Show Notes

Haven't you always wanted to do this?

Here's Michael Roberts' story in Westword about this driver. Enjoy.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Here is the summary of the Florida Republican primary debate preceding tonight's vote. This is the most comprehensive debate I've seen these two perform:

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Obama's First Ad. Amazing how you can twist things around.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Don't think ID's should be required to vote? Watch Project Veritas obtain ballots in New Hampshire for dead Democrat voters:

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Joe just gave this news story about Marines allegedly urinating on bodies of dead Taliban members. Here's the video. Do these guys not understand that these videos always get out? Right or wrong what they did?

Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban

Thursday, January 5, 2012

This photograph was eliminated from the Durango High School yearbook because her attire in the photo violated dress code. Regardless of whether it violates the dress code or not, what do you think?

Monday, December 19, 2011

Ever wonder just how hard Congress is working to cut federal spending? Here's a graphic that ought to get your blood boiling:

Here is the video showing Egyptian riot police brutalizing demonstrators in Tahir Square. This is very graphic and NSFW.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Here are two charts from the Heritage Foundation website showing the distribution of appliances in households in the United States in 2005.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Check out this Denver Post article about the reverence shown toward burials - right here in Colorado at Fort Morgan.

Remember my story about the USSR General with me at the changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery? Here's what happens when someone is rude and disrespectful at that site. Watch and listen closely.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Steffan Tubbs, co-anchor of Colorado's Morning News on 850KOA, recently traveled with some World War II vets to Pearl Harbor for the 70th Anniversary last week. During his visit with these vets, he ran into problems with CBS's production team for the television show Hawaii Five-O. I find the actions of the CBS production crew astonishingly rude and irreverent considering most of these vets may not live to see the 71st Anniversary and that many of their friends died in that attack. Here is the story taken from Steffan's Facebook page.

CBS HAWAII FIVE-O CREW DISSES PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS: A Disgrace at Punchbowl

Morning, friends:

All of our vets are either home or on their way as I write this. I appreciate the outrage you have shared with me regarding the incident at Punchbowl on Friday. Please know via a friend, actor Daniel Dae-Kim apparently got word of this to the show's executive producer. Please see the EP's response to me via email last night:

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Steffan,

I'm appalled by this account of events, and you can be certain I will be questioning my crew about what happened. I fly to Hawaii tomorrow and will get to the bottom of this. In the meantime, please accept my apology for any mistreatment.

Warmest regards,

Peter M. Lenkov
Executive Producer
Hawaii Five-0
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TWENTY FIVE MINUTES LATER...

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I'm being told that our crew did stop for your ceremony, at least for the time we told you needed, then proceeded with shooting.

Sent from my iPad

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And then this morning... the accusations to me:

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From Lenkov:

After my email to you, I spoke to approx 30 folks who were there, including reps from Punchbowl. All say the same thing: they paid respect during the anthem, then called lunch to give the vets the privacy and respect they deserve. Now I know it might be fun to trash a TV show, but I can't understand why you would make these claims. Everyone knows how much we respect our military. We couldn't do our show without them. And since 80% of our crew is made up of locals with deep ties to the military, I can't imagine any one of them doing the things you said in your blog.

Also know, we were not told there was a ceremony until we arrived at Punchbowl. If you know anything about production, you would agree that we had to proceed. And we did, with great respect. Albeit you did not see it that way.

Unfortunately the damage is done. Your blog has spread quickly amongst our fan base. I have a meeting with CBS tomorrow to discuss further.

Wish you would have contacted us first so we could discuss your claims before trashing us so aggressively in a blog.

Peter M. Lenkov
Executive Producer
Hawaii Five-0

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to which I responded:

There is nothing made up here. If from my location I could not see your crew stop for the anthem, I apologize. I do know during Taps there were people walking around.

What about the assistant in the backpack walking through hushing vets placing roses? How do you explain the caterer?

Yes, at some point the show had to go on. And it did.

I am a newsman, not some gossip columnist. I recounted exactly what happened and this isn't "fun." These "claims" are fact. The attached picture says a lot, even if it is standard procedure for your crew on location.

