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Brian Edwards Tiekert: Syncing The Mother Ship

by BetterBadNews
Video Satire. 6 min. Morning Show host, Brian Edwards Tiekert is roasted by fans of Youth Radio, Flash-Points, Amy Goodman and Hard Knock Radio. http://www.youtube.com/user/betterbadnewz#p/a/u/0/1A1aAXkwLsQ
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Democrats in name only at KPFA in a battle for control of the last standing progressive radio network are satirized in this 6 min video clip. In this episode BetterBadNews and the Pacifica Radio Network rebuff a hostile attempt to break up the network at a recent rally in Berkeley. BetterBadNews: Half True More or Less 100% of the Time
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by Rationality First
Instead of making things up, why not listen to what is really being said? Here's Larry Bensky, Aimee Allison, and Brian Edwards-Tiekert this morning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mP5rs9LS44
by Old Guy
We know what's really going on. Hijackers!
by Maria Solis Diaz
I should listen to Larry Bensky? The old sexist pig? When the Alito confirmation was covered live, he repeatedly cut off and interrupted and scolded Deepa Fernandez on live radio while he and his little boy pal Mitch Jesserich snickered and played Old Boys Club. Bensky is a sexist and he's a fool always prattling on about how bad NYT or Washington Post are but every Sunday on Sunday Salon, he'd be citing them as respected news sources.
Larry Bensky should have left the airwaves in the 70s. And he should have taken Kris Welch with him.
Where are the Latinos on KPFA?
Can't have them apparently. One more reason to fire Philip and Brian and Aimee.
Brian, you do not bring in the most revenue in kpfa and don't do everything yourself. Please stop pretending your super woman, and realize that you do not make the station run. If you make it run you have made it run out of money if anything, even though you have your foot in the lsb, your dirty hands on the union, and you use to have a morning show you were not able to bring the station back, so stop bragging punk ass. That is the actual reason why you should have gotten fired for having conflict of interest in all three fields. You were lucky i would say that the pacifica director isn't making you put the money back you lost, and were planning on stealing for the morning show alone. When you say that you do fund drives for all the other programs to stay on the air, i say your an idiot that doesn't live in this reality, and your fucking morning show has never done anything for anybody that wasn't a Slave KPFA mobster. Quit pretending your the only hope, and what goes around comes around.
by Maggie Kaigler Armstead
RE: "I should listen to Larry Bensky? The old sexist pig? When the Alito confirmation was covered live, he repeatedly cut off and interrupted and scolded Deepa Fernandez on live radio while he and his little boy pal Mitch Jesserich snickered and played Old Boys Club. Bensky is a sexist and he's a fool always prattling on about how bad NYT or Washington Post are but every Sunday on Sunday Salon, he'd be citing them as respected news sources.
Larry Bensky should have left the airwaves in the 70s. And he should have taken Kris Welch with him.
Where are the Latinos on KPFA?"

As well as programming representative of the ASIAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOUTH and yes the LATINO COMMUNITIES???

-IF Larry Bensky is KPFA'S "Dean" than Bull Connor must be president of the college, Mussolini in charge of womens' affairs and Madeleine Murray O'Hare (sic) is Dean of Chapel. Bensky, Ester Manilla and BET's clear disrespect for Arlene E. as indicated by their abrupt, abusive willingness to interrupt and shout her down on the AIR at both KPFA and KQED says more about them then it does her or KPFA. When Krasny kissed off BET, literally hung up on him, you feel his shock at being just another caller, not left to debate his bosses' Boss on open mike. OOPS.

Their self serving, self important, self righteous, self centered, arrogant, insulting strong arm behavior indicative of their own dysfunctional attitude and confused approach to life, did not slow Arlene down at ALL. Their insubordinate behavior anywhere else would alone justify getting canned. They needed this for the righteous growth of their closed hearts and decayed souls.

If they have never been laid off or fired, get this: Bend over and kiss your assets and self important mind set good bye. Welcome to the world of the no, not now, not quite, not about you, not ever again and not so damned privileged. HAH.

A.E.'s graciousness is far more than they deserve! Now, time for new news management and real incisive, radical reporting. NEXT: Mark "White men rule the world." Mericle, Max lazy ass Pringle, Chris "the News Whisperer reporting from the bottom of a closet"Martinez and AP-Alfandary. Wow! Would that it were so. Tick-tick tick.
by me
9/11 was an inside job, and fuck those democratic party SCUMBAGS who want to tell us their stinking death lies.

vietnam, 3 million dead under kennedy and johnson - DEMOCRAT SCUM
iraq 1.5 million dead under clinton's boms and sanctions - DEMOCRAT SCUM
obama - war on three countries and counting - DEMOCRAT SCUM

FUCK those democratic party SCUMBAGS. They belong in the fucking Hague, not on the radio!

