Re: Jay Severin a response
I just opened my window and I think I can hear Jerry Williams rocking the clouds with the fact that he is still 'mad as hell... and they are out there in great numbers.'
> > He's tapped into the utterly boring and a little too
> > abundant angry, white suburban audience. Angry about thier
>
> > taxes being too high
>
> There's 1200 and 1430 if you're angry about Bush being
> president,
> angry about the war, angry about the religious right,
> angry about people who criticize Howie Dean, angry about
> getting a zero in the 12 + in Boston, angry about people who
>
> consider themselves citizens of the US not "the world"...OR
> you can call in to a conservative show and let your views be
> heard.
> (Yes, Jay, Howie, Sean etc DO let liberals on...maybe long
> enough
> to make fun of them, but...)
>
> The Dean up in talk show heaven has paged Mr. Howard Beale
> (the TV
> newscaster who seems to have predated radio talk hosts):
>
> " I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows
> things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work
> or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's
> worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under
> the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and
> there's no one anywhere that seems to know what to do with
> us.
>
> " We know the air is unfit to breathe, our food is unfit to
> eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster
> tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent
> crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know
> things are bad. Worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like
> everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out
> anymore. We sit in a house as slowly the world we're living
> in is getting smaller and all we say is, "Please, at least
> leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster,
> and TV, and my steel belted radials and I won't say
> anything." Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you
> to get mad.
>
> "I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I
> don't want you to write to your congressman because I
> wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what
> to do about the depression and the inflation and the
> Russians and the crying in the streets. All I know is first
> you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human
> being. God Dammit, my life has value." So, I want you to get
> up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I
> want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it,
> and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and
> I'm not going to take this anymore!"
>
> Things have got to change my friends. You've got to get
> mad. You've got to say, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not
> going to take this anymore!" Then we'll figure out what to
> do about the depression and the inflation and the oil
> crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open your
> window, stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell
> and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
>
