be interested in. That's hilarious to me.
They're talking about "fantasy football" on the show right now…which, as I understand it, isn't even real football. It's some kind of pretend thing that guys talk about, where they imagine that certain guys they like are all on the same team together (and wear jerseys they designed themselves no doubt, if they are bi or at all gay-curious). They're debating who is the best "tight end"…which is not all that different from a conversation you'd overhear somewhere in Boystown right now, but in a different context.
550pm CST — So, the contest is supposed to start in ten minutes…but they were still talking about "fantasy football". I know this is probably not true, but if it's truly "fantasy" then I think they should have unicorns and dragons and things on the team. Maybe they could limit the number of creatures on each side — so it could be both fair and more realistic — but if they insist on using the word "fantasy" then they should be required to engage in at least something remotely fantastical.
Now it's a commercial for "It's Just Lunch"…where people can call and be on a date tomorrow. I'm sorry, but this "It's Just Lunch" thing is just sad. There is something wrong with the guys who would participate in this. I know that a lot of women want to meet a guy and might not know how to go about it…but no man, straight or guy, who is worthwhile lacks the ability to find himself a date without resorting to a dating service. Especially if he has to pay to do this. If you are a woman and you hear the "It's Just Lunch" commercials and think "I should try that!" then maybe you need to also think about what sort of men have been scraped from the bottom of the barrel and are ready on a moment's notice to have a date with "It's Just Lunch" clients.
There are so many better ways to meet good, quality guys. You should try church first…and join the Ladies' Guild and get to know mothers and grandmothers who have nice single sons and grandsons. Another good idea is to lookup the baseball, soccer, rugby, and other amateur sports leagues in your town. Start going to those games…and strike up conversations with the women who are there rooting for their boyfriends. Make friends with them…and then they will introduce you to the cute single guys on the teams. I think that's a better time investment than the "It's Just Lunch" garbage. And it's FREE! If my boyfriend Justin really does end up moving back to Arkansas to live with his parents again, then I'm totally going to become a fan of the Lincoln Park sports leagues and find a new guy this way myself. I think it's a genius plan. Feel free to co-opt it for yourself, because we're friends like that.
600pm CST — I swear it's 6pm CST and the station says it's WLS, but they're still talking sports garbage.
Oh, wait…they just said the Talk Star thing is starting. Hooray! I hope that jackass Bruce Wolf controls himself this time and doesn't interfere with the contestants.
The newscaster is saying people are complaining about Bradley Manning's sentencing and are asking Obama to pardon him. Just watch: Manning will be pardoned in 2017 as Obama leaves office. I bet the deal on that is already done. The Millennial generation thinks it's cool and "Jason Bourne" to steal state secrets and reveal them to the world…treason is sexy to these idiots.
They say the average ACT scores in Illinois are 20 points lower than in the past…but the school administrators say that the kids are not dumber. The tests are just Ray-Ciss, I guess. That's the way to explain away all poor performances by the students in public school. In reality, the kids aren't learning because the teachers are terrible…and the teachers are terrible because teachers' unions exist and allow terrible people to be teachers. The public schools are an unfunny joke…and it's all because we have not yet outlawed public sector employee unions. The scores will not ever go up unless that happens.
606pm CST — I think the contest is starting. Nope. Psych. More commercials. They're also saying that Millennials are buying things online and are "living digitally". Do people really need to be told this, or can't they just observe that around them?
Now it's the traffic report. The thing is, in Chicago, the traffic report is the same every day. If it's light out, the roads will be clogged with cars on any highway. It's because all the roads here were built to handle about half the amount of cars that actually are on the roads. Thank the geniuses in academia who did the traffic projection studies in the 70s when this infrastructure was built. Those are the same Leftist academics who pretty much control our entire government right now too, by the way.
LIVE! from the Improv in Schaumburg…the "Talk Star Finale!". Let's hope the hosts don't cheat again this year.
That jackass Bruce is talking now. He's such trash. He tries to do that "morning zoo" type thing….where he makes obnoxious "jokes" that only he thinks are funny. Jackass.
Who on Earth thinks this man is funny? He's like a reject from the Poconos.
They're announcing the judges. It's all people I've never heard of. Some woman from somewhere. A lady from the marketing department. That woman who won last year (but only did it because she wanted the vacation).
611pm CST — First Contestant: Laura Kelly from Oak Brook. She says she's scared, but wants to be a Talk Star. She says she moved to Oak Brook 26 years ago and everyone out in Oak Brook tells her she should be on the radio. I hope that's not them saying she's ugly and has a face for radio. I have no idea what she looks like, but she sounds like a nice woman. She's using her time to talk about some old apartment building she lived in that had a grocery store in it. Laura says she is a libertarian and likes Rick Santelli. She says enough regulation, enough taxes, enough Leftist orthodoxy. She works for Goldman Sachs and says it's a "different Goldman Sachs". That made no sense. She says she dropped out of college to work at Goldman Sachs, but made enough money so she never had to go to college. This is a weird conversation. She talks about an exit strategy to leave Illinois, but her family is here. She likes to golf she says, but she gets bored at nine holes. That doesn't sound like she really likes golf all that much. Though, truthfully, I'd get bored before I got to the little windmill or pyramid at mini-golf. That obnoxious Bruce keeps trying to make stupid jokes…but he's not interrupting her like he did to people last year. I think someone took him to the side and stopped that. Bruce has told her she needs to sing and is screaming at her to tell people her favorite song. Bruce is complaining about having to be up since the morning — so why don't they have someone else host this contest then and let Bruce sleep right now? Laura says she has three children who vote Republican. I really don't like this woman, for whatever reason. Bruce makes his first fart joke of the night at 6:16pm CST… a horn blows to call time and Bruce says it was his farts because he had artichoke dip. That's the kind of humor this man puts out there. It's always about farts with this guy.
