6.30.15 Hero of the Day: Barack Obama

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ANOTHER VERY SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!

Name: Barack Obama
Age: 53
Occupation: president of the United States
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Awarded For: being a president for the people

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Last week was a pretty good week for the 44th president of the United States.

The Supreme Court once again upheld Obamacare and made gay marriage legal in all 50 states and he helped to begin the rebuilding process in the south after a lone gunman cut down nine innocent black people at a church in South Carolina. It's proof that even though I've had my issues personally with Barack Obama, at least we as a nation should be proud that at least we don't have a Republican in office.

True, Obama slurred some of the words to "Amazing Grace", he still helped to heal the people of Columbia whose beloved Mother Emmanuel by giving a rousing eulogy to Clementa Pinckney, a personal family friend of his. When I saw him singing on live TV, to me, it was him pointing to all those for years who've labeled him a Muslim and spoke lies about him. In all reality, he's a true Christian and down to Earth. I feel that most people who talk smack about him simply do so because he's a black president who cares about the middle class and not the 1%.

In his six years in office, over seven million jobs have been created, the costly wars created by Dubya have ended, gay marriage is now totally legal and Americans have better health insurance. True, we've got a ways to go, at least if we compare ourselves to Canada where healthcare is 100% free, gay marriage has been legal for over a decade and there's gun control that has kept the country's crime rate low.

All I can say is that I hope the next president of the USA can be just as good or even better. With the disaster Bush and other Repukes have left us, we need to keep voting Democrat to keep this country in perfect running order. Obama has two more years and I hope he can keep up the course to improve this nation as a whole.

Remember when convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza made that anti-Obama movie claiming that we'd be in an apocalypse in 2016? Well, it's not looking that way now, is it?  
 
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6.29.15 Hero of the Day: Dave Barber

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A VERY SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!

Name: Dave Barber
Age: 60
Occupation: former talk radio host
Last Seen: Pontiac, MI
Awarded For: being a fighter

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For years, Dave Barber spoke for the people of Flint, MI, and at one time, the whole state.

Now, we're praying for his survival.

The former talk radio host, who spent his recent years in Providence, RI hosting and programming the state's version of C-SPAN is at the St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital in Pontiac after suffering a stroke and heart attack Thursday night while having dinner with family. Barber was back in Michigan to attend a friend's wedding. The news broke Friday night and his family and friends have asked for prayers and support for the Michigan radio legend, who is now in a medically-induced coma and as of Sunday night still in critical condition.

Barber is known for his take-no-prisoners approach to talk radio, but he wasn't always that way. He made his radio debut in 1972 at WTRX 1330, then a top 40 station. He was also notorious for having a naked woman in his studio in the 1970s on his program, long before the days of Howard Stern. Of course, WTRX wasn't fined by the FCC, mainly because, well, radio is incapable of carrying nudity as-is.

Dave worked at several other stations in the Flint area for years, talking to listeners, celebrities and politicians alike. He even interviewed Michael Moore years before he filmed Roger and Me. He was fired from the now-defunct WFDF-910 (now a Detroit area station with a religious format) for alleged sexual harassment. But, he got back on his feet in 2001 with the launch of the Michigan Talk Radio Network. His program was now heard throughout the state, giving people a taste of the no-holds-barred personality he presented. I was an early fan of the show, often calling in, even if my opinions sucked. I learned a lot from Dave about being a good caller and having the right opinion. I wrote a letter to him and had the name of my website on the bottom of the page. Shockingly enough, he loved it! He even invited me to his "breakfast nook" when I was in his area. I had the pleasure of meeting him twice and he was pretty cool both times.

Sadly, Dave left MTRN over a money dispute. He worked in Flint radio once more at 1570 AM before heading out to Providence, first at WPRO 930 and then Capitol TV. But, we still occasionally talked on Facebook. A few weeks ago, I shared with him an article about his favorite singer, Frank Sinatra's home studio. He thanked me, but he had been there himself! Yes, he's that big into 'Ol Blue Eyes.

When I got news that Dave was in the hospital with his stroke and heart attack, I was floored. It sucks when there was a sane voice in the world of talk radio and it's taken from us, at least for now. It'll take time before we know the severity of Dave's illness, but I hope and pray for his survival.

Pray 'em if you got 'em.
 
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6.16.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Rush Limbaugh

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Name: Rush Limbaugh
Age: 64
Occupation: big, fat dildo
Last Seen: West Palm Beach, FL
Bee-otched For: gaining another throwaway talk station

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This is a very bad time for the pill-popping, prostitute-fucking, fat asshole.

