People believe the three easiest things in the world to do are grow a garden, tend bar and do a radio show. From experience at least two of them are very difficult. I never tried to grow a garden.
As a country we have come through one of the most amazing three month long periods in my lifetime as a radio talk show host, disc jockey/traffic reporter, major TV star.
Our business, the one I love so much, talk radio is about to go through the same thing that happened to Top 40 Radio in the late 1950s during what was dubbed “The Scandals.” It focused on payola, also known as pay-to-play. My mentors in this business were all what we now know as “radio guys.” They made their bones as young, almost teenagers playing top 40 radio, reading the news, doing all nights, working Christmas mornings and being in love with the business.
Talk radio’s advent begins principally with the king of talk, Rush Limbaugh. What always made Rush so incredibly successful is he is a radio guy. He jocked on the air as a guy named Jeff Christie. And notice, if you would, in all these threatened and moving along lawsuits and damage that’s being done Limbaugh’s name never comes up. He knows the line. Rush Limbaugh, with my great respect, is a radio guy.
Now we begin an era of oh, you used to be…. And now you can be a talk show host. Most of these on-airs have alternative ways to make money, alternative careers and income streams. My income comes from doing radio. When we went through the payola scandals in the ’50s lives were ruined, careers were wrecked. We’re heading into it again.
The Democrats will now control the House, the Senate, the Executive Branch. There will be a new Department of Justice and the evil empire, the Federal Communications Commission.
These people have been gunning for talk radio since Limbaugh dismantled the Clinton Administration, parody music, being syndicated clearly planted the ball in deep center field with a home run for radio.
That’s about to come to an end. We have been through this before and tragically we will go through it again. And it literally breaks my heart on this end of my illustrious career. Old five-and-dimers like me always knew the line and now I hear across the country the clarion call — bring it, as though they want to be sued. I’ve been sued three times including one time where I was told when it came back to Jefferson County and the Ramsey story, to pack a bag. All of you who have never been through it across the country, who smile and say bring it, get ready because they are going to do it. Fox News is running backwards, Newsmax is running backwards. People are shutting people off of the air now. The mask has been pulled off Sydney Powell, Lin Wood and America’s Mayor Rudy.
We’ll be damaged by this. There are already many Democrats in Congress who want more control over what we do. The First Amendment and the Second Amendment are in play. To paraphrase what Lenin once said, they will sell us the rope and hang us with it. Well, a lot of talk radio sold a lot of rope. We have been through Father Coughlin. We’ve been through Alan Freed. We’ve been through Alan Berg and now we sit here.
I don’t pretend to know the future but I sure as hell can read the past. I would never silence anybody’s voice but unless you’re a total stooge, the First Amendment has its limits. You can’t pull people into the public spotlight and then tell lies about them and then destroy their companies and force them into hiding. You can’t use the public airwaves to do those things without consequences. This is a statement of my fear of what’s going to happen to a business that’s been so wonderful to me. And to my family and to so many other people, a bunch of rookies are going to wreck it. There was a Cromwellian cry in Parliament and the voice s said, “In the name of God, just go.”
P.S. I hope I’m 100% wrong about everything I wrote in this column today. Thanks for reading.
In an attempt to understand the frightening aspects of political correctness we have to get above room temperature IQ. You have to move up to 10,000 feet and then look straight down. This movement gets scarier and scarier as the frightening politically correct continues to remove the best of western civilization. As unbelievable as it may sound the British Library has axed George Orwell, Lord Byron and Ted Hughes. What are their politically correct crimes? Hard to believe but links to slavery. How do they do that? Listen to these quantum leaps of faith.
For Orwell, his great-grandfather owned slaves in the Caribbean. (It is exactly the same as Kamala Harris, and isn’t it interesting no one wants to ban President-To-Be Harris?) The biographers say Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair, the son of a sub-deputy opium agent in British India; at his birth the great-grandfather’s fortune was long gone. Nevertheless….
Ted Hughes, the poet born in 1930, was added because his ancestor Nicholas Ferrar, born in 1592, was involved with the first British colony in North America. You can see what that did to native people.
Next, Lord Byron. Similar to Orwell his works are being destroyed because of a slave owning great-grandfather, as well as a slave owning uncle by marriage. Oscar Wilde may be coming on the list. This is woke ideology. This is part of the British Black Lives Matter movement that claims racism is a creation of white people and any connection to racism you’ll immediately have crossed the politically correct line.
I’m frightened as you should be as well. But turning our attention away from the UK how about this list of books currently banned by school boards in different parts of our country. They begin with The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. We’ve been over this before.
I was surprised to learn the number two literary classic that’s been banned is Call Of The Wild, written by Jack London. Do they forget that London ran twice as the socialist party candidate for mayor of Oakland? Missed that one didn’t you guys.
Another one of my all-time favorite books, Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer prize-winning novel, was banned by the library board in East St. Louis, as objectionable language was not fit for anyone’s daughter to read.
Here’s one for you, James Joyce’s Ulysses. As if anyone could ever understand it. By the way, the Nazis burned Hemingway’s 1929 novel, A Farewell To Arms too, in 1933. One of the highlights of my illustrious career was getting to meet Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse Five was clicked.
