Bee-otch of the Day: April 2018

Thursday, April 26, 2018

4.26.18 Bee-otch of the Day: Bill Cosby

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Name: Bill Cosby
Age: 80
Occupation: convicted felon
Last Seen: Pennsylvania
Bee-otched For: making it official that he's guilty

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When I was a kid, I loved The Simpsons and guess what? I still do.

However, growing up in rural northern Michigan in the early 90s, watching the weekly adventures of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Snowball II and Santa's Little Helper was nearly prohibitive. Northern Michigan's Fox affiliate, WGKI/33 (now WFQX/32) had a nearly-non-existent signal and my family lived out of the range of any cable company. We had a big antenna on our roof and could only pick up four channels. The only time I could watch The Simpsons was when my dear, sweet old grandma taped me episodes of the show.

One day at school on a Thursday, I had a teacher who asked me what I watched on Thursday nights. My answer was Top Cops, a show on CBS that was about true stores of policemen on the job. My teacher told me that she wanted me to watch The Cosby Show instead. Even worse, she wanted me to write a report on it. Needless to say, I burst into tears. Thankfully, I talked her out of it.

The reason why I started to release the waterworks was simple: I HATED Bill Cosby. I hated him for blasting Bart Simpson for being a so-called negative role model for children. But you see, Bart is what Bill Cosby never was, and that was funny.

It's hysterical knowing that on Sunday, The Simpsons will beat Gunsmoke to be the longest-running TV series in prime time history with its 636th episode. The show is still funny and quite topical. However at the same time, the man who hoped to beat Bart and co. at their timeslot has been found guilty of drugging and raping a woman.

As we all know by now, Bill Cosby has been declared a convicted felon by a jury in Pennsylvania. He will spend the next two months at his home and then he'll be sentenced officially in two to three months. He could spend the next 30 years in prison, or roughly the rest of his life.

For Cosby, this is the end of one of the most-respected careers in entertainment. For nearly 60 years, he was one of the few black comics that never swore on stage and focused on clean humor. His family-friendly image got him gigs on multiple kids shows like Sesame Street and Captain Kangaroo plus his own Saturday morning program, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

The tragedy regarding Fat Albert is how hypocritical the show was. I've seen many episodes of the show and it dealt with smoking (Cosby smoked big fat cigars), drinking, smoking pot and even pornography when Albert and the gang befriend a man who gave them nudie mags and pictures to jerk off to. In the end, the lesson learned was that porn degrades. Yet it was Cosby who always hung out at the Playboy Mansion and even drugged and raped a teenage girl there. It's funny that those who tend to attack the porn industry do much worse in life.

Cosby's conviction is closure to the 60+ women who all have claimed that he raped and drugged them as far back as when he was first hitting it big in the 1960s. Most have kept quiet about their ordeals for decades because of his power. But in the end, the truth came out and it sparked the #MeToo movement. Now, the networks that aired Cosby's shows have yanked them off (although Bounce still airs the Cosby-produced A Different World).

As a kid, I was told to admire Cosby over Bart Simpson. However, if one spraypaints "El Barto" on a building wall, it can be repainted. But if one rapes a woman, that woman's pain is like a third-degree burn. It may never fully heal. I hope all of the assholes who rape and hurt women see nothing but steel. As a matter of fact, I know of one who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in Washington, DC.

In closing, I just want to let you know that I might not be updating this blog for a while. My aforementioned grandmother is in the hospital and is not doing well. If she makes it, she'll be 89 on Monday. So in the end, pray 'em if you got 'em.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

4.25.18 Heroes of the Day: Art Bell and Don Bustany

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TWO SPECIAL HEROES OF THE DAY!

Name: Art Bell
Age: was 72
Occupation: overnight radio show host

Name: Don Bustany
Age: was 89
Occupation: co-creator of American Top 40

Last Seen: the Great Beyond
Awarded For: making radio a better place

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These past few weeks have been sad for radio.

