[Speed Gibson,
Tuesday June 14, 2005 at 11:55pm]
Next Big Thing - Week 15
Today we heard Clinton Collins, Jr., a name familiar to many of us, and currently a contributor to The Rake.
He spent the first hour on why the media seems obsessed with young female blonde crime victims vs the less-attractive, older, or minority equivalents - even white men. Michelle Malkin and others have also discussed this, given the most recent tragedy unfolding in Aruba.
He reminded me a bit of Lew Freeman, who found race issues in most anything. I still remember Lew's claims that Denny Green was unpopular, then fired, because he's black. Rubbish. We were happy to have the new sherriff in town. It was consistently poor playoff performances and clock management even Sid Hartman could improve on that caught up with Green. When you realize that your coach isn't going to get you to the Super Bowl, you move on. Remember Les Steckel?
Anyway, Collins was a bit less heavy-handed about it, but also didn't seem to add much to the discussion, either.
The second hour was about airline tickets by the pound, proper treatment of the Koran, and a couple of other topics. Again, not exactly exciting.
As he said, this is an audition, and he wanted to not rehash topics done all week, be it Iraq or Jacko. But it's tough to make a given cultural topic work for more than a few minutes, even for the best at it like Prager, Limbaugh, and Ingraham. I felt he was too passive, that he needed to dig and challenge us listeners a little more. Instead, it was pretty thin soup. I give him a C, but I think he's better than that.
Forget the culture, the airlines, etc. I'd sure like to hear him discuss what's going on with Minneapolis School Superintendent Thandiwe Peebles. That's the type of topic that could earn him a shot as the Next Big Thing.
He spent the first hour on why the media seems obsessed with young female blonde crime victims vs the less-attractive, older, or minority equivalents - even white men. Michelle Malkin and others have also discussed this, given the most recent tragedy unfolding in Aruba.
He reminded me a bit of Lew Freeman, who found race issues in most anything. I still remember Lew's claims that Denny Green was unpopular, then fired, because he's black. Rubbish. We were happy to have the new sherriff in town. It was consistently poor playoff performances and clock management even Sid Hartman could improve on that caught up with Green. When you realize that your coach isn't going to get you to the Super Bowl, you move on. Remember Les Steckel?
Anyway, Collins was a bit less heavy-handed about it, but also didn't seem to add much to the discussion, either.
The second hour was about airline tickets by the pound, proper treatment of the Koran, and a couple of other topics. Again, not exactly exciting.
As he said, this is an audition, and he wanted to not rehash topics done all week, be it Iraq or Jacko. But it's tough to make a given cultural topic work for more than a few minutes, even for the best at it like Prager, Limbaugh, and Ingraham. I felt he was too passive, that he needed to dig and challenge us listeners a little more. Instead, it was pretty thin soup. I give him a C, but I think he's better than that.
Forget the culture, the airlines, etc. I'd sure like to hear him discuss what's going on with Minneapolis School Superintendent Thandiwe Peebles. That's the type of topic that could earn him a shot as the Next Big Thing.