— Commercial Break —
It's that "Cars for Kids" commercial again…donate your car to kids today. It's a song…and they spell something out, but for the life of me when people are singing and spelling I become mesmerized and never catch any of it. It's like people are talking pig Latin in front of me and I don't understand a word of what they are saying.
Now, it's some commercial for "the virtual last mile" that helps people learn how to keep up with changes to their cell phones for business. What the Hell kind of thing is this?
There's a commercial for some college that powers itself using energy from cows…bovine energy. I don't think it was a joke.
And then they're talking about a viral video on YouTube of some woman who did something, and now she's going on a cruise thanks to her viral video. I think it's this one:
621pm CST — They say you can vote: text STAR to 68683…which counts for 20% of score.
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A "conservative Hispanic" is up next…what do you want to bet the station wants her to win this time, the way they wanted the "black conservative woman" to win last time. The marketing department loves that.
CONTESTANT 2 = Jasmina something or another. She's Hispanic. You'll hear that about 100 times. She peppers her speech with either Spanish words or with words accented with Spanish-inflection. Like you see on tee-vee. She also does that thing where every fifth word is said really loud. Like, "They are THERE…like Whos in Whoville they are THERE." Jasmina is flirting with Bruce big time. She says she wants to stay in Illinois, but she says there is a pension liability in Springfield. She says she came from the East Coast to Illinois. She says she doesn't look Hispanic and doesn't have a Virginia accent even though she lived there. The one thing I will give this woman is that she does behave like the women they have on morning shows…when the woman acts like a sidekick and just makes little voices and things in between the men talking. She's doing exactly that thing. She says that even in Virginia she was listening to WLS…which sounds like she's just sucking up. Dan Proft asked her about the "War on Women" since Jasminia is both a woman and a Hispanic, so she's a minority. Raise your hand if you're sick of everything being about minorities. We live in the Tyranny of Minority in the year 2013. Can't Jasmina just be a conservative woman…why does she need to try to score more points for being a conservative HISPANIC woman…especially since last year's winner was the conservative BLACK woman. Do any of you out there get tired of the pandering like this as well?
— Commercial Break —
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I have no idea what they were just advertising, but it was a creepy old woman talking about dragons. And it was something to help kids with school. After that, there was a commercial about Asthma. That was the Will Rogers institute, which does not support dragons.
The news brief is talking about some kids who were almost hit by cars somewhere after school. I guess that's a news story. Since something almost happened.
Now it's a woman who sounds like she's having a stroke, breathlessly talking about errors the government has made collecting data on people. She says the government will admit its mistakes. Don't hold your breath, breathless woman.
Geesh, the news is depressing. Now it's someone who almost kidnapped someone. And then on a campus somewhere a person shot someone with darts. I can see how if you listen to the radio all day you'd be cationic and terrified of the world, the way that Justin's parents are so scared of everything. It's because they only hear "news" like this constantly.
633pm CST CONTESTANT 3 = It's 89 degrees…on channel 89 WLS. Live in Schaumburg. Bruce Wolf (the jackass) and Dan Proft (who is professional) are hosting this contest. So far, Bruce has made one fart joke but has not really interfered with any of the contestants like he did last year. This contestant says she is a suburban soccer mom who likes to drink wine, she's Jennifer Gulberson Sale. She says she's in a nerd beauty pageant come true. Jennifer says she is a big fan of Real Housewives. She comes off as an airhead. She said that "who isn't under indictment?". Dan Proft asked her about Lisa Madigan and Mike Madigan…and Jennifer just giggled and said "yah, they're messed up". She does that Valley Girl thing with her voice….where every sentence ends in a question mark and a high pitch. They're talking about something called Bennett Academy, where her kids apparently go to school. Her husband is from Germany and she's saying Deutschland is king. I beg to differ, Jennifer…you fool. Germany tried twice to be "king" and thank Zeus the US was there to stop that. Fool. Jennifer says she writes about nonsense and covers entertainment stuff on some site she has. I really don't like this woman. She comes off as one of those Real Housewives people. She calls everyone a "goddess" or a "king"…she likes Anthony Weiner and calls him "Tony Sausage". She says her kids are there and she's talking about porn and then giggled hysterically. Bruce asks her about Benghazi and I half expect her to confuse that with Ben Vereen. She dodges the question about Benghazi and instead talks about "the dog getting on the plane". She says "you're talking to me like I'm blonde and don't know nothing" and then giggled. Dan Proft asked her if she knows how to get home from here. That was TERRIBLE. Jennifer's performance, not the thing Dan Proft said. The thing Dan Proft said was accurate.
— Commercial Break —
Megan made me promise to be nice to all the amateur people competing in the contest. And I am really trying to be. But, that Jennifer woman who was just on was irritating. And I really don't like the whole "we have to have a minority win!" mentality that drives someone like Jasmina to say again and again that she's "Hispanic". I totally forgot about the first woman already, but if I strain to think about it I remember she made a lot of money at Goldman Sachs and doesn't have to work anymore. So, good for her. But why does she need a free vacation and a radio show? I am being nice though because I promised I'd be nice.
