Jay Kersting's Blog

WOW!

All I can say is WOW!!

WOW!  The more and more important stuff that goes on in this world, the more trivial bullshit gets focused on by the media and by people themselves.  I see one big problem up and still growing.....but the rest of the country is focused elsewhere.

Let's go back to the Garden Implement and how it was put in jail, released from jail, sent back to jail.....and finally hit the streets a couple of weeks later.  WOW!!  This is important?  This means something?

The Apple iPhone is the most revolutionary item to hit the world since the wheel!  Don't believe it?  Read all about it in damn near every magazine, newspaper, television newscast and website.  I asked the question about it on my show for a couple of days.  No one HERE cared.  Gives me some hope for this part of the world.

But what can I expect.  When the majority of people are focused on so-called "reality" television shows for their primary entertainment, I would think more would be concerned.  The fact that SOMEONE labeled this CRAP, let me call it what it really is, CRAP as reality.  Folks, get REAL.  It is staged.  True, it is unscripted, but it is staged, yes it is unrehearsed, but staged nonetheless.  Therefore, IT IS NOT REAL!!!!

American I-DULL.  That is worth watching for the folks with less singing ability and getting a good laugh at how clueless people are.  Sort of like watching "COPS" for the drunks to stumble, fall and hurt themselves.  Yes, it is cruel.  BUT DAMN is that fun.

Dancing with the HasBeens.  Who came up with this crap?  John Ratzenberger has a entertaining and informative show on the Discovery Channel.  I don't want to see Cliff Clavens moves on the floor.  Why does ANYONE else?

Deal or No Deal.  OK, I get the suspense.  The coinflip before the Super Bowl has suspense too.  Coming next season..."How Many Fingers" 

Worse yet, ESPN, the Travel Channel and OTHERS carry different versions of poker on TV too.  I enjoy a good card game.  I just don't enjoy watching others play cards.  Maybe some folks watch poker for the latest fashion tips. 

"Survivor" how about proving some real survival to me.  Next season, Survivor - Antartica....followed by Survivor - Nepal and then Survivor - Greenland and Survivor - Siberia!!  Warm weather crap, really, who cares anymore.  Besides, THE WHOLE THING IS STAGED!!!  The guy eating grubs on National Geographic Channel is more about surviving.

"Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" - DAMN!!  Hours of phony men and women who are so damned attractive they need TV to get love.  And they are so stupid too.  "I know that I have known him for just 37 seconds, but I can just feel the connection."  Connection?  I think your childhood snack of lead paint chips have led to a cranial short circuit.  If ABC would PROMISE to have all contestants STERILIZED, I would feel better about this show being on the air.  The thought of these pretty dullards and their offspring inheriting this world is, to offer a major understatement, disturbing.

Good programs like Law & Order: Criminal Intent are being moved to Satellite/Cable networks to make room for this crap.

Meanwhile, Bill Clinton's former Chief of Staff wants to muzzle talk radio.  So do Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and Richard Durbin.  Most folks don't see the problem.  Few care to think about it.  Fewer yet see this as the start toward what has happened recently in other parts of the world.  Or what happened in history.

In order to muzzle talk radio, this group of liberal zealots wants to bring back a failed policy called the "fairness doctrine" which offers "equal time" to opposing viewpoints.  This ONLY applies to radio.  Not to newspapers, because they bury "letters to the editor" three sections and eight pages deep.  Not to TV, because they are not worried about TV.  They are already on "their" side for the most part. 

But NO, they want to have the right to force MY employer to give someone who disagrees with me on each and every issue time to give their views.  Despite the fact that ANYONE can come on my show, during my show and offer a differing viewpoint any time that the show clock allows DOES NOT MATTER.  It is not good enough for them.

This is why I can honestly say, on this single issue, I HATE the views of these zealots.  Why?  Because I could lose my job.

If my employer has to offer FREE time to someone everytime I bring up a topic, they cannot afford to allow me to be on the air.  Unemployment, here I come.

So, all I am asking is this.  Some news is depressing, I get that.  But don't bury yourself in this other crap and miss out on something truly important.  You may not care a bit about talk radio, but know that you have a whole group of politicians out there who want to muzzle talk radio because we disagree with them.  Many people have jobs depending on this being stopped.  Not just the wealthy national guys, but small town guys like me.  And a lot of us.

Please become informed on issues that CAN be imporant to you.  And, I'm sorry, no one is really going to lose a job if you don't know about Sanjaya's latest hairstyle when chatting around the proverbial watercooler.  But if the "Friends of Bill C." do get their way, many of us just might. 

Issues - concerns of significant importance than can have a real and lasting effect on your life.

Pop Culture - things of distraction that keep you from issues

Don't get me wrong, Pop Culture can be fun.  But in 2007, it seems that is all anyone cares about.  That, my friends, is very, very, very, and don't misunderstand me, VERY dangerous.