The Workermonkey

Thursday, April 01, 2004

i think its thursday 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 4/01/2004 12:28:00 PM

ok, i'll settle the fantasy baseball stuff at some point, but i'm still learning it too.

this is insane, one step closer to outlawing abortions. the reason the bill took so long to get through to the president is because the republicans were waiting until they had a resident crazy enough to sign it. all they have to do now is say that a woman is attacking a fetus or that she is a terrorist and it'll prevent abortions. i see this as a massive loophole for these religious nuts.

anyone seeing south park lastnight should have throughly enjoyed the hitler connection.

Stern pulled a good one on everybody this morning, pretending to go off the air. a bunch of news stations reported it as breaking news that he was removed from the air waves for being indecient. now they all have to retract the one piece of news they've been waiting to hear for so long. I saw an interview lastnight on MSNBC with Al Franken and a couple of republicans, i've been kind of skeptic about how Howard Stern talks about how people are always out to get him, until i saw how this Al Franken interview turned into a defense of howard. The lady asking the questions started talking about how stern is so bad and one of the conservitive republican guests swore up one side and down the other about how he was corrupting our children and so on. it was amazing that people could turn a show like that into a personal attack on some one who isn't there. the more i listen to stern the more credibility i have to give him, i'm starting to see how what he t alks about is affecting the rest of the media. Al franken was taken off guard by all of this and just let those idiots rant and rave until they shut up. there really is no talking to the religious conservitives. i'm hoping the "Air America" network is going to come to CT, maybe i can get the broadcast out of NY. i'd rather not label myself as liberal but i do seem to share most of the same views.

Heres an ecaxt transcript from the show, not quite how i remembered it, but i had been drinking:

NORVILLE: But what about the bigger issue, Mr. Liddy?

LIDDY: What about—what is the bigger issue? OK, O‘Reilly is embarrassment to my side. I‘m sorry. What can I say?

(LAUGHTER)

LIDDY: But bear in mind that while he does tremendously well on television, Matt Drudge has published numbers in radio, and he just doesn‘t do well in radio.

FRANKEN: He doesn‘t.

LIDDY: And that is just the way it is.

But the point of all this is, Howard Stern, because he is very intelligent and very bright, could change his format tomorrow and succeed. If you choose to do that, well, OK. If you live by the sword, you die by the sword. But if you don‘t have to do that. And Al Franken is so talented that he wouldn‘t have to do that, and I have never heard him resort to that sort of thing at all.

NORVILLE: Michael, one of the things about radio, it‘s not like you can just pitch a tent and expect people to come. Just because Air America has had this incredible publicity push, and I have never seen anything like it, that doesn‘t necessarily mean the audience is going to follow. What‘s the secret?

HARRISON: The secret is to sustain that audience, to evolve and to be able to do it minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year to build a sizable audience.

Unlike television or movies or even books, radio success comes over a
long period of time. And I think the biggest challenge facing Al Franken
is to be able to enjoy going into that room six months from now for three
hours talking into the microphone and still feeling fresh and invigorated
by the process.

FRANKEN: Today, after—we did the first show on the network today.

I got out of the studio. They cracked champagne and I said, OK, we got to prepare for tomorrow. We have Hillary Clinton tomorrow.

NORVILLE: Right.

FRANKEN: And the way I feel like, this is my job. And I enjoyed it today. I enjoyed talking to Bob Kerrey, who was—it was an actual like newsmaker interview. I enjoyed the comedy that we did. I‘m going—after I do the show, I‘m going back and writing.

NORVILLE: And you‘ll be working for tomorrow‘s show.

FRANKEN: Absolutely.

NORVILLE: You have got a Republican administration in right now.

There‘s an election in November.

FRANKEN: Yes. Yes.

NORVILLE: You‘ve got a great target that‘s easy for you to aim at.

FRANKEN: Absolutely.

NORVILLE: Come November, if there were a change in the administration, what does that do to the message, the mantra, the venom that will occasionally be spilled on your airwaves?

FRANKEN: Well, from your lips to God‘s ears. Believe me, we are still going to have Tom DeLay, we are still going to have a Republican Congress, probably, and we are still going to have the Rush Limbaughs of the world. And they‘ll be saying...

NORVILLE: Because Limbaugh has remained successful even though his people are in Washington right now.

FRANKEN: Yes. And so you always have the other side to talk about, and you have your own side to talk about. If President Kerry isn‘t doing what we want, we will be talking about that. But mainly...

NORVILLE: One of the things that gets me, and, Mr. Liddy, I would love to hear your comments on this, too, is this notion that there‘s a line, there‘s a line down the middle, and you are either on this side or that side and you are either for us or against us. I don‘t think I come from that land, and I think I speak with a lot of people in saying, I agree with some of what Al says, I agree with some of what you says.

Yet there seems to be no place for those of us who find ourselves in the middle.

LIDDY: Well, if it‘s OK for me to speak on this, we have people calling in constantly who are on my side of the fence, and they are—the Democratic base is united. The Republican base is not. And it‘s because of the business of the greatest increase in entitlements since Lyndon Johnson came from a Republican president. It‘s because of the business of the illegal aliens, the possibility of amnesty and everything.

These things and saying that he would sign if it came to him the extension of the gun ban, those things alienate the people on my side of the fence. And they call in and we talk about it. And I am quite sure that if people on Al‘s side of the fence call in offended because of something that some of their people in government do, he will air it and discuss it.

FRANKEN: I think that the people are calling in, the Republicans that are disillusioned with Bush, should probably stay home.

NORVILLE: Well, we are going to let that be the last word.

The great thing is, there‘s lots of voices out there. There are lots of channels on the selector. And if you punch enough buttons, you will find something that you are going to agree with.

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