Mike Malloy controversial comments

[Avid Listener]

I live in a state that is protecting me from a socialist health care funding scheme I want no parts of.

It should also be noted that the Federal takeover of far too many aspects of our lives is like the urban legend of the frog in the water on the stove. Allegedly, if you slowly raise the temperature of the water in the pot, the frog will boil to death without jumping out. It's a nice illustration, though wrong.

Nevertheless, the principle the fable illustrates is how the Federal government gradually made a shambles of the 9th and 10th amendments. Little by little, piece by piece, tiny increment by tiny increment, the central government took away tiny little bites of our freedom and our federal republic by passing law after law that gave a tiny bit more control to the Federal government under the guise of "regulating interstate commerce". Anyone who supports the concept of a massive Federal bureaucracy dominating almost every aspect of our lives can always point to some Federal government position at some midpoint on the long road of takeover, and cite it as a precedent that proves everything under the sun is part of "interstate commerce".

That sad and sorry state of affairs is what our nation has degenerated into, and where we find ourselves in 2014. It's not how our republic was supposed to work. That's not how it was designed. It's what self-serving politicians over the course of centuries twisted our nation into.

And now, the champions of that degeneration are calling on news/talk radio to be the White Knights in Shining Armour who'll come to our rescue, and get the bored and disinterested to magically become civic minded citizens, instead of mindless drones addicted to bread and circuses.

 

[Small Market Guy]

i live in a state that is protecting me from a socialist health care funding scheme i want no parts of.

You don't want people to have healthcare! You are evil! Your state is condemning people to die! The president and Harry Reid are just trying to SAVE us! They're HEROES!

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

And there you have it, boys and girls. Just another day of shootouts at the O.K. Corral.

The dead bodies will now be taken to Boot Hill.

The wounded survivors taken to the saloon for repairs and healing.

If any truth and wisdom has been expressed here today, it would be taken to the Library of Congress to be archived.

Can someone explain to me what ever became of intelligent conversation? Are there sanctuaries where it is still practiced today?

I would gladly go there just as a spectator to see what topics are part of the menu when the fare in limited to intelligent conversation.

I guess we can return tomorrow. Maybe after a night's sleep.... we can do better.

or not!

 

[FredLeonard]

Ah, Boot Hill...

Around Dodge City and the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with a US Marshall and the smell of ... Gunsmoke.

Gunsmoke: The story of the violence that moved West with young America and the story of a man who moved with it.

I'm that man. Matt Dillion, United States Marshall. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancy job but it makes a man watchful, and a little lonely.

 

[FredLeonard]

It would take anyone with the most rudimentary Internet skills exactly 30 seconds to find out who I am. It's not my fault you can't figure it out.

I don't make a big deal about who I am because I'm not a big deal. That and I don't want my name showing up in Google searches all over the place. This is a place to discuss radio industry stuff and I don't mix my personal life and opinions with work.

Nice try! Maybe you don't actually have a talk show. After all, your opinions can't be taken seriously when all you do is disagree, even if that mean total inconsistency with what you said to disagree with somebody else. So, how can your claims of radio employment be taken seriously? But being employed in radio is your sole claim to being an expert and having your opinions about radio be considered valid.

Funny thing! You say radio experience in the Carter administration is not a valid basis for any opinion and then you turn around and talk like talk radio will stay as it is now and forever - world without end.

 

[Small Market Guy]

And there you have it, boys and girls. Just another day of shootouts at the O.K. Corral.

The dead bodies will now be taken to Boot Hill.

The wounded survivors taken to the saloon for repairs and healing.

If any truth and wisdom has been expressed here today, it would be taken to the Library of Congress to be archived.

Can someone explain to me what ever became of intelligent conversation? Are there sanctuaries where it is still practiced today?

I would gladly go there just as a spectator to see what topics are part of the menu when the fare in limited to intelligent conversation.

I guess we can return tomorrow. Maybe after a night's sleep.... we can do better.

or not!

If you want "intelligent conversation" why don't you yourself start by not categorizing people who oppose the ACA as not wanting healthcare for other people? Seriously. You can cry all you want, but you are one of the worst offenders here.

You expect to be taken seriously when you say something like this?

Into that vacuum steps a Federal Government and finally our state gets busy and does something about health issues: surrounding them by roadblocks in an effort to make sure certain citizens still don't get meaningful healthcare.

 

[Small Market Guy]

Nice try! Maybe you don't actually have a talk show. After all, your opinions can't be taken seriously when all you do is disagree, even if that mean total inconsistency with what you said to disagree with somebody else. So, how can your claims of radio employment be taken seriously? But being employed in radio is your sole claim to being an expert and having your opinions about radio be considered valid.

Funny thing! You say radio experience in the Carter administration is not a valid basis for any opinion and then you turn around and talk like talk radio will stay as it is now and forever - world without end.