Two weeks ago Friday - on the 13th nonetheless - we were shocked when it was announced that Art Bell, the legendary overnight talk radio host known for his vivid discussions about UFOs, ghosts, government conspiracies and the like died at his home in Pahrump, NV at the age of 72. Bell, a lifelong smoker, was diagnosed with COPD a few years back.

Born into a military family, Bell developed a love of radio at a young age, even obtaining his ham radio license as a kid. While serving in Japan in the 1960s, he had his own pirate radio station, playing anti-war tunes like "Military Son" and "Eve of Destruction". Eventually, he ended up working in Las Vegas and KDWN radio, where he created his trademark radio show Coast to Coast AM in the early 80s. Some years later, he started self-syndicating the show, which eventually took off like a rocket. C2CAM was carried on 50 KW blowtorches in big metropolises to small town stations whose night power had less wattage than a lightbulb. He was the biggest talk talent on overnight radio and at times almost had ratings as high as Howard Stern or even Rush Limbaugh.

Art was also known for making as many retirements and comebacks as Frank Sinatra or even Cher. However, his first retirement was due to the fact that his then-teenage son, Art IV was kidnapped and raped by a male schoolteacher who had HIV. The teacher was sentenced to 10-25 years in prison. Art, who sold the show to Clear Channel in the late 1990s was always getting huge offers to come back after his replacement hosts all failed and the show was losing affiliates. He finally revealed the truth to his many retirements and comebacks when he started doing a show for SiriusXM a few years ago. A lot of it was due to how Clear Channel was treating him during his son's trauma.

After that and the death of his third wife Ramona from a severe asthma attack, Art remarried to a Filipino woman in her 20s, Airyn. The two met on video chat and had two kids together. The marriage also spawned a feud between Art and right-winged jackass Michael "Savage" Wiener when the fake talker called Airyn an "underage prostitute" on his show. Last year, Art and Airyn had their second child together, Alexander.

True, Art wasn't perfect. He had two children he was estranged from his first marriage and asked his listeners to imagine a white light when it was announced that Rush Limbaugh was going deaf (ultimately, it was due to pain meds). Also, despite voting for Obama, Bell announced his support for Drumpf in 2016. Nonetheless, I was a fan. Growing up in northern Michigan, I felt that he was the only sane talker on WTCM in its sea of Rush, Dr. Laura, Liddy and so forth. Hell, my grandfather even loved his show.

Also passing away was Don Bustany, who alongside Casey Kasem co-created American Top 40 in 1970. True, Don wasn't as famous as his partner, but he wrote and produced the show for many years. The two were friends in school in Detroit and reunited in the 60s in Los Angeles producing commercials. In recent years, Don hosted a show on Pacifica Radio that dealt with Arab relations. Bustany was 89. Kasem was 82 when he died in 2014.

Like C2CAM, AT40 is now owned by Clear Channel, now iHeartMedia. Kasem hosted AT40 originally from its beginning in 1970 until 1988 over a contract dispute, which he started Casey's Top 40 with Westwood One. Kasem bought the show back from original owner ABC (Watermark) in 1998 three years after the original AT40 - then hosted by Shadoe Stevens - was canceled. Since 2004, the show has been hosted by Ryan "Tinker Bell" Seacrest.

Nonetheless, both Art Bell and Don Bustany made radio better. I'll admit, I like listening to old AT40 shows on YouTube. The best part is that the music's been edited out so I don't have to sit though Mariah Carey, Michael Bolton or Whitney Houston to get to the meat of the shows. But just imagine what this world would be like without it.

But sadly, it now sucks.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

4.24.18 Bee-otches of the Day: Westboro Baptist Church

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Name: Westboro Baptist Church
Age: 63
Occupation: hate group
Last Seen: Topeka, KS
Bee-otched For: coming to town

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I cringe knowing that my hometown of Grand Rapids has the tendency of getting right-winged assholes to live and even visit our town.

