Month: October 2013

Night of the Living Obamacare

“They’re coming to get you, Barbara.” So begins the terror of Night of the Living Dead. Obamacare is coming to get you, too. Watch your six all you want – you won’t be able to stop it. You’ll see it coming but it’s already too late – you’re a dead man walking. Zombie-like, it will go after you. It won’t stop until it’s got you. It will eat your heart out. Its unthinking regulations will squeeze the life out of you with mindless iteration. It will suck out your identity and spit it on the ground for all the...

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CLA Radio 11/01/13: Dreams

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 11/01, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will have a Dream theme. And, yes, there will again be Alison Krauss! Duh! Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Spoiler set list: CLA Audio Mash-up: Changes, with Nancy Pelosi CLA Audio Mash-up: Step Right Up, with Barack Obama Richard Thompson: Waltzing’s For Dreamers Patsy Cline: Sweet Dreams (Of You) Audio Clip: Fast Times At Ridgemont High Roy Orbison: In Dreams The Louvin Brothers: When I Stop Dreaming Alison Krauss: I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby...

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Sean Hannity Follows Up with the Obamacare Hotline Operator

On Monday, Sean Hannity called the Obamacare Hotline during his radio show.   You can hear that conversation here. Many on twitter worried that this transaction would result in the operator being fired from her job. We have since learned that Erling Davis, the woman who he spoke with on that call, was in fact fired. On Tuesday, following the call, Davis was called into HR and was dismissed because contact with the media was not allowed. Davis disputes that this was told to her during her training. Today, Hannity followed up by having Davis call back the show and he generously offered to give her what would be a year’s salary, which would be $26,000. To prevent that money from being taxed, he plans to give $13,000 to her and the other $13,000 to one of her two children. He makes it clear that he was only making the call for information purposes and that Davis should not have to pay a price for her doing her job. In addition, Hannity has put out notice to restaurants in Panama City, Florida (where Davis lives) to see if she can get a better job to replace the one she lost. Listen to the call:   (h/t Real Clear...

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What Happened When Sean Hannity Called the Obamacare Hotline

On the Monday edition of his radio show, Sean Hannity called the Obamacare hotline.   Since President Obama had given out the number during his presser in the Rose Garden earlier in the day, it seemed like a good idea. He managed to get through to a representative named Erling Davis. After a few minutes of talking about the ‘glitches’ on the Obamacare web site, Hannity veered off and the conversation went into subjects such as her living in Panama City, Florida, the fact that she doesn’t vote, her lack of knowledge of certain talk radio hosts, and the differences in weather in Panama City and New York. He even got her to read the script they are given on air: “Thanks for your interest in the health insurance marketplace. We are having a lot of visitors trying to use our website right now. This is causing some glitches for some people trying to create an account or log in. Keep trying and thanks for your patience. You might have better success during off-peak hours like later at night or early in the morning. We’ll continue working to improve the site so you can get covered.” (And that’s it.) Erling admitted that there are scripts for everything: they have to type in keywords and then the script comes up for them to read to the consumers. The conversation then...

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CLA Radio 10/25/13: Acoustic Music

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 10/25, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will feature exclusively-acoustic music. And yes, of course, there will be Alison Krauss. 🙂 Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Spoiler set list: Django Reinhardt: Sweet Georgia Brown R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders: Chile Blues Randy Newman: Davy The Fat Boy (Live Version) Bessie Smith: Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer Gillian Welch: Caleb Meyer Leo Kottke: Snorkel Kate Wolf: Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Live Version) Carlo Aonzo E Orchestra a...

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