Inner Party invades BlueOregon, Glorious Leader appears!

At last!  Those Dastardly Democrats are getting a taste of their own medicine!

Kari Chrishom, who Comrade Hagmeier outed as being behind the BlueOregon Takeover of KBOO(BOTOK?) in this blog, returns to flagrantly boast about his signature counts and wave maps proving something in our faces:

http://www.blueoregon.com/2013/07/5272-kboo-thom-hartmann/

BlueOregon Action: online activism for Oregon progressives. 

5272 people tell KBOO: We'd love to hear Thom Hartmann on the air!

Kari Chisholm

After a ten-day campaign, we've delivered 5272 petition signatures to our friends at KBOO, asking them to add Thom Hartmann to their broadcast lineup. The list of signers includes a number of well known community leaders, including state legislators and local elected officials.
We had signers from 29 of Oregon's 36 counties, plus 513 signers from Southwest Washington. Here's a map (click to zoom):
[go to link to see map]
As we told KBOO:

We hope you'll accept this petition in the spirit that it is offered -- an enthusiastic "Yes, please!" to the news that KBOO is considering adding Thom to its lineup.
Since Clear Channel saw fit to unceremoniously kill the progressive talk format at KPOJ just three days after the election, hundreds of people have personally told me that they wished they could hear Thom Hartmann (and the rest of the old lineup) on terrestrial over-the-air radio in Portland. Digital-only just isn't the same.

We're hoping that adding Hartmann to KBOO will be both good for KBOO and good for the broader progressive community.

Of course, it's become clear in the comments here at BlueOregon that there are some KBOO supporters that oppose adding Thom to the lineup. At this point, we don't yet know what they are going to do. We'll keep you posted. As soon as we know, you will too.

"Of course, it's become clear in the comments here at BlueOregon that there are some KBOO supporters that oppose adding Thom to the lineup."

And they were opposed back when they, we mean we,  were blaming it on EVIL FITCH in June:

http://savekboofromsavekboo.blogspot.com/2013/06/comrade-wieder-fitch-on-air-evil-caps.html
http://savekboofromsavekboo.blogspot.com/2013/06/kraus-hoyne-agitate-at-indymedia-member.html
http://savekboofromsavekboo.blogspot.com/2013/06/traitor-kraus-points-out-kboo-hartman.html
http://savekboofromsavekboo.blogspot.com/2013/06/comrade-jade-as-god-is-my-witness-ill.html

So don't feel sad Kari as the Inner Party comes out to party!

First up is Lisa 'Hacker' Loving, who is praying to Buddha we stop reminding readers of this pic:

Or her actions behind it, including using her position as a board member to bully and threaten a paying member with a lawsuit.  Anyway, Comrade Loving has this to say:

Lisa Loving · Top Commenter

Pals: Has anyone gone over to KBOO yet and actually filled out a new program request form? There is a process for this kind of action, and it is very simple. Go over to 20 SE 8th Street and fill out the form. It is right on the wall there in the lobby. Speaking as a member of the KBOO board of directors I can say it is my understanding that no actual proposal form had been filled out and filed as of Monday. Pals, get someone over there and fill out the form, then the Programming Committee can take this up and make a decision. They are cool and smart but I can't vouch for their ESP abilities. Right? Thank you. And thanks a ton for the feedback.

Why this process should work for Kari, when Fitch hit a brick wall is a mystery.  But we all know Comrade Loving's ESP is excellent: just ask the blog owners Ben, Hadrian, Richard and  Winston.

Next comment is the Cadre Blitzkrieg is Comrade Yaney, who's ESP powers are excellent:

Yaney Lee Ann MacIver · Office Administrator at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis

And there are very few KBOO members on this petition. And doesn't the person filling out the proposal have to be a member?

We had no idea there were few KBOO members  on the petition.  Since we doubt she personally scanned all 5272 signatories, she obviously used her "powers".  For more on Yaney's other powers, read here:
http://savekboofromsavekboo.blogspot.com/2013/06/comrade-yaney-makes-obvious-observation.html
http://savekboofromsavekboo.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-return-with-comrade-yaney-after-blog.html

Then we're joined by the First Officer of the S.S. Titanic, er, S.S. KBOO, Comrade "I'm-the-prez-girlfriend-so-kiss-my-ass":

Lyn Moelich · Black Rock City High School

The Blue Or. folks don't seem to know what a community radio station is about. As another member of the board of directors, I say find out what the procedure for getting a program and proceed from there. We say that to everyone who wants a program at KBOO, from the kid coming in the front door to a big bohemoth DNC organization like Blue Or.

But Glorious Leader hits the ball out of the park(admittedly a small park.  Maybe 3 by 3 feet square) when she replies to Traitor Hoyne:

 Benjamin Hoyne · Top Commenter · American

Kari, Thanks for compiling all this data. Both the numbers and the geographical diversity of the signers are impressive. I'm told the Board is waiting on you to physically go to the station and fill out a program request form, since that is "the process." Apparently the Board and Staff aren't jumping at the bit to help make this happen and in the 4 months since Thom has made this offer, no one (generally the program director) has come forward with an actual plan to make it work. You'd think 5,000 potential new listeners would be enough for someone to at least work out a plan about how to serve the community.
For all the lip service KBOO gives about serving the community, it's action in this case and others do not support its words. Its a shame.