Sadly, one of those groups paid a visit to GR earlier today.

The Westboro Baptist Church, aka the "God Hates Fags" people came to town with their signs reading "God Still Hates Fags" and others. They protested at Grand Valley State University and Union High School, where they sent 1,000 students this note: "from the cradle, your parents, preachers and teachers have fed you a steady diet of perversions, half-truths and outright lies about the Lord God Almighty."

Why WBC came to town is a mystery, but they are known for traveling coast to coast with their little signs bashing homosexuality and their definition of sin. But thankfully, even here in conservative GR, people lined the streets to protest their hypocrisy.

One of the signs that bashed WBC read "Jesus never said that". Guess what? IT'S TRUE! For centuries, assholes have been professionals of misinterpreting the Bible and using it to trash gays, women and people of color. The end result? People converting to other religions and atheism because they sure as hell ain't going to a place loaded with assholes when they die. The truth is that I think if you're a Christian, you need to leave the judging to the man himself. Going around the country with your stupid ass signs only scare people away from God, not the other way around.

But then again, if the WBC protested my funeral, I would have done my job.

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Monday, April 23, 2018

4.23.18 Bee-otch of the Day: the airline industry

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Names: the nation's airlines
Ages: various
Occupation: the people who fly us from city to city
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: not allowing us to fly the friendly skies

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Last week, I flew out to see my mother in Phoenix on Southwest Airlines.

I'll admit, I will NOT fly on another airline other than Southwest. All of their planes are 737s while most other airlines fly their smaller airport passengers on tin box regional jets. Trust me, I've flown on American Eagle. Never again.

Since Southwest came to Grand Rapids several years ago, I haven't been forced to sit between two fat ladies, I haven't had to run a mile to my next flight since Southwest's planes usually share the same terminals and I generally get to sit near the front. I've been told to fly on other planes, but I avoid those who bash Southwest. Southwest is like sex: once you go black, you ain't coming back.

I shook my heard when 60 Minutes did their expose on a cheaper airline, Allegiant recently. In the report, they revealed the fact that their aging fleet has been known to malfunction and even cause emergency landings. I was even told to give them a try. But since they fly to Mesa and my mom's closer to Sky Harbor, it's been a no-go. And thank God they've made that decision.

Of course, Allegiant was probably thankful last week too, when a Southwest plane had to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia after one of its engines blew, causing a window to break and a passenger to be partially pulled out. That woman, 43-year-old Jennifer Riordan died as a result. The plane's pilot, Tammie Jo Shults has been called a hero - even by Sully Sullenberger himself - for safely landing the plane.

True, no airline is perfect. But to me, LUV is the lesser of all the evils. Their average pilot makes around $200,000 per year. American Eagle? Something like $25,000 per year. Remember that plane crash near Buffalo nine years ago involving Continental regional jet? The cause of the accident was when the pilots were bitching too much on their shitty pay and how they were overworked. They weren't watching what they were doing and they crashed into a house. All 49 on board plus one of the people in the house were all killed.

You know, I've always been picky in regards to flying. I want my pilot to be paid well and I want to be safe. If my airline can't do any of that, I'm outta there. I'm happy that LUV is fixing their problems and I'll continue to fly them as long as my mom's in Arizona. If they change a thing, then yes, I'll probably fly something else.

As long as I'm not also stuck with a little crying bastard nearby, we're all good.

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Friday, April 13, 2018

4.12.18 Bee-otch of the Day: Bob Goodrich

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Name: Robert Goodrich
Age: 78
Occupation: movie theatre mogul/radio station owner
Last Seen: Grand Rapids
Bee-otched For: having Rome burn while he plays the fiddle

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On Saturday, I think the coffee I drank was overcaffenating me.

I was listening to my favorite weekly podcast when the host talked about how Sinclair was fucking up two of my childhood TV stations, NBC WPBN 7&4 and ABC WGTU 29&8 in Traverse City. I was riled up and had to comment on the show's Facebook page. Within hours, one of the show's hosts started messaging me on Facebook about the further destruction that's been going on at his old radio station here in Grand Rapids.

