Sunday, September 13, 2015

No moon at all, and other WBAI fables....


Suggesting that criticism of WBAI's on-air fare by West Coasters is based upon hearsay, a Reimers crony recommends streaming. The present, he maintains, offers an “excellent opportunity to experience first-hand the regular WBAI schedule.” Really? Have you tuned in to 99.5 lately? The suggestion, which I believe to come from Mitchel Cohen, is either a deliberate twist of truth, grossly uninformed or an assertion that Reimers will no longer distinguish between a fund-driving schedule and one he sees as “regular.”

The fact is that pre-emptions have made room for worn-out infomercials since the end of August. They barely dust off these frazzled fundies before once again turning them into “encore presentations," and they are all there: Null’s “survival kit”, magic toothpaste and rainbow of powdered life extensions; Blosdale's wicked pitch of the West, Mother Goosing 9-11; "Sojourner Truth" belying its program title via Maggie Prescod—yes, she continues to celebrate Black History Month; and Geoff Brady—he of the globe-trotting Reptilians—all but lands a big juicy one on the quivering lips of a guest who (as heard in the audio clip below) maintains that the moon is just a hologram and cannot fathom why the rest of us haven’t spotted everything NASA has done as “stagecraft”. That includes the moon landing, the fatal re-entry, etc. Those photos of Pluto? Well, you idiots, they are from pre-redesignation artists renderings!

Anything for a handful of money and yet there is not $160 in the piggy to fulfill WBAI’s part of the shady deals.

So, listen to Uncle Mitch (it rhymes with pitch) and join financial wizard Berthold Reimers’ association of gullible goners. 

REMEMBER: You are never the wrong color to send in money.

7 comments:

  1. With WBAI claiming to be the voice of truth, wouldn't you think Geoff Brady might have been just a bit curious to find out how this lunar hologram was accomplished in days when candles lit our way?

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  2. The perfect comment about WBAI is the last line of the clip: “It’s all shenanigans.”

    SDL


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  3. "Hologram moon?"--is there no end to the lunacy of today's BAI? Well. "It wouldn't be make-believe, if you believe in me".

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  4. 3rd try...

    The perfect comment about WBAI is the last line of the clip: “It’s all shenanigans.”

    SDL

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  5. (JustAListener)
    This one's great.
    I wonder if there is a group of humorists that tries to come up with the most absurd conspiracy theories then sees who they can get to believe them. Sort of like "The Onion".
    I thought Brady wasn't on WBAI anymore, when did this air?

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    1. Brady was brought back a couple of months or so ago. The funny thing is how he's up against George Noory and Art Bell now, both of whom are the professionals in the field, compared to Brady's amateur ass.

      The perfect comment about WBAI is the last line of the clip: “It’s all shenanigans.”

      SDL

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  6. My impression is that WBAI is in Madoff (Ponzi scheme) territory. Or (to switch metaphors), forever bailing water out of the front of the boat and emptying the pail into the back.

    To look at the situation with a wider view, is New York City becoming ever less amenable to truly contrarian organizations such as WBAI/Pacifica? I knew a Lower East Side artist who finally gave up on recovering NYC for some sort of Bohemia and decamped to Europe.

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