by Peter Boyles | Jul 20, 2018 | Blasting with Boyles
How Writing Columns Like This Are Going To Make You Go Blind.
Call It The Denverbergers
Recently I have been dedicating this award-winning column and lots of very expensive airtime to the hidden bosses of the City of Denver and the State of Colorado. Oftentimes the same person and the same organizations.
Since we seem to be the only scribes in the Colorado media to talk about John Hickenlooper’s trip to the Bilderberg I thought it would be of interest and importance for us to list the Denverbergers. The rich and powerful that have controlled Denver and the State of Colorado for a number of years.
As I have said to my critics, “I’ll quit when I need glasses.” Oops I already wear them. OK, I hope my mom doesn’t catch me.
One prediction — sometime after the first of the year, in January 2019, John Hickenlooper will announce his hat is in the ring. He will be running for President of the U.S. to challenge Donald Trump. Don’t take this bet, you’ll lose, he’s in.
We’ve spent a lot of time talking and writing about the power elites who control the EU, foreign policy decisions, and are currently on the ropes being punched by your old Trumpites. So in Colorado the elite of business, politics, media and academia tend to, and oftentimes do, control the direction of the City and the State.
I’m mindful now that everybody bitches about traffic and overcrowding. How did this happen? How did it get this way? Well it’s fairly simple. The same people who told you not to water your lawns and not to fill your kids’ swimming pools were handing out water permits to developers, campaign contributors, butt boys and buddies. You can’t make any money on roads, can’t make any money on infrastructure unless it’s the A Train to the plane. You just settle back, hope the Broncos get in the playoffs, and leave the rest up to us.
So along with my crack staff, Chuck and Julie, we’ve put the list together of who the Denverbergers are. From the top down:
Phil Anschutz — The state’s wealthiest business owner, the true gray eminence.
Pat Stryker — One of the most powerful people in the State of Colorado you never heard of. If there were ever a member of the lucky sperm club Pat would win. To the best of my knowledge Pat never lifted a finger in any kind of a working company.
John Hickenlooper — The name speaks for itself.
Norm Brownstein and Steve Farber — What more do you need to know.
Larry Mizel — CEO and Chairman of MDC Holdings. Made the Fortune 500 list. Knows how to stay in the background and also be part of the shakers and movers.
Tim Gill — Wealthy political activist, part of the Gang of Four with Pat Stryker.
Bruce Benson — Big time oilman. You see him everywhere if you dine at the Denver Country Club.
John Malone — Liberty Media. Always manages to get one of his many minions in on any meeting whether to foist the Olympic Games or some back-door power deal.
Charlie Ergen — Also known as EchoStar.
Peter Coors — Of course, I rest my case.
Stan Kroenke — Denver based Kroenke Sports Enterprises.
Pat Hamill — CEO of Oakwood Homes and former head of Colorado Concern.
Ken Salazar — Former U.S. Senator. Oil and power broker.
Wellington Webb — Former Denver Mayor.
Jack Finlaw — Fast Jack, advisor to kings and queens.
Kelly Brough — President and CEO of Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Walter Isenberg — President and CEO Sage Hospitalities.
Dan Ritchie — President Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation.
Bill Owens/Bob Beauprez crime family — Former Governor most recently found sucking up to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock at a Ken Salazar fundraiser.
Cole Finegan — Big money bundler.
Larry Richardson — Managing partner of Bow River Capital.
Sylvia Young — President and CEO of HealthONE.
And if you notice not one of these people holds an elected office, except Hickenlooper who is term limited and on his way to the stars.
But these people, whether you know their names or not, are the reason we have an overcrowded city and highways and homeless people crapping in your alley.
And as the sun sinks slowly on Denver’s corporate media outlets you’re not going to hear anything about these people. I bet there are few, if any, reporters who even know who these people are because they’re too busy covering Trump protests and celebrity dog washes.
So, when they get together to screw you and your family a majority of these people belong to Colorado Concern, an organization devoted to lining its members’ pockets and screwing you.
