Apr 26, 2007




EDDY BEACON IS BACK

SWANG has a new site, free to visit, full of live R&B and Soul, place to talk media or whatever is on your mind AND often you can find EDDY on the live MAN ROOM CAM!

CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW
, it is free and there are but a few small rules that we can all handle! Come on over and lets all talk to SWANG and each other!






Rosie is officially GONE from the VIEW and Ba Ba Walters says she had nothing to do with her exit. Like right, BA BA YOU OWN THE SHOW! Upside is Rosie is gone, down dang side is FOX NEWS won’t have her to kick around anymore!




ALGORE is in trouble again.
First he tried to slither around the question of his
energy consumption at his mansions by playing the old Carbon Credit card. THEN it was learned that ALGORE has an interested in one of the biggest companies
selling the questionable credits.


Kind of like the old days when Reverend Jim Baker took viewers money to build a water slide at Heritage USA and then charged them to slide down it when the visited! That was good but ALGORE is now officially in second place!
So what happens when you buy a carbon credit? It could be much less than you think, check it out!

As always post early and often with your thoughts and be SURE and check out SWANG'S great new site, it is live and it is up right NOW!

Apr 23, 2007




NEW THINGS FOR WEDNESDAY!

1. Word is Rosie is out at the View (who cares)

2. Here is a great NEW site for all Americans who want to see
what is REALLY going on in the war.

3. A local East Tennessee lawmaker is slamming the door on the
FORD family business! Nice job TIM!

Sen. Tim Burchett (R-Knoxville) is proud to announce that the Senate passed Senate Bill 1264 by a vote of 29-0. The bill closes a loophole that allows elected officials to run again after being convicted of an infamous crime related to their public office.
“We are elected by the people to serve the people,” said Burchett. “Corrupt politicians who abuse the people’s trust do not deserve a second chance.”
Current law allows elected officials who have been convicted of an infamous crime while in public office to seek election again if their citizenship rights have been restored. Senate Bill 1264 permanently disqualifies these individuals from seeking public office again.
Before becoming law, the House must pass the bill and the Governor must sign it.






If you still have photos from the CP Birthday party keep sending and the staff will keep posting!

While the Media Report has been the official photo site of the CP Extravaganza tons of FUN things have been going on in the shadow world of what some call the press!

First Katie just might be on the way out. Some insiders say CBS has tried everything from “old people lighting” to animal sacrifices and still can’t figure out how to get folks to watch the former Today Show Nymph render the news. The latest is that plans are underway for her demise, check it out!

TUESDAY KATIE REPORT! Another scribe didn't get the NO PILING ON memo about
KATIE! Here is the latest on her "crack" up and possible exit. See ya!!


Clear Channel is kicking around the idea of commercial free radio. The colossal media animal wants to test the waters in Texas. KZPS in Dallas will no longer run traditional 30- or 60-second advertisements. Instead, advertisers sponsor an hour of programming, during which a D.J. will promote its product conversationally in what the company calls integration.

Fox ran some of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner live over the weekend but they missed the best part of the show. While they were showing Rich Little, Sheryl Crow and "Inconvenient Truth" producer Laurie David walked over to Table 92 at the Hilton Washington to chat with Karl Rov .

Sheryl was hot on global warming and let Karl have it with both barrels
. Get this; one of her thoughts to save mother earth is for all of us to use ONE square of TP after we take our morning constitutional! I swear on my youngest dogs head I am NOT making this up! Before you say her thoughts are of the same substance as that which is removed with her suggested single square check out the carbon footprint she leaves when she is out picking and grinning for the folks around the country. Smoking Gun has her demands and you can bet your “donkey” they have no mention of Charmin rationing!

As always if you have an opposing thought on anything from Sheryl and her one square at a time move to save the earth to Katie and beyond…feel free to post, we love to read them!

DON'T FORGET TO SEE OUR NEW BAND!! CLICK HERE FOR PERFORMANCE TIMES AND DATES!

