Bee-otch of the Day: February 2021

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

2.24.21 Bee-otches of the Day: the people of Middleville, Michigan who want their mayor gone

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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: various
Last Seen: Middleville, MI
Bee-otched For: wanting to get rid of their mayor

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What a week.

Hard to believe it, but it's been one week since Kathryn Limbaugh announced to the world that her husband, talk radio douchenozzle Rush Limbaugh had succumbed to lung cancer at 70 years old.

To his 15 million loyal listeners, Limbaugh was their voice of reason. The man who saved AM radio from being FM's bitch in the late 80s. But to the left, he was a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, pill-popping, prostitute-fucking asshole.

And Amanda Fisk would agree to the last statement.

Fisk is the now-embattled village president of Middleville, Michigan. It has one grocery store, a few gas stations, several restaurants and a historic downtown, just like any village of 3,500 residents. For many who work in either Grand Rapids or Kalamazoo, it's home. It's also where several west Michigan TV stations transmit from.

The 35-year-old mother has been the mayor of Middleville since late last year when the previous mayor died of COVID-19. The village council - which she was a part of - voted her in.

Of course, most small villages tend to have unaffiliated people on their councils. A small-town mayor has no real say on healthcare, women's rights or any of that stuff. All the people truly want to know is if that person will keep taxes low for business owners, or if the town festival will have fireworks this year. That stuff.

But apparently, Fisk is a Democrat running a town loaded with morons weeping over the death of their beloved El Rushbo.

As mentioned on Monday's BOTD. Fisk got herself into a shitload of trouble when she posted on Facebook WOOD-TV's coverage of Rush's death with her typing laughter as the response. Apparently, one of her right-winged "friends" got pissed and made her post public. Since then, many in the village have called for her resignation and one nasty old cunt, Keara Hilton even started a petition calling for her removal that has gotten over 2,900 signatures.

Last night, the village hosted a Zoom meeting where a few hundred people spoke their peace to the mayor. Many shamed her for speaking ill of the dead while others simply explained that what Fisk did was nothing comparing to the horseshit Rush spewed on his show daily.

I saw some of the Zoom meeting and these fucking hilljacks who were there bashing Mayor Fisk simply reminded me of someone who would bash a Jew for speaking ill will of Hitler when he died. Granted, many kissed Rush's ass when his shit show "saved" many dying AM stations in the 80s and 90s. In reality, all Rush did was make it look more cheap and tawdry.

As some of you know, I started this blog in 1999 as "Bring Howard Stern to Northern Michigan Radio and TV". A few people told me good luck, because no radio station owner up north would ever listen to me. Maybe they're right. In 1999, WTCM-AM in Traverse City consisted of Rush, a homophobe who got her career for posing in nude photos (Dr. Laura), a convicted felon (G. Gordon Liddy) and a deadbeat dad (Art Bell). Funny that since then, WTCM now has WKLT as their sister station, and their morning show is a lame Stern wannabe. In 22 years, Stern is now on satellite radio and local radio is still dying its slow, painful death.

Today, Stern is alive and kicking and might live until his 90s, considering his parents are near 100. Rush, a life-long smoker of cigars, is dead and AM radio is now asking, "now what?" Personally, I'd recommend Thom Hartmann, but it'll never happen. Who knows? It's up to iHeartMedia to proclaim what the next step will be.

Look, Amanda Fisk is only human. She, me and the rest of us all make terrible mistakes from time to time. Honestly, she didn't need to apologize for laughing at Rush's death. The real problem is that like a lot of smaller, rural towns, Middleville is probably loaded with Repukes sobbing into their MyPillows that their beloved Drumpf lost the election and Rush is dead. Fisk is now knowing that being a mayor in a small town makes you an instant celebrity and she now lives in a glass house. People in Middleville very likely know what time Amanda goes to bed, when she wakes up, what she eats and when she poops. It's the reality of being a small-time celebrity. But, like most celebrities, she ain't chocolate. She can't please everybody.

To me, I think it's what Fisk does as mayor as opposed to what she spews on social media. If the village wants to recall her, that's up to them. If somebody wants to run against her as mayor, ditto. But, if she's defeated, it will show the true character of Middleville and I hope to God that I never have to visit that town.

But of course, karma will always win. Think about that.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

2.23.21 Bee-otch of the Day: Ted Cruz

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Name: Ted Cruz
Age: 51
Occupation: sunbather
Last Seen: Texas
Bee-otched For: going out like a blister in the sun

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The city of Austin has this age-old slogan: "Keep Austin Weird".

Then again, the whole state of Texas is weird.

We've all heard it to death by now: Texas was pelted with a record-cold temperatures and snow that shut down the interstates. Pipes burst from the record cold temps and there's a fear that the amount of dead could take months to calculate.

And the man who was supposed to be one of Texas' heroes simply put his tail between his legs and went to Mexico.

Yes, I'm a little late in telling you this, but, well, Ted Cruz is an asshole. As we all know by now, the Texas senator and former presidential candidate fled to Mexico but only came back to Texas because of the outrage surrounding the state's unprecedented snowfall. Eventually, he was seen handing out water to disadvantaged citizens during the snowy melee.

Cruz's misstep reminds me of Hurricane Harvey and the fact that crooked televangelist Joel Osteen has a former arena-turned-church that's virtually hurricane proof and refused anybody in when the hurricane pounded Houston a few years back. Hell, the hotel across from his church was PACKED. Only after the media got on his ass did he open his church up to those stranded by the storm.

The temps in Texas are back to normal this time of year, mainly in the 60s and 70s, and the snow should be all melted by now. But, repairing homes, electricity and the water supply could take months. And guess who were the angels in all this? DEMOCRATS!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised $5 million in relief and visited food banks. Other Dems joined AOC in doing the same. President Biden has signed a declaration aiding the state; he also announced that he will visit on Friday.

Tragically, Texas is weird and so are many of the morons who elect Repukes to run the state. Apparently, the reason why the state runs its own grid is because they dont't want no gub'ment interfering. Well, this is what they get for doing it themselves.

Look, Texans made a mistake and now, they're learning that Democratic socialism isn't bad, after all. Besides, after World War II and FDR's death, his people went to the countries we bombed to help rebuild. Decades later, those countries all have better healthcare, schools and an overall way of live than we do. AOC coming to Texas shows that maybe - just maybe - it's time for Texans to grow a pair and realize that a country boy can't survive in the cold. Ted Cruz pissed on his own people.

Maybe in 2024, it'll be high time for Cruz to lose.

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Monday, February 22, 2021

2.22.21 Bee-otches of the Day: people who force those mocking Rush Limbaugh's death to apologize

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Names: various
Ages: various
Occupations: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: forcing people to apologize for Rush's death

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It's sad when people bitch that we should not mock the dead.