It doesn’t matter whether Walker Stapleton wins and Anschutz hands out the party favors or Jared Polis wins and Tim Gill hands out the party favors. Remember you got no shot. Go Broncos.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Jun 22, 2018 | Blasting with Boyles
Conspicuous by his absence, our Governor John Hickenlooper, like Dorothy in Kansas, leaves Colorado and magically appears in Turin, Italy. He, along with 130 other invitees, attended the 2018 Bilderberg Meeting.
It goes without saying how unique this gathering is and how significant it is that our Governor had been invited. Dean Singleton, Denver’s answer to Charles Foster Kane, has long told me, “Peter, John Hickenlooper is running for the President of the United States.”
Now we have long beaten up Denver’s hard-charging corporate mainstream media. Here, wrestling fans, is another glaring example. The governor literally disappears and wasn’t even hiking the Appalachian Trail or visiting relatives in Argentina. He was tapped, as they say, to appear in a super secret meeting of the corporate crown heads, movers and shakers, financiers and overall fat cats who created the E-U, the Euro, and apparently helped pick Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, gave a run to Hillary Clinton, and as far back as we know, both of the Bushes, Jimmy Carter and almost every American president into the middle part of the ’50s with the exception of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump who were never invited to the meeting.
Our evidence is a true journalist ambush video of John Hickenlooper in the Turin airport behaving like a cat in the sandbox (see photo). He continues to say he has no comment and he has no comment and furthermore no comment. This is because when you agree to go to the Bilderberg Conference there’s a set of rules you agree to and they are called the Charthouse Rules. If you agree to go you agree not to talk — ever. My personal opinion is he’s been sheep-dipped, he’s knelt and kissed the ring. He appears in the beauty pageant without having to wear a bathing suit. He is the only obscure U.S. governor, remember Bill Clinton, to attend this year’s super secret conference.
The Bilderberg Conference was formed in 1954. They met in the Netherlands in the Bilderberg Hotel. The meeting was initially called for by evil Prince Bernard and David Rockefeller. Every note, every scrap of paper, who attended, all those notes were burned. They have followed that procedure ever since. Tight security, no one gets in and no one gets out.
So what did our very own John Boy agree to? Apparently the number one issue the Bilderbergs dealt with is the rise of populism in Europe. As you know the Hungarians, Italians, Slovakians, British, Austrians, and Germans have had enough of being overrun by illegal immigrants, control of their economies and being told they are not any nationality or ethnicity but rather they are all simply Europeans. Sound familiar? Hickenlooper is, of course, open borders advocate, citizen of the world and all around good guy, and friends with Norm of Arabia.
Even if the fellows all got together for a game of Texas Hold ’Em it would be worth mentioning in The Denver Post or by sport coat boy on Channel 9. Chuck and Julie, and I, did it on the award-winning 710 KNUS, and a little mention by Joey Bunch in Colorado Politics. I don’t know folks, as I say oftentimes, “maybe it’s just me.” But that slippery little dickens and his new missus, by the way, is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. He says in the video he paid for his own trip. What do you want to bet?
So let’s see what happens next. Can you close your eyes, put your hands over your ears, take a deep breath, and say President John Hickenlooper? Gee, I wonder who would be the Secretary of State? Jared Polis if things go to hell in the fall?
It’s clear to see, Colorado we have arrived. Keep an eye on the skies.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | May 25, 2018 | Blasting with Boyles
We’ve all watched CIA nominee Gina Haspel testify in order to become the next Director and first woman to run the CIA. Senator after senator, person after person said, “I don’t believe that torture works.” Wrong again, Kemosabe. I would urge you to go back and watch The Denver Post live stream in the middle of May with erstwhile members of the media telling us how to save The Denver Post. Put a couple of jihadis in that room. They’ll be telling you anything you want in 20 minutes.
It’s now being dubbed the “Denver newspaper rebellion.” Chuck Plunkett, former editorial page editor, is being hailed as a journalistic hero.
My first reaction was, are you jerking me around? They also went to such stalwarts as Kyle Clark, sport coat boy, who was very upset about Sinclair Broadcasting coming here. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock was also at the meeting telling them how much he needed them. That’s like Donald Trump worried the Secret Service would fold. Hancock needs the Post to cover and protect his ass. The only people who made sense were Patricia Calhoun from Westword and Dave Krieger who got his hat handed to him in Boulder for daring to speak his mind.