That show? Southpaws. The host? Darren Gibson. That station? WPRR/Public Reality Radio 1680 plus a slew of low-powered translator stations here and there.

Darren and I were chatting about how WPRR had gone down to just 15 shows. When he was the station's programming director, there was a lot more. The station's glory days have truly fallen behind them.

A main reason for WPRR's demise is because of their current PD, Tyrone Bynum. Bynum worked for Goodrich in the late 90s when he owned 1140 WKWM (now a Catholic station). In the 2000s, Bynum ran the now defunct WMFN 640 AM, which he was forced to give up because it was not making money. Somehow, he weaseled his way into WPRR where he now hosts his own show, Drive For the Dream in the afternoon. Meanwhile, Gibson was hosting Southpaws twice a week on WPRR and also produced a few other shows as well such as Women Libs Radio.

As reported around Christmas 2016, Gibson was fired from WPRR because station owner Bob Goodrich claimed that his ratings were down. However, Gibson became very critical of the Democratic party because of what they did to Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election. But since Goodrich - who ran for Congress against Justin Amash some years ago - and Bynum are avowed Democrats, they seemed to think that Gibson was the antichrist and wanted him out.

Since then, WPRR has become a sad shadow of itself with very few shows and (SURPRISE!) Bynum resurrecting his crappy "Smooth Vibes" soft R&B format for the overnight hours. I've listened, and the music sounds like it's being transmitted through telephone lines. It's sad that despite a having a sizable African American population, Grand Rapids has very few choices for urban music on the radio. When that happens, leave it up to Tyrone to cater to that community... poorly.

Folks, I remember when Tyrone was on AM 640. His show had few callers and one of them was an African dude whose phone had a bad connection. He even had his wife host a show and it was hard to listen to. Now, she has her own show on WPRR. There's a reason why 640 had few advertisers and eventually packed their bags and moved to Chicago. Part of it's because of Tyrone.

I wonder if Goodrich will eventually plan to sell WPRR. Then again, he's 78, single and has no children. He also has the Goodrich Quality Theater chain, which USED to have cinemas here in Grand Rapids, but for some reason, Bob doesn't know how to compete against the Loeks family and Celebration! Cinema. When I moved here in 2002, GQT - whose HQ is at the corner of 44th and Broadmoor - had already pulled out of town, save for the Ada-Lowell 5 which was built in 1996 and is dinky comparing to the giant megaplexes Loeks has. They also have cinemas in Hastings, Kalamazoo, Holland and a few others, but sadly, it's all either Celebration! or AMC here in GR (and tell ya the truth, I like the AMC on Alpine better since the seats are comfy, the tickets are cheaper and AMC has no known connection to the fat, bloated short-bus riding douchebag known as "Huge" Bill Simonson).

Remember, Goodrich used to own a ton of radio stations and sold them all - save for WPRR - off. WPRR acts like a non-profit station and yet it's a commercial station that's supposedly funded by Goodrich's theatres. I wonder if what Goodrich is even doing is legal. I'm surprised that when he ran for Congress, he didn't sell WPRR. Things that make you go, "hmmmmmm".

Another thing to make you go, "hmmmmmm": Southpaws has 442 likes on Facebook. Drive For the Dream? 311.

And WHY did Goodrich fire Darren Gibson?

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

4.11.18 Bee-otch of the Day: Rick Snyder

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Name: Rick Snyder
Age: 60
Occupation: stuffed turd
Last Seen: Lansing, MI
Bee-otched For: pissing off Flintstonians... again

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Here in Michigan, we're lucky to live around plenty of fresh water, a lot of it from four out of the five Great Lakes.

Too bad the people of Flint won't be able to have any of it unless they pay up.