Recently, two radio stations cut their ties with his ailing radio show: WIBC Indianapolis and WRKO Boston due to the inability to re-sign with the show. So, what does Rush's parent, iHeartRadio (formerly Clear Channel) do? Well, in Indy, they announced that he'll be now on "97.5", which is really a translator station for their low-rated sports station, WNDE 1260.

Now, Blimpo's show has been saved in Beantown as iHM will put him alongside Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity on a new talk station simply called "Talk 1430" WKOX. The station will replace Spanish CHR "Mia", which has been near the bottom of the ratings.

WKOX is 5,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts nighttime and does have a decent signal in Boston metro. But, it's still a massive downgrade from the 50,000 watts full-time WRKO broadcasts with. Even Rush's other former Boston affiliate, WXKS 1200 (the former "Rush Radio") also pumps out 50KW full-time, albeit directional.

To me, WKOX is simply Boston's version of our WTKG 1230 here in Grand Rapids: throwaway talk stations that iHM uses to prove to advertisers that X show is carried in big markets. However, they're probably happy that Rush is safe here in GR since he's on both WOOD-AM 1300 and 106.9. I looked at Nielsen and the biggest radio market where he's still on a top 10 station is Atlanta (WSB 750), which is market 9. Second place is Salt Lake City, market 29 where KNRS is 6th place.

Look, talk radio is DEAD. Its audience is too old and too conservative and if a company $20 billion in debt like iHM is crazy enough to re-sign Rush to another $50 million per year contract, they're ape-shit crazy. They should simply force Rush to retire and focus on creating formats that people will ACTUALLY listen to. If they have listeners, they'll have advertisers, and if they have advertisers, they can sink that $20 billion debt that's been killing them.

So Rush, who's the slut now?
 
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6.15.15 Bee-otch of the Day: WOOD-TV

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Name: WOOD-TV
Age: 66
Occupation: NBC affiliate
Last Seen: Grand Rapids, MI
Bee-otched For: kissing the wealthy's ass

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Brett Thomas must be proud to be leaving WOOD-TV 8 after 17 years.

He's heading to Fort Wayne CBS affiliate WANE-TV 15 to anchor the station's evening newscasts (both WANE AND WOOD-TV are co-owned by Media General). He no longer has to wake up early to sit through working for two-and-a-half straight hours with two cackling yentas (Emily Linnert and Terri the Whor-er, DeBoer), plus several hours more doing Today Show cut-ins.

But on Thursday, he had to brave through the dark because WOOD-TV's Daybreak took place at the Frederik Meijer Gardens to help introduce their new Japanese Garden.

Excuse me, the (ahem) Richard and Helen DeVos Japanese Garden.

Yep! Last Thursday's Daybreak was brought to you by the cool and groovy folks at Amway! The company that pretends that they own West Michigan and the peoples' souls. It sickens me knowing that a company that labels themselves "Christian" and yet they do everything from outsource jobs to China to lie about Proctor and Gamble's "Satanic" logo to being instrumental regarding Michigan's Right to Work laws will force the West Michigan media to kiss their white Dutch asses. I was so pissed that I was thisclose to changing the channel. Problem is, 1) WWMT-3 is owned by Sinclair, which kissed Bush's ass by barring all their ABC affiliates to not show the infamous Nightline episode that featured all of the soldiers that died in Iraq, 2) WXMI Fox 17 gets a lot of its content from (where else?) Fox News and 3) WZZM-13, well, sucks.

What's sad is that during his little anti-gay tirade last week, Brian Klawiter was nice enough to call the local Grand Rapids media too liberal. And yet, the only media company in GR that supports Democrats over Republicans is WZZM owner Gannett.

And yes, WZZM, like I said, sucks. Juliet Dragos scares me.

Let's not forget that Terri DeBoer and her wealthy husband hosted an expensive gala for the DeVoses in 2006 when Dick was running for governor.

You know, it breaks my heart knowing that I want to move to Detroit because most of my family's there and I'm tired of the DeVoses controlling shit here. At least the media in the Motor City is better; WDIV-4 would definitely be my go-to station since their owners (Graham Media) do mostly support Democrats (sadly, the rest of the major stations in town are another story). I'd rather hear about how the Ilitches are revitalizing Detroit vs. Dick DeVos making another bowel movement.

Once again, Grand Rapids has lost me.
 