In the animal kingdom the lions eat the weak and sick zebras and gazelles. Frankly, The Denver Post is a weak and very sick news outlet. The blood is in the water. The piranhas come to eat. But where was The Denver Post when it came to the truth about Denver Bronco Brandon Marshall? They were MIA. How about one of their very own? Terry Frei had his throat cut by the politically correct. Like the sick zebra, they all ran away to join the herd and let Terry be consumed by the big cat.
These people should have done their job exposing Michael Hancock instead of journalist hero F. Chuck Plunkett’s editorial saying let’s give this guy another year. They should have simply told the truth about the relationships between the Brownstein law firm, chief of police, the escorts themselves and Channel 9. And as they say at the sideshow that I was once accused of being a carnival barker for, come on inside there’s a lot more to see.
The tragedy with The Denver Post, followed by a lot of media outlets in this city, is they cannot continue to support themselves. The economic model is called shrink to profit; also, apparently known as, buy a lot of property in Miami with the money. As a boy I delivered papers for the Pittsburgh Press and I loved newspapers. I still do. Many people have approached me and the owner of this newspaper, Chuck Bonniwell, asking why don’t you guys take over and run The Denver Post? I don’t think the Post could become a brutally honest hard charging newspaper.
They’re circling the porcelain convenience and when the last man turns out the lights they only have themselves to blame. It’s a sad legacy. They had the opportunities 10 years ago to look at the truth about: the train to the plane; who was getting Colorado water permits; how the money eased in and out of the political systems; who the law firms were, and, which media outlets climbed into bed with the power. It had nothing to do with buying escorts, male prostitutes and who was cheating on their wives.
Now that we have legalized gambling, what is the overall bet on the overs and unders on how long The Denver Post will last? I give it 6 to 5 you won’t see it two years from now. I’m sure going to miss Crankshaft and that’s about it.
Hasta la vista, Dean.
by Peter Boyles | Apr 27, 2018 | Blasting with Boyles
This just in… name that “gate.”
As everyone over the age of 40 knows, anytime there’s a scandal in America the last name of the scandal becomes “gate,” predicated on Watergate, an apartment office complex in Washington, D.C., that gets its name from one of the gates of the city of Jerusalem, the Water Gate. And after the demise of Richard Nixon, and the rise of an aggressive media, every scandal has the suffix — gate. Koreagate. Russiagate. Etc.
Do you get the picture?
So, sitting in a smoke-filled boardroom of the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle, I am stumped. I need you to name that gate. (We’re talking about the alleged sex and sex harassment scandal and cover-up involving Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.) If it’s good enough and you submit it to me, peterboyles@710knus.com, you can win an all expense trip to the morning show and I’ll let you read the weather. Or better yet if you don’t want to get up in the morning you can have a cup of coffee with Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden during their show weekday afternoons from 1-4pm.
What do we know so far? All I’ve got are questions. Questions about the Denver media, the actions of a man I once had high regard for, Denver Chief of Police Gerry Whitman, the role the Brownstein law firm played in this entire scandal, who the players are and who the sugar is.
So just like Watergate, seemingly also Donald Trump and his porno one-night stand, it’s never the act. The Watergate scandal wasn’t really the break-in, it was the lies. In Oliver Stone’s movie on Nixon, in the end a sweaty actor said it’s always the lies.
And here we have a series of lies first told by Michael Hancock, then The Denver Post, then Channel 9 and then everyone seems to fall in lockstep.
With the exception of a handful of us media outcasts who are much like the little boy in the story the Emperor’s New Clothes, who is outside the gates pointing at the king and saying the king is in his altogether and naked as the day is born. Whereas if you are really smart and bright and black tie wearing, white wine drinking, runny cheese eating media butt boy you saw nothing wrong with the actions of Michael Hancock and other media outlets. Well guess what suckers, the chickens have come home to roost.
With other media outlets circling the porcelain convenience, The Denver Post editorializing how you can help them — hells bells. The Denver Post is supposed to help you understand these scandals — not you help them make their payroll. Somewhere William Randolph Hearst is crying.
