From comments by Cynical from Fresh Paint
William Shatner just phoned in.
Mancow has been pretty much trashing Keyes and not letting him get a word in, very much, and when he does he sounds like an idiot. Mancow says he’s not voting for Bush this year because of his war against freedoms, and just asked Keyes about it, who responded with the usual gushing torturous wave of unintelligible crap.
Keyes has to be about ready to explode because he can’t control the discussion and isn’t getting the media strokes he must have expected. (Talk Show = Conservative).
I just want someone to ask Keyes who Bud Billikan is and why we should honor him.
UPDATE: From comments by Bob Romashko
I heard it, and I sort of disagree that Mancow was trashing him. He was certainly trashing Obama – he was trying very hard to get Keyes to call Obama a communist, not to trap Keyes, but because he wanted to hear him say that. He was trying very hard, as well, to get Keyes to play to his angry white man schtick. But he was giving him a free ride.
Shatner, on the other hand, wanted to hear Keyes’ opinions on the whole FCC thing, the PATRIOT act, and the environment.
Nonetheless, Mancow was shilling.
I heard it, and I sort of disagree that Mancow was trashing him. He was certainly trashing Obama – he was trying very hard to get Keyes to call Obama a communist, not to trap Keyes, but because he wanted to hear him say that. He was trying very hard, as well, to get Keyes to play to his angry white man schtick. But he was giving him a free ride.
Shatner, on the other hand, wanted to hear Keyes’ opinions on the whole FCC thing, the PATRIOT act, and the environment.
Nonetheless, Mancow was shilling.
I must admit I finally turned the radio off in the middle of one of Keyes’s rants, which was running long and getting repetitive, so didn’t hear the end of the program. Once you get past the hysterical voice and gushing, confused, and contradictory delivery, he’s kinda boring.
Mancow is a wart on the face of humanity in many ways, but he’s our (Chicago’s) wart, he’s more savvy than Keyes, and has a cute “Is Bush an Alien?” flash graphic up on his site. And he probably knows about Bud Billiken. Maybe even Casimir Pulaski Day too, that holiday beloved of school children throughout the state.
As a lover of all things revolutionary, I wonder if Keyes does?
Has Obama been on Mancow? I’m sure he’d go in a heartbeat if asked.