Posted on 08/13/2007 11:41:51 AM PDT by weegee
What "race" is KPFT? I know most of them are in contact with something in outer space. I used to listen to KPFT for fun. It's probably considered cruel to laugh at the mentally handicapped.
Considering their location a bullet through the window may not be significant of anything other than some local dispute. Fifty years ago I lived a couple of blocks from there and it was well on it's way downhill.
That block is very yuppie liberal today. The violent crime is over on the other side of Westheimer.
Long ago when they played mostly music they were a good station to listen to. I basically quit listening to them when the last internal take over went down a few years ago. Can’t stand any of their talk programs and the few times I do flip to their channel they are having yet another fund drive. With XM and Sirus out there with variety music, I’m sure they are hurting for supporters.
Nice headline writers at the Chronicle. Proper English apparently optional.
And THAT is the source of their problems. I listen sometimes on Saturdays, the music is good but eventually I get tired of the editorializing and turn it off. I actually heard one of the dj's try and blame the fire, etc on the KKK. Yeah, right. Their "internal power struggles" are sometimes entertaining to read about, just read the minutes of their board meetings. Some of the stuff they spend their time on is a hoot and a real eye-opener. I just tell myself that as long as the left stays busy with stuff like that, it keeps them from stirring up crap somewhere else.
The doors to the station used to be open to the public but with some ex-staffers being barred from the premises, physical assaults, and attempts to run into the studio and takeover the broadcasts, they require those coming to the station to buzz in around the clock, the receptionist has to let you in.
But NONE of this made it to the Houston Comical’s piece.
I doubt it was an act of random violence and I doubt that it was because of some mysterious “gay or prison” show discussion. It was because the Stalinist audience doesn’t like sharing the station’s resources with the music listening audience (which is the demographic that coughs up more of the donations).
You can hang around town and find libs who are alternately scared and bored by the political blather of the hard leftists on that station. And they probably put their 501c3 tax status in frequent jeopardy with political advocacy, whether it is the Green Party campaign literature available to visitors in the lobby or on air appeals for/against a candidate, party, or piece of pendind legislation.
They can no more engage in political advocacy than a church can.
east coast vs west coast thang?
Actually, yeah.
That's an interesting, valid point ... and one that I've never thought of.
Their legal advisers from California reminded them of this in 2004 when they were gearing up to boost Kerry and denegrate Bush in “get out the vote” efforts.
The volunteers grumbled and pointed to conservative talk radio. Except one is a commercial enterprise that pays their taxes and the other chooses to limit their political speech by taking a non-profit tax free status.
Halliburton???
I do have an alibi...;-)
I don’t think it is a hoax but I do believe that they are publicly downplaying their radical base who despise the entertainment programming on the station.
Heh. Nope, just a little uncontroversial company. All of the neighbor's offices get bullet holes too, so we don't feel exactly picked-on. It's just part of what Houston is all about.
Staffers look for clues in drive-by at KPFT ("third" violent attack in 3 years) (Houston Chronicle Aug. 13, 2007, 7:49PM)
Actually I think the Zydeco and blue grass is an attempt to rope in blue collar whites to indoctrinate. As for their politics, it is various shades of bolshevik. The shooting reminds me of one of their strident talk show hosts exhorting the masses to “bring the war home”. Now they got INCOMING. I guess she got her wish and the war is coming home for them.
Wow, nice find. I had no idea since I’ve never heard Zydeco anywhere other than in NOLA. I hear it in Lousiana all the damn time but I’ve never heard it in Texas. Hmmm.
I guess it is true. I really don’t know everything after all.
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