Most certainly the few individuals did not represent the view of you, your entire crew, H5O or CBS. But this happened and unfortunately its a reflection of all of you.

I wish you all success and I told this like it was.

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And the drama goes on.

Folks, if you are friends of mine or not, please know this was told the way it happened. Period. To those members of the crew who stopped to show their respect, I salute you. It is extremely troubling the vets never saw it.

SEE ATTACHED PICTURE TO GET A FEEL OF HOW IT WAS FOR A TIME...

FIVE-O CREW DISGRACEFUL TO WWII PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS

December 9, 2011

(NATIONAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC – HONOLULU)
It looked strange from the moment we pulled up to the Punchbowl, a sacred Hawaiian site once the location for human sacrifice before Cook's arrival to the islands. Our tour bus, filled with 23 WWII Pearl Harbor survivors as part of The Greatest Generations Foundation came to the beautiful location in an old crater above downtown Honolulu for a closing ceremony and presentation. The National Cemetery of the Pacific pays tribute to those veterans of all faiths who served their country, many who lost their lives during WWII.

I admit I was not happy two days earlier on the morning of December 7 at the Pearl Harbor Memorial service. Thousands of people in attendance, yet President Barack Obama – born just a few miles from the USS Arizona memorial – was not only a no-show, but did not bother to send a written or videotaped greeting of thanks to these men. And then there was no-show Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, his bio and picture listed in the program and scheduled to deliver remarks in person. The president I can slightly understand, but the former Colorado senator? What was going on that was so important he couldn't make it on a private government jet to attend the last and final major Pearl Harbor survivors gathering? I am not aware of the circumstances, and perhaps there was a truly legitimate reason for Salazar's absence, but I have yet to hear it. Instead, the National Park representative on site read a bizarre partial statement from the Secretary and then stopped mid-sentence, paused awkwardly, and said, "Thank you."

As we drove in to the Punchbowl site with thousands of graves, large U-Haul-type trucks were lined along the boulevard as people with headsets scurried about acting busier than they really were. It took me just a few seconds to realize this was a production crew from the CBS series Hawaii Five-O. Their scene had something to do with lead character McGarrett visiting his father's grave, which in reality was surrounded by the real graves of WWII heroes. It didn't seem right. But I let it go.

Within 30 minutes of our arrival, we conducted a small ceremony that began with the presentation of the Colors by the University of Hawaii Army ROTC. The National Anthem followed. I emceed the event and looked out on men who had been injured December 7, 1941 – they represented the USS Arizona, Tennessee, St. Louis, Pennsylvania, Lexington, Medusa, Sacramento, Antares, Maryland, West Virginia, Stoddard, Tanney, Vestal and Pyro. This group of men also represented Ft. Kamahameha, Kanehoe Naval Air Station, Hickam Field, Schofield Barracks, Fort Shafter and Ford Island. At least eight were in wheelchairs. Average age: 91. The others sat in plastic chairs underneath a large, temporary tent. The cemetery representatives could not have been more respectful and there to assist.

Three hundred yards away and clearly visible to them, no one on the CBS production stopped for the anthem or any part of our program. This included the ending of our presentation – Taps and the moment of silence. I was perturbed, but because our veterans faced me, they couldn't see the disrespect. The ceremony ended and several men hopped on golf carts to visit their fallen comrades buried in other parts of the cemetery.

I decided to take a closer look at the production area from the public thoroughfare and walked closer to see catering trucks, grips, associate directors, production assistants, lighting workers, countless minions and the lead director – a Hollywood-looking middle-aged man wearing a black "AD/HD" t-shirt, a play off the rock band "AC/DC." I stopped well behind the cameras and out of view when a local production assistant politely told me to keep moving. I was not happy and told her we had WWII vets who would likely be in the area. I was told, "Sorry, sir. We rented this part of the cemetery today." My blood started to boil, but I remained calm and moved on. As I stood behind the tent, the director yelled at everyone to: "Get out of the line of sight! If you don't belong here, clear out!"

