The wingnuts haven’t killed me
Published by Mike Stark May 30th, 2006 in UncategorizedI’m just busy looking for a place to live in Charlottesville. Been a busy and time consuming coupla days. Will be back at home, posting regularly, on Thursday - until the following Wednesday when I leave for YearlyKos.
Anyone else gonna be there? I give a workshop Friday morning at 8:30…
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Been to Charlottesville once. Beautiful town, from what I saw. Big NYTimes Mag piece two weeks ago on Jefferson-designed campus.
Speaking of Jefferson, a couple of comments from Bill Bennett this morning might provoke old TJ to step off his pedestal, jump in the Tidal Basin, and drown himself.
Keep up the good work.
I’ll be going to the YearlyKos convention and I’ll definitely be attending your workshop. I live in Salt Lake City, UT so I’m used to arguing with wingnuts. I listen to rightwing talk radio all the time and had been thinking of calling in when I found your website. Hopefully after attending your workshop I’ll be able to beat them at their own game.
I’ll be there — look forward to seeing you next week!
Mike,
I truely hope you were not Jack who just called Rush. If you were not, you will looooooooove this…
About 11:55 Central time I was just getting in my car to head back to the office and I caught the tail nd of a call Rush had on. Jack must have read something and Rush was calling him on it by saying “Why don’t you tell me who you really are Jack, and tell me again when you are going to be in Las Vegas?”
Well Jack told Rush that he didn’t know what Rush was talking about, but Rush persisted and would not answer any of Jack’s questions.
Now, I suspect it wasn’t you for two reasons:
1. You would have fessed up if called on it. Yo have nothing to hide once you get on the air.
2. It really didn’t sound like you.
If this was not you, you need to call Rush and give it to him good about this. I would love to hear his stammering as you ask him why he is so paranoid about you. And if you do call, make sure you have the Rush cam on to see his reactions. Those could be priceless.
I just heard it here too (we get the show on an hour delay). Anyway, I didn’t hear the beginning of the call, but the part of the call I heard , where Jack talked, It didn’t sound like Mike to me.
I can’t wait for Mike to post Jack’s call.
It’s also clear from what Rush said, that he too is reading this website (since he knows you are going to YearlyKos).
Hopefully the real Jack will post here , and give us his view of the exchange.
They are really getting paranoid.
I think when Mike calls, if he gets a plug in on Rush’s show for YearlyKos, I may just have to send a check.
You know, something like, “Hey Rush since you’re so interested in my Vegas trip, how about I set you up with a free ticket to YearlyKos. I think you would have a great time.”
I think Kos would love that and would give up the ticket
Again, make sure you have the Rush cam on.
Well, I just recorded the call off the Denver stream on the internet. I saved it on a wav file. Let me know if it is needed.
Here are the results:
Jack IS NOT Mike.
See Rush, that’s what all those drugs do to you.
Say no to drugs.
Rush, I know Mike. Mike is a good friend of mine. Rush, Jack is no Mike.
Apparently atleast 1 other person in the world is as hearing impaired as Rush.
Oxycotin much?
Total thread:
http://mike_stark.mydd.com/story/2006/1/2/222325/4605#readmore
Just the relevant comment:
http://dawgmatic.mydd.com/comments/2006/1/2/222325/4605/2#2
Nice job “Jack” (none / 0)
You’re little game got shut down pretty quickly. Hilarious. Have fun at your little DailyKos seminar next month. Maybe you can figure out how to get on the Limbaugh show w/o being caught.
by dawgmatic on Wed May 31, 2006 at 01:16:01 PM EST
dawgmatic= WRONG
EZsuds,
Since I’m not a memeber of MyDD, I’ll let you have the honors of punking dawgmatic. give him a big hug and kiss for me.
Douggie,
I’m not a member of MyDD either.
I guess we’ll have to let Mike straighten him out.
Can’t wait to see that.
Sometimes, you seem to try to change your voice slightly to mix it up, but that was definitely not you.
Rush was irritated all day and Jack’s call sent him over the edge. Jack was saying how Rush had to admit the Iraq war was a failure and the coalition had to pull out pronto. I don’t know if Jack actually expected Rush to explode on him or “see the light” but he definitely didn’t expect him to explode in that particular way.
All that being said, Rush knows your website, but with the poor fidelity of the cochlear implant he doesn’t seem to be able to distinguish caller’s identities. It’s quite sad really to see a joke made of hearing loss, regardless of how it occured. Besides, Jack didn’t set up his question tactfully so that the message could be delivered and dealt with, he fired immediately with the talking points that were completely opposite of Rush’s. That’s a no-no, unless you sound like an easy mark for him to mock or crush.
As I said before, I’m a conservative, and Hannity is still a meathead. I like Rush though, and he will give you a chance if you’re quick on your feet. Mike, you do a good job of it, just need to spring the traps with more wit. The hosts do not react well to immediate bald-faced confrontation that makes them look bad. Then again, there’s only so much time they give you before they hang up….
Hey, Mike — are you in touch with Waldo Jaquith? He’s a great Charlottesville political blogger. Good luck on the move!
Mike, great news to hear you are coming to C’ville - I love your work, and it’s great to have you join our little ‘burg.
Rush Limbaugh only has three marbles?
Ditto Montpelier, Welcome to Charlottesville!!!
Also, I learned in Trivial Pursuit that a man with 3 marbles is called a Polyorchid.