6:44pm CST CONTESTANT 4 = A guy who was on last year. Megan knows him and says he's a nice guy. He's a black Muslim named Faraud Muhammad from Evanston. I actually like his radio voice. He was also a finalist last year…and he was one of only two people last year who was allowed to speak without interruption. Just him and the ultimate winner, Stephanie. Both black…and both were allowed to speak without interruption while everyone else was interrupted completely by Bruce Wolf. Funny how that worked out. But I digress. Faraud is talking about Benghazi, saying that "BHO was able to sleep at night during that anyway". Faraud is a standup comic too. But he stumbles over his words a lot. He tries to use very long and complex words, but he stumbles getting them out with this timing. He does come off as a very nice guy though who I think would make a fun friend to have. I'd like to meet him and would be okay with him winning tonight because he'd be able to carry a show of his own, clearly. They ask him his favorite movie of all time…and he says 2001 Space Odyssey and he talks about how the film was shot and he's doing a HAL impression. Faraud is likable and can do good impressions. They're asking about Benghazi and Egypt…but he's dodging and goes back to entertainment stuff. He says he'd like to do an interview show, and that he likes Bill Whittle on PJ TV. Bruce Wolf has no idea what Faraud is talking about. Faraud talks about how he would run a show and how he'd like to have guests on…so that tells me he knows what he is doing. He goes there, though: he refers to himself as a black Republican and says he statistically doesn't exist. They had a black winner last year, though…so would they choose a black winner again? The horn blows calling time and — of course — Bruce makes a fart joke about the horn, saying "Faraud that was very inappropriate of you"…as if Faruad had passed gas. Gross. Not funny. But this is the only thing this Bruce guy does. It's like Shecky Green broadcasting live from the Pine Room of Camp Little Otter in the Poconos.
— Commerical Break —
Megan's up after the break. I know she will do well. Being as objective as I can, her only competition is Faraud Muhammad…who I think could run a very good show of his own. The other people didn't take this seriously, and that Jasmina just wanted to keep telling us she was "Hispanic" (with the silent part being "you need to pick me because I am Hispanic and Hispanic is very in this year").
The prize is a limo ride, trip to Mexico, two hour radio show, and professional headphones.
652pm CST — MEGAN FOX turn: "a homeschooling, tea partying momma grizzly"…from IntolerantFox.com and PJ Media…Megan Fox from Mokena. YEAH! Vote for MEGAN!!!! Talking about crime and violence in Chicago…iPhones stolen…flash mobs…I can fix it…I believe that God gave us a backside that is properly cushioned on one side to be beaten with a heavy stick…should you steal the iPhone you should be brought to "The Bean" in Chicago…build a platform in front and put them in front, pull pants down, and let the victims of crime take big paddles and go to town in front of peers…bring the stocks back. Corporal punishment. Bruce, the punishment works…maybe your mother didn't give you enough. Homeschooling parent…rule of law in my house. Still legal to discipline your children on rear. You need to discipline these bad boys so they don't get up for a week…then you get the nuns to teach them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the transformative powers over these thugs. Dan says the Catholics need to take over the schools and the police department. What do you do for fun? I garden. I have a huge garden. We grow our own food so we have our own organic food to eat and we grow in back yard. I have a big dog named Moose. And homeschooling is really fun. You should see my life. I have nowhere to go and be with my kids and do fun things and projects. Homeschooling is not drudgery. It is freedom. The good news is that my children can learn any time all day and they are not standing in line, eating in a cafeteria, there's no nonsense. They are free thinkers. I am raising free thinkers. I write about lifestyle issues. I brew our own beer. We grow our own hops. Bruce is shouting at her if they drink their own beer. They're trying to tell her that her time is up and Megan says she has a big stick…says Obama speaks softly and carries no stick.
I just love her. I really do. She's fabulous.
She kind of left Bruce shellshocked. Proft said that people are coming back for 90 seconds…or in Megan's case, anything she wants.
This is all funny because last year Megan went first, and Bruce stole all her time with fart jokes. Megan was really polite last year and let him get away with that. So, it's funny for me to see Megan get some revenge tonight and dominate her segment. Dan and Bruce kind of treated her weirdly because she did that…and she sure was the most forceful of the contestants. She was no-nonsense. That's who she is…so if you like that, you'll lover her.
I've thought since the day I met her that her destiny is to have a radio show. I think she should have won last year and should win this year….and that's not just because she's a personal friend. I just think she's the best, she's earned this, and she'd make a great show. But, I have no idea how they're going to judge this.
Personally, I think they're going to go with the "Hispanics are hot this year" thing and just give it to that Jasmina because she's a "minority"…even though they had a minority winner last year. If they play games like that then everyone is a minority in some way. I'm gay, so I'm a minority. Megan's a homeschooler…so she's a minority. You might have a cat, and the majority of pet owners have dogs…so you too are a minority. Everyone's a minority and we should all be celebrated and should win everything!
Either Megan or Faraud would be able to put on a good show…though I'd personally most like to hear Megan's show.
In fairness, I want to state for the record that this year Bruce Wolf did not do anything to stack the deck or interfere with some contestants. He let people speak and didn't monopolize this contest like he did last year. So someone clearly talked to him and took him aside before this show. I am so happy about that…because whoever wins the contest should be fair and should not be rigged from the start for one person like it was last year.
