Epic Radio Fail

Alternate title: with great thanks to our commentators, especially to StrangeApar8us.

In the immediately preceding thread, several of you brought to my attention an utterly hilarious radio program hosted by one "Jennifer," a rich PUMA in the Houston area, with the help of Mama PUMA, Darragh "Lying is Fun" Murphy. The program, which aired recently on KFPT Houston, was an absolute debacle for PUMA-dom. For nearly an hour, Darragh & Jen took calls from either kool-aid drinking, misinformed PUMAs, or incredulous regular listeners who couldn't believe the lies being shoved through the airwaves. Truly, now we know why PUMAs screen comments on their sites: without censorship, their entire "platform" would be debunked within minutes.

Don't believe me? Now, thanks to StrangeAppar8us (for the URL), QuickTime Pro (for the download), LAME Encoder (for the format), and Fetch FTP, you can listen to the full interview here. I advise you not to drink anything while listening, unless you don't mind doing numerous spit-takes on the electronic device you're using to listen.

Some highlights...

• To hear a Hillary delegate who was well-aquainted with the primary process explain why the PUMAs are wrong, over their angry objections, skip to 29:30;
• To hear a guy call them out on Hillary breaking her own rules re: Florida & Michigan, skip to 17:20;
• To hear why PUMAs lose, hard, skip to 37:10, and keep listening through 41:00, when it becomes clear that PUMAs were pro-Iraq War (oops!).
• To hear a caller put his finger on the pulse of PUMA, remind them that Hillary & Bill asked them to stop, and Jennifer "explain it away" by saying that they've "moved beyond Hillary," turn to 42:00, and stay tuned through 45:00.

Oh, and the fallout? A KPFT blogger & program director reacts: "WTF was that?" Another associate of the station reports that the PUMAs really only had one problem: "their program was recorded." Something tells me we've heard the last of PUMAs on the real radio.

Comments

[1-20-09]

They are exploding into a frenzy over the perceived injustice laid upon them by the station and it's listeners, you should all go and comment.
http://kpft.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/wtf-was-that/#comment-21986

[polo]

This tape is freakin awesome.

I'm only 5 minutes in.

[polo]

haha this is awesome.."god bless republicans"

[GeorgetownJD]

Jeez, I think she was about to cry. I've been to Houston and never once saw people wandering, looking lost. What part of town does she frequent?

[Patrick McKinnion]

Just finished listening to the MP3 of the radio show. Wow.

This was one of the best examples of how the PUMAs can’t seem to function outside one of their litterboxes.

In a PUMA litterbox, they can remain one with landru, hearing nothing but the carefully edited comments from other PUMA sockpuppets and kool-aid drinkers. They can believe they paid down Sen. Clinton’s campaign debt (they didn’t), they can believe their Washington DC conference was a big event (it wasn’t), they can believe they made a difference in Denver (they didn’t). They can believe in Berg, and Martin, and Murphy, and Bowers, and that winged fairies from far far away are going to wave their magic wands, drive away teh ebil Obambi, and restore the Blessed Saint Hillary, Warrior/Martyr of the PUMA cause, into her rightful place.

Problem is the version of “Dear Hillary” they believe in has nothing in common anymore with the REAL Sen. Hillary Clinton. Indeed, PUMAs actions have spit on everything Sen. Clinton stands for.

Once they venture outside of the safety of the PUMA litterboxes though, they meet reality, and it’s far different than they are used to. They can’t accept that 52% of the American people weighed the scales and decided Barack Obama would be a better president than John McCain. They can’t acccept there’s absolutely no real evidence that Obama was born anywhere BUT Hawaii. They can’t accept their made up demon bears as much relation to the real thing, as their version of “Dear Hillary” has with Sen. Clinton.

In short, they freak out when reality isn’t like the safely padded and censored world they find at PUMAPAC, Riverdaughter, TexasDarlin, and many of the other PUMA litterboxes.

Which explains why “Jennifer” and Murphy acted as rude, obnoxious, loud, and arrogant towards the callers as they did. Because they couldn’t stand the cold light of reality showing their little fantasy world is as hollow and empty as a rotting jack o’lantern 3 weeks after Halloween. Their minds are made up, don’t confuse them with facts - or reality.

[not a fan of PUMA]

Ok, if this weren't absolutely HYSTERICAL it would just be sad, sad, sad...

They really need to take this comedy show on the road!

Maybe they can run Palin's campaign in 2012?!? I do believe we should all encourage them to stick around and to support Palin!! LOL!!!!

[Ames]

Georgetown JD, I was in Houston for four years (Rice woo!), and maybe this is just "liberal elitist" West U Place, but the only time I ever saw people looking "lost" was the day after Kerry lost...

[Citizen Cane]

What a meltdown, PUMAs are turning into a parody of themselves.