But, if that person who just passed was one of the biggest assholes ever, there are exceptions.

As we all know by now, ultra-right-winged conservative goon Rush Limbaugh died after a year-long battle with lung cancer at the age of 70. Aside from the 600 affiliates and 15 million listeners he had, his lone survivor was his golddigger wife Kathryn.

For more than three decades, Limbaugh used his platform for pretty much everything that just wasn't American. He claimed that he had talent "on loan from God" though a lot of the shit he spewed on his show was far from Christian-like. He bashed everyone from women to the LGBTQ+ community, people of color to leftists. His death from lung cancer last week was definitely a "see, I told you so!" moment since he sympathized with the tobacco companies and often was seen smoking a cigar.

It's just too bad that people who didn't like Rush are still being censored by those who embraced his stupidity.

Last week, Appleton, WI butt rocker 105.7 WAPL suspended Len Nelson, half of the Rick and Len morning show for posting on social media a diatribe against the pill-popping, prostitute-fucking asshole. In the post - which has been taken down - Nelson simply attacked Limbaugh for, well, everything I've told you about him.

WAPL's parent, Woodward Radio Group posted "Recently we were made aware of a social media post placed on a personal Facebook page by one of our employees, Len Nelson. His personal views are not reflective of the core values of WAPL nor of Woodward Radio Group. We are deeply committed to being good people. We appreciate our listeners, sponsors and advertisers and want to assure each of you this matter is being addressed swiftly. Thank you for reaching out to us with your concerns, we are listening."

Since the post, Nelson was forced to apologize. "As you might surmise, my actions have come with a personal cost. I’ve been indefinitely suspended from my job on the WAPL morning show and it’s possible, after further consideration by the company, that I will be terminated. I understand their decision but I hope in the coming days to work together with management to find a resolution which will allow me to continue to serve WRG, a company I’ve greatly enjoyed working for, by doing the job I’ve loved for decades. I remain willing to take whatever steps that might entail and I look forward to the opportunity. That my foolish and incendiary Facebook activity has jeopardized that is a hard shot to take but it’s one with which I must and will deal. To those of you with whom I’ve admittedly sparred too harshly, I sincerely apologize. I should have had more respect for each of you. To those of you who have supported me along the way, thank you. But please do me a favor and take a moment to do what I have done here. We should all reconsider how we interact with those with whom we have differences. There must be a better way than the path I’ve too often tread. I wish I had done such self-reflection earlier but I believe we can all learn from our mistakes. I’ve taken a look into the mirror and what I saw is not the best person nor the best employee I can be. I pledge to try harder and be better."

Woodward, based in Dubuque, IA, owns six radio stations; none of them aired Limbaugh. Most of the stations are in the Green Bay area, including active rock Razor 94.7/104.7, CHR 95.9 Kiss FM and sports 1570 The Score.

Sadly, Nelson is not the only person under fire for bashing the Windbag.

Amanda Fisk is the mayor of Middleville, Michigan, pop. 3,500. When Limbaugh died last week, she wrote on her Facebook account "HAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHA". Since then, many residents of the small town between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo have called for her resignation, including Keara Hilton, who started an online petition to recall Fisk. In Hilton's petition, she claimed that Fisk violated her role as mayor by using her social platform to spread meanness towards somebody who died from cancer. The funny thing is that Hilton claimed that she herself never listened to the show. However, she started the petition because she herself is battling cancer.

Since the start of the recall, Fisk has apologized for her post. Even her apology was taken down as well. As of tonight, over 2,800 people have signed the petition, very likely people who don't live in Middleville. Hilton, 44, describes herself on her Twitter profile as a "Happily married, Christian mother of 5 amazing daughters." Her two LinkedIn accounts states that she once homeschooled her kids and now works for the STS Foundation, which brings foreign exchange students to America. Plus, she's an event manager for Midwest Tactical Training, which basically teaches people to fire guns.

Folks, I have a distant cousin who was once in Ms. Fisk's shoes and was a mayor of a much-smaller town in the Grand Rapids area, but has since retired. Every year, I'd ask him if he missed being the mayor, and he always said "no" because in order to be a mayor, you have to live in a glass house. He's right. The sad reality of holding public office is that you're not chocolate. You can't please everyone. The painful truth is that Hilton cries that she doesn't listen to Rush's show and doesn't realize that he did worse things than to laugh at someone's death. He mocked those with AIDS and disabilities like Parkinson's, mainly Michael J. Fox. He called a woman a "slut" because she wanted birth control to be recognized by Obamacare. It just goes on and on.

One of the lessons I've learned in life is that if you're on the left and you make a bold move and attack somebody more conservative than you, you can get screwed. Look at The (Dixie) Chicks, Colin Kaepernick and even me. My friend Darren Gibson from the radio show Southpaws got fired from WPRR Radio here in Grand Rapids only because he refused to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 over the DNC's screwing over of Bernie Sanders. When he was forced out the door, his listeners - including me - followed. Now, they're an urban AC with hardly any listeners.

However, if you're a conservative and you say worse things, eh, no biggie. Yes, when Rush attacked Sandra Fluke, he lost advertisers. But, guess how many radio stations canned him on the spot? ONE! It was some station in the middle of nowhere, sadly.

I know, conservative talk radio will live on through Sean Hannity, Dave Ramsey (who thinks that we can all become millionaires at $8 per hour), Mark Levin and Glenn Beck to name a few. However, it deserves to die a painful, slow death because it has brainwashed Americans into thinking that they can accept suffering. Tragically, Rush was a bully and it's a shame that some Jebus freak cunt karen in Middleville, MI wants the mayor kicked out over a post she made on Facebook, mocking his death.

Bear in mind that Middleville is in Barry County, the home of right-winged extremist sheriff Dar Leaf. Barf.

Look, nobody needs to bow to Rush, nor his brainwashed fans. He was a bully and was just like The Sorcerer's Apprentice, breaking a boom to create an army of brooms. As the aforementioned radio hosts get older and probably look to retirement, so is their current audience. Nobody under the age of 50 listens to AM radio! The only AM stations that might survive in years to come are those with FM translators like Magic 104.9 here in Grand Rapids.

If I was forced to apologize for having an opinion that hurts a bully, I would tell them to fire me now. Everybody has the right to have hatred towards an evil person. It's like telling a Jew that they have no right to hate Hitler. I don't care if some assholes think that it's "unprofessional". Rush is gone, get over it.

Of course, some will cry that "Heaven needed Rush than we needed him". Problem was, I don't think he's up there playing a harp and with wings attached to him.