Here’s another, wrestling fans, The Catcher In The Rye. Because of blasphemy and sexual references. I loved that book.
How about Walt Whitman’s Leaves Of Grass? Can’t be because he’s gay, of course not. And one of my true favorites, the Harry Potter series. JK Rowling’s series. Gee, she’s made some interesting remarks lately, hasn’t she?
I don’t mean to be tongue-in-cheek, I mean to be sounding the alarm. Think of how many wonderful hours you spent reading these books. And the biggest slap in the face is Orwell, who wrote extensively about banning books, himself now banned.
Cory Gardner — Rumor has it, this is straight out of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, this sock puppet is thinking about running for governor. For God’s sake, stop now.
Ken Buck — As they said in the Marlon Brando classic, On The Waterfront, a one way ticket to Palookaville, for being the only state in the country that the blue wave actually hit. Good job State GOP.
Lauren Boebert — Who has emerged as the face of the real Republican Party. Went up to Mount Rushmore, met Donald Trump, showed up at a fundraiser I went to this summer packing a gun. You go, girl. In my world you are the face of the Colorado Republican Party. But they will cut her throat just like they did Tom Tancredo’s.
Jared Polis — What do you give a man who has everything and has a lock on a second term if those GOP idiots really do run Cory Gardner. Let’s find another Coors brother, Walker Stapleton, Bob Beauprez, Bruce Benson, or some other stooge that would never be seen wearing a Trump hat. Good luck.
Michael Bennet — Will he and John be roomies? Hope you’re not challenged by Lauren Boebert. But see what we’ve said about the Republican Party. Don’t worry dude, you’re safe.
John Hickenlooper — Thank his lucky stars that hard hitting Cory Gardner never put up any resistance to defeat the weak sister of the Democrat Party himself. Dude, you caught a break. Welcome to the U.S. Senate.
Tay Anderson — How in the world do you think all of the antics that you’ve pulled in the streets of Denver have anything to do with educating the children and grandchildren of Denver? The spotlight is not the place for an educator, but I repeat myself.
Kyle Clark — Are you and the missus going to be cooking the Christmas goose for the armed security guards who protect you from the dumpster burning, dangerous Trump supporters? Man, that’s laughable.
Susan Cordova — the just resigned Superintendent of Denver Public Schools. One-way ticket to Dallas. Have a nice day.
Colorado Republican Party in general — In the words of Joseph Welch to Joe McCarthy during the McCarthy hearings, “At long last, have you no shame?” What this Party needs is a major infusion of testosterone, growth hormone and gunpowder.
Patrick Neville — One of the hopes of the Colorado Republican Party. But don’t worry folks they will shipwreck him as soon as they can.
Ted Trimpa — Aka the Sword of Soros. Great year, my friend. Thank you, all the best.
Your Denver Broncos — The team that continues to buy Harvey Steinberg new cars.
John Bandimere — A great man who had a very hard year. He deserves our Merry Christmas.
Your Local Health Departments — It is amazing how we place tremendous power in the hands of so few and in the words of Winston Churchill, never have so many been screwed by so few.
Candi CdeBaca — Is she Denver’s future? Does Denver have a future? And truly how can it be worse than Michael Hancock?
Michael Hancock — Now that you’ve screwed up the mayor’s job for everyone else… Congratulations.
CDOT – RTD Combo — Seriously how do you screw up everything you touch?
Mayor of Glendale, Mike Dunafon — Job well done. Ever think about running for governor?
Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen — That junior G-man kit. The gift of the truth that someday you’ll tell people where you were hiding the day Antifa thugs beat people up in Civic Center Park. Shame, shame, we know your name.
Brother Jeff — For years and years of appearing on the radio station with me and pissing off the Mile High City, you da man.
Beth McCann — For you and the mister, a can of fire starter. Let’s see if this guy ever does a day.
Journalism is a contact sport. Especially if you remain in lock step with those who have gone before. Over the course of history brave journalists have proven it’s possible to get to the bottom if your intentions are good and strong. Remember Walter Cronkite on the beach in Normandy. Eric Sevareid parachuting into Burma. John Howard Griffin who wanted to know what it was like to be black and took certain drugs to become black and went south and became “Black Like Me.” Dan Rather standing against Nixon in Texas. All of those moments are great journalism. Kind of reminds you of Kyle Clark, doesn’t it? And the entire Channel 9 news staff. Brave men and women all.
In the aftermath of Channel 9’s crew who hired a security guard who wasn’t a security guard, who shot a patriot between the eyes, Kyle Clark, man child in journalism land, took down every one of his tweets that he had made attacking the Colorado conservative scene. According to Colorado Peak Politics, Kyle Clark has deleted a series of tweets in which he mocked the idea that Denver has become increasingly dangerous even as his station is hiring armed security for its reporters. I’m told he now has full-time armed security, 24-7. In the words of Joe Biden, “Come on, man.” Kyle, dude, man up. According to Red State, Clark is described by some Antifa accounts as “one of us” and therefore did not need security because Antifa would protect him.