I made sure to go where I was basically invisible, 40 yards from the nearest camera when the director heatedly walked to me. He was not happy.
"Can you please move?" he said sternly. "OK," I said. "Where would you like me to go? I have Pearl survivors who are here visiting their fallen comrades at a public cemetery."

He couldn't have cared less and told me that if we stood behind a tent, that would be fine. He walked away completely frustrated and yelled at a local assistant: "I am doing YOUR job! You wanna come back here again? Do your job!" I felt sorry for her. It wasn't her fault a group of vets actually came back for a real reason to this cemetery. Having been around a few movie sets, I knew this was how they were especially if the scene was behind schedule, etc. Keep in mind at this point I was alone. It wasn't as if our entire entourage was milling about. There was only one veteran anywhere near me and was walking toward me from up the road.

Walter Maciejowski, 90, from Massachusetts soon caught up and I quickly tried to run interference so he wouldn't get yelled at as he stood there in his cream-colored Pearl Harbor Survivors cap. Walter was clueless and was just amazed at the technology. He whispered in my ear as the scene was about to begin 75 yards away. We both stood exactly where the director had told me to stand.

Two minutes later, another guy with an earpiece came up and simply asked us to leave. Period. He was polite, and I politely retorted: "This is a public place and its Pearl Harbor week. These men have made it possible for you to shoot here today. Plus, this is where your director placed us."

He told me he agreed but to please leave with Walter. Oh, he did offer to get us a water or soda to enjoy as we left. We declined.

I told Walter we had to go, and we started to walk away as lead actor Alex O'Laughlin and Terry O'Quinn from Lost did their scene. As we moved out, yet another woman came up to us and with a fake smile told us Walter couldn't take any pictures.

"Our actors get very skiddish around still cameras, sir."
"Funny, and yet they act in front of them," I said, ticked off because we were already leaving.

I wish he hadn’t done it, but Walter asked if they by chance had a hat for him. To his face, she said, "I doubt it but I will try." She never did.

We continued to walk down the road and now 300 yards from where we had stopped previously. At that moment, yet another production assistant, this one in his 20s and with frizzy blonde hair, told us we couldn't stand near the graves because we were in "the line of sight" of the actors. This was physically impossible. We were back near the podium where our ceremony had been held, and oh, we were behind a tree. I let this kid have it with a few select, powerful adult words and basically told him what he could tell his director. I give you my word we were NEVER in the way, NEVER loud and followed every instruction.

It gets worse.

The TGGF program had brought 24 red roses to place at the gravesites on the opposite side of the Punchbowl. The program crew actually had one of their men wearing a backpack and earplug walk through – infiltrate – our rose-laying ceremony hushing everyone.

It was a disgrace.

He ruined the somber mood and my blood was now beyond boiling. Thankfully most of our vets were so focused on placing their roses they didn't catch what was going on. This moron laughed as he communicated with some other crewmember on the other side of the cemetery via his cell phone headset. About this time, a caterer walked over grass and flat headstones, through our vets gathering, with a plate of blackberries and salmon for the actors to snack on.

We loaded our bus after the roses were placed and the vets climbed on and took their seats. Our oldest Pearl veteran 96, youngest 88. One of our crew guys asked the production guy in the backpack if, as we left, one of the actors could take two minutes to hop aboard during a break in shooting to say hello to our veterans as we drove past. Word came about three minutes later via an earpiece, "No."

That didn’t surprise me.

I stayed at the front of the bus with Tim Davis, president and founder of TGGF. He told me to let the vets know what had happened, but I'd already made up my mind I most certainly would. I took the bus microphone and informed the vets in a nutshell what happened. Many of them booed, and then I told them as we drove by, if they felt the urge, to give the CBS crew a one-fingered military salute.

We rolled past and about half our veterans flipped everyone off as we rolled out of the Punchbowl. We all had a good laugh and most agreed we should write CBS and boycott the show and its sponsors.
Having been in the news business nearly 22 years, I understand how the crew was just doing a job and there's big money involved. Shows have to be shot, actors coddled and issues down to rain and daylight come into play. And then, there's common sense and respect.