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6.11.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Brian Klawiter

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Name: Brian Klawiter
Age: 35
Occupation: owner, Dieseltec
Last Seen: Jenison, MI
Bee-otched For: promoting his "Christian" beliefs

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Tonight, the city of Jenison - a Grand Rapids suburb - will be divided.

As we reported a few months ago, Brian Klawiter, the owner of Dieseltec, which repairs diesel vehicles made headlines when he posted on Facebook that he would never fix a vehicle owned by a gay person. It's his response to the anti-gay legislature passed by the state of Indiana earlier last year. Since then, Klawiter and his shop have been the subject of death threats, vandalism and so much more. He again took to Facebook asking for forgiveness, especially since he claimed to be abandoned as a kid.

Now, he's pulling a Charlie Sheen by talking about his rhetoric at the Jenison Center for the Arts tonight at 6 p.m. Many in the community are infuriated that Klawiter would use a public venue to promote his hate speech. But, the JCA cannot stop the event since it's taxpayer supported and banning it would violate Klawiter's First Amendment rights.

The event, BTW is called "West Michigan God and Country". Oh, brother....

Meanwhile, there will be a peaceful protest outside the JCA during the event, organized by Jenison4love, headed by Juliea Page. "We just want to make sure there are people here that are not associated with that," she told WOOD-TV. "We wanted to send a clear message to this community that not everyone agrees with this man."

You know, it's amazing that for centuries, people have used the Bible to attack others they view as "un-Christian". They attack blacks because slavery was legal and civil rights were not. Now, gays are the Christian's bitch because of a verse that explains that God created man and woman to procreate. How about those who've never had children? Are they going to hell because they remained single forever?

This is why if I chose to go to a church today, it would be the United Church of Christ. They're liberal and pro-gay. Heck, even President Obama is a member of the UCC (and so is Howard Dean, rapper Common and baseball legend Jackie Robinson). If I could get my ass out of bed early Sunday, I might consider going. There's a UCC down the road from me!

Mr. Klawiter, you can drop your stones, now.

 
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6.10.15 Bee-otch of the Day: corporate radio

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Name: corporate radio
Age: 95
Occupation: so-called entertainers and informers of the public
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: still playing the snot out of Ted Nugent

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The events preceding March 10, 2003 made for some sad days in radio.

It was when Cumulus Media announced that they were forcing all of their country stations to stop playing the music of the Dixie Chicks after Natalie Maines announced to crowd in London that they were ashamed to be from the same state as George W. Bush. It was nine days before the unwanted war in Iraq began, causing 4,000 US soldiers to be murdered plus the total destruction of that nation.

But fast forward 12 years later. Even though the Chicks haven't recorded an album since 2006 (the Grammy-winning Taking the Long Way, which sold well despite the lack of radio support), they still play to well-attended concert venues. But there's another good reason for the Chicks to smile: Cumulus' country stations - many of them branded "Nash FM" - are all tanking.

However, with President Obama in charge, it's pitiful to know that Cumulus - and other radio companies - don't have a problem with the likes of Ted Nugent and troubled Creed lead singer Scott Stapp, both of whom made headlines for threatening to kill the president.

Remember when the CIA investigated the Nuge for his "by next year, I'll be either dead or in jail" comment? That practically symbolized the fact that he wants to kill the man who has added nearly eight million jobs since entering the White House whereas his hero Dubya left the White House with over 700,000 less jobs and with a country struggling to stay afloat.

And guess what Cumulus-owned WLAV right here in Grand Rapids played at 10:35 AM on Friday? "Free For All".

That's right! The Dixie Chicks are bad for hating Bush, but the poopy-pants draft-dodging pedophile who wants to kill Obama and Hillary Clinton is A-OK.

What's even more sad is that he's an icon where I grew up in northern Michigan. I remember several months ago, he did a phone interview with the shitty afternoon show on WKLT and not too long later, he was doing another phoner on crosstown rival Q100. Northern Michigan has four rock stations, and sadly, only one doesn't play Ted's shitty music, and it's active rocker Rock 105, which coincidentally is the lowest-powered rock station up north at 43,000 watts with a meager signal in Traverse City.

Look, when Dubya was president, I never said that he needed to be assassinated. To me, that's un-American. What Ted's doing is sharing the same opinions as all the terrorists in the world. They hate freedom and apparently, so does Uncle Ted.

And WHY haven't I listened to terrestrial radio in years?

 
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6.9.15 Bee-otch of the Day: LeBron James

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Name: LeBron James
Age: 30
Occupation: basketball player
Last Seen: Cleveland, OH
Bee-otched For: not stepping into our own shoes

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I'll admit, I have a love/hate relationship with LeBron James.