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

An Open Letter to President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

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AND NOW, AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JR.
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Dear Mr. President,

Like most Americans this past election, I voted for you in hopes of restoring order and faith to the American people. These past four years had been tough for me and millions of other Americans who saw this nation go in reverse. I, like so many people, was extremely saddened and upset by the January 6th insurrection.

I feel that the main reason why events like the insurrection occurred was due to our nation being bombarded with misinformation. As we all know, the insurrectionists all held a false belief that the person whom you replaced won the election when the numbers didn't lie. These people were addicted to right wing AM talk radio and cable channels designed to spread false information. In the end, what these conspiracy theorists did hurt the country and our nation's capitol.

Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of America's first commercially-licensed radio station, Pittsburgh's KDKA. Since their sign-on, radio has evolved in both good and bad. Over the years, we discovered that music sounded better on FM and that AM was best for talk radio. We've moved on from playing music from scratchy vinyl and hissy tapes to CDs and MP3s from automation systems. Unfortunately, the same technology that made listening to one's favorite radio station better has also cost a lot of radio station employees their jobs through voicetracking and cyberjocking.

Granted, many Americans now listen to digital media as opposed to traditional radio. They want to control the next song or they simply don't want to hear a bombardment of commercials. But, local radio can still thrive with things that satellite and internet radio can't give, like local news, weather and community information that brings people together. But, it's heartbreaking knowing that many of these stations do not have local talent behind their microphones. Here in my hometown of Grand Rapids, MI, our most-popular top 40 station, WSNX only has TWO local jocks! Plus, it's owned by iHeartMedia, formerly known as Clear Channel.

In the past several decades, I have seen television and radio stations go from important hubs of local information to being corporate-owned shells of their former selves. I'm originally from northern Michigan, where the owners of the local NBC and CBS affiliates have created shell companies so the NBC station runs the ABC station and the CBS affiliate controls the local Fox station. To make matters worse, the NBC and ABC stations are owned by Sinclair and like their sister stations, they use their newscasts to promote their political propaganda.

Without a doubt, thanks to the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine and ownership caps for TV and radio stations in America, this is what we get. They did not create jobs, they eliminated them. Not only that, it's bothersome knowing that the insurrectionists who stormed the capitol were brainwashed by the likes of Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Alex Jones and the now-departed Rush Limbaugh.

One of your responsibilities as President of the United States is to hand out the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a very prestigious honor that only a selected few receive in their lives who have made other peoples' lives better. It's been awarded to everybody from astronauts to authors to entertainers. I've seen it handed to Mother Teresa, Oprah, Rosa Parks, Mr. Rogers, Muhammad Ali and even yourself with Distinction. However, only THREE(!!!) radio personalities have been given this honor. Edward R. Murrow deserved it for his groundbreaking news reports for CBS. Paul Harvey got his for his thought-provoking and folksy newscasts for ABC.

However, like millions of Americans, I was distraught when last year, the previous president awarded this distinctive honor to Rush Limbaugh. Granted, he had 15 million listeners and helped to reinvent the faltering AM band in the 1980s. However, he did it all in the name of bigotry and lies. As a matter of fact, he even called for Martin Luther King's assassin to receive the Medal himself. Plus, don't get me started on his treatment of women by calling them "sluts" and "feminazis", his hypocrisy regarding drug use which caused his deafness and the fact that he was a supporter of the tobacco industry, which gave him the lung cancer that ended his life on Wednesday.

Mr. President, I do not expect you to overhaul the media. I do not expect you to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, break up media companies or even eliminate anti-First Amendment edicts in a time and age when the forbidden f-word is more accepted socially than the still-technically-legal-to-say on the air n-word. But, there's one thing you can do as president that would make millions of Americans happy. And that's to hand out the Presidential Medal of Freedom to someone who deserves it more than any other radio personality on the face of the Earth. A man who revolutionized radio and united people of all colors, races, religions and political affiliations. A man who worked hard to be the man he became and still entertains millions to this day.

This is why, Mr. President, you need to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Howard Stern.

In his nearly-50-year career, Stern has interviewed some of the world's greatest celebrities and dignitaries. He's made us laugh and think about ourselves and made our drives to work better. Most-importantly, he tells the truth and never caused a riot. He also needs to be lauded for his work with the North Shore Animal League along with his wife, Beth.

If you can hand the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mr. Stern, Mr. President, I, and his millions of listeners will feel grateful. He's a hard worker and deserves this medal more than anyone.

Thank you, Mr. President. Sincerely yours,

King Chuck

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

2.17.21 Bee-otch of the Day: Rush Limbaugh

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Name: Rush Limbaugh
Age: was 70
Occupation: hellish serf
Last Seen: here
Bee-otched for: everything
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Here's a simple question: how many of you were lucky to have all four of your grandparents when you graduated high school?

Count me in as part of that club, at least for a year. However, just a few months after I got that prized diploma, I was given some sad news: my paternal grandfather was diagnosed with lung cancer.

My paternal grandparents smoked until the early 80s. When they started having grandchildren - and bear in mind that they had seven kids of their own - they wanted to set an example, so they quit smoking for good.

In my grandfather's case, he was taking medication for his thyroid. Doctors wanted him to wean off of it. But, when he did, his immune system became shot, causing his cancer.

My grandfather went under extensive radiation, which caused him to lose 40 pounds and a lot of energy. We thought that his cancer was beat and he could go into remission. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be. After doctors discovered that the radiation didn't eradicate all of his cancer, he decided that he had a good life. My grandfather died in May, 2001 at age 75.

While I was at school, I was scanning the AM band and heard a commercial for Rush Limbaugh's radio show. The ad was audio of him talking about how he claimed scientists found that nicotine cured cancer in lab rats. Needless to say, I rolled my eyes, knowing how much bullshit El Rushbo was spewing.

But, that's the nature of his game. Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was someone who embraced the Reagan administration's abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine to use the power of broadcasting to trump his ultraconservative bullshit. Some people cry that it was Rush who saved AM radio since most stations were either simulcasts of FM counterparts or falling silent. However, he had to do it with racism, sexism and pure bigotry.

Rush thought he was the King of All Media. He had two best-selling books, a TV show along with his radio program. Thankfully by the late 90s, he started drifting in the ratings, his books were now in the bargain bin and his TV show canceled. However, his ratings shot back up thanks to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal and 9/11.

For years, Limbaugh was known for bashing those with drug problems, demanding that they be locked up. But, when he was caught doctor shopping for OxyContin, he simply went to a resort that acted like a rehab center. Oxy is also linked to deafness, which is why he ended up with cochlear implants.