Like I said. It would take about 30 seconds. You're just not bright enough to figure it out.

 

[TheBigA]

How about we as a society stop looking for a "hero" to save us and take care of ourselves? Stop expecting the government (or even worse talk radio) to do what we used to do on our own. Anyone expecting either government or talk radio to "save" them is in for a dire disappointment.

The problem isn't government or talk radio. It's the PEOPLE in them. We look to government and the media NOT for a hero, but for leadership. Instead we get told to take care of ourselves. That's not leadership. That's selfishness.

 

[FredLeonard]

Like I said. It would take about 30 seconds. You're just not bright enough to figure it out.

As I said, I took 30 seconds. Based on "information" you've posted about yourself, you don't exist. I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

You call yourself a "professional communicator" but you don't know proper usage of "like" and "as." Wow!

Everything you say is fiction. Fake opinions. Fake facts.

 

[Small Market Guy]

The problem isn't government or talk radio. It's the PEOPLE in them. We look to government and the media NOT for a hero, but for leadership. Instead we get told to take care of ourselves. That's not leadership. That's selfishness.

I know a lot of media types relish in the fact that some people look to them for leadership, but I didn't sign on for that. We're all adults. I'm not on the air to tell anyone what to do or how to think. That's not my job. My job is to keep someone company as they drive to work in the morning or as they work at the local mine. Maybe I can get the word out about some local fundraisers and such that can help some people, but I'm no leader. And looking to Washington for leadership is even dumber than looking to your local talk radio station.

We've become a nation of weak minded lazy wards of the state. Expecting leadership from politicians is pure laziness.

 

[Small Market Guy]

As I said, I took 30 seconds. Based on "information" you've posted about yourself, you don't exist. I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

You call yourself a "professional communicator" but you don't know proper usage of "like" and "as." Wow!

Everything you say is fiction. Fake opinions. Fake facts.

You can throw out all the insults you want. If you can't figure this out, I'm not going to tell you. Besides, I don't allow racists to listen to my show.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Around Dodge City and the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with a US Marshall and the smell of ... Gunsmoke.

I find this whole American struggle with "the smell of gun powder" to be a curious thing. How do so many people end up with so many different views on the subject. I have never had really strong views on the topic and at one time in my life I had to deal with toting around significant amounts of cash and I wondered if I should acquire a gun an learn to use it correctly.... AND EFFECTIVELY!

Twenty years later I would learn why I had grown up with a slightly less than enthusiastic attitude on guns, and another 20 years later before my brother digging through genealogy records would come up with.... as Paul Harvey used to say.... "the REST of the story."

I never knew my grandfather on my mother's side of the family. I knew he died and she had to do some tough things to work her way through high school. We had a pitiful little 22 rifle/410 shotgun over/under thing in our house in case the Texas coyotes wanted to raid our cattle pasture. Dad sometimes carried it on the tractor during the day. I never knew if he wanted to scare the coyotes... or he was afraid one of them might look at him as "lunch". There were no stories, no lectures. Just no electricity in the air at our household about guns... using or owning them. The day of my Mother's funeral, an older cousin told me the story. My grandfather had been killed by a neighbor who shot grandpa during a dispute over the neighbor not keeping the gate closed so cows would get into my grandfathers world.

Oh. So that is why neither my mother or father was a big gun enthusiast. Not overly negative on the subject, but never encouraging us to want one or expect one.

Here was the rest of the story... 20 years later: Grandfather was what in Texas they call a "Constable". He instructed a neighbor that the gap-gape should be kept closed and the neighbor told grandpa to "blow it out his ear" or whatever rowdy people said back in the 1930s. Grandpa proceeded to shut the gate FOR the neighbor. The neighbor proceeded to struggle over the issue, got grandpa's gun out of his holster and shot him with his own gun.

So I didn't grow up in a home where the value and power of a gun was valued, was worship like some kind of "hero" device.

So, in spite of the language of our day, there was a good guy with a gun in Texas back in 1930 something, but he wasn't able to stop a bad guy with a gun that day.

People who today are so enthralled about the 2nd Amendment would do well to keep in mind that some of us have a family narrative that does not let us enjoy that same view of the 2nd Amendment.

But, I have high hopes. Maybe tomorrow I can turn on Talk Radio somewhere and the host can explain to me how I cure my anemic enthusiasm for "The 2nd Amendment on Steroids".

 

[TheBigA]

Besides, I don't allow racists to listen to my show.

You really don't have any choice.

 

[Small Market Guy]

You really don't have any choice.

Thanks, Literal Larry.

 

[Small Market Guy]

I find this whole American struggle with "the smell of gun powder" to be a curious thing. How do so many people end up with so many different views on the subject. I have never had really strong views on the topic and at one time in my life I had to deal with toting around significant amounts of cash and I wondered if I should acquire a gun an learn to use it correctly.... AND EFFECTIVELY!

