Just turned Randi's replacement OFF

[wryter2000]

There are people in the office, so I've had the volume really low. In fairness, I haven't heard everything he's said. But, man...he's been on a "why does that welfare queen have a Cadillac?" riff for the last hour.

He was behind someone paying for groceries with food stamps, and she had an iPhone and drove a nice car. I don't know what that person's story is. Maybe she is one of the few cheats. The host himself admitted that some people trade food stamps for drugs. This woman might have been the drug lord's wife/girlfriend/sister.

Why does this merit an hour of "Ronald Reagan was right"?

I caught the first part of the show, and he sounded good. If this is his idea of intelligent discussion of the state of our country, he ought to audition to sit in for R. Limbaugh.

[newmajority]

1. Johnny Wendell - he sucks worse than Lionel

And you have to try really hard to pull that off.

[Hieronymus]

5. OMG, I thought Lionel was the worst, too.

[tbyg52]

20. There's somebody worse than Lionel?

Learn something new every day. I heard the start of that food stamp/iPhone rant. I wondered which station I was listening to.

[williefard]

28. Johnny Wendell - he sucks worse than Lionel

Johnny Wendell - he sucks worse than Lionel FOR SURE !!!
i agree totally !!
and ktlk1150 am IS distant and dead useless
frangela sucks even worse
i tune out every weekend - good by KTLK am 1150 !!
i listen to thom hartman - randi rhodes
i dont know why KTLA 1150 am runs sports all the time
runs useless informercials / paid programing all the time
runs stupid station announcements of the worst kind
like that ''jock strap'' station promotion and stupid bull crap
they ran off joe macdonnel he is gone
we need a complete overhaul of this juvenine immature station!
i would get rid of johnny wendell and frangela and start over
then i would get jeff farias on the air
and get rid of all of the sports !!!

http://bringjeffback.com/

http://www.thejefffariasshow.com/

[maximdad]

31. Wendell Goes Racist On Sanjay Gupta

http://themovingtarget.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/progressive-radio-goes-racist-on-sanjay-gupta/

[Ian David]

32. Lionel doesn't suck because he's wrong. Lionel sucks because he's a bad person.

Wendell sucks because he's wrong, and possibly ALSO a bad person.

[eleny]

2. People don't use "stamps" now

Food assistance is used with a credit card type card that is swiped like any credit card. and it has been for some time now. There's no way to tell.

He's lying.

[zeemike]

6. Perhaps what he saw was a woman using coupons

There is no shame in being frugal.

[wryter2000]

11. He was adamant about food stamps

But then, he's obviously an idiot.

[williefard]

29. johnny wendell is a right winger

johnny wendell is a right winger
i heard his totall attack and assult on the most needy
he is one hateful s.o.b. i will not listen to
anymore !!
attacking welfare reciepents the poor and homeless ones
not the big bank bailouts and fat cats on the top
i have been on welfare and i dont want some
radio gestapo talk show host follow-ing me around to
see what kind of car i drive away with
maybe i go to the bus stop and wait there cauz'
i am too poor to afford a car johnny wendall s.o.b.
!!
my god what a hateful right winger !!!

[Sepasco]

34. Johnny Wendell is NOT a right-winger

Wendell is hardly a "right-winger," although he doesn't necessarily agree with every one of my lefty positions. He was against the Iraq war, for Obama in the election, for decriminalization of pot, etc., etc. And the food stamp program is still called the "food stamp" program, even if "stamps" are no longer used. I don't agree with Obama on a couple of issues either, but I wouldn't call him a "right-winger."

[DailyGrind51]

30. Maybe he was just lying, like Limbaugh and Hannity do every day!

[wryter2000]

8. Interesting

I know they offered cards. I didn't know they'd done away with stamps entirely.

Very interesting.

[eleny]

17. Yes, and it was quite a few years ago that the cards were instituted to preclude fraud

The card is like a gift card in credit card form. Each month, a set amount of money is made available. It's swiped like any other card. The guy is lying.