Last year, Limbaugh shocked his listeners with his lung cancer diagnosis. He continued to work through his pain. Shortly after he made his announcement, Drumpf awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, only one of three radio personalities ever to achieve such an award (the other two were Edward R. Murrow and Paul Harvey).

Today at noon, Rush's fourth wife, Kathryn announced that earlier that day, he had passed from his lung cancer. A longtime smoker of cigars, it escalated Limbaugh's passing. As mentioned, he claimed that smoking had nothing to do with cancer. Well, it lead to a below average life.

Granted, Rush had $600 million in the bank. He lived in a huge mansion in West Palm Beach, FL. He had 600 affiliates and 15 million listeners. But, he was below average. He hated liberals, people of color and women. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty damn sure that Rush purchased his last wife, who was 24 years his junior. Hell, he even paid Elton John a shitload of money to appear at their wedding.

The best thing that happened to Rush was that he did not bore any children. However, he had a ton of clones over the years with names like Hannity, Savage, Levin, Jones, Ingraham and more. When Howard Stern left terrestrial radio, there hasn't been a formidable replacement for him, period. Though Free Beer and Hot Wings have some 50 affiliates, they don't have the big markets Stern had.

Question is, what will life be without Rush? I hope it will resemble that scene from the old Simpsons episode where Marge persuades the producers of the Itchy and Scratchy cartoons to tone down its trademark violence. When the kids all turn off the TV in disgust, they go outside, play and get some fresh air. For now, iHeartMedia plans to keep the show going with a mish-mash of old clips of Rush with some guest hosts. After that, who knows?

Bear in mind that the majority of talk radio hosts are old farts. Rush was 70, Hannity's pushing 60, Glenn Beck is 57 and so on. Most people who still listen to shitty talk radio are boomers and they're dying off. Recently, Rush's affiliate in Mt. Pleasant, WMMI 830 dropped its format and is now country as Buck 92, utilizing their translator at 92.3. If many AMs have translators like WMMI, I'd imagine the same from there on. With Rush gone, it's time to restore sanity to terrestrial radio.

Now, who's the person uttering "See, I Told You So!"?

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

2.16.21 Bee-otches of the Day: people who make stupid people famous

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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched for: making stupid people famous
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Thank God for the Foo Fighters.

This past week, their latest album, the critically acclaimed "Medicine at Midnight" debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album Sales Chart, selling 60,000 units. The album from the beloved rock band, headed by ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, is the group's tenth.

However, on the overall Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, guess who's still at #1? Good 'ol Morgan Wallen's "Dangerous".

Despite being banned from radio stations, CMT and getting kicked off his label, Wallen is still the hottest thing in all of music. To his millions of fans, the fact that he uttered the n-word during a 72-hour binge seems to be no biggie.

Sadly, this is the typical mentality of a country music fan. As some of you recall in 2009, our local country music station here in Grand Rapids, B93 was in a plethora of hot water when thousands of vehicles were flooded at their yearly Birthday Bash in Ionia because the parking lot was in a flood plain. It had rained for several days and downtown Ionia was either going to be flooded or it was going to be those vehicles. Well, since many country music fans are poor white trash, I joked that the combined cost of all those vehicles was something like $41.57.

Tragically, one person who attended the concert wasn't laughing and wrote me a lovely piece of hate mail.

In the letter - complete with poor grammar - said douchenozzle was nice enough to say that I was "Perez Hilton's boyfriend". Awwwww! Thanks for the comment, though I never met the guy in my life, plus the fact that I'm extremely hetero, thank you very much. What's even more pathetic was that I checked out his *I think* MySpace profile and he had a girlfriend at the time.

Sometimes, I'll never get the fact that young, attractive females are into Wallen, even after post-n-word utterance. Now that I'm pushing 40, I find it sad when a young, attractive woman will date a loser and have his kid. And when she finally grows a pair of ovaries and ditches said asshole, she's stuck with a kid that's a striking image of him and begs men to date her. To me, it's a cop out.

But, that's life and the pursuit of capitalism. We vote with our money. If there's a town that has a Walmart vs. the family-owned grocer, the Walmart usually wins and the family-owned grocer ends up being unable to compete and closes. The Waltons are worth ungodly billions while the family that owns the mom-n-pop end up asking themselves "what's next?"

Same goes with people like Chris Brown. He beat up Rihanna and he still sells records. Steve Wilkos goes after deadbeat dads and wifebeaters on his TV show, but he got busted for drunk driving and could have killed somebody himself. Nonetheless, he's still on a myriad of Fox and CW affiliates. Ted Nugent had an affair with a 16-year-old girl while he was in his 30s. Yet, all the rock stations in northern Michigan - sans Rock 105/95-5 - will play "Fred Bear" at the tip of a hat.

Last weekend on Southpaws, hosts Darren Gibson and Katy Steele played a game called "Cancel Culture or Dumbed Out of Position", where they analyzed people like Gina Carano, Wallen, Lou Dobbs and Nick Cannon. When Carano cried that Drumpf supporters like her were compared to Nazi Germany, she got kicked off The Mandalorian and rightfully so. Dobbs got fired from Fox Business Channel for believing in Drumpf's lies and Cannon lost gigs for making anti-sematic comments. All three - plus Wallen - were 'dumbed out of position'. However, cancel culture applies to people like Colin Kaepernick and The (Dixie) Chicks.

So, why do we give free time to people who don't deserve it? Look at Justin Timberlake. He recently apologized to both Britney Spears and Janet Jackson for fucking them over. To me, I think he needs to apologize for 1) ruining music overall in the 90s and 2) yanking off Janet Jackson's bustier, causing the FCC to overreact. But yet, some jerkoff will crank up the radio when "SexyBack" starts blaring. Or even worse, they'll gush over his new movie "Palmer", about a man who mentors a young boy who does things boys normally won't do, like wear makeup, play with Barbies and listens to 'NSync.

You know, I wish people will know why things suck. Wallen is a fucking racist for what he did. Corporate America hates his guts, but not his fans. Why? Because country music fans - thankfully not all of them - are racist, too. Yet, people don't understand why the n-word is evil and it isn't "just a word". Darren Gibson is right: when cancel culture fucks over people, the punishers need to be punished. When Cumulus banned The Chicks, several years later, they were bankrupt. When Hanlon fucked over KLQ and Howard Stern here in Grand Rapids, his company, Citadel went belly up and he left GR a has-been over a serious drunk driving charge. Speaking of radio, sometimes I wonder why "Huge" Bill Simonson is still on the air despite his station, WBBL, only having a .1 share. Oh, yeah! It's because he's in bed with the DeVoses. And guess who made THEM who they are? The morons who buy the crap scAmway sells, the assholes who buy a car from Fox Motors, the jackasses who go to Griffins games and so on. End result: an education secretary who bought herself the job and never taught a class in her life.