This week, the State of Michigan closed the distribution spots where people in the troubled city could pick up free water. Of course, the city's residents have been stricken with polluted water caused when governor Rick Snyder ordered the city to switch their source of water from Lake Huron to the Flint River several years ago. Since the Flint River was a dumping ground for GM and other plants in town for over a century, the water rotted the pipes, causing residents to use bottled water.

Meanwhile at the same time, Snyder has allowed Nestle to pump even more water from their plant near Canadian Lakes by Big Rapids, 100 miles from Flint. The company only pays the state $200 per year to make BILLIONS off of our water.

You know, it's sad that we have a governor who sings the praises of Michigan's recovery and yet the people of Flint have heard the same shit over and over. I can't wait til November so we can force the Repukes out and get our state and country back in order.

Water is a human right, unlike the CEO of Nestle and even Rick Snyder think.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

4.10.18 Bee-otch of the Day: Sinclair Broadcast Group

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Name: Sinclair Broadcast Group
Age: 47
Occupation: broadcaster from hell
Last Seen: Baltimore, MD
Bee-otched For: trying to attack their competition.... miserably

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Earlier today, I was on UpNorthLive.com, the website to northern Michigan NBC affiliate WPBN 7&4 when a message popped up stating "CNN's hypocritical attack on Sinclair". I clicked the link and a YouTube video popped up.

In the video, Sinclair published two different videos regarding CNN. One had them attacking Sinclair and another had another anchor talking about how social media sites like Facebook have posters that don't tell the truth.

Of course, Sinclair is in crisis mode after a video of anchors from multiple stations of theirs appeared online where they all read from the same script. Many of those anchors have even slammed the company for their fake brand of journalism and the fact that they're forcing local newscasts to air segments like the "Terrorism Alert Desk" and commentaries from far-right-winged assholes. One commentator, Jamie Allman from KDNL-TV St. Louis was fired after he tweeted that he was "ready to ram a hot poker up David Hogg's ass". Hogg is the 17-year-old survivor of the Parkland shooting who has been criticized by right-winged pundits for calling for more gun control in America.

It's laughable that Sinclair is calling themselves fair and balanced while their news departments are to the right by Fox News Channel. It's propaganda, plain and simple and it's killing stations like WPBN. What's worse is that through an umbrella company, Sinclair also owns northern Michigan's ABC station, WGTU 29&8. While the FCC prohibits companies from owning more than one TV station in a market the size of Traverse City, companies like Sinclair get around the ruling through fake companies like WGTU's "owner" Chesapeake Media and shared services agreements. Sadly, WPBN/WGTU's rivals, CBS WWTV 9&10 and Fox WFQX 32 are also co-owned thanks to an umbrella company and an SSA.

Under Drumpf's FCC, we could see even more consolidation in the media and we're all gonna pay. Sinclair thinks they're hot shit, but I think if people learn the real truth about this company that gives dearly to the Republicans, they'll be flipping the channel.

Yes, CNN ain't perfect, but better them over Sinclair. Our country needs true journalism, not something that's fake and tawdry.

Walter Cronkite must be spinning in his grave.

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Monday, April 9, 2018

4.9.18 Bee-otch of the Day: Betsy Devos

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Name: Betsy Devos
Age: 60
Occupation: spoiled rich bitch
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: spitting at our teachers and students

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Many years ago in my 20s, some douchebag called me an "$8 per hour loser".

But guess what? I make more money than a lot of schoolteachers.

In the past few weeks, there have been protests in several states such as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona and Kentucky. Many teachers haven't had raises in years and some have even admitted that their pay is so low that they've had to accept donations from food banks and other charities. Another teacher even posted her pay stub online, where she admitted that her take home pay was $320 per week.

Yep, $320 per week. Just imagine, this woman probably went through four years of college and lots of debt and bills to get to where she is and she probably gets paid the equivalent of eight to nine bucks per hour. I only have a vocational degree and my take home pay is WAAAAAAAY more than her pay.