— Commercial Break —
Mattress commercials about memory foam…beds that will change your life…sleep numbers…whatever. A bed is a bed. I have never understood the fuss over mattresses. I'm from Cleveland and back there we were just happy to have anything to sleep on at all.
Weather forecast…thunder storms, cloudy, 82 degrees tomorrow. This has been a freezing cold summer. I look forward to sweltering 90-95 degree days and a lot of this summer I had a sweatshirt on. Where is all the Global Warming that Al Gore promised us because I never even made it to the beach this year.
708pm CST — back at the Improv in Schaumburg. Isn't that a hilarious name for a city? Now they are explaining the voting. They're going to get another 90 seconds to tell us why they need to be the Talk Star. I would bet any money that Jasmina will tell us she should be picked because she is Hispanic. The judges are some woman named Lauren Kone from WLS, Chet Copit (sp?) from a steakhouse somewhere (I have no idea who this is, so he might be a sports person…clearly he's no supermodel or I'd know who he was), and then that woman Stephanie who won last year. Oh, and the Promotions Director Something Something Lynne. She's a judge too. That Bruce is so stupid…he has no idea what he's doing.
Megan comes on to make her 90 second pitch: The reason I should be the next Talk Star is because I have an interesting lifestyle. The government is being more intrusive in our lives. We can change how we live, become less a part of the machine. Pull your kids out of the indoctrination centers. Send to private or homeschool…do not leave them in a dangerous place. I would like to talk about how homeschool is better than you have been told. You can grow your own food. Make your own stuff. Tons of ideas that we do that you will really like. I think there are ways to help young people when bored to go to a book instead of killing someone (like in the news recently). Give them morality. I am Megan Fox and I want to be your next WLS Talk Star.
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Faraud's 90 seconds…he says he is doing this to pay tribute to his mother. He has a nice radio voice. He says his mother raised him to get a bachelors and a master's degree. If more moms would have self sacrifice and emphasis on work ethic and hope then he guarantees that there will be fewer people in neighborhoods being bad. He kind of stumbles and loses his train of thought. This is a memorized speech or it's written down and he stumbles. So the mom stuff was contrived. He stumbles and stutters at the end. But I still like him. I just don't like people who bring out the mom card to score points, like at an awards show or something.
Jennifer Gulberson Sale…her 90 seconds. She says her daughter told her that she did a bad job. She says, "I'm an expert on nothing and I bombed". Let's just not make it a thing. My life is not complete. Seriously, I should be the next star because I like to have fun and I am about nonsense and I make people laugh and Anthony Weiner is hysterical and lets have fun. I am unemployed and looking for a job. My kids need to eat and they are here and don't make me look like an idiot in front of my kids. Bruce, let's talk about porn. Porn! I don't take things too seriously so vote for Jenn. This woman is really irritating.
Jasmina is up…let's see if she mentions being Hispanic again. She says, what does WLS stand for? Where Listeners Speak Up (but, there's no U in WLS). Tell Springfield that things can't go on. We cannot spend money we do not have. We cannot borrow money we cannot pay back. I don't want to be Detroit I want to be Chicago and it was a great state. I got "peeps" here from all over. Here's a shootout to Kim at Hot Cuts for $16 and I am frugal. Running, taking care of my kids…. HORN BLOWS and cuts her off.
So she didn't mention being Hispanic again…but I bet she would have if she had more time.
Laura something or another…gives her 90 seconds. Says she wants to get rid of Pat Quinn and Dick Durbin because of Obamacare and she has had it. She wants to say everyday that it's another day closer to the end of Obama's term and it makes her happy. She loves WLS-AM and she thinks that she is borrowing a phrase from Obama about jobs and she goes to bed with Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft and wishes that Obama would think about jobs all day. She thanks everyone for coming and now she wants to text people and she wants to be "voice for positive" (sic).
That woman irritates me too. There's something about her that I just don't like.
Here's my ranking of the contestants:
* Megan Fox — winner in my opinion
* Faraud Muhammad – second best
* Jasmina the Hispanic Woman — not good, but better than the other two
* Jennifer Gulberson Sale — she was terrible gulberson awful
* Laura Whoever — honestly I can only remember that she worked at Goldman Sachs and made so much money doing that back in the day that she has just been looking for a hobby since…and that's kind of a slap in the face to the other contestants who are looking for this opportunity to really jumpstart a career.
My gut is that the marking/promotions person will want Jasmina the Hispanic Woman to win in 2013, since Stephanie the Black Woman won last time. I don't think there's a doughnut's chance in Oprah's vicinity that Jennifer or Laura will win. So, Megan's got a one in three chance of taking the prize this year.
Please vote for her: not only does she deserve it and it would change her life but she also would do a really great show.
TEXT the word STAR to 68683 and then vote for Megan. So, on your phone, go to send a text and put the word STAR in the text and then send the text to the number 68683. And then a menu will come up and tell you to push a number for Megan Fox. Choose that number and vote for her!
726pm CST — the voting closes in three minutes.
Apparently they will announce the winners soon. I guess there is voting going on in the restaurant. The audience vote counts for 20%. Then there are people voting by text. And then there are the judges too.
They're talking about the idiocy of the Iowa Caucuses and how voting goes on there. How people cheat and stuff ballots and all that nonsense.
— Commercial Break —
736pm CST — that jackass Bruce Wolf is talking again. I just hate him. He's introducing last year's winner, that Stephanie.