PUMAs, the next time you’d try to pose like Democrats, learn to act at least approximately like ones, else all your efforts would have a negative impact on undecided, skeptical voters – again.

Currently you act like war and fear mongering, gun tottering, bible trumping, delusional radical conservatives. I read your blog out of curiosity, don’t make me quote from it .

The best part of KFPT show when Jennifer - a supposed die-hard Hillary supporter – answered to a caller which reminded her that Hillary asked them to stop, explained they've "moved beyond Hillary".

Your credibility equals to credibility of those hoaxers and nutsacks (like API, Berg and Donofrio) that you support at theirs “revelations of truth” so zealously. Keep on throwing horse manure against Obama, soon you’ll realize how badly you stink on it.

[Citizen Cane]

That above is a C/P of my comment at KFPT blog

[Kevin K.]

My comments keep getting hung up in moderation over at KFPT. Bummer. I responded to this:

"That dear ones is the reason PUMA was even started."

...with this:

"Funny, this whole time I thought it was cooking sherry."

[Abroadsider]

I think you'll find that Southern Comfort is the ratfucker's tipple of choice:

Riverdaughter, on November 4th, 2008 at 9:06 pm Said:

HI Guys,
I’m here in Manhattan with Ladyboomer, madamab, Harriet Christian, Darragh Murphy, Sheri Tag and a whole buncha other PUMAs. We’re doing shots of Southern Comfort.
Why not join us? Break out your favorite bottle of bourbon and get fine and mellow.

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/poll-closings-ii-ozark-mountain-time/

Jeez, it's like Gunfight at the OK Corral over at KFPT! (If jenniforhillaryX takes a turn for the even worse, that might be a simile that I'll regret.)

[BD]

Wow, crazy time...and the comments are fun as well as they try to shout down anyone that disagrees with them.

The other amusing part was the reaction of the guys that came on afterword and had to listen to all the PUMA crack.

[StrangeAppar8us]

I didn't see that this thread was up, so I'll repost these from downstairs:

scooter and Ames -- That was great fun last night. But I think I'm going to wait a week or so before I go back to see what I wrote. ;->

I hope I didn't embarrass anyone...other than myself. Ames was en fuego, but I was just baked.

Nice to see Citizen Cane showing off his chops, as well. That comment thread was like Steely Dan w/Skunk Baxter vs. The Doors minus Jim Morrison.

[StrangeAppar8us]

And thanks ever so much for your generous h/t.

just doing God's work, the only way I know how.

[Patrick McKinnion]

I admit I'm having fun poking the PUMAs with a spoon, (Seriously, the worst insult they can use against me is my hobbies?? PLEASE!!)) But that thread, (like the radio show) is a great example of what happens when the PUMAs venture out of their litterboxes and have to argue their position based on merits, not by the echo chamber with an untold number of sock puppets all agreeing with the great Goddess Murphy, profit (!) of the One True Hillary.

Remember, they LIKE the fact the great Goddess Murphy protects them by weeding out painful questioners and doubters, or those who might cast doubts on the One Twue Way. When they venture out, wearing the cardboard armor of their wraith, secure in what they've been told in the PUMA litterboxes, they get ripped to shreds by the truth.

They have *nothing* except their lies and hate. And there's not much more of that can sustain them.

[StrangeAppar8us]

Patrick, the opportunity to confront them in an open forum is irresistible, and my only regret is that -- despite my best intentions to calmly guide and instruct them -- it only takes one loony response before I feel compelled to decloak, hoist the Jolly Roger and fire the photon torpedoes.

Not, of course, that it matters -- because, as you note, there IS only PUMA-Truth (so factual arguments are useless). That leaves only mockery and psychological sabotage as foundations for posting. The more you tease, the more they reveal their Blanche DuBois credulity and Norma Desmond certitude that they *are* big, and only the world's capacity to take them seriously got smaller.

For some reason, I feel like we should send $50 and a fruit basket to Ernesto for the mess we made in his comments section. I doubt he was expecting a Hal Roach pie-fight in his living room.

[AltHippo]

I listened to the segments of the KPFT show, and thought "Wow. That was a train wreck." Then I thought, "Well, Jennifer probably learned something in the process."

Was I ever wrong. I looked at the KPFT blog post "WTF was that" and see that Jennifer posted this:

Second, as far as the way callers were treated, I felt we did a very good job. I suppose you could say we have a classic difference of opinion. As a host, I did not realize that I had to listen to patently untrue statements being presented as ‘facts’ (i.e. the caller who kept insisting that there was evidence of caucus fraud on behalf of Mrs. Clinton but could not site a single example of said fraud) AND I was not aware that I had to listen to callers who were verbally abusive and were not aware of the facts.

Not only did she learn nothing, but I see she is proposing a follow up show.

PUMA Grrrrrrowl!