Here are some examples:


If there's one story I heard over and over from people who learned I worked in social services it was the one about being behind someone using f/stamps in the grocery with expensive items like steak in their cart. What's new is the I-Phone. :eyes:

[Tunkamerica]

18. Actually you can tell

when it comes up on the display (the only that everyone can see) it says ebt (electronic benefits transfer I think) instead of cash or atm or credit. Or at least that's how it was when I workedat a grocery store. And there's the whole thing of only certain foods being allowed for food stamps or WIC. So you have to seperate your purchases. Also, people usually said EBT or WIC to the cashier because we had to ring it up a little different.

[eleny]

21. But the guy on the radio insisted they were "stamps"

The reason I think he's lying in any case is that he saw so much. You'd have to be standing so close and scrutinizing the whole transaction so carefully. And then he had to finish his transaction and quickly follow her outside and see her getting into a Cadillac. And she had an I-Phone? How did he see that? Was she talking while separating her groceries and paying? The whole thing smacks of a bogus rant.

I've heard it frm people too often. I could have written the script. What surprised me is that I rarely saw people shopping with food assistance and when I did I don't think I ever scrutinized their cart of groceries. Maybe that was because I knew first hand how little income people have to qualify.

[Tunkamerica]

22. Back several years ago when the cards were first introduced

the stamps were still valid because not every grocery store took the cards. I have no idea whether you can still opt for the stamps, but it's not impossible.

[eleny]

23. That's a huge stretch

In my experience with the program, it's not happening.

[Tunkamerica]

3. Drug dealers can't be female?

I know for a fact that is a fallacy

[wryter2000]

9. Thanks

You got me, I must admit. :blush:

[Middle finga]

4. Strange subject for a so called progressive to be spending time

dicussing with all the other shit that's going on in this country. The so called welfare queens he was wailing against aint got shit on Halliburton, Exxon Mobil, Black Water and all those other bloodsucking corporations out there. We've blown a trillion dollars in Iraq on a meaningless war and he's worried about a mother getting a couple hundred dollars worth of food stamps per month who happen to be getting into fairly new model car?

[JDPriestly]

7. Have you listened to Phil Henrie in the evenings on KTLK in L.A. Awful.

With the airwaves full of right-wing loudmouths, you would think that KTLK would realize that they have a market all to themselves that is hungry for liberal/progressive talk radio. Why do they waste precious airtime on these uneducated fools? I have written. Lionel is the worst. I think you were listening to Johnny Wendel. Ugh.

[MullenBank]

13. I'm out of step

I love Phil Hendrie-- the wearwolf bit is great. I used to listen to lionel and Mike on WABC. I think Mike's a jerk but Lionel is funny as all get out. And no, I never liked the Greaseman.....

[wryter2000]

14. Thanks for the warning

I've never heard him, I'm glad to say.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Me, too.

After listening to a few minutes of ranting about the welfare queen with the iPhone and the new car, I started wondering, who is this douche? It's legitimate to ask whether the current welfare system is fair and/or subject to being taken advantage of, but this guy was going off like Limbaugh about how it's not fair that somebody who gets welfare assistance has a nicer car than a working stiff like him. And maybe that's true, but anectodal bullshit like that doesn't mean anything. Maybe she was cheating the system, or maybe she'd borrowed the car and/or the phone from somebody else. Who knows what her situation was? More importantly, assuming she was taking advantage of the system, how often does that happen? The "welfare queen" is a Reagan-area false stereotype that the RW likes to think is not only real, but the norm. This asshole wasn't helping anything. I hope they don't use him as a sub again.

[JDPriestly]

12. Just in case Johnny is reading this, I want reassure him that welfare fraud

is a serious offense that can result (and does) in equally serious penalties. If you are doing it or thinking of doing it, don't. Unless you think you can get the president to pardon you, you don't want to lie to the government on a welfare application form or otherwise.