Megan says she's a very nice woman. She hosted "several shows". Her claim to fame is having six kids and being a black conservative. So they picked her last time. She says she is "the Harriet Tubman of the conservative movement"…which I think is obnoxious of her to say. I know about Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was a grade school report subject of mine. Stephanie is no Harriet Tubman. But I promised Megan I would be nice.
Stephanie comes on and says she is doing "fab-u-lous". She says the questions asked this year were tougher than the ones asked of her. I agree. She got soft ball questions last year and was not interrupted once by Bruce (almost as if the deck was stacked so that she would win last year….funny how that worked out, in my opinion). Stephanie says she never called the station ever, had never wanted to do radio, but just wanted a phenomenal trip and that's why she entered the contest. This is what irks me about this woman. She keeps saying that she was motivated by the trip, not the being on the air part. I just think that's so wrong because the contest is the "Talk Star" contest…not the "Who Wants to Go on Vacation?" contest. Now she's talking about her husband being a cook and how that made her fat but she still runs marathons even though her toenails fall off (but then grow back). I think there's a powerful meaning or analogy in that somewhere. Stephanie says she set up her fan page and she has fans now and she likes when people invite her to things. She wants Illinois to not be a place where people are fleeing. She says that this is a good time to live in Illinois, despite all the people fleeing in droves. Now she's saying that she might run for office too. She has a third grader and an 8th grader and she says she's "not that vain". She says this is an opportunity to talk to people and go out and meet people…and she gets a warm response when hosting the shows.
She's complaining about someone who criticized her because she says "you know" a lot as a verbal crutch. But, she needs a thicker skin if she wants to be in radio…especially speaking on the conservative side of the aisle. I just still am bothered by her saying she just wanted the vacation. She might be the nicest woman in the world — and Megan says she is — but she should have had class enough not to say that. At least pretend you were interested in being on the radio and having a voice, not just doing this to get a free vacation. People with class take the prize but never let on that they were doing something just to win a prize.
— Commercial Break —
740pm CST — they are about to announce the winner.
I hate waiting for results when there's one person I want to win. The anticipation sucks.
The judges are going to announce the winner.
Lauren Someone Or Another is announcing the winner.
Tension. Tension. Tension.
Lauren has a smoker's voice.
And the next Talk Star is…Laura Kelly from Oak Brook.
That woman from Goldman Sachs? Geesh.
I didn't see that one coming.
At all.
I thought she was the worst one and was rambling and made no sense.
Though, at least Jasmina the Hispanic didn't win…just because she was "the Hispanic". I really wish Megan had won, or if not her then Faraud.
This woman…I swear. They have this Laura talking after she won and they asked her what she would do on a show and she said she had no idea, she'd have to think about it. I know she's excited, but she comes off as an airhead right now. At least she hasn't gone on about how she just wanted the vacation. She says she did not sleep all week and has been nervous, playing solitaire on her cellphone. She said that is how she focused herself this week.
I still don't know how she won or what she said that made people vote for her. Maybe she had a lot of friends there in the audience. She just said she was the PTA president so maybe she worked a network. I don't know.
But the other thing I'm happy about is that Bruce Wolf didn't cheat again this year and he didn't interrupt anyone. No decks were stacked. Everyone had equal time. And for some reason this woman from Goldman Sachs won, even though she said nothing memorable.
This is the first and only time you will ever hear anything from this woman Laura Kelly…but I guarantee you will be hearing about both Megan and Faraud in the future, because both of them have the talent and smarts to make something of themselves in the industry. They just seem to be destined to have to claw harder for it and never give up.
Ugh…but Megan always says things like this are "God's plan" and I trust that she knows what she's talking about and that's true.
I just wish I could have rigged this contest for her somehow (and I probably should have at least tried).
10 Things You Should Know About the "Ray Ciss" Attack On Paula Deen in June 2013
[ No…it's not "racist" little man. It's just another example of the State Media ginning up racial tension by calling yet another rich, white person "Ray Ciss" when the institutional Left needs racial tension to motivate black people to help Democrats with something they are currently cooking. Such as the push for Amnesty for Mexican criminals that's underway right now in the Senate. Funny how a high-profile white person is always pilloried as a "Ray Ciss" whenever the Left needs to get black people's attention for upcoming political activism. Can't be a coincidence since this happens so often. ]
Yesterday, the State Media fired up its "Ray Ciss" machine and aimed it at tee-vee cook and oversized personality Paula Deen. It's important to view this as a case study in what sort of political strategy and Leftist agenda goes into an orchestrated hit on a rich and famous white person…particularly when that person is a Southern Christian. You need to start thinking long and hard about how Leftist operatives in the Ministry of Truth that is our state media view an opportunity like this to further the institutional Left's position in the wider Culture War. Here are 10 important things you need to realize about what's going on with Paula Deen right now:
10. This attack was originated by the plaintiff in a lawsuit currently filed against Deen and should be viewed as part of the legal team's strategy in that case. The suit in question here is the matter of Lisa T. Jackson v. Paula Deen et al that was filed in the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia; you can read the full complaint for yourself here. Pages relevant to allegations of racial discrimination are 14 through 17. The plaintiff, Jackson, is actually a white woman and does not claim that she herself was racially discriminated against…but she states in the complaint that she heard (or heard about) racial discrimination of unnamed others in some restaurant that Paula Deen partly owns in Georgia called "Uncle Bubba's". Jackson also alleges that Deen told her she'd like to have black children tap-dancing in costumes from an old movie (like Shirley Temple would have been in) for entertainment at a "plantation style wedding"; Jackson further claimed that in communicating this to her, Deen called the children "a bunch of little niggers"…but there are no witnesses to this conversation identified in the complaint.