Apr 19, 2007











More pictures from the CP Birthday and a few thoughts on Don Imus




COWARDS KICK AWAY ANOTHER PIECE OF AMERICA'S SOUL
By KINKY FRIEDMAN



April 15, 2007 -- Author, musician and former Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman has been friends with Don Imus since 1975, when they met on stage at The Bottom Line.
I MET Imus on the gangplank of Noah's Ark. He was then and remains today a truth-seeking missile with the best bull-meter in the business.

Far from being a bully, he was a spiritual chop-buster never afraid to go after the big guys with nothing but the slingshot of ragged integrity. I watched him over the years as he struggled with his demons and conquered them. This was not surprising to me.

Imus came from the Great Southwest, where the men are men and the emus are nervous. And he did it all with something that seems, indeed, to be a rather scarce commodity these days. A sense of humor.

There's no excusing Imus' recent ridiculous remark, but there's something not kosher in America when one guy gets a Grammy and one gets fired for the same line.

The Matt Lauers and Al Rokers of this world live by the cue-card and die by the cue-card; Imus is a rare bird, indeed - he works without a net. When you work without a net as long as Imus has, sometimes you make mistakes.

Wavy Gravy says he salutes mistakes. They're what makes us human, he claims. And humanity beyond doubt, is what appears to be missing from this equation. If we've lost the ability to laugh at ourselves, to laugh at each other, to laugh together, then the PC world has succeeded in diminishing us all.

Political correctness, a term first used by Joseph Stalin, has trivialized, sanitized and homogenized America, transforming us into a nation of chain establishments and chain people.

Take heart, Imus. You're merely joining a long and legendary laundry list of individuals who were summarily sacrificed in the name of society's sanctimonious soul: Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, Joan of Arc, Mozart and Mark Twain, who was decried as a racist until the day he died for using the N-word rather prolifically in "Huckleberry Finn."

Speaking of which, there will always be plenty of Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons around. There will be plenty of cowardly executives, plenty of fair-weather friends, and plenty of Jehovah's Bystanders, people who believe in God but just don't want to get involved. In this crowd, it could be argued that we need a Don Imus just to wake us up once in a while.

There probably isn't a single one of Imus' vocal critics who come anywhere close to matching his record of philanthropy or good acts on this earth.

Judge a man by the size of his enemies, my father used to say. A man who, year after year, has raised countless millions of dollars and has fought hand-to-hand to combat against childhood cancer, autism, and SIDS - well, you've got a rodeo clown who not only rescues the cowboy, but saves the children as well.

I believe New York will miss its crazy cowboy and America will miss the voice of a free-thinking independent-minded, rugged individualist. I believe MSNBC will lose many viewers and CBS radio many listeners.

Too bad for them. That's what happens when you get rid of the only guy you've got who knows how to ride, shoot straight and tell the truth.

Apr 16, 2007











Broadcast Icon Feted Over The Weekend


Regional Broadcast God CP (Curtis Parham) was honored by a host of family, friends, and associates at his surprise 60th birthday party deep in the wilds of west Knox county Friday evening.

The aged announcer was ushered to the gathering in a long white limousine outfitted by Rick’s Bar and The Shady Rest Home for the Decrepit. Photos of the event have already been banned from thousands of papers including the Knoxville News Senile, The South Pittsburgh Bugle, and Becks Beer Buddies.

As always please remember to double click the smaller photos if you dare to see what these people really look like.

Apr 9, 2007





Don Imus is toast. Last night CBS dropped him following the cancellation of his TV broadcast yesterday by NBC. The debate now is NOT if he should have been fired but why Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were allowed to run point on getting the job done?

This morning the thought is could the impact of these two Reverends involvement cloud both the meaning and the results of the dismissal?

Noted columnist L.Brent Bozell does a beautiful job in both shinning the light on these two alleged men of god and their
Involvement in the case. He writes, “The raging media controversy over the stupid racial insult Imus threw at the Rutgers women’s basketball team – “nappy-headed hos” – has led the usual cast of professional victims, like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the NAACP, to deplore the racist underbelly of the broader American culture.” Click here to read his entire column.

