New Rules+ Mike Gravel

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Run time: 05:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eEAo8O0oZQ   Posted on YouTube: September 01, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 02, 2007 By DU Member: n2doc Views on DU: 1707

 

On Real Time Overtime (shown after the program online), Bill Maher asks guest and Democratic presidential contender Mike Gravel about presidential politics and the role of the media in presenting the truth to citizens. John Mellencamp and Barbara Bodine chime in.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/01/real-time-mike-gravel-gets-honest/

[Radio_Lady]

1. The program was great, but I wish Barbara Bodine hadn't worn that...

tablecloth over her shoulder.

:sarcasm:

Also, would someone please tell me when John Mellencamp was popular?

On edit: Nevermind. I just looked him up on wikipedia and am completely unfamiliar with any of his music.

[hootinholler]

5. Someone named Radio Lady doesn't know John Mellencamp?

"Little Pink Houses"? "Jack and Diane"?

I take it you either weren't around in the '80s or were not into top 40 stuff then.

:rofl:

-Hoot

[Radio_Lady]

6. You're right, Hootinholler. I have been in the talk radio format for decades,

on stations that played music only when there was a problem -- or at Christmas when the talk show hosts were on vacation. I also had a sales career from 1983 to 1992, and came back to radio in the mid-90s.

Prior to that, in the early 1970s, one radio station where I did an overnight talk show did play music of the earlier eras, including the crooners, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, and some pop stuff which was some of the earliest of rock and roll -- Elvis Presley, the Beatles, as well as music from the groups that were popular in the 1940s and 1950s -- and folk music, which I liked very much.

I'll have to listen to the two songs you mentioned. I don't believe I've ever heard them. From the link: "'Jack and Diane' is a 1982 hit song written and performed by American singer-songwriter, John Cougar (Mellencamp). It appears on Cougar's album American Fool. It was chosen by RIAA as one of the Songs of the Century. The single spent four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 at number one in 1982, and, to date, is the biggest hit single ever for Cougar, especially with its accompanying music video."

Interesting. In 1982, I was raising five children in a merged family. I barely had a quiet minute to myself to listen to MY favorites -- classical music and jazz. I have no idea how old you are, but if you live long enough, you might get to be almost 70 years old -- and have different tastes than your kids or grandkids.

Guess some of us were just born too soon to be hip these days! John Mellencamp may be getting into that age group himself, as he was born on October 7, 1951. Thanks so much for your comments.

http://www.mellencamp.com/

[hootinholler]

7. They're not spectacular works of art, lol.

Don't get your hopes up, but they are catchy, and made a statement during the Regan era.

I'm 46 and have different tastes than my kids :D As to longevity, I expect to be killed by this administration when the merde meets the ventilatuer.

How does one get into talk radio? I'd love to stir the pot someday.

-Hoot

[Radio_Lady]

8. How does one get into talk radio? I get asked this quite often.

Mostly, it's by accident where you are at the right place at the right time. I have no idea how you figure that part out. You can go to school to learn the rudiments of broadcasting, but that does not guarantee you anything. I started at a time when there were very few women in the field. These days, communications is a very difficult field to break in to, but there are a few people who do. If you are serious about it, I wish you good fortune.

I happened to be born to a father who loved to speak and who was a lawyer involved with politics. He won awards while in college and he was also quite attractive.

He married my mother, who was a beautiful woman and talented person herself. I was their only child.

We were all in Pittsburgh, where I learned to talk (without a regional accent, which used to be important in radio).

We moved to Florida in the early 1940s, where I went to school and did well in everything having to do with the English language. I was also attracted to dramatics. During high school, I had the lead in the senior class play, and went on to study TV-Radio-Film in college.

While a freshman, I was chosen to be on a children's TV show -- live and local -- five days a week Mon. - Friday. The man who chose me said I looked like one of his former girlfriends! That led to more opportunities in radio and TV, including working with Larry King. When he was arrested briefly in a money transaction scandal, I took over his job four days before Christmas. After that, I worked through the night until early May, when I was offered a job in Boston as their first on-air call-in woman talk show host -- six days a week.

I've discussed some of my background at length in my journal, since I've been in communications since January 1957, more than 50 years. You might wish to see the photos and read about it:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Radio_Lady/147

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Radio_Lady/133

[stlsaxman]

2. Gravel was great... and how wonderfully refreshing to see someone smoking on teevee!

i'm serious. Go John Mellencamp!

[liberal N proud]

3. They are correct, the truth gets swept under the table

[MelissaB]

4. The US went from 60% to 10% in manufacturing.

When people ask where the jobs went, that explains a lot.