On Thursday’s Radio Show…
December 11th, 2008, 6:00 PM EST
• With the Big Three car companies on the verge of collapse, Alan asks Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) why he voted against the auto bailout.
• BunnyRanch brothel owner Dennis Hof of HBO’s Cathouse and infamous prostitute Air Force Amy announce an indecent proposal for disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
• How low could he go? Alan reveals how Blagojevich betrayed his own mother.
• Would you pay extra to talk to a tech support rep who’s not based in India? Alan considers the offer.
The Southern Republican Senators/crackers are lining up to squash the Detroit bridge loans for three reasons …
1) Middle class Yankees have always been too uppity while many of their Southern cousins languished in poverty. This is finally their grand opportunity to put the Yankees in their place.
It’s no accident Senator Cracker is appearing all over TV presenting his “unions are Detroit’s only real problem” and “the UAW has to accept de-certification and deep wage cuts for Detroit to survive in the global economy” arguments.
Beyond uppity, unions and the old-fashioned Yankee middle class are the biggest threats to the returning Southern plantation life (it’s spreading like Kudzu vine) and that threat must be terminated even if it imperils the health of the greater America economy. Nothing good comes without suffering.
2) The Asian auto plants are scattered through the South. Senator Cracker knows who’s buttering HIS toast and it ain’t GM/Ford.
3) Senator Cracker is still sore over Sherman’s burning of Atlanta. 150 years later, with the chance to finally set Detroit afire, it’s payback time. The War was never lost, it was only suspended while the South got their second wind. The South is rising again!!!
December 11th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Hilarious,but some what true?I guess Toyota & Honda will dominate NASCAR now?
December 11th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
This is old, but I just came upon this from the Onion:
Obama Modifies ‘Yes We Can’ Message To Exclude Area Loser
‘Yes We Can, Except Nate Walsh,’ Obama Says
August 27, 2008 |
COLUMBIA, SC-In a nationally televised speech Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama altered his vision of a unified America to exclude Dayton, OH loser Nate Walsh.
According to Obama, the 32-year-old Walsh, who has lived with his parents intermittently since receiving his associate’s degree in 2001 and still does not have a credit card in his own name, no longer figures into the senator’s long-term plan of rallying Americans from all walks of life around a common, higher purpose.
“People of South Carolina, people of the world, this is our time, this is our moment,” Obama said before 72,000 supporters at the University of South Carolina’s Williams-Brice Stadium. “That is, unless you live in apartment 3L at 1254 Holden St., you watched Money Train on TBS last night at 3 a.m., and your name is Nate Walsh.
“I have always said that the change we seek will not come easy, that it will not come without its share of sacrifice and struggle,” Obama continued. “And the last thing we need is dead weight like Nate Walsh adding another 20 or 30 years to the process.”
The speech, entitled “A More Perfect Union Minus Nate Walsh,” was 26 minutes long and contained the words “change” 12 times, “hope” 16 times, and “Nate,” in conjunction with the phrase “with the exception of,” 34 times.
Although Obama remained vague on issues such as health care and foreign policy, the Illinois senator was praised for finally publicly addressing the issue of Nate Walsh. Obama took a hard-line stance on Walsh, calling the part-time driving-range employee the lone aspect of America he doesn’t believe in, a citizen who can languish in the past for all he cares, and “on top of everything else, kind of a jerk.”
“When I began this campaign, my mission was to help this nation share my vision for one America-not a black America, or a white America, or a Latino or Asian America,” Obama said. “But now what I see, what I envision, is a Nate-free America. And once we get rid of that guy, there is nothing we can’t accomplish. Nothing we can’t achieve.”
According to campaign strategist David Axelrod, Walsh’s failure to remember his mother’s birthday five years in a row, along with the fact that for the entire month of July he washed his hair with a bar of soap because he was too lazy to purchase shampoo, are examples of the kind of hopelessness Obama is trying to avoid.
“I am reminded of an instance early last year when Nate told his sister, Elizabeth, that he was going to start going to the gym three times a week after work,” Obama said. “I was rooting for Nate. I thought that this time things would be different. That this time Nate would be capable of change. But it was just like 1997, 1999, 2000, and 2002 all over again. He went to the gym twice and quit.”
“What a loser,” Obama added.
In the hours following the speech, members of the McCain camp scrambled to respond to Obama’s views on Walsh. In a statement last night, McCain applauded Obama’s position on the loser, but criticized him for not offering any real solutions to the Nate Walsh problem. McCain went on to promise that, if elected, he would rid the world of Walsh within his first 48 hours in office without raising taxes.
Perhaps the most stirring moment of Obama’s speech came at its conclusion, when he reasserted his call for change on the part of everyone except Walsh, whom he urged to just change the channel to the Golden Girls marathon on Lifetime like he knows he wants to.