So that’s why, to seal up any problems covering the murder case they brought in a reporter from WFAA their sister station. Meaning the same dudes that pay Kyle Clark are paying the other reporter.
As we go to press the alleged agitator Jeremiah Elliott not only is appearing on Channel 9 in a hard hitting interview that begins with “How are you, man?” and Channel 4 that can’t quite ask him if he knew 9News producer Zach Newman or if he knew the murderer Matthew Dolloff. That’s the kind of stuff that would make Bob Woodward proud.
As you read this they have still not interviewed one of their own, the producer Zach Newman. Is it fair to ask did they all know one another? Were they, as other people have said, huddled up in a team? How about that moment when the body is not cold yet when Denver Police Division Chief Montoya immediately tells the press Antifa was not involved? How did they know to say that? And to his left is Chief Paul Pazen with a mask on.
All one had to do was a slight dive into the internet to turn all of these people up. In fact, Dolloff has the Antifa tattoo on his wrist. And Antifa wasn’t involved? Well, we now know Elliott has been involved in numerous Antifa riots acting as a street commander. Who told Montoya to say that to the press?
This Elliott character is a street general, he was very instrumental in the Aurora Police Department violent attacks during the summer. Also, there’s the video of him running from the scene screaming “one less white supremacist” and “in the f-ing ing dome.” Elliottt grabbed his cammo vest and bolted from the scene.
Where is the investigative media? At 710KNUS, the Chuck and Julie podcast at chuckandjulie.com, and here at the Chronicle. And folks that’s about it. Was the media, The Denver Post and Channel 9, shadowing Jeremiah Elliott to get the money shot? He’s a provocateur. Were they waiting for him to give them what they wanted?
On the two interviews he appears in he uses the possessive “our” when talking about Channel 9. Was that a Freudian slip or was he telling the truth? When Channel 9’s hard hitting reporter asked why was he wearing the black guns matter shirt he said it was just in his closet and he was just walking around downtown at the time. In Channel 4’s interview at least, and I use this word loosely, he has the decency to say no comment.
I’ll leave you with two questions. Was Elliott working in any capacity with Channel 9? Was he friendly with the accused murderer Matthew Dolloff?
Ellliott has a history of anti-cop protests. Tig Tiegen who put the Muster together believes they were all in lock step. What if Matthew Dolloff rolls over and tries to make a deal to save time in the penitentiary? Channel 9 has huge problems. Pinkerton has big problems and what was Dolloff doing working at Channel 7 a few days before he shot and killed Lee Keltner? This sucker is like Lee Harvey Oswald. He appears all over the place.
I don’t have any answers, just a hell of a lot of questions, and the Front Range media, with a few exceptions, is disgusting and despicable.
You don’t have to worry about Trump supporters burning dumpsters in front of your house. That is done by people the media like. And now, as Malcom X said, the chickens have come home to roost.
The one ring. The most powerful ring created in Middle Earth was crafted by the Dark Lord, Sauron, in the fire that’s also known as Mount Doom. It was created to exercise control over all of the other rings of power. Sauron hoped to gain lordship over the elves and all the races in Middle Earth.
Now I’ve wondered this. There were 19 total rings. Three rings went to elves. Seven went to dwarfs. Nine rings went to men. So now, under the Dark Lord Polis who do you think has those rings? As a dwarf it’s clear Kyle Clark has at least one of them. I think the Dark Lord gave The Denver Post a ring. Tay Anderson has a ring. Clearly Councilwoman CdeBaca has a ring. Norm Brownstein has a ring. It looks like Brittany Bowlen is about to get a ring. Leroy Garcia has a ring. Ian Silverii and Brittany Pettersen have to share a ring because they’re married. John Hickenlooper, one of the enlightened dwarfs, will probably get his ring back in November. Don’t kid yourself, Cory Gardner is not an elf. The traitor Republican turned Biden supporter Ryan Call has a ring. Ted Trimpa has a ring. As the King of men, Phil Anschutz has a ring.
I know you’re all thinking, who is the Gollum? It’s Michael Hancock. He had a ring but he lost it.
Remember, Gollum was once a hobbit, which leads us to hobbits. If you are a true Tolkien fan, you remember when Frodo and Sam get back from the great adventure the Shire has turned into a homeless camp. Unlike the movie, in the book at the end the Shire looks like the State Capitol in August.
If you’re out there searching for a good wizard as in The Return of the King I don’t think Colorado has one. You and I spend our time looking for Gandalf and we keep coming back with the one ring that can control them all. So using his ring of power, Polis now rules high school football can begin again. Your Denver Broncos can play again but John Bandimere has to stay shut down. Certain restaurants can open, certain cafes must close. So the Dark Lord picks who wins, who loses. Businesses that open and businesses that need to go. The Dark Lord is never indecisive, his leadership is all bold. As it gets colder now how will dwarves and elves be able to eat outside without the blessing of the Dark Lord?
And remember, one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them. One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. The State Capitol. The ring can’t be tossed away or forgotten about. It always returns.
People believe the three easiest things in the world to do are grow a garden, tend bar and do a radio show. From experience at least two of them are very difficult. I never tried to grow a garden.