And that's why we need to stop making assholes famous.

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Monday, February 15, 2021

2.15.21 Bee-otches of the Day: the senators that didn't vote to convict Trump

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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: 43 Republican senators
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched for: making Trump a free man
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Well, we tried again and failed.

On Saturday, the senate voted 57-43 to acquit Drumpf for his involvement regarding the January 6th insurrection. Six Republican senators broke from the party to vote for his conviction. True, most of the senate voted against Drumpf, but there had to be a 2/3 majority for him to lose.

After his acquittal, the currently-reclusive Drumpf released a statement thanking his lawyers and called the impeachment trial a "witch hunt". He also commented on the "75 million people" who voted for him, when in fact, it was only 74.2 million while Biden got 81.2 million votes. But, numbers are numbers. Drumpf also stated that his "historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun", once again hinting that he'll run again in 2024.

Not shockingly, one senator who voted to not convict Drumpf was the good 'ol Kentucky turdle (and yes, I spelled it right), Mitch McConnell. The senate minority leader stated that even though he had tough words for Drumpf, impeachment should not be his biggest charge. Right now, Drumpf has several cases against him, mainly with his real estate dealings.

Sadly, at least one congresswoman - Liz Cheney of Wyoming - and one senator - Louisiana's Bill Cassidy - were censured by their states for not supporting the former de facto president. Those two should be instead lauded for putting people in front of party.

Since Drumpf has been acquitted and he still has his fans, it's scary to know that he might start considering a 2024 run when the time is right for him. But right now, President Biden is busy cleaning up all the messes he started.

Folks, nobody should be above the law, not even the POTUS. Drumpf was, and always will be a shady businessman who only cares about himself. He's the least-transparent president I've ever saw in my whole fucking life and I hope that if he dies before he's ever convicted, he will burn in hell for the shit he left every intelligent American.

Don't forget that not all of us can be wealthy and have had the whole world handed to us.

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

2.11.21 Hero of the Day: Larry Flynt

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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

2.10.21 Bee-otch of the Day: Mike Shirkey

Bee-otch of the Day honors are awarded Monday through Thursday; Bee-otch of the Week is awarded Sunday morning on Chuck69.com's socials.

Name: Mike Shirkey
Age: 66
Occupation: Michigan senate leader
Last Seen: Clarklake, MI
Bee-otched for: wearing the tinfoil with pride
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January 6th, 2021 will be a day that will live in infamy.

Yesterday began the Senate trial of Drumpf's second impeachment. As the trial began, the world was greeted with a repeat of the shocking footage taken inside the Capitol during the insurrection. Seven people died and hundreds more were injured in the melee, which started as a protest against certifying Joe Biden as the President of the United States. In the end, it turned into a hellhole of pushing, shoving, pillaging and pure destruction.

Just today, more footage of the attack was shown on TV, showing police and guards escorting everybody to safety. The terrorists were only feet away from attacking vice president Pence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others.

If you have an IQ higher than average, you know that the terrorist attack was caused by lies caused by Drumpf. For the longest time, he was telling his minions that no matter what, he was going to win the 2020 election. He did not, and now, he has hell to pay.

The terrorists who unleashed their wrath on Washington were all brainwashed by the likes of Drumpf, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, OANN and the MyPillow guy. They all believed in everything from faulty voting machines to President John F. Kennedy still being alive and well and working as an easy listening DJ in northern Michigan.

Sadly, one person who is wearing his tinfoil hat with pride is Michigan house speaker Mike Shirkey. In a secretly-taped interview at what appears to be a restaurant, Shirkey told the interviewer that the terrorists were "not Drumpf people" and that the insurrection at the Capitol was a hoax.

After the video surfaced, Shirkey apologized, but while talking with Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist Wednesday, he was captured on a hot mic, backtracking on his comments. He told Gilchrist that he didn't take back any of the points he was making in the video, but that the words he chose were not the right ones.

Michigan's leading Democrat, Sen. Jim Ananich stated, "Today I am more sad than I am angry. I am more disappointed than I am surprised. I’m not going to address any of the specific comments made recently by the senator from the 16th District because I just don’t have the words. But I am going to ask all of, but especially the senator from the 16th District, to reflect on the opening prayer that he gave just this morning. This isn’t the first time that you’ve asked for grace and Lord knows you’ve been given it. I would ask that you please accept it and learn from it. This is a chance for all of us to do some self-reflecting, but especially you, Mike."

Shirkey, a Republican has been critical of Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer for her stay-at-home order. He, along with now-former Michigan house speaker Lee Chatfield apparently worked together to try to help overturn the results of the 2020 election. Chatfield was term-limited out of office (sadly, his replacement, John Damoose is also a Repuke and a former producer of The 700 Club). Thankfully, Shirkey is also going to be term-limited, too. Hopefully, the people of his district will grow a brain and find somebody who doesn't believe in fake theories.

What's next? The terrorists were all CGI?

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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

2.9.21 Bee-otch of the Day: World Wrestling Entertainment

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Name: World Wrestling Entertainment
Age: 69
Occupation: wrasslers
Last Seen: Stamford, CT
Bee-otched for: getting themselves into a hole lotta trouble
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Hulk Hogan beating Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania inside the Pontiac Silverdome.

"Mankind" Mick Foley and Kane's bloody smackdown at Hell in a Cell.

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin proclaiming that "Austin 3:16" reads "I just whipped yer ass!"

The list of greatest moments in wrestling history just go on and on. But, on Monday Night, it was a female wrestler's turn to create history with just two words.

And it ain't "suck it".

During a tables match with Lana, six-foot, 270-lb. wrestler Nia Jax was about to slam her leg onto her. However, Lana rolled over and Jax ended up slamming her butt onto the apron part of the ring, which is one of the hardest. Upon landing, Jax was in fake severe pain and started screaming in agony. While screaming, she uttered a line that ended up entering the lexicon of wrestling fans around the world.

Those two words: "my hole".

Even though Jax lost the bout, she has now gained millions of fans around the world and yes, a lot of memes. The aforementioned Mick Foley tweeted that "my hole" should be the next "Austin 3:16" and that the WWE should put the phrase on t-shirts. A bidet company called Tushy is offering to send her a free toilet.

Early today, Jax, a cousin of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and the Uso family, tweeted, "I’ve been receiving a HOLE lotta love, much obliged #myhole" After the match and well into today, #MyHole was trending on Twitter.

However, despite "my hole" now being one of the best-known catchphrases of the moment, the brass at the WWE now think that it's too hot for TV.