I love the guy because, well, he's the best basketball player around. A man who grew up in poverty who played excellent b-ball in high school and drafted outright to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yes, there's the hate factor, especially when he moved to Miami and made a big ballyhoo about it, but he had a change of heart, came home and Cleveland all loves him again.

But as much as the world loves LeBron, let's remember something: he's rich.

Granted, I'm happy that he escaped the world of living from apartment to apartment and being fatherless, but let's remember something: he makes money from the shit Nike produces with his name on it, i.e. that hideous $200 pile of shit that I've posted above.

When I think of LeBron, I think about the fact that when he graduated from high school, Nike signed him to a $90 million deal to hawk their shoes. IIRC, the first pair of LeBron sneakers were sold in a gold briefcase.

Of course, LeBron has sold a shit ton of kicks for Nike, but the tragedy is the fact that Nike has virtually no American employees and all of their shoes are made in sweatshops in China,Vietnam and Pakistan where workers make peanuts. And yet, their CEO and founder, Phil Knight is worth $23 billion, LeBron is worth $270 million and many Americans who want LeBron's shoes simply can't afford them.

When I was a kid in the early 90s, I wanted Reebok Pumps. You know, the shoes that had a pump on the tongue that made them snug? Well, as a kid, my mother dragged me to Kmart to buy me shoes. However, that came to a stop because I had told her that a high school kid on my bus picked on me because of my no-name-brand shoes. So, we went to Cherryland Mall in Traverse City (now Cherryland Center, an outdoor shopping center) where we did my back-to-school shopping. Mom and I were walking towards Foot Locker when she told me "what do you think you're doing?" Kinney Shoes - aka Foot Locker's red-headed brother - was across the hall and mother forced me to pick out some more-modest shoes for a much-more modest price. I remembered picking up some shoes that were "neat", or in my language, shitty and worthy of me being bullied. 

But you know what? I survived. The reason why kids are pressured to buy Reebok Pumps and Air Jordans in my day and LeBrons today is simple: Nike and Phil Knight only care about money. It reminds me of the Michael Moore film "The Big One" when he paid a visit to Knight and asked him why there's no Nike factories in America. Knight responded "people in America don't want to make shoes". So, Mike went to his hometown of Flint where he was raising awareness of building a plant there. A TV station did a news story on Mike's push and people responded positively to wanting a plant in town. Well, Mike showed the video footage to Knight in his office. His response? Simple: he walked away.

Shoe companies like Nike simply want to tell people that if you don't own their shoes, you suck and you don't belong in the human race. Yet, they do this because Phil Knight and LeBron James are filthy rich while the downtrodden parents who already have a hard time deciding between paying bills and feeding their kids feel bad because they can't afford what their kids want.

This is why I own a pair of New Balance shoes. They're an American company and even though some of their shoes are made in some of the same countries Nike has factories, they do have factories here in the good 'ol U.S. of A. Plus, they're comfy and don't cost as much as a LeBron shoe that looks like bloody diarrhea.

Thanks, but I'd rather help stimulate the economy over helping LeBron and Phil Knight pump up their bank accounts.

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6.8.15 Bee-otch of the Day: Rush Limbaugh

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Name: Rush Limbaugh
Age: 64
Occupation: slut-shaming, pill-popping asshole
Last Seen: West Palm Beach
Bee-otched For: being demoted in Indy

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Well, El Rushbo won't be a total loss in Indianapolis.

As reported not long ago, the bloated pile of shit was being dumped from long-time affiliate WIBC 93.1 because owner Emmis could not come to terms with his syndicator, Premiere Radio Networks with a new contract. His final day on WIBC is scheduled to be July 4th.

It was speculated that "Freedom 95" would carry the show since they're the only other talk station in central Indiana. But, Premiere's owner, iHeartMedia (aka Clear Channel) has another plan.

Last week, the radio giant announced that they would be putting Rush on middays on what they called in their press release "97.5". However, 97.5 is actually a translator station for 1260 WNDE, the company's underperforming sports-talk outlet in Indy. In the latest Nielsen ratings, WNDE is the third-lowest-rated radio outlet in Indy with a .6 share. The only thing not embarrassing for WNDE is that they're not Indy's lowest-rated sports talker; that honor goes to 1430 WXNT.