The State Media attack on Deen began on Thursday June 20th, 2013 when various news outlets reported that Deen admitted in a deposition for this case (taken a month ago) that she had used the word "nigger" in the past. You need to understand how a deposition works to see how the plaintiff in this case (or her attorney) originated this attack on Deen (for the purpose of forcing a quick settlement to the lawsuit). When a deposition is held, the following people are allowed in the room:
* the plaintiff and her attorney(s)
* the Defendants named in the complaint (along with one representative for each business entity so named)
* the stenographer typing up what's being said in the deposition
* a videographer (if the deposition is being filmed…which I bet it was, considering this was the deposition of a famous person)
That's it. No one else is there when the deposition is being taken. I don't know what the rules in Chatham County, Georgia are, but here in Chicago a deposition can last for up to seven hours and its transcript is not released until the stenographer has typed it up, proofed it, and then shown it to the deponent (in this case, Paula Deen) for her signature to verify everything typed up was accurate in what she said the day of the deposition. This process seems like it could take a month before a deponent has approved and signed a deposition transcript…which would explain why we're only hearing about this now, when Deen's deposition was taken a month ago.
Only the plaintiff and the defense has access to the deposition transcript; not even the judge has this. Clearly, Paula Deen's legal team did not leak to the press that she admitted to using the word "nigger" in the past. This had to have come from the plaintiff's side then; either Lisa T. Jackson or her lawyers contacted the media and said "We got Paula Deen to admit to using the word nigger in her deposition!". No one else could have done this, since the stenographer or videographer (the only other people allowed in the room) would be sued for damages and be subject to contempt of court if they contacted the press about what they heard in a deposition (in addition to these people never working again in the legal field).
Let's take a moment and think about what Jackson's motivation would be in heading to the press with explosive news that Deen admitted to using the word "nigger" at some point in the past (which, according to Deen, was actually in reference to something she said in the 1980s after being robbed at gunpoint by a black man when she was a bank teller). It sure feels like this is strategy on the plaintiff's part to force a quick settlement in this case…lest Jackson reveal more of what was said in the deposition. Because Paula Deen is extremely wealthy because of her good public image and is internationally known, the media will be interested in just about every blurb it could scrape from Deen's deposition testimony. All of it would be taken out of context, of course, and only the most explosive revelations would be spoon fed to the hungry State Media. This leaves Deen in an untenable position: either settle the case quickly with Jackson or allow herself to be subject to scandal eruptions like this that will permanently damage the Paula Deen brand and jeopardize sale of her cookbooks, kitchen equipment, and other goods.
Jackson dropped a nuke on Deen that caused The Food Network to end its business relationship with her. If Deen does not quickly capitulate to her demands, Jackson will no doubt leak more of the deposition testimony…perhaps in a bid to get Amazon to stop selling Deen's books or home goods. This brinksmanship will continue so long as Jackson has juicy material from the deposition to use against Paula Deen. And the State Media, of course, will eat up every bit of this with great relish…because they enjoy stoking racial animosity in this country and love when a white Southern woman is being pilloried as a "Ray Ciss".
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Witch Hunt Against the Butter Lady: State Media Declares Paula Deen A "Ray Ciss" (meanwhile ignoring all of Oprah Winfrey's longstanding racism)
[ Click above to embiggen: the Charybdis of Lake Michigan and virulent black supremacist, Oprah Winfrey ]
No doubt, you're aware that this morning in a desperate bid for relevance Matt Lauer on The Today Show is calling "the butter lady" Paula Deen a "Ray Ciss" because, allegedly, 40 or 50 years ago she said the word "nigger" out loud. Today marks the day when I've officially had enough of people behaving like we live in the magical world of Harry Potter and "nigger" is "the word that shall not be said" or "the n-word". It is an ugly, ignorant, and vile word…but it's just a word and not some magical spell that does unspeakable harm to the superstitious or easily-excitable. No one alive in the year 2013 should call anyone "nigger", "fag", "cunt", "kike", "whitey", "chink", "beaner", or other ethnic, gender, or personal slurs…but it's asinine to dance around these terms when The Today Show's attacking a tee-vee cooking show host with one of them.
Haven't you had enough of the State Media deciding today's the day when it's going to come after some random, famous white person and screech "She used the word nigger…fifty years ago!". Is today the day you're not going to take this garbage anymore?
I refer you to Alinsky Rule #4…which is "to make the enemy live up to its own book of rules"…and ask that today you encourage conservatives to stop doing the same things in situations like this while expecting different results. The institutional Left today is ginning up racial hatred by way of its sock puppets at The Today Show; the timing on this is curious since Barack Obama just ginned up religious hatred of Catholics a few days ago. All of this is happening while the "Gang of Ocho" is trying to ram through an amnesty bill in Congress that will create tens of millions of new Democrat voters while taking even more jobs away from actual American citizens and costing taxpayers billions in new welfare benefits.
If you don't think all of these events are related and are in fact planned by the Democrat Party, you're not paying attention.