This woman may have someone in her household who is eligible for assistance with obtaining food or may be shopping for someone who gets food stamps quite legitimately.

Recently, we drove a disabled, homeless woman to the grocery store. She used her food stamps to pay. Had we shopped on her behalf so that she would not have to go to the store, people might have asked why we were "using food stamps."

If you are taking care of children of a relative under certain circumstances, you might qualify for assistance in buying food just as if you were eligible for some other reason.

Johnny Wendel and Lionel are ignorant so they raise all these bogus "issues." I wish we could listen to Thom Hartmann all day long.

[wryter2000]

15. I'm with you about Hartmann

I have to have my Mama and the Mooks, too, though.

[JDPriestly]

24. I used to listen to Stephanie Miller, but I stopped.

Might start again.

I like to listen while I am exercising and doing routine computer work.

[comtec]

25. I love mama n the mooks

God you have idea how I miss kent Jones....
And since AAR changed how/where they store their files, I haven't been able to listen to Rachel Maddow...
I'm a poor man, and I cant usually catch anyone's streams....
besides, I love Rachel, I'm ecstatic she's on MSNBC so much, but I R E A L L Y miss Morning Sedition
I miss Kent Jones!
I MISS THE FUNNY< WHERE IS THE FUNNY!!?!?!?!?
:cry:
Oh yeah!! Steph Miller :)

By the by... anyone know what kent or the other Morning seditionists are doing now? I know Marc Marron is doing clubs (god I wish he would have gotten Randy's old slot))
Also.. What's Sam Seder up to now that AAR has gone Fascist!?

[wryter2000]

26. Mark has an e-mail list

I get a notice from time to time about what he's doing.

I miss Morning Sedition like mad. It was such an awesome show. Lawton Smalls (Kent Jones) was my absolute favorite, but so much of it was great. Sammy the Stem Cell, Rapture Watch, Johnny K Street.

AAR was so fabulous when it started. Now, the only one of their shows I listen to regularly is Hartmann. I catch Rachel from time to time, too. I'm so glad the MSNBC thing is working for her.

[Sepasco]

33. AAR has gone fascist?

How so? Johnny Wendell has nothing to do with AAR. He's a part-timer with Clear Channel's KTLK and when AAR, NovaM, or another network runs "Best Of" programs, KTLK will often substitute Wendell instead of playing the old program.

Sam Seder and Mark Maron do a daily Internet show from AAR. And Kent Jones works with Rachel Maddow at MSNBC.

[notadmblnd]

16. That welfare queen may have been a foster mother with a second income

using "food stamps/bridge card" for the food those children are entitled to. I jsut wish people wouldn;t judge.

[classof56]

19. Thanks for the heads up about Randi's replacement today.

Her show comes on at 3:00 on KPOJ-Portland (I get it online) and I had intended to tune in when I finished work (yep, retiree, had to go back to work, thank you, Mr. Bush), but your post changed my plan. Just one point of interest on the "welfare queen" idiocy--the other day I was checking out of a retail store and remarked to the clerk I couldn't find one item I wanted. She recommended I try Goodwill. Said she gets some great bargains there, and then she mentioned all the Lexuses, Cadillacs, BMWs, etc. in the Goodwill parking lots these days. Made me realize having a "nice car" does not necessarily mean one is well off. Especially now (thanks again, Bushie). Too many of us are just one paycheck away from economic disaster, and if food stamps helps get people through these ugly times, I'm all for it. Pretty sure the lady didn't buy the iPhone with food stamps (cards here, too), but perhaps it was a gift from someone during better times. Maybe she's about to pawn it. I hear pawn shops are doing a brisk business lately!

Tired Old Cynic

[8 track mind]

27. goodwill rocks!

I have found ton's of great records in goodwill. some of them long out of print

[Sepasco]

35. You missed a Randi repeat, not a "replacement."

Wendell was Randi's "replacement" in Los Angeles, not in Portland or anywhere else.