Outrage!!
Ok, I live in a fairly small market that doesn’t have a lot of choice on the radio (unless you are into Country music, then you’ve got lots of choice) and from 9am – when NPR’s news goes off the air – and 10am – when the good music comes onto our local alternative rock station – there isn’t much to listen to. Except for Mancow in the Morning. I’m not a Mancow fan, but I wasn’t in the mood for country music and there is still occasionally some good music on in between his blathering, so I was listening to that as I went for my morning cuppa. Just as I was about to turn off the car and head inside, Mancow took a call. Some lady called in to say that, at her son’s parent-teacher meeting last night, she was informed that the ALA would be banning a couple of Shel Silverstein titles from that school because they promote disobedience. Mancow immediately took off on a huge rant, calling librarians emasculating lesbians and saying that they – and teachers – both hate male children. After a minute or two of this, I lost my cool and had to go inside for a cup of coffee to cool me down a bit (and no, it wasn’t iced coffee). When I came back out, he was still ranting, this time about teachers, I think, about how they hate boys and want to make boys like little girls via medication. He was complaining about the fact that they want to keep us all stupid and under the government’s thumb and he continued in that vein (with a bit of bitching about the liberal PC mafia removing holidays from school… whatever!) until I got to work.
I had to listen to that part about the ALA for a couple of minutes before my brain processed the word “ban” properly. It was *so* not what I had expected to hear!! I was too flabbergasted to call in and tell him that the lady who called in originally had gotten some bad information and that he was defaming an entire profession (or two – he let teachers have it as well) on the basis of incorrect information. Now I’m just too irritated (and unwilling to cater to him by calling his show) to do anything more than blog about it!
Consider it blogged.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Well, we could all email him at mancow@mancow.com – I did. Though given his ranty proclivities and idiotic statements, he likely will have to have someone else read it to him.
This did not help my bitchtastic mood
June 20th, 2008 at 10:25 am
I emailed him as well. It would be nice if people got their facts straight! Thank goodness that I now live in a very rural place (one w/out Mancow)…
But I am glad that you had your ears open and that you were able to let us all know his latest rant!
If anyone else wants to email Mancow, here is some ammo:
Books on the banned book list are books that have been challenged by various groups and are… “reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, as compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association”. From the ALA website
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.cfm
A classic case of shooting the messenger, if I ever heard it. What a shame.
–Victoria
June 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Well, we could all email him at mancow@mancow.com – I did. Though given his ranty proclivities and idiotic statements, he likely will have to have someone else read it to him.
This did not help my bitchtastic mood
June 20th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I emailed him as well. It would be nice if people got their facts straight! Thank goodness that I now live in a very rural place (one w/out Mancow)…
But I am glad that you had your ears open and that you were able to let us all know his latest rant!
If anyone else wants to email Mancow, here is some ammo:
Books on the banned book list are books that have been challenged by various groups and are… “reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, as compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association”. From the ALA website
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwl...
A classic case of shooting the messenger, if I ever heard it. What a shame.
–Victoria
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Actually, (and don’t throw eggs at me) I’m not going to flame Mancow on this one. Was what he said way over the top, completely inaccurate, and totally irresponsible? Yep. Absolutely. Is what he said exactly what he’s paid to do? Yep. Absolutely. Here we are talking about his show on a forum that otherwise would never even dream of posting a “..I heard on Mancow this morning..” type of gossip. He’s a shock jock and gets paid by having listeners for his sponsors. He got you to listen much longer than you would have otherwise, and probably got a few ad spots in there along the way. He did his job, and did it quite successfully from what it appears.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 am
Actually, (and don’t throw eggs at me) I’m not going to flame Mancow on this one. Was what he said way over the top, completely inaccurate, and totally irresponsible? Yep. Absolutely. Is what he said exactly what he’s paid to do? Yep. Absolutely. Here we are talking about his show on a forum that otherwise would never even dream of posting a “..I heard on Mancow this morning..” type of gossip. He’s a shock jock and gets paid by having listeners for his sponsors. He got you to listen much longer than you would have otherwise, and probably got a few ad spots in there along the way. He did his job, and did it quite successfully from what it appears.