In recent years, Rush has been moved around a lot because of the fact that he's no longer an easy sell to advertisers thanks to his Sandra Fluke rant. He moved from WABC in New York to WOR and has no ratings, he went from 50,000-watt KFI to spotty signaled KEIB and lost his listeners in Los Angeles and his Chicago outlet, WLS is struggling. The real reason for iHM moving Rush to WNDE is so they could prove to advertisers that Rush still has numbers, even though his demographic is undesirable to most ad buyers. If WNDE goes over a 1 share because of Rush, it will be a shock.

With Rush being added to WNDE's schedule, there still might be hope that he'll be added to a new station in Boston because of WRKO's recent announcement that they're dropping the show for similar reasons. He was also on iHM-owned 1200 AM for several years but went back to WRKO because of poor ratings.

Oh, did you hear his comments about Caitlyn Jenner last week? Well played, Rush, well played.

With his contract up for renewal next year, COULD iHM AFFORD Rush? After all, his current contract has him at $50 million per year and iHM is also $20 BILLION in debt. I think it's time to make the realization that the angry white Republican males who have dominated talk radio for years are no longer a viable business model. Hell, local stations make more profit with local talk shows in the afternoon vs. having Fat Rush stinking up profits with his disgusting banter.

You know, I'd love to see more stations in markets that don't have iHM-owned stations dump Rush. I'd love to see that pile of shit offered to their competitors and it would be fun to see if they'd take the bait. I doubt it, though. Look at Sault Ste. Marie here in Michigan: Rush was canned on WKNW when they flipped to ESPN and nobody sure as hell wanted to take his show! Manistee is another area that I don't think has access to the Blimp's show.

Rush might as well go ahead and retire. Maybe he can use his retirement money on the usual: hookers and Oxy.

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6.4.15 Bee-otches of the Day: stupid people

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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: using the internet to prove their stupidity

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I may be no longer related to her, but my ex-stepsister made some pretty good points on Facebook on Tuesday.

In response to Bruce Jenner's stunning 66-year transition to the woman now known as Caitlyn, she wrote this:

"This world is all kinds of messed up. But I find it pretty sad that my Facebook is filled with posts stating that they are disgusted by Caitlyn Jenner becoming what he has felt he is- he is now a woman.

Of all the things your children are exposed to, you're worried about your kid seeing a person who has felt outcasted, depressed, lonely, and multiple other things FINALLY feel normal? There are worse things in life.

Growing up in Hicktown USA blinded me. (Chuck's note: she grew up in Kalkaska and South Boardman.) I didn't know any African Americans, I'd never met a Mexican, and I had zero exposure to gay people or transsexuals.

Then I moved to Phoenix. Let me tell you something: my first friend was a gay black man named Mario. He was the first person to take me out dancing, shopping, and even to just hang out. Because I was the FAT WHITE GIRL. No straight people wanted to hang out with me.

My next set of friends were lesbians I met at Hot Topic, and eventually a girl I met at Starbucks by the name of Michelle. She is now Sebastian and he is one of the NICEST, SWEETEST PEOPLE I've ever met in my whole entire fucking life.

Maybe you should focus on what the person is on the inside instead of the outside. Perhaps your children will learn that having a good heart precedes what your gender or sexuality is."

You know, she brought up many points. I too, grew up in northern Michigan. However, I knew some Mexicans because they were migrants in the cherry orchards. One became my boss at a popular Mexican restaurant he owned when I was a teen. In my school years, I only was exposed to one black kid, who attended mainly because his white mother was forced to move around so much. My family, however knew some mid-Easterners that lived not far from us. I also had another boss up north who was Chaldean.

My ex-stepsis' message reminded me years ago when I was in line to deposit cans at the Village Market between Alden and Rapid City. I stood behind some idiot rednecks with their NASCAR caps, beards and flannel shirts, bending over with their asscracks hanging out to grab the hundreds of emptied PBR cans they were chucking into the can crusher, which sat outside the main entrance. One uttered to another, "don't you like 'em n*ggers?" I was so pissed that I went inside and asked if I could deposit them the old-fashioned way, by telling them I had X amount of cans and they would hand me the receipt. No can do. So, after ~15 minutes of these two assholes loading up the can crusher, I was finally allowed to do the same. Too bad the crusher reeked of stale beer drank by redneck racists.