Today, why aren't we talking about black people who are extremely racist and subscribe to black supremacy? I cite one classic example for you: the virulent racist Oprah Winfrey, who during her long career in Chicago treated all white people she came in contact with like subhumans. This is a woman who has made a point to only donate money to organizations that exclusively benefit black people (such as that school in Africa she started where young girls were raped…and more recently the $12 million she gave to build the Black People's Museum addition to the Smithsonian in Washington). The first politician that Winfrey ever supported was Barack Obama…because his skin color was similar to her own and she decided she needed to see this man elected president because of that.
I don't know of a more clear example of racism than that.
Certainly it's more relevant, damaging, and current than "the butter lady" using the word "nigger" in casual conversation in the deep south FORTY OR FIFTY YEARS AGO when, incidentally, black people themselves used that word. Come to think of it, black rappers use that word all the time. Black athletes throw it around the basketball court and in the football and baseball locker rooms too. It's treated as a term of endearment by the State Media when one black person says it to another…but it's still the same word that The Today Show is in hysterics over this morning because "the butter lady" said it.
Aren't you tired of this absurdity?
Wherever you see anyone bashing "the butter lady" today anywhere on the Interwebz you need to chime in with a few things of your own:
* Why is this word okay for rappers and athletes to use?
* Let's talk about black supremacists like Oprah Winfrey
* Isn't it strange this racial controversy is ginned up right when Democrats are taking anger from black people because the amnesty bill pushed by the "Gang of Ocho" will hurt blacks the most in terms of jobs and the loss of welfare benefits
That's what this attack on Paula Deen is really about folks. Leftists in the State Media sat around and tried to think of something to upset black people today and cause conservatives to go scurrying for cover (lest they be called "Ray Ciss" today too). Stumped, the only thing race related they could thunk up was to have Matt Lauer go on about "the butter lady" using the word "nigger" while living in the deep South in the 1960s and 1970s.
This sick game will probably work, too, because the "black community" has been so well-trained by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Henry Gates to stop paying attention to anything important at all the moment the race whistle is blown. Meanwhile, while this manufactured "scandal" percolates and ultimately saturates the news cycle the "Gang of Ocho" will be able to permanently damage the country and install an everlasting Democrat electoral majority…while Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain (three of Democrats' favorite Republicans) help.
Democrats want to flood voter rolls with Mexican peasants because:
* they speak little to no English and refuse to learn, which makes them easier to control because Democrats can lie to them in Spanish via La Raza
* Mexican peasants have no respect for US laws and are used to how government works in Mexico (a failed state)…so they won't care much if Democrats make America more like Mexico
* these newly-minted Democrat voters aren't immigrants so much as they are colonists…with Mexico being a new colonial power in the world, sending its unwanted and uneducated burdens north so that they can resettle and make demands on the United States that are beneficial to Mexico. Start paying attention to how often the President of Mexico (whoever that is this week) rants and raves about the US needing to take more Mexican peasants off his hands…so that American taxpayers can pay for these moochers (or, are they "moochachos") and provide them with free healthcare, food, living places, and all sorts of other benefits
* the more unskilled and uneducated Mexicans that are imported into the US the more American culture is first diluted and then ultimately replaced by a more Mexican mindset that is accustomed to the sort of political system that the institutional Left desires
The end game is to change the electorate enough so that Democrats gain permanent locks on national offices (and a super-majority of state legislatures) and the institutional Left then has the ability to change the Constitution however it pleases. La Raza constantly tells the Mexican criminals already living here and flaunting our immigration process that the American Constitution is "too old and out of date" and was written for "a smaller country". The institutional Left dreams of transforming the United States into a socialist country where high-ranking Democrats will be the favored elite and everyone else will be serfs to the federal government. The mission is to lower the American standard of living and decrease our national wealth until we are essentially on par with Mexico itself.
Black people see this…and they don't like it. I'd love to say they don't like it because they are patriots and don't want to see America ruined in this way…but they are more upset about the moochachos taking jobs that normally go to blacks (like Postal Workers, city and county workers, union patronage positions, etc.) and eating up all the welfare benefits that have been dwindling since Democrats started bankrupting the country in 2008.
Matt Lauer and the Today Show were thus used to run some interference and distract blacks, by giving them a rich white female "Ray Ciss" to hate on for a while. Smelling red meat, no doubt the Justice Brothers of Jackson/Sharpton/Gates will find other ways to expand this…and by next week a whole host of new "Ray Ciss" individuals will be witch-hunted into public view. That should give Rubio/Graham/McCain enough cover to do what Democrats are blackmailing them into doing (because I swear these three men are indeed being blackmailed with something unique to each one of them…as that is the only explanation for why the three of them forever do things that will directly harm our country, just so Democrats can crow about these measures being "bipartisan"; "bipolar" is more like it if they aren't being blackmailed).
Democrats want to talk about Paula Deen being "Ray Ciss" today…but I want to talk about Oprah Winfrey being an enormous racist in all applications of the word "enormous". Whatever the institutional Left and the State Media is up to each day, let's endeavor to shift the debate to the opposite. Don't let these people help the Obama Regime by allowing them to create a distraction stage right so that they can accomplish something underhanded over on stage left.
Say what? "That's racist"?
No, it's not "racist". You're "Ray Ciss"…so grow up and tell the Justice Brothers they need to find a new catchphrase and livelihood.
UPDATE: 412pm CST 6/21/13 — So, one of the worst PR teams out there seems to have advised Paula Deen to go on YouTube with a poorly filmed, amateur "apology video". In it she's rambling and almost incoherent. The lightning's bad, the camera angles are terrible, and I believe they tried to make it seem "from the heart" by having it appear she set up the camera herself and just filmed it without anyone's input. Here it is:
I don't think she should have apologized for a damn thing.