As for the firing yesterday by MSNBC, Imus could be better off away from the struggling cable channel. The infamous Dick Gregory worked with an MSNBC flack to try to actually involve the President of the United States into the Imus incident.

In a side bar Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong has now apologized to the Duke players but when asked if he (Reverend Jesse Jackson) would also apologize his answer was a firm NO!

Again, the issue is no longer Imus. The issue now is will these two fanners of hate be given an open door to corporations to sit at the table in their decision making of who goes and who stays. More importantly will the left wing media continue to enable the two men to the extend their viewers and readers actually think they are the arbitrators for an entire race? Scary thoughts.








NBC has tossed Imus from their struggling cable station. The head of NBC News told the infamous Dick Gregory the reason was internal e mails from staff demanding the network adhere to their decency policy.

At first blush NBC tried to milk the story. Arbitron overnights showed MSNBC morning viewership exploded the day after the remark. Only when major sponsors ran from the show did the company “spin” their decision in the moral direction. If you would like to see the wiggling answer of why Don Imus was not fired the day he touched off the remark click here.

CBS/AP) STROUDSBURG, PA A radio station fired its longtime morning DJ Wednesday after he encouraged listeners to repeat talk-show host Don Imus' racially charged comments in an on-air contest.


A headline we will NEVER SEE:

“Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will share a private jet to fly to Duke University to render their personal apologizes for the wild rush to judgment in the bogus rape case against Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans. Both men of God will not only ask the team members to forgive them from “robbing them” of their collegiate athletic career but they will also render spiritual guidance to the families crushed by the fabricated incident.”

The other campus involved in the horrid miscarriage of justice and home of accuser Crystal Gail Mangum, N.C. Central University is still confused over the declared innocence of the three students.

"I don't think [Nifong] meant wrong, that it was a rogue attack. I think he went more with his passion than maybe his professionalism. He might have been wrong in some instances, but I don't think he was totally wrong." — A.J. Donaldson, an N.C. Central University senior


A clue to why these young men were “robbed” of their lives could be in the accuser’s background. The Smoking Gun takes a look at just who Crystal Gail Mangum is and offers some facts as to why she was used by the prosecutor to both sway minority voters into reelecting him and to develop the sham case against the three students.







The IMUS posts are heating up! On day whatever of DONFALLSONHISSWORD lots of very sleazy dynamics are starting to emerge, and more than a few are directly caused by Don Imus. As the posts reflect, the remark was bad and the people who are surrounding themselves in the issue are worse. From the left wing driven NBC news organization all the way over to FOX this thing has become the new “Anna Nicole” story and all of the reports are more agenda driven than any thing ever spewed by either Dan Rather OR Katie Couric. Don, shut up and let this thing deflate!

As for the rest of us, boy is it fun to talk about! Again great posts, keep them coming and never forget if you see it on TV under the umbrella of news, opinions have kicked facts under the bus especially in this case.






THE STAFF IS BACK!
TODAYS TOPICS FOR YOU TO COMMENT ON INCLUDE:


BAD PEOPLE SAYING BAD THINGS ON THE RADIO

DON IMUS

THE GLOBAL WARMING MYTH

A NEW BAND IS ON FIRE!


First, unlike most hacks who write about radio I happen to know folks who actually have worked in the pit and they all will tell you at one time or another they have said SOMETHING they wish they hadn’t on the air. Here is what they tell me they did when they said that BAD thing.



1. Swear on their mother’s eyes they didn’t say it (before someone finds the tape)
2. Blame it on the engineer (after the tape is found)
3. Take a leave of absence for one week(try to hide the tape)
4. Take a perminate leave of absence. (after the tape is introduced in court)



Good old 60 something year old Don Imus has been caught in the web of advanced technology and is having a hell of a time getting out. Bless his crusty heart in 2007 there isn’t even a tape to hide! Pop your Pie Hole Don and before you can say, “George Bush is a fool” your words are splattered from U Tube to multiple hard drives in all those scary places with only letters for names. You know like NAACP, FCC, RPC, CORE, SNIC, and even the SEC!