A few weeks ago, the Northern Express - Traverse City's indie paper - did a story on the lack of blacks up north. One thing I didn't see in the article was the fact that many who live up north simply live there probably because they got tired of all the blacks in Detroit. But like my stepsis said, one of her best friends she had when she lived in Phoenix was a black gay man. I've lived in Grand Rapids for 13 years (as of today, I might add), and yes, I've come across some blacks whom I hope to never see again. Assholes like the dickhead I met at Mulligan's Bar who took me to his house and started to jerk off in front of me or every crackhead I've come across at the Meijer at 28th and Kalamazoo who tried to lie to me about being broke or every dolt who thinks it's OK to cross the street no matter which part of the street it is.

Oh, and let's not forget that I've come across other assholes, too, like the Vietnamese asshole neighbor of mine who sat on his ass all day drinking beer while I worked. I would come home and he'd be begging me to go to the party store to get him more beer and cigarettes. I'd go to his shitty, dirty apartment and would spend hours off his drunk ass talking about how Obama was destroying the country.

But guess what? There's white assholes here in GR, too, like the dick who tried to get me to sell Amway and oh, yes, my ex-boss, whom I worked for 10 1/2 years and didn't allow me to make a livable wage.

But in the world of assholes, especially here in west Michigan, I know of one person who has been nice to me the whole time, and she's from Ethiopia. I can't understand her 90% of the time, but she's always had a positive attitude and has always been fond of me.

You see, stupidity doesn't know race or religion or sexuality. True, Caitlyn Jenner was part of the most-annoying families in America by marriage, but I applaud her for allowing herself to be the person she's wanted to be for years. It reminds me of an old episode of Sally Jessy Raphael I saw as a kid that dealt with a woman transitioning as a man. He was being teased for doing so, so Sally made this remark: "he's neither a man nor a woman, he's a human being."

Sadly, I do see a lot of people as assholes. That's who they are. It might also explain why I have trouble getting dates and have few friends outside of the internet. But, that's the Hollander attitude that I talked about on Monday. No matter where you live, there will be assholes. Northern Michigan has the rednecks, West Michigan has the Reformist Dutch and so on. IMO, don't talk about it until you experience it.

But if you can see the positive in people, well, God bless you.

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6.3.15 Bee-otch of the Day: WRCB-TV

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Name: WRCB-TV
Age: 59
Occupation: NBC affiliate
Last Seen: Chattanooga, TN
Bee-otched For: chasing away the gay

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There's an old song from a long, long time ago called "Chattanoogie Shoeshine Boy". Well, if the GM of WRCB-TV Chattanooga had his way, he'd probably take some shoeshine to clean off gay people.

The NBC affiliate announced earlier this week that it will not air a 30-second ad from Freedom to Marry, an organization promoting same-sex marriage in Tennessee. According to Tom Tolar, the station's GM, he claims that it was station policy to 'remain neutral' on the issue. The market's ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates will air the commercial, as is other NBC stations in the Volunteer State.

The commercial chronicles Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, a Republican who was also a Navy vet and is gay. In the ad, he claims that he spent his military life fighting for this country and helping others as a physician. He - and other gays in Tennessee - are fighting to legalize gay marriage. He had a partner, Judd that he wants to marry, but cannot do so because the state has no gay marriage law.

Usually when a TV station bans something, all it does is make themselves look bad and the product they're banning look more attractive. Remember NYPD Blue? Some stations - such as Grand Rapids' WZZM - banned the show because of its use of butts (thankfully we also have WOTV-41 to lean on). One of the tasteless bannings I can recall was when my old local CBS affiliate in northern Michigan, WWTV 9&10 decided to not air a 9/11 documentary that aired on the network in 2006. Their claim was that it contained too much profanity and feared that their broadcast licenses would be revoked. However, it was an election year and with no spots for commercials, they used the increased FCC fines as an excuse to air the 1986 Robin Williams film "The Best of Times" instead. With scAmway's Dick DeVos spending millions on his failed run for governor, rumor had it that 9&10 simply wanted to make more money over showing people what really went on the worst day in American history.

And yes, this is the TV station whose de facto sister station, WFQX Fox 32 airs The 700 Club daily.

The irony of all this is that WRCB also airs (surprise) The Ellen DeGeneres Show. You know, if I was her, I would use her show to tell WRCB that plain and simple, there's nothing wrong with gay marriage. Personally, I'm no fan of hers, but I appreciate her bravery in making gay marriage legal in several states.

I understand that Tennessee is a very conservative state, but remember, the south fought to keep slavery, they fought to band civil rights and now they're trying to stop gays from marrying. They all claim that it's in the Bible, even though it's not. If it is to them, thanks, but I would rather go to hell or live forever.

Remember, when you suppress, shit gets stronger.

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