It would have been an issue if all 24 veterans and 10 staff had come near their "set" (again, on tops of graves of fallen soldiers) and were loud and in the way. Instead, it was just one or two that went to see the on-location production. They didn’t speak, and of course were much friendlier than I was. However, I know many of them were upset. I also thought about the tax incentives this production much receive from taxpayers!

Perhaps you side with the production team, simply trying to film a scene at an historic location. Regardless, I hope I've conveyed how this is just how it is at the end of 2011: people, often consistently, do not show their elders the proper respect they deserve. Of all the weeks of the year – Pearl Harbor week – where fewer than 200 arrived on Oahu for their final goodbye, this was the time for CBS, Hawaii Five-O and the average American to rise up and go the extra mile to accommodate these men. To show respect. To say thank you.

Production on such a grand scale isn't free. To that I say: neither is freedom.

In honor of these men and to show your support, I urge you to share this on Facebook, Twitter, at church, at your poker game, at schools, at work. This shouldn't be a quiet little island secret. Let people know via social networking. Stealing a line from a colleague: Hawaii Five-No!

Mahalo,

Steffan Tubbs
Newsradio 850 KOA, Denver. Colorado's Morning News co-host
Board member, The Greatest Generations Foundation (www.tggf.us)
steffantubbs@clearchannel.com
Twitter: @tubbskoa
Newsroom: 303-713-8500

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Denver Police Text Messages About Occupy Denver

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Should this fist pump have cost the team the championship?

Here's the woman with 15 kids asking who's going to pay for all of them. Watch and weep.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Here is a compilation of all the videos of the UC Davis/California pepper spraying incident. Here's what the media doesn't show you or tell you:

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Obama Administration approves domestic slaughter of horses for human consumption. Whatchathink about that?

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

In very simple terms, based on his father's gift wrapping paper business, Jim Cramer explains how the credit crisis in Europe could affect us. And, it's not pretty.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

DHS has issued a safety tip today, be careful how you deep fry your turkey, you turkeys!

Friday, November 18, 2011

It's Friday Night and another Caption Contest on the Michael Brown Show. Tonight's prize is an autographed copy of Michael's book, Deadly Indifference: The Perfect Political Storm. So, here's tonight's photograph. This OWS protestor was dragged out of a congressman's office during a press conference. Your caption can be of either the former NYPD officer dragging out the OWS protestor, the OWS protestor, or both. Enjoy and may the biggest smart aleck win!

Wednesday, November 13, 2011

We had a good debate tonight about socialism and the Pilgrims. Here is an article that disagrees with the conservative line that the Pilgrims failed because they tried socialism.

And here is the American Spectator story about why socialism was the problem for the Pilgrims!

Tuesday, November 12, 2011

This ten-year-old 5th grader commits suicide after bullying. How does a child of that age know about or have the wherewithal to commit suicide? We'll discuss the incident tonight on the show.

For all you tree-hugging enviro's out there, here's how nature really works!

Friday, November 11, 2011

SPC Chris Tarte

ATTN: 4th ID LNO

Brooke Army Medical Center

3851 Roger Brooke Drive

Ft. Sam Houston, TX 78234

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Considering today's article about the California Court upholding the right of a school to suspend students for wearing American flag t-shirts because of threats of violence from Mexican students; and, considering today is the U.S. Marine's 236th birthday, just think about the following:

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Honestly, I wasn't at Dulles International Airport yesterday. Although, there are days when I face TSA when I'd like to do nothing better! Oh, and FYI, the man was deemed not to be a security threat. Duh.

Photo courtesy of Steve Shur via WTOP Radio.

My anger is getting more pronounced the more I see of this. These occupiers are wrong, wrong, wrong.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Attorney Gloria Allred's press conference with the Herman Cain sexual harassment accuser:

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Monday, October 31, 2011

CAUTION: GRAPHIC. Here is what it is like to live under a tyrannical, Islamic state, where the rule of law, court procedures, individual rights, et al, are ignored.

