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An unvarnished blog that dips into the past and comments on the present of WBAI-FM, a once significant, intelligent New York radio station that for years has suffered chronic abuse from within and now nears extinction. Your comments are welcomed and will not be censored.
I have said for decades the same thing. Where are these supposedly cured by alternative means patients of terminal diseases? We never see them nor their medical records. Don't tell me they are being suppressed, because they could very well be brought out at symposiums held by the alternative treatment community. I want to see the cured cancer and AIDS patients already! Even the UFO people do a better job at parading around abductees.
ReplyDeleteIt's all a scam to make money from those with little or no hope. Next we'll hear about the people brought back from a cryogenic sleep, but never actually see them, of course.
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WBAI's health scam perpetrators are the funeral director handing out his card at the scene of a fatal accident.
DeleteTelevangelists do a better job showing the cured patients from their hands on miracle cures.
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It still amounts to knowingly giving false hope to people who might die, as a result. A charlatan is a charlatan is a charlatan, and those who facilitate them are just as guilty of serious fraud.
DeleteI somewhat understand the on-air hucksters, for they have no moral compass and listeners are never as important to them as the money they have to donate. That said, I quite frankly have some reservations when it comes to people who work at WBAI, do a good job, but only mildly complain, if at all. Delphine Blue did the right thing when she quit upon hearing these health scams in action.
"...and those who facilitate them are just as guilty of serious fraud."
DeleteExactly how I feel.
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I learned a new word today Chris. According to Wikipedia:
ReplyDeleteLysenkoism - political campaign against genetics and science-based agriculture conducted by Trofim Lysenko, his followers and Soviet authorities. Lysenko served as the director of the Soviet Union's Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenkoism began in the late 1920s and formally ended in 1964. The term Lysenkoism can also be used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.
They're playing the Null infomercial for that book that's $20 something on amazon but he's hawking for $75 in lieu of his PBS agreement again.
ReplyDeleteThink Null and Reimers kissed and made up, WBAI is running it without his permission or Null is just full of shit? I vote the latter.
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That appears increasingly evident to me, also—the benefit of a doubt that I used to afford Null is no longer in evidence.
DeletePlease stay tuned , Bai will be back to the slavery coverage that you have come to know and love ,
ReplyDeleteshortly . Bai's management offers their sincere apologies for this unfortunate disruption. haha
Is the null/reimers bromance back on ? Here's what happened ...
ReplyDeleteThe station has been taken over by racist morons .
This station COULD work, with more intelligent and interesting programming! Period!
Null just said the beg-a-thon has been extended by one week. He didn't add "as usual."
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Dead air has become very desirable on WBAI—perhaps they should put it on a disc and sell it as a "thank you gift."
DeleteRandy interviewing Charles Grodin followed by Katie talking about the DNC? It almost sounds like a real radio station.
ReplyDeleteAlmost doesn't do it for me.
DeleteI wasn't expecting Off The Hook to be on tonight, but it is.
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OTH won't offer premiums because of the backlog. I guess they didn't hear that Null is sending them all out, or maybe they just know he is full of shit...
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Perhaps they know that Null's concern is over his own premiums.
DeleteMaybe someone grew a brain? There wasn't much slavery crap today , after Mimi Rosenboring. Nah ....
ReplyDeleteMimi, however, was on overload.
DeleteYes , It sounded like she was channelling her inner joy degruy this morning.
ReplyDeleteShe was so bad that she was good! I just couldn't turn her act off this time.
DeleteAfter all this is the radio equivalent of a slow motion train wreck.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you just can't turn away. No matter how tragic it is .
Plan 9 from Outer Space.
ReplyDeleteWBAI's audio is a bit wonky tonight. I had a couple of static laden drop outs.
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Worse than "normal"?
DeleteSounded like the transmitter shut off. Someone in NJ is also talking about it.
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Another movie title: "Things to Come." a favorite of mine.
DeleteMore like Born Losers.
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Sorry if I'm redundant, but Davis is a serious lunatic with NO sense of history. I'm glad to see she is finally showing her true racist nature once and for all.
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Yes, it has been coming out lately, as she undergoes another metamorphosis. She is now echoing Tony Bates, who has been echoing Clarke and "Doctor Ben," whose racist fantasie seem also to appeal to Reimers. Reimers is apparently conducting this fund flopper.
DeleteIt's the highly embellished, shamelessly exaggerated and totally rewritten history of black people and only on WBAI can one hear snowball, picking up new lies from day to day. It's really quite extraordinary—every broadcast adds a new wrinkle. They have not yet painted the Vikings black, but they will.
Need I say that Snow White was black? I'm not sure about the dwarfs—they may have been brown.
Seriously, these opportunistic phonies belong behind bars.
Poor Lew Hill.
WBAI has just hit a new low, even for them. They are broadcasting a "news" report from Don "DeBar" DeBeradinis that suggests that Donald Trump is a potential peacemaker for cozying up to Putin and that the Clinton campaign is engaging in "McCarthyism" for attacking Trump because of this. Despicable.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid that there are no new lows to be hit by WBAI, because the station is already resting on a bottom beyond which only a final gasp is to be heard.
DeleteNotice that Haskins the Horiffic has now transported us to the middle of Black History Month and another best forgotten low: his drama queen duet with Rarl Caldwell wherein they hysterically attempt to sell a bogus book about a monumental "slave revolt," the biggest ever (they claim) yet one that has been kept a secret since 1811, because--you guessed it--the U.S. Government didn't want you to know about it!
It would appear that the book, if it can be called that, did not sell a few years back when this infomercial was aired live from one of the station's previous locations, replete with the scamming duo taking turns emulating phone traffic with a bicycle bell.
Truly one of the most abominable examples of WBAI's fall to the bottom, and idiocy, in general. Aging hamsters have more brain than these fools.
There should be coverage of the David Duke run for the U.S. Senate seat from Louisiana. I would vote for him if I lived in Louisiana, and I'm Jewish.
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A bicycle bell to emulate phone traffic? Ha Ha
DeleteI've got to find that recording. Chris, you seem to be focused on the morning schedule. I agree with your criticism. Its just a shame that it is taking away from some decent programming in other time slots.
I heard a piece of Null's pitch prior to his show and want to thank him for, obviously, reading this blog.
ReplyDeleteI have one question for you, Gary: how will you be dealing with the old premiums no longer available for purchase from the suppliers? That is, of course, unless the only premiums you claim are being sent are your own.
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