Ron Daniels is never at a loss for self-puffery, but even today's WBAI has callers who don't drink the Kool-Aid.
No real reason for posting the following audio clip from today's Advantage Point show, but while we wait for the important news...
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 often think that that which so empowers the mindless horrors of the right are the endless horrors of the left.
ReplyDeleteHardly an original observation on my part, just a thought.
~ ‘indigo’
Chris,
ReplyDeleteHufnagel was a woman, a medical doctor who lost her license. She lost a libel suit.
Hufnagel made weird and unsubstantiated claims against a doctor and others.
Ed Manfredonia
I love WBAI. The Asia Pacific show talking about El Salvador. La Voz Latina talking the same crap in a different language and now Absurd Conspiracy Theater with Brady.
ReplyDeleteHow about Credico? You have to admire a guy who can talk a blue streak saying nothing and do it all while kissing rear ends.
DeleteAsia Pacific Forum was off this week, was not talking about El Salvador. The anger on this forum has become diffuse and not constructive.
DeleteThere is legitimate anger on this board - WBAI has fucked over so many people over the years - it needs to go down, hard. WBAI has committed many crimes - staff members should go to jail and former staff members should be indicted for theft and sexual crimes
DeleteI don't think there is much anger on this board. I would say it's more amusement.
DeleteAs for not being constructive, I would point the finger at WBAI and Pacifica.
SDL
Brady is exposing those evil Swiss. All this time Chris, you were sweating the Danes but Brady has revealed the truth. At the heart of the conspiracy lies those evil Swiss.
ReplyDeleteHey, at least it's a break from the standard whitey did it. This guy is actually really amusing. maybe he should have a show?
DeleteSDL
I'm going to report this guy at the next Bilderberg meeting. He's telling Brady everything.
DeleteI wonder how the Prieuré de Sion fits into this, as some of its grand masters were Templers...
DeleteSDL
A head in the basket is worth three in the cabbage patch.
DeleteOn behalf of my fellow masons, I wish to state for the record that we are not now nor have we ever been members of that defunct group known as templars. These attacks on Switzerland must end. Everyone knows the world is ruled from Brussels.
DeleteSadly, the attacks on Switzerland coincides with Reimers' getting together a major Alpine yodel-o-rama with the Trapps traipsing in blackface among thousands of darkened edelweiss blooms.
DeleteThese WBAI creatures have lousy timing.
Actually, Switzerland isn't the problem. It's really the Republic of Saugeais. They are the biggest threat to Pacifica.
DeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteJim Dingeman posted this. Dingeman must have had a testicular transplant from an auroch to post this:
There is a need to raise as much money as possible additionally each month
Probably more much more
I am simply calculating covering the monthly cost of the transmitter
We probably should increase that number to an additional 100 k a month going forward on top of what we get from the fund raising drives
They need to teach 85 percent or more of their goals
How to practically do that now
Any thoughts???
Dingeman lives in the 1930s, as is evidenced by his fascination with Karl Marx, the Golden Age of Radio.
Or we could raise money the way one of Mitchel Cohen's heros did. Stalin raised money by robbing banks.
Ed Manfredonia
I think desperation and severe naïvité has lifted Jim off this Earth. He does not have a time slot to fight for, so I think the growing challenge and diminished odds of successfully meeting it drives him inti never-never land.
DeleteI am in the LGBTQ "spectrum" and found the"Illustrious Blacks" painful to listen to.
ReplyDeleteSame here, Justine.
ReplyDeleteI think "LGBTQ" is now obsolete. Other letters have been added, but, I can't remember what they are or what the new letters stand for. It's really hard to keep up this stuff.
ReplyDeleteFrom an upcoming appearance:
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time in a galaxy not far away, there lived two kings. Each was the ruler of his own deliciously glorious planet. The first king, Manchildblack, was well known throughout the cosmos for his ethereal vocals, celestial sonics and earthy musical messages. The other king, Monstah Black, was a star in the solar system for his gravity defying performances, gender bending fashions and spacey disposition. One magical night, an inexplicable ultra-magnetic pull forced the two planets to collide. A technicolored explosion occurred, turning night into day, with a feast of aural and visual delights. It was then that the universe was changed forever. Manchildblack and Monstah Black united and became The Illustrious Blacks!
But there was no applause, no oohs or ahhs, so they bought the software.
DeleteIf they go , could they take Prescod , Daniels, Jordan, Gloria Brown , Haskins, Byrd, Milton Alamadi, Bob Law, Samori Benjamin, Pam Brown, Joy DeGrue, Mimi Rosenberg, "Education at the crossroads guy, Gerald Horne, Nate Turner, Haitian allstars, Rebel Diaz , Charles Barron etc....