• Press Watch · Obedience training

  "Lip service serving the community," Hoyne? You propose to wipe out three Spanish language programs produced by more than twenty volunteers. And then you have the nerve to say that KBOO "gives lip service" to diversity. And you speak of shame. You have no idea what shame is, apparently, Ben.
• Benjamin Hoyne · Top Commenter · American

  Theresa, your comments with be more credible if they carried any validity. Where do I propose to wipe out 3 Spanish Language programs? I just mad a proposal to fit Thom on the schedule 2 hours a day without wiping out any programming. It's called sharing.
  
  As for diversity, where to begin. Simply having Spanish speaking hosts doesn't mean KBOO is filling the needs of the Spanish speaking community, the same way that an African-American host doesn't automatically fill the needs of the African-American community. To satisfy the needs of various communities, KBOO must actively engage the community, find hosts, and give them air time. In addition, they must help train them, promote their show, promote KBOO, and engage the community. It's a tall order for sure, but one KBOO is not achieving (yes, KBOO trains people, but hosts get no support in the other areas).
  
  In addition to ethnic diversity, there is diversity of opinion. Recently the KBOO Board of Directors filled 3 vacancies with not only 3 Anglo-Americans, but 3 like minded people, as you've noted in comments on other kboo related posts on BlueO as well as on your own blog.
  
  Here's an excerpt from KBOO's bylaws:
  "The board of directors shall be responsible for ensuring that an adequate number of candidates representative of the diversity of the corporation’s members are nominated."
  
  The Board had a chance to increase diversity of communities represented by its membership, but instead chose to bring on like-minded individuals, to what end, I guess we'll find out.

"And you speak of shame. You have no idea what shame is, apparently, Ben."

And Glorious Leader would know!   Why after:

-leaking confidential KBOO information from the Board through her wife Ani Haines the volunteer coordinator in a series of nasty indymedia articles including various  lies about Lynn Fitch
-in the same series of articles digging up a mugshot of Lynn Fitch and posting it as a harassment and intimidation tactic
-impersonation Ed Kraus at Indymedia, trying to frame him as a Zionist "agent"
-defending Lisa Loving's call to hack a blog as journalism 

 She feels no shame whatsoever!   She's an expert!

For new readers confused by who/what 'Glorious Leader' is:

A tittle bestowed on Theresa Mitchell, an amateur media hack who claims to represent radical left politics, but spends more time schmoozing with reactionary right racists and antisemites than is healthy.

In 2007 she teamed up with Ghost Troop founder and professional anti-Semite Captain May to stop the New World Order from nuking Portland with a Dirty Bomb. 
No, really.  No one can make this up. 
 http://kboo.fm/node/4163
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/366630.shtml?discuss
Since then she's used her so called "news" program, Presswatch to cover the 9/11 "cover up", chemtrails and any other paranoid conspiracy that comes along.

But she should like the map at BlueOregon.  Maps appear to be the only reason she signed up with a corporate intelligence firm called STRATFOR according to comments at her blog  :

savekboo says:

July 18, 2013 at 9:05 am

Stratfor has an email service which will send a map of the positions of the US fleet, for free, as an introductory service. I used it. I also use information from all over the Web, which probably means data tainted by various national and corporate intelligence services. I have cited Stratfor on the air as the source of my information on troop movements.
So what?

Reply

Anonymous says:

July 18, 2013 at 6:07 pm

Yeah, Stratfor changed it’s story and alleged services after the hack. Nice to see you parroting their new line.
You used your real contact email with an intelligence firm with a direct contention to the CIA, dumbass. If you just wanted their info services, and you’re really what you say you are(a “radical” lefty), you’d have used an anonymous disposable email.
Anonymous pretty much confirmed those emails are from people working WITH Stratfor.
Let’s see how long it takes to come up with the next excuse.

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Anonymous says:

July 19, 2013 at 8:09 pm

she’s not the only one. half her portland truth alliance friends(a group of libertarian/tea party fakes) work with stratfor
they’re not dumb enough to deny it when caught. they just delete comments about it
if it was really innocent she’d have said something when anonymous exposed them in 2011(?): “shit i’m on their lists and i didn’t know they worked with the cia!” it would be something ‘news you’re not supposed to know’ she should have been all over this like stink on shit. cnn covered this, no way did she miss it
skfsk blogged this a month ago actually
http://savekboofromsavekboo.blogspot.com/2013/06/glorious-leader-infiltrates-corporate.html
now there’s a rumor tm and co are planning to sue the blog? lol
get your popcorn bowl out

What this means no one knows, but it indicative that someone ignoring the STRATFOR story, and who bills their program as "news they don't want you to know", either has something to hide or is the most incompetent "radical" journalist on the planet.

Which would explain a lot.

