Geoausch

We’re all familiar with the story of the boy who cried wolf, after seeing the Bush administration’s presentation of the $700 billion dollar bailout, I’m convinced that George W. Bush is the President who cried wolf.  Leading up to our invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration sent out every one of their minions to convince our nation and the rest of the world that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to our way of living.  I never bought into Iraq war propaganda, but millions of Americans and many world leaders did–look at the debacle it turned into. While things have definitely turned and are headed in a positive direction in Iraq, it’s hard to believe anything that comes out of Bush’s mouth.

With that said, when George W. Bush comes out in front of the nation and says, “our entire economy is in danger,” many Americans are skeptical. Is our economy really in such dire condition that we must rely on the Federal government to spend $700 billion it doesn’t have to bail out troubled financial institutions or does George Bush have ulterior motives with the proposed bailouts, such as helping those who helped him get elected?

No wonder so many Americans are outraged!

When I launched this blog back at the end of July, I began with a post blasting the Dallas ESPN radio affiliate. Looking back, I may have been a little too harsh. I even elicited a response from one of their on-air personalities, who turned out to be a pretty good guy, just from a different generation of radio.

In that same post, I offered praise for Dallas’ other “sports talk” radio station, KTCK 1310 AM, The Ticket.

I love The Ticket; I listen it to at work pretty much all day, every day, especially during football season. I’ve never considered them a “perfect” station–the Bert & Ernie sounding morning show annoys me and you feel like you need to attend a session of Gamblers Anonymous after listening to Norm Hitzges, but for the most part they offer entertaining radio.

I do find it very ironic; however, that Program Director, Jeff Catlin, and Hardline replacement, Corby Davidson, spent so much time building up an on-air characters that defied the stereotypes of the Dallas douchebag, yet now both of them pander to the douche-iest of the Douche Bags, doing spots for Audi and BMW. You can’t really be a rebel and drive an Audi or BMW, yet you can be a douche.  Further proof they need a Greggo-like character back on their show.

Don’t get me wrong, I won’t be switching the dial over to ESPN 1033.3 anytime soon, but I felt it was time to come back and offer a little more balanced view of The Ticket, so here it is, great concept for a radio station–”guy talk”, that for the most part is entertaining. However, in the end, they are commercial driven radio and the end it’s about the almighty dollar and even the most hard core on-air character can turn into a Philistine in the blink of an eye.