tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62656412191245542822024-02-20T22:06:36.036-08:00STOP MICHAEL BERRYR.J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12772112951972967133noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265641219124554282.post-3806166367520432672012-04-04T22:24:00.000-07:002012-04-05T17:14:52.030-07:00I Wanna Be A Country Boy; Yee Haw...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">By P.J. Jackson</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Michael Berry, I don’t know where to
start. You have been a very bad boy, running out of advertisers and talking
about those damn gun shops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You try to play yourself off like some Texas hillbilly, but we know
better; don’t we Mike. Do you think your diehard listeners know you went to the
University of Nottingham in England? I am willing to bet that 90 percent don’t,
nor do they even have a clue where Nottingham is; most probably think it was
some attraction at the renaissance festival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You have your listeners snowed, all that country music you play and
pretend to love; what a joke. You’re about as country as Woody Allen, and not
nearly as smart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I hope you have a plan B; you’re going to need it. This radio gig ain't
lasting much longer, all these sponsors are running for cover. You can thank
your buddy Limbaugh for that, maybe you can strike a deal with Sirius radio;
that’s where Rush is headed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I came across these smart ass rules for life, and I thought of you
Mike. I can hear the hate in your voice every day, and it makes me sick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">So I would guess these are the rules you probably live by.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Michael Berry's (Smart-Ass) INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. (Especially
when giving them grief.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Memorize your favorite poem. (Teach foreigners the theme song to your
favorite TV show and tell them it's a traditional American folk song about a
fabled three hour tour.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
(But all-you-can-eat is okay.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When you say, "I love you", mean it. (...mean it as "I
need regular sex and someone to listen to my problems at all hours of the
night, and occasionally bail me out of jail, so you'll do until someone better
comes along.")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.
(People will believe _anything_ if you look them in the eye.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Be engaged at least six months before you get married. (Heck, be
engaged at least six _times_ before you get married.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Believe in love at first sight. (Believe in leprechauns, for that
matter.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Never laugh at anyone's dreams(, unless they're, like, really, really
stupid dreams).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way
to live life completely(, unless it kills you).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling(, you dickweed).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Don't judge people by their relatives. (But would you eat at a delicatessen
run by Dennis Dahmer?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Talk slow but think quick. (Shoot first and ask questions later.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and
ask, "Why do you want to know?" (But would Kenneth Starr accept it?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk(,
and you'll probably lose.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Call your mom. (Conduct a seance if necessary.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze. (They are
infested with demons that must be banished.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When you lose, don't lose the lesson. (And the lesson is:
"Vengeance!")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember the three R's: (Rock 'n' roll radio?) Respect for self;
Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions. (and remember that
Revenge is the fourth R.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship(, unless it's
about something important, like money or sex or who's right).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct
it. (Unless no one knows that you're responsible for it; then it's probably
best to lie low and wait for it to blow over.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your
voice(, and then he'll think to himself "Aha. Here's a sucker who will buy
my insurance/magazine/siding/religion.")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Marry a man/woman you love to talk to(, although technically it's
illegal to marry a man/woman here in Virginia.) As you get older, his/her
conversational skills will be as important as any other(, and you can always
get a younger mistress for the non-talking parts.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Spend some time alone. (Your friends will appreciate it.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Open your arms to change(, and your palms to spare change), but don't
let go of your values.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer(, especially if the
question is "Any volunteers?")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Read more books and watch less TV(, or compromise and read more TV
Guide).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll get to enjoy it a second time. (But you'll probably have a better
retirement fund if you live a bad, dishonorable life.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Trust in God but lock your car. (Although God could probably get into
your car if He really wanted to.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to
create a tranquil harmonious home. (Kill your family if they don't cooperate.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation.
Don't bring up the past(, like you did last spring, and don't you dare deny it.