But guess who happened to open up her fucking yapper in regard to striking teachers? Why, it's Drumpf's education secretary Betsy Devos! She said that teachers need to keep their disagreements in another place and just simply educate their children. "Serve the students", she was quoted saying.

Yes, this is Betsy Devos we're talking about, folks. A cunt who has never had to eat from a soup kitchen and has never had to work a single day in her life because of her wealthy parents, plus help from her husband's wealthy parents, too. The reason why she gets to say shit like "serve the students" is because she and her husband gave a shitload of money to Drumpf's campaign.

Bitchy Devos NEVER attended a public school, folks. She never had to face overcrowded classrooms, outdated textbooks or underpaid teachers. I say that if your teacher isn't doing a good job teaching, it's because they're not getting paid well enough.

You see, my great-grandmother was a teacher, my grandmother was a teacher and so was my aunt. Today, nobody in my family teaches anymore and maybe it's for good reason. The pay sucks, the schools are falling apart and no two kids are alike. If schools got more funding and less bullshit from the right, everything would be a lot better.

But for now, our kids will have to read from crumbling textbooks that refer to the Obama years as "trouble ahead".

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Friday, April 6, 2018

4.6.18 Weekend Mix

Thirty Seconds to Mars - Dangerous Night (Cheat Codes remix)
Borgore & Gentlemen's Club - Freak f/Watson
Slander & Sullivan King - Welcome to the Fire (MONXX remix)

Dr. Ozi - Take You There

Excision & Space Laces - Rumble

Fhono - Run

DJ Assault - Ass N Titties

Throbbing Gristle - United

Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (Noisia remix)

Justice - Let There Be Light (DJ Funk's Bounce Dat Ass remix)

Yellow Claw & Valentino Khan - Don't Stop

Gent and Jawns - Collecta

Wiwek & Mike Cervello - Ni de Cona (LNY TNZ remix)

Khalid & Normani - Love Lies (Fairlane remix f/IDK)

Paces - Savage 2.0 f/Nessyl & NYNE (HIGHSOCIETY remix)

PKCZ & Snoop Dogg & Yultron - Bow Down f/Crazyboy

The Glitch Mob - How Can This Be Wrong f/Tula

Party Favor X Baauer - MDR

Unlike Pluto - Where is My Mind

Culture Shock - Bunker

Matrix and Futurebound - Mystery Machine

ARIUS - Third Eye (f/Born I Music)

DJ Snake - Magenta Riddim

The Doors - Riders on the Storm (Deep House remix)

Soulji - Black Mask

Boys Noize - Loaded

Tchami & Malaa - Kurupt

Chocolate Puma f/Chateau - Gotta Get Away

JVST SAY YES x HYDRAULIX x OSKI - Kitsch In

Marshmello & Anne-Marie - Friends (Orange Juice remix)

Vintage Culture & KVSH & Breno Miranda - Cante Por Nos

ZDS f/KE - Sweat

Toby Green f/Kris Kiss - Beyond Mars

ANGELZ & SLATIN - Scream for Daddy

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

4.4.18 Bee-otch of the Day: terrestrial radio

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Name: terrestrial radio
Age: 98
Occupation: entertainers and informers of the general public
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: not knowing where the hole in their ass is

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One Mitten is removed while another is put on.

Last weekend, Traverse City adult alternative radio station WWMN/106.3 The Mitten signed off for good and flipped formats. However, it's not totally the end for the station, since it's still on 101.5 in Manistee. It's too bad, however, that people in the Cherry Capitol area will have to find another home for Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats.

So what is The Mitten's replacement? Mitten News.

Mitten News, LLC is the name of the company that owns right-winged asshole talk 1110 WJML in Petoskey. And whad'ya know, 106.3 is now simulcasting WJML. So instead of hearing those aforementioned bands, there's another station up north that airs talk radio that appeals to those who moved to northern Michigan from Detroit to get away from the niggers.

