KC hipsters shake their groove thangs to the swingin’ sounds
of KCXL and Radio Sputnik.
I don’t remember what was playing on the radio when I was hitchhiking through Kansas City back in 1972. Number one on my personal hit parade was getting the hell out of Missouri.
Forty-eight years later, guess who wants in?
Radio Sputnik, that’s who. Actually, the Russian propaganda outlet has already landed, at three KC-area radio stations.
According to Neil MacFarquhar at The New York Times, Radio Sputnik — formerly Radio Moscow — is one cog in a state-run Russian “news” machine that focuses on “sowing doubt about Western governments and institutions rather than the old Soviet model of selling Russia as paradise lost.”
“(T)he constant backbeat,” says MacFarquhar, “is that America is damaged goods.”
Well. I guess it must be. It’s a hell of a note when we have to offshore our bitching and moaning to the Russians.
Can’t Alpine Broadcasting Corporation find some red-blooded, home-grown, U-nited States of America Americans to talk shit? I mean, I do it for free, which is about as cheap as it comes. Alpine honcho Peter Schartel has the Russkies and their stooges do it for him and he gets $27.50 an hour. What’s that work out to in rubles, or pieces of silver?
I don’t expect that KCXL plays many cuts from the early Merle Haggard catalog between swigs of milk and honey and preachin’ ’bout some other way of living. But if you slip Schartel a few dead presidents, why, I expect he might just accommodate you.
It’s a free country, but everything in it costs money.
Tags: KCXL, Peter Schartel, Radio Sputnik
Mad Blog Media 
February 13, 2020 at 6:33 pm |
What? Lush Windbag is out of fashion?
February 13, 2020 at 6:42 pm |
Maybe they can’t afford Flush. They’ve got Jesus, though. Seriously. The Jesus Christ Show airs Sunday. It’s not like he needs the money. He must be working pro bonehead.
February 13, 2020 at 7:05 pm |
February 15, 2020 at 11:03 am |
If you wait outside the studio, you can get Him to sign a copy of His latest book.
February 13, 2020 at 7:08 pm |
We are your number one propaganda station. All god damn day. You got the money honey, we got the time, airtime that is.
February 13, 2020 at 7:09 pm |
February 13, 2020 at 9:30 pm |
I just read this article to my husband this morning. Incredible!
February 14, 2020 at 5:42 am |
It’s a weirdo, innit? Republicans ever’ whichaway in that state. I remember when that crowd was looking for Russkies under every bed. Now they’re in the bed with ’em.
February 14, 2020 at 12:56 am |
Sheesh, they already own the prez, what’s a few radio stations?
February 14, 2020 at 5:35 am |
One likes to diversify. Spread the risk. Y’never know, he might not be president forever.
February 14, 2020 at 5:54 am |
After he makes Ivanka president for life, he will retire to Kansas.
February 14, 2020 at 10:40 am |
dorothy, we are not in Kansas anymore.
February 15, 2020 at 8:29 am |
Only now after 51 years I get it…Procul Harum’s song The Devil Came From Kansas. How did those limeys know this way back then? “The Devil came from Kansas, where he went to I can’t say. (White House) Though I teach I’m not a preacher, and I aim to stay that way There’s a monkey (tRump) riding on my back, been there for some time (yeah since Nov 2016) He says he knows me very well, but he’s no friend of mine (tRump)
February 15, 2020 at 9:05 am |
Them dudes could sure skip the light fantastic. Fandango. Whatever. Poxiest bleedin’ lyrics ever written.
February 15, 2020 at 10:53 am |
Foot the highland fancy, pitch the quick fantastic, trip as you go on the light fantastic toe, beating the round in a light fantastic round.
Then say “toy boat” ten times while the woodchuck chucks wood.
February 15, 2020 at 1:56 pm |
How about 53 years later? Song lyrics seem relevant again. Maybe they always were. S2D2.