ReplyDeleteMaybe then bai could have a chance to survive. Be alot of dead air though . haha
We can't have that. They represent .01 percent of revenue and 3.4 percent of the audience. WBAI could not afford those kinds of losses. Besides, Mimi has a plan. It is a simple plan, an innovative plan free from the rules of accounting and common sense. She will save the station. She's still perfecting it but it should be ready any day now. In the meantime, Prescod needs $5,000 in the next five minutes. She only has 5 premiums left. Call now. Right now.
DeleteYes, although I think Gloria Brown could stay. While Geoff Brady, Null and Kathy Davis need to be huddled in the caboose along with Reimers, Bates, Katz and, of course, Cerene and her JUC dummies.
DeleteDon't listen to Chris Mr. Null. He doesn't understand all the good work you've done promoting alternative medicine. He has let his anti-Dane and anti-Swiss views cloud his judgement. Who else would donate their products to be used as premiums at a reasonable discount? Who else would step in and ensure delivery of premiums. You even collect money on WBAI's behalf. Who else would do that?
DeleteIts only natural that you receive some compensation from WBAI. After all you're the biggest fundraiser. I'm looking forward to the next retreat.
There is only one Null—I like to call him Mr. Selfless.
DeleteHow could i have forgotten Reimers, Bates , Davis , Brady Plus Sally O'Brien,
ReplyDeleteNull, Katz, Cerene.
Wait isn't this the majority of the station? haha
Yeah , debatable about Gloria Brown . I think she should go just for reading that list of blacks
that were mistreated by cops , which she spent a whole hour on last year. But that's just me.
So far, I think the guy who replaced Felipe Luciano is doing a good job. Felipe has serious, stupid problems accepting the fact that he isn't black enough, so he foolishly tries to deny being Latino. I remember when he opportunistically cashed in on his light complexion.
DeleteAdd Bonnie Faulkner, host of "Guns and Butter" to the list of those who should be tossed overboard. Her show is nothing more than a platform for every conspiracy theorist who comes along.
ReplyDeleteI wholly agree with that and, while we're tossing petrified logs into the flames of film flam, let us give Robert's Rules the heave-ho. :)
ReplyDeleteChris, get the punctuation right. It's Roberts' Rules.
DeleteSDL
Thank you, SDL! I'll inform the Gideon people :)
DeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteDid Credico appear on NY1? What did he say, if he did appear?
Thank you.
Ed Manfredonia
He appeared but made no mention of Reimers, Bates or the WBAI situation. Hot air from a deflating balloon.... nothing more.
DeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteA true statement by Jim Dingeman:
any investigations by the NY State AG and other sudden and repeated media splashes will make this worse since we are already perceived as irrelevant and off the radar screen by millions here in the metro area.
Thank you.
Ed Manfredonia
Jim is often correct in his assessments of the situation, I just have a problem with some of his pipe dream solution proposals.
DeleteDingeman is wrong. Any investigations could only help WBAI get a little publicity and seem to be persecuted, in the eyes of lefties. Remember, "good publicity is good publicity, bad publicity is good publicity, no publicity is bad publicity."
DeleteSDL
In my estimation, they are by no means the worst WBAI has to offer, but only because their shallow chit chat and bland music does not preach racism and other forms of hate, such as Bates and others do.
ReplyDeleteThey have been on the air for two years—that's 24 months too long.
When (if) all the riffraff and gross incompetence is thrown into the dumpster, there will be very little left... VERY little. Keeping WBAI on the air in its present form is not something that can be justified—restoring it mission impossible.
Better than usual OTH tonight, with good discussion. Glad Emmanuel is calmer than usual and not belaboring points. Also, glad I gave them a laugh.
ReplyDeleteSDL
Missed it. I'll get it from the archive.
DeleteIn other news, CNN is reporting tonight that Randy Credico was Roger Stone's Wikileaks contact.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/randy-credico-roger-stone-wikileaks/index.html
Wow. Stone says that he just asked Randy to confirm a report that Assange had DNC emails and that Randy confirmed it. Is that the extent of the contact or is there more to it?
DeleteI guess Randy won't have time to deal with Reimers and Bates.
Randy's calendar is filling up. He spoke to Jimmy Dore. According to the Daily Beast, he has jury duty around the time he is supposed to appear before the committee. He told
DeleteRussia Today he thinks the committee has ulterior motives. “This is about chilling WikiLeaks and that starts with intimidating anyone who has met with Julian [Assange].”