Live from Outside Space

Gettel the car dealer, which charged me 500 dollars for the privilege of buying a car from them, tried to screw me over when I brought the car in cause it wasn’t right. During my whole car accident experience my rental car experience was the best
I liked the Ford Focus
I liked the Semi New Car Smell
The only thing I didn’t like was Sirius Satellite radio.
The littlest thing (tree leaves) could make me lose signal, like digital cable I had over 100 channels and not a darned thing on. This lead in was some “transitional material”

Opie and Anthony: From what I heard of them the few times I was in their turf, they were funny
BTLS: The 800-pound Gorilla of the Tampa Bay area. He was often crude, often rude, and often funny.
Howard Stern: the originator, who proves you don’t have to be good to get the best market share, just be first.

I listed them in order of how raw their deal was

O&A didn’t broadcast the sex act; they had people who were trying to keep the stunt clean and away from children and families. Was it risky? Sure it was. But they exercised a fair attempt to keep it in bounds.
BTLS was going to have to pay the piper with the FCC. Having women masturbate on the call in lines, and ensure we heard their “rabbit” purr was going to cause a problem. Bubba should have owned up and came correct. He should have had Cheap Channel on his side. But that was his trouble. Clear Channel didn’t like him but he was their best product in the Tampa Bay market. Bubba got cocky; he beat down a variety of local legal efforts but got slammed by people who-irony of ironies- he would get into bed with in a few years to try to unseat the president who he blamed.
Then we come to Fartman. He has a larger audience, he had been fined before, and he was the big fish in this round up. But Fartman saw the handwriting on the wall. He saw the rise of satellite radio and decided to move his game. He created controversy to make him “The King of all Relaunches.”

O&A…. they didn’t want things to go down as they did

Bubba Clemm, he should have known better.

But Stern, Stern decided to ride the mob coming after him to make him become even bigger, and thus bring down the walls of the free radio he claimed to love. For this reason Stern is a demagogue of the first order.

Had Stern and Bubba ( Opie and Anthony were already sidelined by the time the moral change happened) really wanted to fight, it would have been real easy.

As the professional musicians before them going up against tipper gore, Stern and Bubba could have strode in like the German Templars demanding trial by combat, and they would not have been alone.

Rush Limbaugh would have marched with them, Sean Hannity, Al Franken, Don Imus, Michael Savage, Neil Boortz, and many others in the world of political talk, who knew very well what happens when you do not stand up for the communists because you are not a communist. The Political will would have changed, Industry and government would have sat down with Talent and came up with fair rules people could have lived with

But Stern was a whore. Stern wanted to use the Lynch mob to get ahead.

Bubba who was set up by pro-Al Arian people from Salon.Com using a Christian fundamentalist wanted to get that George Bush and his religious right (who were, the dupes in his story).

Of these three high profile shock jocks, at least Opie and Anthony owned up that it was in part their fault. They do still say the FCC was wrong, but they to had some role to blame.

Would I pay any of these four an extra dollar? No.

Would I buy a sh** satellite radio? No

But, if any of those 4 do well, I hope its not the whore stern or the used man bubba… but the only two who actually accept that they went wrong.