The power brokers, the fat cats, the country club boys, members of Denver’s erstwhile press club, the winky winky buddies who go to press conventions and hear John Hickenlooper tell them how great a job they do — press people you should not be applauding him you should be investigating him. But then again let’s all help fluffy the dog find a forever home and let me tell you how much I love your Denver Broncos.
Elvis Presley is alleged to have told his mother, “There’s a storm coming,” the first time he heard himself singing on the radio. I say this with great pride. Pay attention Denver Post, Channel 9, a lot of people with microphones and laptops in front of them, to the Denver City Council members who cowardly turned a blind eye, to the Denver Police Department (huge questions behind its management) to developers and banks to bond daddies and corporate fund raisers and lobbyists and Chamber of Commerce members — believe me when I tell you this, as Elvis said to Gladys in Tupelo — “There is a storm coming!” Get ready. You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dawg.
by Peter Boyles | Mar 23, 2018 | Blasting with Boyles
The best example that I can show anyone for my beliefs that Denver, Colorado, has been run by a cabal of bankers and developers, media elites, law firms and power brokers, is best illustrated by the story being covered by this newspaper, my colleagues Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden, Steffan Tubbs, Westword’s Michael Roberts, Craig Silverman and, of course, Channel 7’s Tony Kovaleski. The aforementioned cabal is a long list that includes bankers, newsmen, corporate leaders, political spokesmen, religious leaders who have all been as I call it “in the hat” and “on the take.” They are actually controlling the narrative itself since the arrival of Mayor Federico Peña and Governor Roy Romer.
Because I am, as I have long been, accused of being a pseudo intellectual, I harken back to one of the all time important books about this called The Critical Path, written by Buckminster Fuller. What the Buckster is saying is we have long been controlled by invisible power behind the thrones of kings, prime ministers, czars, presidents and other official “head men.” As well as the underlying causes of control, whether it’s a nation, state, a city, or a corporation. Bingo Buckey. While seemingly the rest of the media plays a cover up game, the above mentioned wave the bloody shirt.
I guess I would call my true idol, when it comes to understanding the media, is the father of us all, Thomas Jefferson. (TJ the DJ — disc jockey to the world.) Jefferson talked about a notion that only when truth can compete in a free market of ideas, truth will prevail. There is no marketplace in Denver. So let’s create one.
What has happened, what have we all witnessed in this eight years of Michael Hancock? An explosion of developers, fat cat bankers, butt boys and water cops. I ask you the Watergate-esque question, what did the power brokers know and when did they know it? I was told by my secret friend, “Peter you broke the code.”
In the beginning, this had nothing to do with a young African-American councilman going to visit the escorts. This had to do with the invisible czars seeing the ladies of the evening, i.e. Misty Dawn, Kitty, Amber, Daphne, Bailey and Autumn. For you guys reading this right now you all remember them. This is a case of the power brokers covering for themselves and owning a replacement mayor. They knew. My secret friend told me that in locker rooms and toney country clubs, athletic clubs, boardrooms and law firms, “Peter they’re all talking about you guys.”
As we go to press, I really can’t tell you what will happen next. Former Police Chief Gerry Whitman must come forward and explain to the public, did he hand over to the Brownstein law firm requested information pertaining to the surveillance of Scotty Ewing brothels, at that time owned by Brenda Stewart? What did Whitman know and when did he know it? Audiotapes that we secured from Scottie Ewing (he taped everybody when they talked to him, including me) allude to the fact that a couple of powerful members of the Denver media had more than a running access to the truth of what was taking place. Much like Nixon’s 18-1/2 minutes of missing tape all of that evidence is missing. We are led to believe it never made it to the police property room. And if you wanted to speak to the mayor-elect the Brownstein law firm was acting as his press secretary and apparently a lot of people breathed a sigh of relief when, in essence, a press shield was thrown up.
This could be a turning point in how the city operates or it could be another bag over the head, punch in the stomach and the Mayor stays on the job.
Stay tuned to KNUS. Keep an eye on Mike Roberts at Westword and hope Tony Kovaleski throws another knockout punch.
Believe me when I tell you, God doesn’t roll the dice.
The Critical Path author Buckminster Fuller