Apparently, the company has officially reedited the clip for future reairings and has "my hole" bleeped out. Yes, the company whose leader once uttered the n-word and had wrestlers stereotyping people of color wasn't too happy about one of its wrestlers uttering "my hole" on live TV. Of course, the company has long reinvented itself as a family friendly company in the past several years, However, those who grew up with John Cena are now much older and USA is pressuring the WWE to allow more "adult content" in their shows.

True, audiences were quite happy seeing an obese Samoan woman pretend that she hurt her fat ass. However, this is the WWE we're talking about here. Bear in mind that the McMahons are Drumpf ass-kissers and for them, it's all about the money and the sweet cash they're getting from corporate America. AEW, sadly, is also Republican-owned, though goofy-mustached Pakistani owner Shahid Khan - who's also Muslim - has spoken out against Drumpf's policies against foreigners.

Look, "my hole" really isn't all that offensive. To me, it just shows how unfunny the WWE wants to be. As much as I loved the Attitude era, it ain't coming back. Simply put, Vince McMahon is probably just old and tired, like most of the WWE's storylines and matches.

After all, they did rehire Hulk Hogan AFTER his n-word rant.

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Monday, February 8, 2021

2.8.21 Bee-otch of the Day: conservatives in general

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Name: The Republican Party
Age: 167
Occupation: assholes
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched for: getting their asses handed to them
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Last week, we reported on the downfall of Morgan Wallen, the country music superstar who was canceled out by the media and even his label after he uttered the n-word on camera.

Boy, oh, boy, guess who canceled out the media? His fans.

Since Wallen's so-called fall from grace, his fans all gathered into their pickup trucks and headed out to their local Walmart to buy up all his albums. After the news broke regarding Wallen, his album sales skyrocketed up 339% from the week before. Then again, when country stations dumped The (Dixie) Chicks, the same thing happened: their sales went up and they even won several Grammys.

Of course, we also reported on Marilyn Manson's situation regarding him abusing his lovers and all the celebs who have now turned their backs on him, like former mentor and label boss Trent Reznor. He's still played on rock stations everywhere, including those whose sister stations dumped Wallen. I just checked the Billboard 200 album chart and Manson is nowhere to be seen.

Granted, abusing women should never be defended. Neither should some 27-year-old yokel who doesn't wear a mask, frenches female strangers in a pandemic and uses racial slurs while inebriated. If he didn't look like the type who slept through history class in school - IF he had a history class in his school - he'd probably know why it's not cool to use that word, especially in 2021.

The lesson here is that the media will punish somebody. But, in the real world, if We the People have the money, we'll use it to tell them to fuck off and not to tell us what we can or can't buy. It all depends on the crime. Yes, Wallen's fans have seemed to vastly forgive him, but if I were an African American, I'd be pissed.

Thankfully, I feel that most Americans don't think the same way with Drumpf. With his Senate impeachment trial quickly approaching, it sucks that he might not be attending it at all. Not only that, his fellow Repuke senators won't vote him out, either, clearing him for a possible redux in 2024. He's probably hoping by then, he can get back into the White House and not have to worry about getting the boot from Mar-A-Lago. But, he had his day in the sun and he brought nothing but tornadoes and hurricanes to America.

It seems that the travesty Drumpf gave himself and his supporters only hurt them all. Just look at Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy. Last weekend, he paid ultra-conservative cable network OANN to air a three-hour documentary loaded with false info regarding the 2020 election. Meanwhile, another retailer, JCPenney has announced that they are yanking MyPillow off their shelves, along with Kohl's and Bed, Bath and Beyond. To add more insult to injury, one of Lindell's biggest critics, Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, just announced that he's starting his own pillow company with a group of investors.

Another wacko, Marjorie Taylor-Greene saw herself stripped of her committee assignments last week because of her ties with QAnon and other far-right groups. However, one sane Republican, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was censured by her state's GOP for voting to impeach Drumpf.

The reality is that the people have spoken and money is power. When people give you money, you've won, even if your ideas aren't the best. Walmart's owners are billionaires and they treat their workers like shit. Yet, people shop there for their low prices. Chick-fil-A alienated their LGBTQ+ customers for giving to anti-gay groups years ago. Yet, people go crazy over their burned-out shit. It goes on. All we can do is not go there if your beliefs don't match theirs.

The reality is that right-wing BS in America is dying. In thirty years, only one Republican won the popular vote for president and it was BusHitler's second term. He won his first term because of the snafu in Florida and the fact that Al Gore chose an anti-First Amendment assclown, Joe Lieberman to run with him. Drumpf won because of the screwjob the DNC did to Bernie Sanders. Conservatives who have a (D) after their names are wolves in sheep's clothing. And guess what happens when they run for the highest office? CHAOS!

As long as Biden channels FDR, God bless him. I hope by the time he's up with his 1st term. America will be back in order. But, sadly, some people won't change. And in the case of Lindell and others, it will cost them money.

There's not enough ton foil in this world to make a hat good enough for the world's losers.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

2.3.21 Bee-otch of the Day: Morgan Wallen

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Name: Morgan Wallen
Age: 27
Occupation: shitty country singer
Last Seen: Nashville, TN
Bee-otched for: being a drunk, racist loser
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When it comes to the world of music, I can withstand just about everything.

Except most country music.

When I think of country music, I think of white trash losers with five teeth, don't shower and live in a trailer in the middle of nowhere in front of another trailer with its roof caved in. And yes, I view them as racist, Confederate flag-waving assholes who think that Drumpf was robbed in the 2020 presidential election.

And I wonder why women love Morgan Wallen.

I'll admit that the first time I've heard of him, he made headlines when he got kicked off Saturday Night Live for going to a bar during the pandemic. He was seen Frenching women and other things that might have gotten him and others the 'rona. Well, they did welcome him back a few weeks later. Now, it looks like his career is coming to an end.

The "Seven Glasses" singer was seen outside his home in Nashville after a night out with friends Sunday night. They were honking their horns and screaming loudly, angering neighbors. One of them decided to tape Wallen & Co.'s interaction when he uttered the words "pussy ass nigger".

Needless to say, the neighbor sent his video to TMZ, who exposed the country star as a drunk-ass racist asshole. In a statement, Wallen proclaimed "I’m embarrassed and sorry. I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back. There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better."

Well, it was too little, too late.

Early today, Wallen's record labels, Big Loud and Republic, have suspended him despite his current LP, "Dangerous: The Double Album" being #1 on the Billboard Album Charts. Cable channel CMT has dropped his videos and to add insult to injury, America's three largest radio groups - iHeartMedia, Entercom and Cumulus - along with streaming services and SiriusXM have pulled the plug on his music indefinitely.