Twenty years later I would learn why I had grown up with a slightly less than enthusiastic attitude on guns, and another 20 years later before my brother digging through genealogy records would come up with.... as Paul Harvey used to say.... "the REST of the story."

I never knew my grandfather on my mother's side of the family. I knew he died and she had to do some tough things to work her way through high school. We had a pitiful little 22 rifle/410 shotgun over/under thing in our house in case the Texas coyotes wanted to raid our cattle pasture. Dad sometimes carried it on the tractor during the day. I never knew if he wanted to scare the coyotes... or he was afraid one of them might look at him as "lunch". There were no stories, no lectures. Just no electricity in the air at our household about guns... using or owning them. The day of my Mother's funeral, an older cousin told me the story. My grandfather had been killed by a neighbor who shot grandpa during a dispute over the neighbor not keeping the gate closed so cows would get into my grandfathers world.

Oh. So that is why neither my mother or father was a big gun enthusiast. Not overly negative on the subject, but never encouraging us to want one or expect one.

Here was the rest of the story... 20 years later: Grandfather was what in Texas they call a "Constable". He instructed a neighbor that the gap-gape should be kept closed and the neighbor told grandpa to "blow it out his ear" or whatever rowdy people said back in the 1930s. Grandpa proceeded to shut the gate FOR the neighbor. The neighbor proceeded to struggle over the issue, got grandpa's gun out of his holster and shot him with his own gun.

So I didn't grow up in a home where the value and power of a gun was valued, was worship like some kind of "hero" device.

So, in spite of the language of our day, there was a good guy with a gun in Texas back in 1930 something, but he wasn't able to stop a bad guy with a gun that day.

People who today are so enthralled about the 2nd Amendment would do well to keep in mind that some of us have a family narrative that does not let us enjoy that same view of the 2nd Amendment.

But, I have high hopes. Maybe tomorrow I can turn on Talk Radio somewhere and the host can explain to me how I cure my anemic enthusiasm for "The 2nd Amendment on Steroids".

Another overly wordy story that misses the entire point of the Second Amendment.

If your family has been here as long as you claim, some of them likely fought in the Revolutionary War. They used their natural born rights to defend themselves against tyranny. Unless they were Loyalists, of course.

The Second Amendment isn't about:

1. Self defense against criminals (though it has an unintended side effect of helping in that area)
2. Hunting (though it has the same unintended side effect)
3. Guns or any particular KIND of gun

The Second Amendment is there for ONE reason. To prevent the government from keeping weapons needed to defend freedom out of the hands of law abiding citizens.

It's not a matter of being "enthralled" by the Second Amendment. It's a matter of respecting it's NECESSITY in keeping our nation free.

While it's sad that your relative was killed by a bad guy with a gun, it's completely irrelevant to the conversation.

 

[TheBigA]

Expecting leadership from politicians is pure laziness.

Funny...then what are they there for? Why did the founders write a Constitution in the first place?

Seems to me the lazy people are the ones who don't want to do their jobs.

 

[Small Market Guy]

Why did the founders write a Constitution in the first place?

To place limits on their powers.

Seems to me the lazy people are the ones who don't want to do their jobs.

We've been over this before. This "Washington politicians don't actually work" meme is false. Some of us would prefer if they did LESS. But just like the presidency, being a Congressman or a Senator is a 24/7/365 job. Just the other night, the House was holding hearings into the IRS misdeeds at 11 PM in the middle of the night.

 

[TheBigA]

It's not a matter of being "enthralled" by the Second Amendment. It's a matter of respecting it's NECESSITY in keeping our nation free.

Nowhere in the history books do I see examples of some guy alone with a gun as keeping our nation free. Lots of people have built huge arsenals in their basements, and when the police showed up, their revolution was over. It happened in Waco and lots of other places. History has shown that the folks who THINK they're saving the country from tyranny with their weapons are the ones who we should all be afraid of.

 

[TheBigA]

To place limits on their powers.

That's only part of it. The larger part was giving them those powers in the first place.

Some of us would prefer if they did LESS.

It's not about quantity, but quality. Once again, they're supposed to be leaders. That's what the founders were. If they're following in the footsteps of the founders, then they should have the same kind of leadership quality. They don't. And I'm not aiming at any one person or party. It's the whole group together.

 

[Small Market Guy]

Nowhere in the history books do I see examples of some guy alone with a gun as keeping our nation free. Lots of people have built huge arsenals in their basements, and when the police showed up, their revolution was over. It happened in Waco and lots of other places. History has shown that the folks who THINK they're saving the country from tyranny with their weapons are the ones who we should all be afraid of.

Who said anything about a lone person? An armed populace is the only thing standing between us and whatever third world banana republic you want to use as an example.