“People of America, not Nate, we have the ability to heal this nation,” Obama said. “Yes we can, Nate excluded, seize our future. Yes we can, with the exception of Nate and his stupid cargo shorts that he never washes, turn the page to a new tomorrow. I am confident that where we-and by ‘we’ I mean everyone but Nate-are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can’t, we-again, not Nate-will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in six simple words: Yes we can, except Nate Walsh.”
Added Obama: “God bless the people of South Carolina, God bless America, and f@ck you, Nate.”
December 11th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
The Onion is fiction, but:
Obama had his credit card declined at a car rental booth when he tried to attend the DNC convention 10 years ago.
December 11th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
The UAW man isn’t making “$70/hr”.
He’s making $14-30/hr.
Kingston has been watching too much FOX and reading the WSJ.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
OTR, Hannity, and O’Reilly are growing by leaps and bounds to the top news program of all time! Maybe I should say FOX overall is growing by leaps and bounds ! Can it be because of their integrity and presenting everything without polish and doctoring up? They are a network to be trusted and I pray they protect that reputation at all costs! I just wish Allen would change his eating habits or whatever it is that feeds his ugly disposition! He can’t wait to jump in with negative nastinesses regardless of the topics. Maybe he needs some more loving from home or at least some sugar-filled desserts! Come Allen, you can share with us…just what is it with your negative heart???
December 11th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
” Pay to play” is the fabric and foundation of our great nation. You get access to interwiew the president: you get a bonus and the president gets his agenda out.Did you see the interviews of Sarah Palin by Sean Hannity? Well, now he gets to be “SOLITO” for 1-hr at the Foxy network .So he played and he will get pay( he doesn’t even care for the fate of his “compadre”).I guess he will have more time to ask profound questions to get to the truth , just like O’reilly does.Will he ever be # 1 on radio and on Tv?
December 11th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Visit the UAW site. No wonder the big 3 are going under.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
” They are a network to be trusted and I pray they protect that reputation at all costs!”
Fess up. Did Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly tell you that?
December 11th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
WEll well, the union doesn’t want to budge. I wonder if any of the thousands of people who are already jobless will work for the big 3 at honda, toyota, nissan, bmw, or mercedes wages.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
First time I have heard your podcast and I have to say, Wow! you have some really really odd people call into your show. Not sure how you do it. But bravo.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
uaw (dot) org/auto/11_25_08auto2 (dot) cfm
“But then what’s the source of that $70 hourly figure? It didn’t come out of thin air. Analysts came up with it by including the cost of all employer-provided benefits — namely, health insurance and pensions — and then dividing by the number of workers. The result, they found, was that benefits for Big Three cost about $42 per hour, per employee. Add that to the wages — again, $28 per hour — and you get the $70 figure. Voila.
Except … notice something weird about this calculation? It’s not as if each active worker is getting health benefits and pensions worth $42 per hour. That would come to nearly twice his or her wages. (Talk about gold-plated coverage!) Instead, each active worker is getting benefits equal only to a fraction of that — probably around $10 per hour, according to estimates from the International Motor Vehicle Program. The number only gets to $70 an hour if you include the cost of benefits for retirees — in other words, the cost of benefits for other people.”
The above narrative appears in other places, if the UAW is too poor a source. The starting UAW wage is $14/hr.
Repeating the $70 figure again as the “truth”, Rupert will include a little something extra in your paycheck.
Disgusting.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
What you fail to mention, Anonymouse, is that the auto makers have to figure all that into their equation in order balance their books. In other words the Big 3 must pay out that average of $70 hr. in order to meet it’s obligations, and that figure automatically puts them in a hole of approximately $2000 per vehicle over the foreign auto makers. No matter how you look at it it still comes out to a disadvantage to the U.S. auto makers and now to a disadvantage to the auto workers.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:48 am
That “approximately $2000 per vehicle” Detroit cost disadvantage is nearly all paid out to their retirees. The transplants have no retirees in North America while Detroit is carrying hundreds of thousands of retirees on their books.
To reach true cost parity with the transplants, Detroit will have to rid themselves of the old coots. What do you propose to do with them? Move ‘em into your spare bedroom?
December 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Pensions paid out of a defined benefit plan should not be putting such a burden on a company. They are funded by contributions throughout a persons employment and based on earnings and such. These funds are invested and most payouts are from fund earnings based on years of service and life expectancy. The benefit is a set fixed amount – hence the name defined benefit plan. I don’t see how any retiree pension costs should factor into that $70 figure.
Now, retire health care costs could be another issue as the benefits are not fixed and rise along with the increased cost of health care. Even well managed funds could pay out more than taken in, forcing subsidization by the company.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:46 pm