Coincidentally, one of the companies, Cumulus made headlines in the 2000s when they banned The Dixie Chicks from their stations when lead singer Natalie Maines blasted then-president BusHitler. Since then, the two brothers who ran the company, the Dickeys have since been fired for bankrupting them and The Chicks have returned to their stations. The company has even told their conservative hosts to 'tone it down', which might have been a reason why Mancow Muller left WLS-AM Chicago not long ago.

Ironically, Wallen's fall from grace comes at the same time several women - including actress Evan Rachel Wood - have all accused shock rocker Marilyn Manson for raping and abusing them. Manson was dropped by his label, but radio stations all over still play his music. Just today, Manson's former guitarist and Limp Bizkit member Wes Borland admitted that he knows that Manson was an abuser. This evening, Manson's former friend and producer Trent Reznor - who owned his old label, Nothing Records - denounced him, especially when in Manson's 1998 autobiography "The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell", he claimed that the two physically and sexually assaulted a drunk woman. Reznor - who claims that he has not talked to Manson in 25 years - called the passage a "complete fabrication". Nonetheless, Manson has posted that he is innocent and that the sex he had with his partners was "consensual".

True, some will cry that all Wallen did was say a word that offends many while many rock stations still play Manson's music. Well, there's a difference, and it's the fact that there's no concrete evidence of Manson's abuse so far. However, Wallen uttering the n-word was captured on camera and now, he has to pay the price.

I know, it's also hypocritical that some of these stations that banned Wallen also play music from artists who have done worse things. Hell, the WWE fired Hulk Hogan when he uttered that word on a leaked recording. However, wrestling fans pointed out that WWE head Vince McMahon uttered that word on an episode of Monday Night Raw years ago. Well, the Hulkster was rehired not long after.

If Morgan Wallen's idiot fans want him back, it's up to them. But seriously, he's a fucking drunk asshole who doesn't care about the safety of his fans, and judging by that video, black people. This is why I'm a bigger rap fan than country, even though rappers have their issues, too. But seriously, if this limp dick asshole wants to make a comeback, he's got some work to do.

For starters, he needs to stay home.

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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

2.2.21 Bee-otch of the Day: the hypocrisy surrounding cancel culture

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Name: cancel culture
Age: ageless
Occupation: cutting out the good things in life
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched for: screwing over Marilyn Manson before he can speak
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He was one of the biggest rock stars of the 1990s.

When Marilyn Manson's 1996 album "Antichrist Superstar" was released, it was groundbreaking in terms of the fact that a lanky kid from Ohio named Brian Warner could shock the world with his music and image. His industrial metal cover of Eurythmics' synth-pop classic "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" from "Smells Like Children" was a radio hit and songs like "The Beautiful People" and "The Dope Show" made him an active rock radio mainstay.

Twenty-five years ago, Manson was your parents' worst nightmare. As time marched on and as pop and hip-hop overtook rock in popularity, Manson's album sales did take a hit. "Antichrist Superstar" sold over seven million copies. His latest LP, the critically-acclaimed "We Are Chaos" has sold only over 30,000 copies so far.

Over the years, Manson's career has faced challenges, notably his critics blaming him for the 1999 Columbine massacre. However, Dylan Klebold and Kyle Harris weren't big fans of Manson's music, but rather were allegedly into techno. Because of this, Manson recorded "The Nobodies" from his 2001 album "Holy Wood".

But now, Manson has a new challenge: saving his career.

Yesterday, the 52-year-old rocker was dropped from his label, Loma Vista,after allegations surfaced regarding abuse from several women, including actress Evan Rachel Wood. In 2018, Wood testified in front of Congress in support of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights Act, claiming that a "significant other" had been physically, mentally and sexually abusing her, leading to her having PTSD. However, she had to remain moot on those charges because the statute of limitations had passed, fearing that her accuser would sue her.

According to Wood, she started dating Manson when "she was 18 and he was 38". However, when she was 18 in 2005, Manson was 36. Whatever.

Wood publicly announced that she was abused by Manson on her Instagram account on Monday. The post read, "The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson. He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I am done living in fear of retaliation, slander, or blackmail. I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him, before he ruins any more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent."

Last night, Manson responded to Wood's accusations, posting "Obviously, my life and my art have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality. My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how — and why — others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth."

Just today alone, two TV shows that he was going to appear in canceled his appearances. His talent agency, CAA also dropped him.

Despite the cancel culture represented by Loma Vista, it appears that he's still getting airplay on radio stations everywhere. On Monday, legendary rocker WRIF Detroit played "Sweet Dreams" at around 5:30. SiriusXM still plays Manson's music on all their 1990s-onward rock channels.

The funny thing is that Ms. Wood is talking about the alleged pain and suffering she received from Manson over the years. However, it wouldn't shock me if some who hate Manson also embrace Chris Brown.

We all remembered what happened twelve years ago: Brown beat the shit out of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. Not only that, he's been arrested multiple times and threatened several more girlfriends. Many had hoped that his career would have been dead and gone by now, but nope! As a matter of fact, his latest single, "Go Crazy" is currently a top ten smash and has gone platinum twice.

Meanwhile, the #1 song on rock radio is Five Finger Death Punch's "Living The Dream", whose video depicts a large group of people going into war with a woman who resembles House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And yes, the video was shot long before the 1/6 insurrection.

Chances are that your local radio stations will have played everything from Ted Nugent (had an affair with a 16-year-old when he was in his 30s) to Elvis (raped Priscilla and was an alleged racist), Pantera (lead singer Phil Anselmo once screamed "white power" at a concert and often spoke about white privilege) to Creed (lead singer Scott Stapp threatened to kill Obama). Yesterday while I was taking my mom's car to get gas, her radio landed on Grand Rapids' recently-launched classic country outlet Jethro FM 94.9. They were playing "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis, who married his 13-year-old cousin in the 1950s.

There's no doubt that cancel culture has been around forever. In the 1890s, there was a movie called "The Kiss", which showed a middle-aged couple kissing. Many religious groups even wanted the projectors that showed the film destroyed for showing a PDA. In the 60s, there was the hit song "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"by Napoleon XIV, which was yanked off many radio stations because of complaints from mental health organizations. In 1968, Transamerica Insurance, which then-owned the pre-1948 Warner Bros. film library, yanked eleven Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies from television in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Even today, cancel culture is alive and well on TV in Utah; Salt Lake City's NBC affiliate, KSL-TV does not air the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives until 1:05 a.m. because the show has a gay couple. KSL is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which preaches against homosexuality.