WJML - for the time being - is still heard on 1210 AM and 101.1 in Traverse City. No word on if those stations are for sale. I know of a few stations and companies that would love to have those frequencies, but I sure as hell won't name them in hopes of not further jinxing those channels.

Granted, I'd rather listen to Dave Matthews Band and Portugal. The Man over the idiocy spewed by Laura Ingraham, Chris Plante, Michael Savage and Dave Ramsey, but the sad truth was that The Mitten was a failure from the get-go. I wouldn't be too surprised if the station was up for sale the second it went on the air. FTR, the station used to be the old WKLA 106.3 in Ludington, but it moved to Thompsonville by Traverse City almost two years ago. I've listened to their online stream a few times and they had few advertisers. On their Facebook page, their listeners seemed to be beyond disappointed.

WJML and Mitten News are owned by John Yob, a political strategist from Grand Rapids. In the past, he worked on presidential campaigns for John McCain and Rick Santorum, plus the gubernatorial campaigns for Rick Snyder in 2010 and 2014. He lives in the Virgin Islands where he and his wife are Republican delegates.

But of course, 106.3 isn't the only radio channels up north having cash issues.

Recently, it was revealed that Sovereign Communications, a company that owns a crap ton of radio stations in Michigan's upper peninsula has fallen well behind in their mortgage payments and their properties are now going to auction. According to this Google cache of an article from the Iron Mountain Daily News, Sovereign is over $3 million in the hole.

But things are a little dicey right now at Sovereign.

Late last year, Sovereign co-owner Bill Gleich (mugshot seen above) got thrown into jail for the third time for DUI within the past few years. Whether or not the fact that he owns a bunch of radio stations in some of Michigan's most-repressed areas is the reason for his drinking problems is beyond me. I've even read that one of their Marquette stations has been off the air for over a year because they don't have access to the transmitter site. Plus, many of Sovereign's stations' websites were down for over a year.

The point is that radio is becoming more and more of a bad investment all because of niche formats like the one The Mitten has and the type of audience WJML is looking for. Doing radio in an area where the only major shopping mall is down to ten stores isn't great thinking, either.

In the case of Bill Gleich, I've met him and found him to be a super nice guy. Hell, the fact that Sovereign's co-owner is former Howard Stern Sirius channel programmer Tim Sabean was also super cool, but that doesn't help the fact that even though they own almost all of the non-Canadian stations in the Soo and they're bust.

At we'll always have SiriusXM and Pandora to look upon.

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

4.3.18 Bee-otch of the Day: Sinclair Broadcast Group

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Name: Sinclair Broadcast Group
Age: 47
Occupation: media giant
Last Seen: Baltimore, MD
Bee-otched For: cookie cutter journalism

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The sad, sad realities of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are now rearing its ugly head.

Until its passing, there was a limit as to how many radio and TV stations one could own. Now, it's almost limitless.

Now, one company, Sinclair Broadcast Group owns TV stations in almost 1/2 of America and they're forcing their stations to air their disgusting, biased features during their newscasts.

This past week, the website Deadspin exposed a shocking video that showed anchors for dozens of Sinclair-owned stations reading off of the same script. In the video, local news anchors state that they are committed to checking their facts and even slammed social media. Of course, this is from a media giant that forces their stations to air segments like Terrorism Alert Desk and Drumpf butt buddy Boris Epshteyn during their newscasts.

Some people are labeling Sinclair's agenda as "Orwellian". One anchor at a Sinclair station even claimed that they felt like a POW reading a statement. There's even reports that local management at other Sinclair O&Os aren't happy about their forced agenda.

Sadly, I feel ashamed that I'm from northern Michigan, a market where there's practically only two major media companies that own all the TV stations. Sinclair owns NBC WPBN 7&4 and ABC station WGTU 29&8. It was 7&4's main anchor team of Mark Schollett and Kristen Lowe that appeared in that station's version of the robotic speech. I know people who know people who work at 7&4, and sadly, the atmosphere there is quite grim.