Watch OccupyDenver take on a Denver police motorcycle officer - and lose.

Herman Cain, rising in the polls, is now accused of old sexual harassment charges. Dirty politics? Watch Newsbusters' video showing Politico bobbing and weaving about the story.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Here's tonight's question. Why are people uncomfortable when someone like Tim Tebow of the Denver Bronco's expresses his faith by "tebowing" but more than willing to discuss the case of a young boy who doesn't know if he's a boy or a girl and wants to join the Girl Scouts? Seems that sexuality, ethnicity, political affiliation, et al are totally open topics, but faith, not so much.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

We're experimenting with broadcasting the radio show on UStream. Click here to go to the radio show's page during the broadcast and watch the show live.

An amazing video providing a unique perspective on World War II and Normandy.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Here, gang, caption this:

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Charles Payne of Fox News describing how individualism allowed him to succeed while Russell Simmons argues for a collectivist society:

And, for those of you who still believe that Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are the same, consider Lisa Fithian, the organizer for most of the Occupy Wall Street protests around the United States:

I want one of these:

Monday, October 17, 2011

Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy Wall Street email distro public and searchable. The names in the list are a veritable who’s who in media. You can access those emails following this link.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

One of my listeners sent me this video. Class warfare? I'd say we're losing big time.

Here are a couple of videos I took last night and this morning at the Occupy Denver protest in Lincoln Park. We'll be discussing both of them. In one you'll hear a guy tell the Colorado State Patrol not to hurt anybody and that he told his two sons that he wouldn't be home because he intended to get arrested. In the other, you'll hear the general assembly moderator ask the group to turn off their cameras. Listen to the crowd's reaction.

From OccupyDenver tonight:

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Just for fun:

Part of the problem with Obama's attack on corporate America, is that he's trying to pick and choose the winners and losers, instead of letting the marketplace make that determination. I wonder what the Occupy Wall Street protesters would say about this little dinner meeting?

Monday, October 10, 2011

Here are the New York OCW protestors with the head of (I think) Goldman Sach's CEO on a spear. I asked tonight if they're upset with crony capitalism and the bailout of the Wall Street banks, why haven't they gone after Barack Obama for that? After all, he's the worst offender with the bank bailouts, the stimulus package, et al. One of my secret agents for the show cautioned me to be careful suggesting they go after Obama, but hey, using their logic, it would only be reasonable for them to protest Obama. Why aren't they?

Lisa Fithian: The organizer behind the unions, communist party and others organizing the "occupy *__" protests: Meet the Anarchist.

Tonight we'll be discussing the Occupy Wall Street movement and their demands. While these groups are susceptible to being made fun of, nonetheless we should take them very seriously. Listen closely to what communist organizer, former Obama czar Van Jones, has to say the crowd:

Friday, October 7, 2011

I promised to post the Bill Whittle video about how much wealth needs to be confiscated to cover the deficit. Here it is:

Oh, this is classy...Occupy Wall Street participant attempts to defecate on a NYPD patrol car:

Copyright Stefan Jeremiah

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler raked over the coals by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Scott joins me tonight to discuss his ongoing efforts to clean up Colorado's voter rolls. Here's Rachel's take on his efforts:

Last night - and many other times - we have talked about perspective and how it plays such a vital role in our reaction to and thinking about political issues or other matters. A listener sent me this video which again provides a different perspective - on the universe - and how much physically larger and active it is than we realize as we get mired down in day-to-day matters. Enjoy. MB

Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Newsman Joe Ciaro accuses me of owning a foo-foo dog. Tell me whether or not Mr. Bogart is a foo-foo dog. At 180 lbs, at worst he's a giant foo-foo dog:

Monday, October 3, 2011

Here is the C-Span coverage of Obama's speech at the A.M.E. Church in Selma in 2007.

Good background on the racism of the New Black Panther Party.

The "N" Word Crops Again. This Time on The View. The contortions they go through in discussing this are hilarious. One person doesn't like the "way" Barbara Walters says the "N" word but it's OK the way Whoopi Goldberg says the word. Could it be because Barbara is white? This is nuts.