The big question now for Don is how does he put things right with the left, the middle, the right, and his audience? His show is built on saying things that hang right on the edge with most folks and cause the rest of us to say “TELL ME HE DIDN’T JUST SAY THAT ON THE RADIO!” This morning that famed Imus edge was butter knife smooth, and duller than a Clinton state of the union speech. I swear I thought the old man was going to cry a few times and his skinny producer/wild side kick was quiet as a church mouse in time out.

The I Man didn’t do a show he conducted a funeral and it was painful to watch.

When he announced he was going on the Al Sharpton radio show later today to make nice they should have run a big crawl under him saying THE SHARK WAS JUMPED AND THE OLD MAN HAS OFFICIALLY LEFT THE BUILDING. A word of advice to Mr. Don, no matter how bad your transgressions never cuddle up to those who feed on miss steps. You will not find forgiveness. Also remember if you are far enough to the LEFT you can say any dang thing and walk away without a scratch. Want proof? Check out Jesse Jackson and the lovely way he described a major city as having a large Jewish population! Then magnify the JESSE persona a few hundred times and you have the Reverend Al Sharpton.

Does the I Man have any options? Sure, shut up and go back to doing your show. Apologizing to the likes of Al and Jesse will only throw high test on the flames. Remember Jimmy The Greek? I Man you don’t want to be Jimmy The Greek, duck and cover for a few weeks at your ranch till CNN decides if you are still left wing enough to be forgiven and then pop back up!





GLOBAL WARMING took it in the shorts this Easter in Rockford. It was so cold we had to take flowers out to Daddy’s grave Easter morning rather than on the Friday before and this year the only ones that would hang in for the entire day were pansies! I love the new report from MIT that says yep it is getting warmer and yep it has in the past and will in the future. I am sure it won’t make the main stream media but it sure is fun to e mail to all my liberal buds who think AGORE running will be bigger than what was celebrated at sunrise Sunday morning!




THE NEW BAND!
Children of the 50s and 60s I am here to tell you the new band “The Mountain Folk Reunion” that played Saturday evening at Music Row is a must see. From this humble tired old writer's point of view I can honestly say they are better looking than the Rolling Stones, sing better than The Association and Bread combined and unlike the Dixie Chickens looked to be playing their own instruments! They have an open invitation to post any and all of their future performances right here along with their softened and air brushed photographs!


A giant welcome back to the staff and as always your comments and posts will never be edited. Feel free to jump in!

Apr 8, 2007






THANKS for those who came to the first play out of The Mountain Folk Reunion Band!

Apr 5, 2007


YOU ARE INVITED YOU ARE INVITED YOU ARE INVITED


THIS Saturday at 8 PM for the virgin performance of The Mountain Folk Reunion band.

WHERE: Music Row

WHERE AGAIN? Music Row in Maryville is located on East Lamar Alexander Parkway (US Highway 321) just 1.8 miles past Blount Memorial Hospital heading towards Townsend, TN. On the RIGHT side of the road and is in the former IGA store.

WHAT TIME AGAIN? The Mountain Folk Reunion band will go on stage at 8 P.M. for a full half hour. The band will be in a practice room between 7:30 and 8 and everyone is invited to drop by to bother them as they warm up!

WHO? The Mountain Folk Reunion Band! Four fine looking elder statesmen of the late 50s and 60s folk scene whose day jobs include computers, newspaper reporting, cooking, and slumlord!

WHAT KIND OF MUSIC? The band’s name gives you a major clue. Tunes on April 7th will include… “This Little Light Of Mine”, “Sloop John B”, “It Takes A Worried Man To Sing A Worried Song”, “Georgia Stockade”, and many more you will remember from your days of campfires and porch picking.

WHO ARE THESE BOYS? Bobby, Kelly, Vern and Walker are all eligible for AARP but as of last night could still drive, eat both hard and soft food and be trusted to come home before dark.

HOW MUCH IS IT? This historic first play out concert is absolutely free and it don’t cost nothing either!

Apr 1, 2007







STILL thinking about the mountains! Great time to visit although the dogwoods are not out yet. Back to the report later this week.