Don't miss Monday morning's appearance by activists who deplore the conditions for dogs at Krabloonik--on "Con Games with Michael Conniff" on KNFO 106.1 FM.
In comment #17, Wharf Rate weighs in during a white-hot thread about blogging, Aspen Post, and the state of "Con Games." "I have also revealed enough about myself for you to know where I am coming from," he blogs, "if you have paid attention. For instance, I have repeatedly blogged that I am a resident of Glenwood Springs and have no agenda that supportive Pitkin County, the City of Aspen, or any of its elective officials. I don't know what else to say to make my point--you just seem to have an uncanny ability to miss it. You think I am just criticizing you, the radio show and the blog haphazardly and for no particular reason. If that's what you really think that's just sad."
Michael, I listened to your show today; I am just becoming a regular so [I] don't know your background with your obviously regular "conspiracy theory" caller who claimed that some number of foreclosures were of homes owned by illegals. Of course, the use of the term "conspiracy theorist" connotes the intended criticism that the person has beliefs which are not supported by facts or that the ideas expressed are irrational or have no logical basis. I am unaware of the ideas asserted by this person over time, so perhaps some of them are really wacko, but on this one, there is a reasonable basis for a closer look...
From the Top, the non-profit known for its hit radio and television broadcasts featuring the nation’s best young classical musicians and hosted by acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O’Riley, returns to the Aspen Music Festival and School for a live concert recording in Harris Concert Hall on Sunday, August 10 at 8 p.m. This episode is slated to broadcast nationally the week of November 17, 2008.
Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland was yelling at me as he was walking out of the KNFO studio after his live appearance with City Manager Steve Barwick on "Con Games" Wednesday morning and I was yelling back.
It would have been better all around if Mayor Ireland had been so kind as to scream at me on air, just as it would have been better if he had blown his top at the City Council meeting after, instead of before, they turned the cameras on. But such overt displays of pique would not be in keeping with the kinder, gentler politician promised during the election campaign just past.
Not that Mayor Ireland did not have good cause to be angry as he climbed on his bike and left the station for adventures unknown.
For far too long, conservatives have made political hay with the notion that they are the party of ideas and the party of values—even as they’ve held a far too timid opposition at bay for having neither.
Enough, already.
The free ride is over: conservatives have not had a new idea since The Gipper left office, and it’s about time we saw their “values” for what they really are—anti-American.
Mike McGarry, the co-founder of the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform, became so angry at the Con Man during the interview with Los Angeles talk show host Terry Anderson that he walked out.
We post staffers were looking for something the mighty Jimbo might say to Michael to close out the fourth year of Con Games, something like "It's great to be a part of something so good that's lasted so long," but we found something even better:
When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and initiated the arduous, too-long-in-coming eradication of Jim Crow laws, I was four years old. Whether a part of my nature or a function of the ideas poured into the blank slate of my nascent mind, as far back as I can remember the idea of owning another human being has been as much of an anathema as the idea that skin color is a basis for a meaningful difference...
Today, Sean Hannity read a portion of an editorial by valley native Gary Hubbell, published February 9 in the Aspen Times Weekly:
Aspen Times Weekly (February 9, 2008)-- There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain...
A very smart and politically active woman and the Con Man had the following email exchange after his "Con Games" show about abortion and The Quiet Majority:
Michael,
I had a chance to listen to your show this am and agreed on most of your salient points regarding the silent majority.... But I could not disagree with you more on the liberal stance of abortion or pro-choice and your idea that ‘adoption’ could be the solution in order for there to be a meeting of the minds. Please don’t take this wrong, but it’s a typical male response. Until men are biologically capable of bringing a baby into this world, it really is about a women’s right over her own body. But in the spirit of being open-minded, if that were the answer and women would be subjugated to 9 months of pregnancy and to then give the child up for adoption, then it is only fair that the man who impregnated the woman should be castrated and not given the right to procreate ever again. How can you chattel one sex and not the other?
For the life of me I can’t understand why Michael Conniff keeps touting Barry Schochet as a Middle East expert, a title that Barry himself denies. This is a con of the highest degree, and I’m disappointed in Conniff for falling for it. His show endorses liberty and justice, yet he allows Barry Schochet to promote the opposite agenda. This is a great disservice to Congames listeners, who hope to glean a better understanding of today’s issues and events. But it’s a greater disservice to the Palestinian people who are suffering and dying because of lies like Barry Schochet uses to justify Israel’s oppression of millions of innocent civilians...