What's sad is that so often, when both sides preach about cancel culture, karma will put the smackdown on their candy ass. In the 1990s, the same religious assholes who wanted Marilyn Manson gone also wanted the same for Howard Stern, especially here in Grand Rapids. I find it funny that some of those same assholes also supported 91.3 WCSG, whose morning host is now in prison for decades for raping two 12-year-old boys in a hotel room. True, those assholes got their wish, only after the Janet Jackson Super Bowl nip slip, which persuaded Stern to move to Sirius. Let's also remember that many of Stern's haters also love pill-poppin', prostitute-fucking and cancer-stricken Rush Limbaugh.

Sometimes, when I think of cancel culture, I think of two episodes of The Simpsons. One was when Sideshow Bob dressed as Krusty the Klown and robbed the Kwik-E-Mart. Because Krusty was now evil, Homer went into Bart's room, took all of his Krusty paraphernalia and tossed it into a massive, burning pile of other people's Krusty items. Of course, Krusty was framed, and he was a free man. The other was the one where Marge called for a boycott of Itchy and Scratchy because Maggie smacked Homer with a hammer. However, her group also called for the boycott of Michelangelo's David statue because of its exposed genitalia. Marge veered away from her fellow *ahem* members because she didn't find it offensive at all.

You see, when you program a music-based radio station, you have to realize that there's fans on both sides of the aisle. You have liberals and conservatives, but you also have artists that people simply don't like because they're fuck-ups. In twenty years, I can only think of two artists that got banned from certain radio stations: The Dixie Chicks (Cumulus banned them because lead singer Natalie Maines told a crowd that they were ashamed for being from the same state as George W. Bush) and Madonna (who got banned from a Texas oldies station for telling a crowd that she wanted to "bomb the White House" because of Drumpf). There *might* be some liberal-minded radio station owners and programmers out there who would want to ban the likes of Ted Nugent and Creed, but it's not in their nature because of the First Amendment and a fear of reduced ratings from conservative listeners.

Look, I've never met Marilyn Manson, nor have I ever visited his house. Hell, I've never went to any of his concerts. I simply enjoy his music. Do I think he raped and tortured his girlfriends? Right now, who knows? If he did, God damn him. If he didn't, I hope he can rebuild and move on with his career. Not only that, but shame on those women for trying to derail his career and trying to take him down like Kobe.

So, IF Marilyn Manson is found guilty of rape, whether or not radio stations will still want to play his music is up to them. Remember that in England, many old episodes of Top of the Pops are forever shelved because they were hosted by serial rapist Jimmy Savile. On the other hand, here in America, Bill Cosby is rotting away in jail for rape, but there's a black-owned TV network, TVOne, that still airs The Cosby Show.

I guess it's all up to us as individuals to decide what to watch or hear. We DO have the remote.

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2.1.21 Bee-otches of the Day: inconsiderate people

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Names: various
Ages: various
Occupations: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched for: just not being considerate of others
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Most civilized people have responsibilities in life.

People need to work, take care of their children and pets and homes. We need to eat, shower and take out the trash.

And yes, do the laundry.

On Saturday, I do what I normally do: run two loads of laundry in my apartment's laundry room. There wasn't much in the way of problems and was able to complete it in about two hours. However, the week before was hell.

I walk into the laundry room - where there's four washers and four dryers - and all four washers are running at once. So, I decided to wait maybe a 1/2 hour. Finally, two washers were free, so I started my wash. After my first two loads were done, I walk in, and a couple was in there loading two dryers while the other two dryers just sat there, not running, full of laundry. So, out of courtesy, I waited for whomever to empty those two dryers.

An hour went by, and those two dryers remained full. The other couple came in and emptied their laundry, so I used the dryers they used.

For shits 'n giggles, I monitored the laundry room - which was close to me - like a hawk. I saw that an Asian couple were using three washers. My laundry was finally done a short time later and was pissed at what I saw: the Asians were nice enough to take my jeans and threw them onto a table in the laundry room. Who knows what could have been on that table, and who knows how clean their hands were. Thankfully, my other load wasn't touched. So, I took that out, took it to my apartment and left those nasty Asians a nice surprise: I opened their dryers, stopping them for touching my shit.

And the funny thing is that a week before, the police came to that very laundry room.

What happened was that the four washers once again were all in use. The woman using them was an African immigrant. A black woman came in and wanted to use two of the washers, so she pulled out her clothes and dumped them onto the aforementioned table. The African woman came in with her baby attached to her back and was PISSED. She screamed at the lady that she was going to get COVID all over her clothes and threatened to punch her. I heard the screaming and shouting, so I kept my distance. The black woman called the cops and they came to talk to the African woman. I wanted to do my laundry, too, but since I lived by the laundry room, one of them decided to talk to me. He asked me if I knew about any punches thrown, and I said no. I told them that I stayed in my apartment the whole time, but heard a lot of screaming. That was all. Well, I got to do my laundry, though somebody - probably the African woman - opened my dryer doors. Thankfully, I was able to restart it ASAP.

It's an understandable fact that since the pandemic started, it's brought out the best in some people and the worst in others. A few weeks ago, I took my mother to get cataract surgery. The place I took her didn't have many places to sit, and some old farts ended up sitting next to me without even asking. I had almost half a mind to sit elsewhere, but I didn't want to cause a scene. Thankfully, my mom's surgeries are done, so I don't have to worry about being in crowded waiting rooms anymore.

You see, one of the lessons I've learned about life is that one person's idea of hygiene is a lot different than others. We've all been told to wash our hands after using the bathroom. Some don't do it after they pee. Hell, I've encountered some who don't do it after they shit, either! Many of them are unfortunately women who cry that soap dries out their hands. True, but I don't want their fucking germs, either! And yes, women do carry germs and can make people sick.

I know. I'm pushing 40 and should be in a house or condo by now. But, this is Grand Rapids, MI, where the cost of living is skyrocketing. Until then, I'm stuck renting and having to pay $3 to wash and dry my clothes. I work long hours at times during the week, so doing laundry then is not an option. Sadly, it's pathetic that I have to share my laundry facilities with self-centered assholes who are forgetful and don't think of others. The same goes with all of the jerks I've met who don't wear a mask or even want to stay away from you.

Folks, I don't fucking understand why it's been a year since the word "coronavirus" entered our vocabulary and people think it's still a hoax. OK, so where did you hear that it was a lie? Alex Jones? QAnon? Sorry, but that answer isn't good enough. My mother got it, and so did my cousin and one of his daughters, plus another one of my second cousins. Because of my mother getting it, I had to stay out of work for over a week, eating up most of my vacation time.

The good news is that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. People are getting vaccinated and more and more companies are coming out with new vaccines every week. I hope that by the end of the year, we won't have to worry about COVID and we can all move on with our lives.

But, until then, fucking clean your ass.

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