[StrangeAppar8us]

AltHippo -- No one ever told me I shouldn't shit in a policeman's hat, either -- but, unlike Jennifer, I have what doctors call "situational awareness."

And, yes, the PUMAs were high-fiving like crazy the night of the broadcast, and Jennifer was practically certain that KPFT would want to give the PUMAs a regular slot on the schedule, because -- like -- they were, you know, SOOOOOO awesome...and people are SOOOOOO hungry for the truth and stuff.

[StrangeAppar8us]

"It was not my understanding that I had to listen to a lot of callers who do not believe in Xenu."

John Travolta, Guest Host, "The PUMA/Thetan Power Hour," KPFT Houston

[polo]

strange you were great.

anyone not into this that listened to the show and followed the blog will be relieved to learn these people have been fought at every turn.

scratch their itch and these pukes devolve into the right wing fundy racists they are. it is like a game of out that racist in as few posts as possible.

[jenny, debbie,maria,lynnsey and jenna]

A bunch of us listened to it at work today, we're RN's in a newborn nursery, and I almost dropped the baby I was weighing because I was laughing so hard! Too funny. One of the techs said Andy Martin was in Hawaii today for a hearing about Obama's birth certificate? You've always kept us apprised of the lawsuits and wonder if you've heard anything. You're one of the only people I can understand when you talk about the law. thanks.. nurses from Boca Raton, FL

[gimmeabreak]

Strange,

I felt bad as well for trashing the radio station blog. But it was soooo much fun!

[StrangeAppar8us]

gimmeabreak -- Wow. It's all coming back to me. You were there, and Ames and Citizen Cane. How many of us WERE there? It's all a blur. I had 4 or 5 nics going on in the early stages, but I ditched the puppets as soon as the gals arrived.

Curse the wicked madman who posted the "WTF Was That?" link on a New York Magazine article the PUMAs were prowling earlier in the day. Didn't he realize they'd SEE it and alert the hive? The mad fool.

[Patrick McKinnion]

jenny, debbie,maria,lynnsey and jenna - I'm waiting on an update about the Andy Martin case before posting the lastest Cult of the COLB updates.

[StrangeAppar8us]

jenny -- Internet powerhouse Andy Martin has not yet updated his blog with news of today's hearing.

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin is probably in surgery right now to repair the extra asshole I suspect the Hawaii Supreme Court installed for him.

[StrangeAppar8us]

Yikes. I just revisited the "WTF" comments. EVERYBODY was there...and I punked-out like a lightweight at 12:55.

Bravo, Anti-PUMAs and 'Roasters! You guys battled it out all night. Hell, it's STILL going on.

[scooter]

Strange Apparatus wrote: "scooter and Ames -- That was great fun last night. But I think I'm going to wait a week or so before I go back to see what I wrote. ;->"

Oh yeah, I was getting plastered while typing as well.

BTW to all readers, that blog is not moderated. But Blog softwares do bog down in high traffic.

I don't cruise many blogs, but I do hang out at Pharyngula quite a bit, after 300 posts, a thread will get pretty glitchy over there, and posts take awhile to show up.

Ernesto wouldn't moderate, he's a free speech guy all the way.

So you're 53 like me and you're in Pittsburg, where did you go to school, what part of Pittsburg? That's one of my old stomping grounds.

Go over to my website at http://acksisofevil.org and hit contact, drop me an emale.

Who was OneWithLandru over at Ernesto's Blog? That guy is hysterical, I may have to read his description on the air this thursday, not sure what I'm doing this week, but some sort of PUMA Comedy is definitely in the mix.

Yall were great fun over there, it's still going by the way, and a new thread, I was just typing to Mrs Polly.

-scooter

[scooter]

gimmeabreak:"I felt bad as well for trashing the radio station blog."

That's Ernesto's personal blog, he's loving it, he's never gotten that much traffic before.

He has a great sense of humor, and yall are saying what he can't because his position requires a lot of diplomacy.

[StrangeAppar8us]

scooter -- I confess: I was OneWithLandru, and DangerGirl, and CircusGirl and several other sockpuppets before I decided to don the StrangeApps armor and get down in the mud. After a while, I really didn't need to create my own reinforcements, as you may have noticed.

I'll drop you an email shortly. Already posted a comment on your own "Thursday's show" thread.

[scooter]

I confess: I was OneWithLandru

hmmm, maybe YOU should perform that post on the air or something like it.

Definitely drop me a line.

Sounds like you've been involved in radio, let's play.

I'm on Thursday 10:30pm Central, and I start putting it together around noon on thursdays, and doing mixes and stuff.

Also working on a corny PUMADY script, I posted the concept over at http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/ive_got_nuthin/

One of my partners in crime does a great Sarah Palin so we'll have to work in how to hunt PUMAs from a helicopter, where to shoot them, how to clean them, and some good recipes.