What she should be doing is turning this back on the State Media and saying that this is just ridiculous, that she has not used that word in countless years, and that she seems to be the latest person that the Race Industry has manufactured a scandal against. Either just for the fun of it…or because Democrats wanted to take her down for some reason.
I know that when people speak honestly about things like this they get accused of believing in conspiracy theories and then the Alinskyites ridicule them…but it's not paranoia when people are really plotting against someone. Clearly they are doing that to Paula Deen…for some reason.
I'm really curious as to what that may be. Either she's just a convenient white woman that the institutional Left is clubbing right now because it needed to get blacks riled up about SOMETHING, ANYTHING…or Paula Deen did something that upset the Left and this is her punishment. Just watch, she will be audited by the IRS next. I also wonder if maybe the NSA recorded some phone call she had and Democrats have told her they have it and will play it if she doesn't just make an amateur apology video and post it on YouTube.
Every time something like this happens, I just hope that finally, at last, Democrats have done this to the wrong person. One of these days, when the Race Industry attempts to brand someone "Ray Ciss" that person is going to refuse to play along and will turn the tables on the Justice Brothers and the complicit State Media. When that day comes there will be fireworks. The entire system the Left's put in place to control pop culture and public discourse in this country depends on white people living in terror of being called "Ray Ciss"…and rushing to apologize for whatever they did that allowed the Race Industry to fire up the Death Star and aim it at them.
FOR ONCE I would like to see a victim of this hucksterism and extortion stand up for herself or himself…and say I DIDN'T DO A DAMN THING WRONG AND THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST MANUFACTURING A SCANDAL TO DISTRACT FROM SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON IN THE NEWS.
Paula Deen was clearly told she'd lose her Food Network show, her book deals, and all her other revenue streams if she did not play along here. Her idiot and untalented sons depend on her coattails to make their own livings, so she's probably thinking of them too. I kind of get a Martha Stewart vibe in all this and almost also think taking down Paula Deen was just an exercise in icon-toppling…which the State Media enjoys doing to women.
Martha Stewart being hauled off to prison was great fun for them. Remember?
Recall also how gleefully the State Media enjoyed preventing Hillary Clinton from being the Democrats' nominee in 2008 and the first female President. They loved that too.
I don't think I need to remind you what the State Media did to Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Jan Brewer, and Ann Romney.
Now, they're going after Paula Deen.
If you are a woman of any substance or celebrity who has either built up something huge from scratch or is commanding respect on a large stage the State Media seems like it could ultimately come for you, too.
UPDATE #2 740pm CST — Well, that didn't take long Food Network announced they have summarily fired Paula Deen and will not renew her contract for more shows. Deen did what the thugs of the Left wanted…and they fired her anyway. So, what was the point of that groveling above? Lesson to anyone paying attention: never, ever apologize when the Race Industry and the Justice Brothers come after you because they intend to destroy you regardless. Just because they can, since good people let them.
In comments, someone notes that more information is coming out about the deposition in which Deen stated she had used the word "nigger" in the past. Apparently, she was a bank teller and was robbed at gunpoint and then later described the black man who did it as a "nigger" when she was recounting the event to her husband at home. This happened in the 1980s…and Deen could have easily said in the deposition that she didn't recall ever using the word "nigger" in her whole life…but she answered honestly that she had used the word to describe the man who pointed a gun at her when she was a bank teller and had threatened her life.
I have some thoughts on this because TWICE I have been mugged by black men: once in New York on Christmas Eve in 2008 and then shortly thereafter here in Chicago. Both times they stole my wallet, my phone, and the small digital camera I had been carrying with me…and both times they'd knocked me down with a blow to the neck and then whomped on me before I could realize what was happening. This happened to me because back then I was still operating under Democrat programming to not judge books by their covers…and when I saw black men approaching on the street at night I didn't follow my instincts and move in the opposite direction or cross the street. I do not need a third lesson in the wisdom of following instinct over politically correct cultural programming, trust me.
However, I didn't have any desire to call these black criminals racial slurs after they mugged me. The most accurate description of them was in fact just "black male criminals"…and there sure seem to be a lot of them in every single major city that is controlled by the institutional Left. I grew up in Cleveland in the 1980s and 1990s and slurs like the one causing the uproar today were never said in my house or by anyone I had any contact with…so they're not my "go-to" thought even if something horribly traumatic happens to me. But, I can see how they would be for Deen in a terrifying situation like being robbed at gunpoint in the 1980s…since she would have grown up in the 1960s and that word would have probably been said all the time back then, by both white and black people.
I see some in comments below are starting to make the connection that this attack on Paula Deen is happening on the Friday before the Trayvon Martin trial starts up. I think we have our answer why this was done today. It's to start getting black people revved up and angry and for the State Media to start villainizing whites in advance of what's going to happen next week.
You see that right? You see how there are no coincidences with the State Media and how everything like this is timed perfectly to achieve their desired effects? There is absolutely no way in this or any other world that the witch hunt against "the butter lady" isn't connected to the bigger picture racial tensions that the institutional Left wants stoked up next week.
This attack on Deen was just the priming of the pump.
QUESTION: Will conservatives ever stand up to the institutional Left and declare the race card and these endless accusations of this or that person being "Ray Ciss" to be ridiculous and unacceptable?
Will Republicans ever learn from the past and stop doing the same things over again while expecting different results?


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