Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific.
Today’s guest is…well, nobody, actually. As in, we have no frickin’ guests lined up—though we’re hoping a few special guests phone in. If not, we’re pretty much screwed.
Oh. And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone again. Which explains my tinny, nasally voice. And anything dumb I might say.
Anyway, because we’re flying solo today, I beg you to please call in with any questions: 866-884-TALK (8255). And spread the word!
Today’s topics: John McCain’s sudden embrace of the Christian right, Cynthia McKinney, politicizing immigration, how George Bush made Basic Instict 2 a box office flop, Zarqawi’s (unconfirmed) demotion, and bias at the NYT and BBC. Oh, and fairies—and Lord knows what else.
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update: If you miss the show live, you can catch it at 5 after the hour every hour for the next 23 hours after the live broadcast. Just go to Rightalk and click on the show’s icon.
Jeesh, I love how Ace always forgets to advertise his own show. Ask Ace about the porn/911 link.
Yeah, do ask him about the porn link. Specifically, why had he copied the link? Who was he sending it to?
I swear it wasn’t me.
Yeah! Definitely a Porngate story here.
He wasn’t sending it to you?
Well, shoot. There goes my theory of how Ace was paying you for all of those tips.
“no sympathy for that monkey”
I’m crackin’ up here.
Monkey? Monkey? It’s an ape.
This is a monkey…
http://tinyurl.com/gsq24
You know, you two might want to think about giving a little more warning before these shows are set to air. I mean, I know marketing isn’t your strong suit and all, but come on…
Abducted? No wonder poor Ace is hatin’ on the monkey.
Nice segue into Mckinney, there, guys
Get over the first amendment. Yeah.
You know, you two might want to think about giving a little more warning before these shows are set to air. I mean, I know marketing isn’t your strong suit and all, but come on…
That’s been a losing battle though Jeff appears better about it than Ace. Jeff also gave west coast time which I appreciated.
Don’t mean to harsh and all but your show makes it clear why it is not a no-brainer skill to be a talk show host. BTW Jeff your voice sounded ok to me, but another problem with the show is it was hard for me to tell which one of you was talking. But carry on!
Funny how nobody brings up with regard to McCain that 1) he is an intellectual lightweight…Clinton (and Giuliani for that matter) is a lot smarter than he is…2) He was the co-author of McCain-Feingold.
Maybe you two should alternate doing the show with Rightwingsparkle…she has a very nice voice, speaks well, and the touch of the South was music to my ears.
Here we go again…
Jeff,
I’d be interested to see your take on NBC’s intended goading of the presumptively bigoted NASCAR fanbase because they were “intrigued by the results of a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll and other articles regarding increasing anti-Muslim sentiments in the United States.” (See michellemalkin)
Your view seems to be that the media, in its efforts to portray the war as a failure and Arabs as being warranted in their ravings against civilization, is largely responsible for creating a negative popular image of Arabs and Muslims, i.e., Arabs and Muslims “increasingly” victimizing our poor under-armored children/troops, incapable of democratic self-government, socially warranted in their fundamental incapacity to control their urges to murder and plunder when faced with reasonable, if arguably offensive, satire of their religion, etc.
I wish you’d lay the case (in your inimitable way) that the media is a giant, manipulating source of division, rather than of “understanding.” More interested in manipulating Americans against the WOT and Bush than in representing Arabs as human beings deserving of human rights and freedoms, and as moral agents responsible for their dispicable behavior. Instead of seeking legitimate “healing” and the assimilation of Muslims into a tolerant American society, they are interested in sensationalizing and generalizing isolated and inevitable acts of individual incivility at sporting events to inflame Arab Americans against non-Arab Americans, to inflame blue-staters against red-staters, to inflame America’s enemies and detractors against Americans.
The media have endlessly paraded the horribles from Iraq, chastised Bush for ignoring the OBVIOUS dangers posed by letting brown UAE folks run U.S. ports, and excused and infantilized murderous Muslim culture to the point that perhaps there’s a perceptible dip in Arab popularity. Imagine!
Yet no lynchings of Arabs, no weekly or monthly mosque burnings, no newspapers even willing to offend Muslims with frickin’ cartoons. But if one drunk redneck even mouths the word “terrorist” on April 8th, NBC and al Jazeera will happily put the thing on TV as further proof that Americans are evil fuckers.
I DID bring up the McCain/Feingold! And thanks Noah for the compliment.
“Here we go again…”
Hey, advice is the most annoying form of flattery, but it beats, you know, vicious, paranoid slander.
Usually.
You’re wrong, Jeff. It’s “Oh, Christ …”
When I click on the icon, I get sent to Ace’s.
Premature babies can feel pain.
I didn’t realize that was an issue.
I’ll see the abortion lobby in hell.
I’ll bring the pineapples, NOW will grab their bovine ankles, and spread their huge, pockmarked ass cheeks. I’ll take a running start, palming my twelve-pound fruit like Ben Wallace.
BAM!!!
That’s pain in the womb for you. No sympathies for psychopathic feminists.
Sorry. Off Topic, just sobbering that there are animals that would contest the frankly obvious.
Sorry. Off Topic, just sobbering that there are animals that would contest the frankly obvious.
Not obvious at all. Until recently, and maybe even still, they used very little anesthesia, if any at atll, on premature infants for surgical procedures.
(Clears throat)
I liked the format this week a lot. Screw the guests. They’re just repeating the spiel from their columns and previous interviews. Keep taking calls from other bloggers and ask them to do exclusives for the show. You guys seem more relaxed when you’re speaking off the script anyway.
The sound could improve. But least they have ok voices. Has anyone heard the Instafamily’s podcasts?
Oh, man.
Sorry, Rightwingsparkle, I guess I missed it. There is a study out there you know that says that men don’t listen very well to women because they are using the part of their brain that normally processes music!
And I guess I anecdotally confirmed the study with my comment. And you are very welcome.
Yep, sad to say Instawife’s accent though southern is definitely not music to my ears!
*Yep, sad to say Instawife’s accent though southern is definitely not music to my ears! *
You’re gonna get Jeff instablackballed if you dont reign it in =p One thing you dont do is mess with Reynolds woman !
Well, if that is the case, I think Jeff should ban me. I can be a pain in the ass…speaking the truth to power and all that. Don’t worry… I’ve been banned elsewhere for more (or less depending on how you look at it)!
You could ban yourself and save him the work.
“Edith, Meathead…stifle”
Well, I love the instawife’s Tinnissee flavored accint. Take me home, Smoky Mountain roads.
Southern accents range from that hard-jaw Tennessee twanging to the soft round vowels of Georgia. The the flattened “o“‘s of Richmond which really get on my nerves, especially when I catch myself doing it.
“I think I’ll goo in the hewse and have a cewk.”
Shoot, left out a few words there.
Say…
If they do the show next week maybe I’ll call in . I’m scheduled for dental work and I’m sure to sound like a slobbering freak, only I’ll have an excuse.
Ace needs a vocal signature. How about “Hey Now!”?
I found myself wishing for sound effects…
Monkey noises, the “clang” from “Law and Order”, Maniacal laughter whenever John McCain’s name was mentioned… The “boop- beep” from “24” to indicate he would turn out to be be President Crybaby, only…ooooh, he’s NOT.
And Sparkle deserves a theme intro if she calls again.
Maybe something by Leslie Gore. With rainbows in it. Or Lara’s theme from Dr. Zivago. I don’t know.