Mitchell has several known alias/projects:  Presswatch, SaveKBOO, KeepKBOO KBOO, polemics17 and others.  She earned the title of "Glorious Leader" in May/June of this year because of her strident revolutionary tactics, jargon, and imagery, with no awareness that she'd become a parody of what she claimed to represent. 

 Apparently Presswatch itself was once being considered under the axe:

http://kboo.fm/AirCascadia?page=3%2C74%2C0%2C0%2C7
 

Comments

membership means more

Submitted by Community Crystal on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 2:12pm.

your threat of quitting your membership gives me two options for analysis:
1) you gave money to Theresa via KBOO.
2) if Theresa died tomorrow, you'd give up your membership.
my interpretation

1) that's cool, man.  you support community-based radio based solely on your dedication to one weekly half-hour show. that demonstrates that Theresa's voice represents/intrigues you (and many, many others); however you don't feel represented by any one of the other 500 people who volunteer their time and energy in the 24/7 endevour, and you don't value the input (and miraculous existence!) of the other 5-10,000 members and ten times as many listeners; neither do you support the KBOO mission of including as many underrepresented voices as possible on the air, with natural turnover, schedule changes and opportunities as new people arrive.  Membership gives you the power to affect the decision-making, which is why you gave money to Theresa via KBOO; and, by golly, you will do everything in your power to keep her on the air, and you want the KBOO website visitors to know how you feel when they read the comments.  You'd even like them to join you in your fight.
2) wow.
my opinion
Personally, Theresa's show is one of my  favourites and there are plenty of shows that I not only don't like or don't listen to, but also complain about out loud.  It's my radio station, and, like my family, I will not be quiet when they need to shape up or ship out.
writing inflammatory statements on the webpage will remain simply that: inflammatory statements with a reaction or two from trolls (see the 20 pages of Anonymous written about me because of the audio I submitted that Jenka edited), which, in the end, result in: NOTHING.  If you want to chat with others online, that's fine, but you should know that nothing said here is considered in the Committee meetings. It's just an informal public forum, not policy binding.
my advice
Instead of threatening us (volunteers, members, listeners and our very existence), why not use your valuable internet time to phrase it as, for example, a question to which one of us could easily respond:  "Have there been any changes to Theresa's show?  I noticed lately that it has been preemented or even cut.  It is my favourite show. [I fear Air Cascadia will take its place--not necessary but very telling that you chose Chris' page to write it--ed.]. "  You can copy the question to Theresa's email (though I know from experience she doesn't respond) and/or print it out and put it in her cubby hole at the station. And/or show up to the meetings.  And/or call Theresa during her show--she takes calls, you know.  Ask her if she'll train or mentor you to do the same kind of work she does.
p.s.  Air Cascadia basically is the AM News is Chris Andreae: i was engineering {i'm flattered that you liked it}and was very sad when it was cut--but that is the way of the station; we adhere and adapt to the ever-fluctuating needs of the larger community--but i watched, with great pleasure, as it morphed into Air Cascadia.  Though i adore Dennis Bernstein, 15 less minutes of his voice is no skin off my back.
Highting!
Crystal

air cascadia

Submitted by KBOO (not verified) on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 11:41am.

im a conservative right wing trucker and i think cris andrae is the greatest broadcaster on the radio. i try to listen when i dont need traffic reports.
her scathing commentary is the best. i would join kboo but i fear america will become too weak and barry will force me to find a green job soon . keep up the good work
michael j

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The anchor news program

Submitted by KBOO (not verified) on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 10:57am.

The anchor news program Democracy Now, conveiniently aired at 11 AM so that all could tune in was moved to 7 AM with a result that most if not all of the people who work nights won't be tuning in as they are still sleeping. Also missed the 40th anniversary bash as it was inconveinently held from 4 to 10 Pm, on a weekday, which would exclude anyone working swing from attending unless they took a day off. Why couldn't this have been held on a Saturday or Sunday?
Air Cascadia is a very rough and unpolished program that leaves me tuning to OPB or just turning it off.
The choppy, emergent voice of Cris Andreae is certainly a large part in that.
If it is true that Press Watch will be axed for this then it will be an easy decision to withhold future pledges from this listener.

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GENOCIDE IN GAZA

Submitted by Kate-fate on Mon, 11/19/2012 - 11:11am.

What part of slaughter is "cleansing?"
Calling genocide "ethnic cleansing" is something that the 1%-owned mainstream media does to ennure us to their violence.
PLEASE, PLEASE do not use that term on radio that purports to tell the Truth!
Thank you.

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What happened to Presswatch?

Submitted by bcreidh (not verified) on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 6:03pm.

Is Air Cascadia taking over what Therisa has been doing? If so, I may give up my membership. First, the am news gets axed to accomodate Democracy Now, now is Presswatch going under the plow?

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Whoa cadre!  Don't blink or you'll miss it!

"Membership gives you the power to affect the decision-making, which is why you gave money to Theresa via KBOO;"

Is this confirmation of the rumor the Inner Party is funneling/laundering funds through memberships?