Oddly enough, Sinclair's competition up north, CBS WWTV 9&10 and Fox/CW WFQX 32 has been locally owned by Mario Iacobelli and his family for 30 years. The stations recently moved to a new, state-of-the-art facility near Cadillac after spending over 60 years in a remote area underneath the station's 2000-foot tower. But, is 9&10 perfect? Sadly, no. They have been accused of airing paid news stories in the pastand they even removed the Howard Stern Radio Show on Saturday nights just after Columbine in favor of infomercials from the National Rifle Association. Plus, 32 is an affiliate of quite possibly the worst program in the history of television, The 700 Club. Tragically, the TV stations up north do a yeoman's job of pandering to those who've moved up north from Detroit to get away from all the black people.

Of course, we're lucky here in Grand Rapids. Tragically, CBS/CW WWMT-3 is a Sinclair O&O, but there's also NBC WOOD-TV 8 (Nexstar), ABC WZZM-13 (Tegna) and WXMI Fox 17 (Tribune), though there's talks of Sinclair trying to acquire Tribune. If so, it could be likely that Sinclair will use one of their shell companies (i.e. Chesapeake Media or Deerfield Media) to buy out 17.

But in the end, Sinclair does have one person who believes in them, and it's Drumpf himself. He even made this tweet: "So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased. Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke." So, there you go, folks. Watching a Sinclair station for your news is like bowing down to Drumpf himself, him pulling down his pants and you licking his anus. I hope to God that our next president will shut down the FCC so Sinclair will force to sell off most of their stations and allow real voices to do the news.

But until then, enjoy seeing local news anchors being forced to sit in chairs with hands from Baltimore pasted onto them, making the anchors their puppet.

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Monday, April 2, 2018

4.2.18 Bee-otches of the Day: people attacking Parkland victims

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Bee-otch of the Day honors are awarded Monday through Thursday, Bee-otch of the Week is awarded Friday on Chuck69.com.

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Bee-otched For: continued bullying of Parkland students

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It seems that now, when your school gets victimized by a school shooter, prepare to get verbally bitchslapped by the right.

As we reported last week, Fox News Channel cunt Laura Ingraham got herself into hot shit when she attacked Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor David Hogg by telling him to "stop whining". He responded on Twitter by listing all of her advertisers and within hours, many of those who supported her FNC show dropped their ads. Those advertisers included Rachael Ray's Nutrish pet food products, Nestle and Wayfair. Ingraham apologized for her remarks to Hogg, though he didn't accept it because to him and anybody whose IQ is well over room temperature, it was all about her advertisers and not Hogg himself or the other members of his Never Again MSD group.

On Friday night, Ingraham announced that she was taking a week off her FNC show, claiming it was because of Sunday being Easter. No word if the vacation is intentional or just a cooling off period in hopes of regaining advertisers.

Of course, Ingraham's not the only one mocking the Parkland survivors. Last week, has-been rocker Ted Nugent attacked the students on the nationally syndicated Joe Pags radio show by calling them "liars" and "poor, mushy-brained children" for their criticism of the National Rifle Association, which he's a board member of. He even claimed that they have "no soul".

Yes, this is the same fucking Ted Nugent who had a relationship with a 16-year-old girl in the 1970s when he was 30. Not to forget that he also made a threat against former President Obama some years back claiming that if he were re-elected, he'd be "dead or in jail".

Folks, it's sad that these kids are simply asking for tougher gun laws, but the Laura Ingrahams and Ted Nugents of the world all end up spitting in their faces. Hell, some of these loons even bitch that they're the ones who bullied Nikolas Cruz, causing him to open fire and get even. Look, I was bullied a lot as a young boy and didn't have many real friends. But guess what? I never brought a gun to school. Then again, guns never interested me as a kid.

The right's idea of forcing teachers to learn how to shoot, put officers in schools and so on shows how idiotic the right is. We need better gun laws in America, not turning our schools into prisons.

But what do you expect from somebody who hasn't had a hit record in almost 30 years?

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