A Veteran Pacifica Programmer’s CIA “Cultural Cold War” Past, Censorious On-Air Tactics & Guests Who Fail the Smell Test

Larry Bensky in 2005 The CIA Infiltration of the Pacifica Radio Network: Larry Bensky’s Hang UpsLarry Bensky

On his November 9, 2003 broadcast of “Sunday Salon,” Pacifica’s Larry Bensky (a veteran of the CIA’s Paris Review literary “culture war” propaganda front) heaped scorn on a caller who asked, innocently enough, if Paperclip Nazis had any influence on the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s. KPFA’s Bensky ridiculed the caller, apparently unaware that McCarthy travelled with old guard Nazis and fascists in the intelligence community, and the hysteria was their group effort.

The caller really irked Bensky. He fell into a fit of rage, or snit, an invaluble, tried-and-true prop in the mass opinion formation business.

The caller attempted to explain himself, stammered, but Bensky hung up, insisting hotly, “nothing is really certain,” after all – the mention of Nazis suddenly led him to question the sum of human knowledge – spitting condescensions at the poor caller’s suggestion that the German and East European imports, secretly sponsored by the CIA and the military’s Operations Paperclip, Sunrise, etc., might have influenced the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s. The very idea.

He went on to denounce nameless individuals who have discussed fascist conspiracies over Pacifica airwaves (Alex Constantine, for instance – I’m guilty), blamed these lunar mollusks for inventing capricious and arbitrary conspiracy theories that interfered with his own sober, responsible, balanced news reporting. …

Bensky was unaware that Joseph McCarthy, the eye of the sturm und drang, was a hands-on Nazi collaborator, having freed Germans interred by the Allies at the end of the war. The late Mae Brussell: “Senator Joe McCarthy’s two strongest supporters [in his Senate campaign] were Frank Seusenbrenner and Walter Harnisfeger. Both admired Adolf Hitler and made continuous trips to Germany…. Before he went after the Commies in the State Department, he had to release a few of Hitler’s elite nazis lingering in the Dachau prison camp…. In 1949, during congressional hearings on the Malmedy Massacre … McCarthy invited himself to take over the entire testimony. He wasn’t satisfied until the prison doors flew open. The most detestable and ugly battle of World War II, an assault upon Americans and civilians in Belgium, was ignored. Hitler’s precious Generals Fritz Kraemer and Sepp Dietrick, along with Hermann Priess and many others, were free. With that business finished, McCarthy took on Robert Morris as chief counsel for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Morris’ earlier training in Navy Intelligence in charge of USSR counter-intelligence and psychological warfare could be utilized well by Senator Joe. Particularly the psychological warfare part. After McCarthy died, Morris moved to Dallas, Texas. He was a judge, and became president of Dallas University….”

One Nazi in particular, Nikolai Poppe, made a massive contribution to the right-wing furor over communism in the States. Poppe was a spy attached to Himmler’s SS, assigned to the confiscation of Jewish property, director of the Wansee Institute (a think-tank that conducted studies on the USSR for the SS). In the postwar calm, Poppe went on to become a scholar at the University of Seattle, a well-known author on Tibetan Buddhism, a CIA expert on Mongolia.

Nazi Poppe participated in the most important case in McCarthy’s alcohol-soaked career as an anti-communist. “No influence?” Bensky’s scornful refutation is met directly by Christopher Simpson in Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and its Effects on the Cold War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988): “An incident during Poppe’s career in the 1950s illustrates the DELICATE INFLUENCE that certain Nazi collaborators have had on domestic politics in the United States. Early in the McCarthy era, Professor Owen Lattimore, the director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University and a longtime advisor on Asian affairs to the State Department, was brought before a congressional investigation committee to face accusations of espionage and running a “communist cell” in the Institute for Pacific Relations. McCarthy, whose allegations were already drawing criticism from Democrats and even a few Republicans, had pledged that HIS ENTIRE ANTI-COMMUNIST CRUSADE WOULD “STAND OR FALL” on the supposed proof he had in the Lattimore case….

http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2008/04/pacifica-voice-of-controlled-left-larry.html
*** During an on-air KPFA listener conference in 1999, Joseph, a black activist, complained to Mary Berry, then Pacifica board chairperson, about Larry Bensky’s tactless approach to censorship — insulting and hanging up on callers, talking over their comments, muttering under his breath and every other conceivable means of giving them the brush-off. Bensky had been fired by the station, but Ms. Berry was considering him for re-hiring. Joseph, however, was adamant in his criticism of the talk-show host and contested Bensky’s reinstatement.

http://www.radio4all.org/fp/mfb-callin.htm


http://www.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=September%2011%20Opinions
Left-Wing Journalists Attack Those Who Question Bush’s Role in 911 10-Jun-02
ALL OF YOUR APOLOGIES FOR DEMOCRATS, EMPIRE, WAR AND FASCISM ARE PATHETIC! THE PEOPLE SEE YOU FOR WHO YOU REALL ARE!
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