Maybe you don't remember how you're always bringing up the past, but I do!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Read between the lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(31.5. For example, read this.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Share your knowledge. (Pontificate every chance you get. Stop strangers
to give them helpful grooming advice.) It's a way to achieve immortality(, at
least until they perfect cloning).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Be gentle with the earth. (Oh come on. The Earth is old enough to take
care of herself.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Pray. There's immeasurable power in it. (But every now and then God
gets a little tired of people always pestering Him for things -- especially
when He's just rented a video and settled down with a bucket of popcorn -- so He'll
fling a meteor at the next whiner who bothers Him.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Never interrupt when you are being flattered. (For example, if your
boss comes up to you and says, "Larry, this is an _excellent_ report that
you wrote. I'm putting you on the top of the list for the next promotion",
don't interrupt to point out that Bob wrote it.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Mind your own business. (But the president's sex life _is_ my
business.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Don't trust a man/woman who doesn't close his/her eyes when you kiss
them. (It's called cringing. They always do it with me.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Once a year, go someplace you've never been before(, like school).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are
living. That is wealth's greatest satisfaction. (Well, that and all the stuff
you can buy.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
(When I was four years old, I wanted panda fur and scales down my back like a
stegosaurus. I still do.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Learn the rules then break some. (Start simple. Begin by breaking the
Infield Fly Rule and work your way up to breaking the Second Law of
Thermodynamics.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each
other is greater than your need for each other. (For example, I love money more
than I actually need it.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. (Keep
a balance book with two columns: "gains"/"losses")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon(, but if you can't
stand the heat, get out of the kitchen -- or else sweat heavily and use
potholders).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>R.J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12772112951972967133noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265641219124554282.post-78023724273880578492012-04-01T21:21:00.000-07:002012-04-01T21:21:00.989-07:00Michael Berry: Where Are My Advertisers Going ?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dear Michael,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was listening to the show on Friday, and you seemed kind of down; and
there was sure a lot of your regular advertisers M.I.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know living your life must be tough these days, with a full assault on
conservative wing nuts like yourself. I know somewhere, when your alone and no
one else is around you must think; “How did I become this awful man” “Why is my
mind and heart so full of hate.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You see Mike, because your party (GOP) has dumbed America so much and
more over your listeners (Limbaugh’s Too) they think that since more people
seem to be listening to your show you have to be doing just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well Mike, we both know that’s not the case. Like Rush, advertisers
have had enough of the hate train. You can have all the listeners in the world,
but if the advertising dollars are not there, well we all know what happens
then. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Limbaugh fools his audience, as do you. You lead them to believe that
the show is doing so well, when in fact advertisers are dropping like flies and
not ever coming back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You Mike, have been in radio long enough to know advertisers drive the machine
and without them no matter how many people chose to listen to your show or
Limbaugh’s, there will have to be changes made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know you must remember the great Molly Ivins; she was a close friend
of the family. So you must know that when you got on Molly’s bad side, you were
there to stay. W. knew that very well, so did Perry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dear Mike,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I really don’t like you, in fact I can’t stand you and all that you
represent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Your tireless rants directed at minorities, and those unable to defend themselves.
Hearing the joy you take in consistently running down those who have little or
nothing at all, makes me sick to my stomach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Sure, I can turn the station; but that would take away the privilege of
hearing your wonderful advertisers that support the hate that you spew from
your mouth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I dearly love the city of Houston, and you are a stain on the radio
airwaves of this great city. Do you have any compassion? Do you really believe
that children should go hungry, that they should have no place to lay their
heads at night? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I ask you these things, because you seem to take so much joy in the
pain of others. You have lived a damn good life, and that is not what I take
issue with; Michael. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Your constant desire to belittle those of few means makes me sad for
you, but it also makes me angry at the same time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The way you talk about ‘black people’ well, that sounds just like a
good old boy from the south; and I believe you are truly a racist man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The endless rants on Shelia Jackson Lee, Roland Martin, The Reverend Al
Sharpton are sickening. The way you throw around the ‘N’ word, and laugh while
doing it; is appalling to say the least. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I am here to stay Mike, and I will be on your ass every time you make
an ‘Oops’ and that is an everyday thing for you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I wrote this last bit for your buddy Rush, about 6 months ago; but it applies
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If I was Michael Berry (I Thank God every night I am not) I would write
something like this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I know there are a lot of people out there who are upset about some of
the things I've been saying on my radio program lately. My comments have hurt
and angered many people in Houston who genuinely care about people, and that
hurt and anger will likely never go away. Many of you are probably wondering,
"What would compel a human being to say things like that?" Well,
here's your answer: I am a very bad person. And, to tell you the truth, I don't
really want to be alive anymore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Try to look at it from my point of view. I have no reason to live. In
my 41 years, I've made lots of money, built a great career, and accomplished
virtually everything that a man of my limited imagination and worldview could
possibly accomplish. And yet, at this point, in no way could you refer to what
I'm doing as "living," exactly. I just sort of exist. I derive no
real pleasure from life. Oh, sure, I talk a big game about what a golf nut I am
and how much I enjoy the taste of a cold beer, but it's all horseshit. Complete
and utter horseshit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I don't enjoy that stuff. I don't enjoy anything. I don't even want to
be here. The sadness and regret I feel every waking hour of my life is
absolutely unbearable. I am a miserable pig and I do not want to exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The irony is that, even if I did die, the hell I would surely be sent
to could not possibly be any worse than the bottomless pool of excrement I
already paddle around in like some demented, shit-covered walrus. In fact,
every time I hear my voice coming through the headphones I nearly gag, and I think,
"What am I doing?" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What is wrong with me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I live in constant terror and that terror informs my every word,
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What I should really do is just commit suicide. I have this little
Sunday ritual I started around the time I got busted in that gay bar, where I
climb into my Jacuzzi and put a gun in my mouth. But I can never work up the
guts to pull the trigger. A few times I came close to overdosing on
prescription pills, but my damn doctors were always there to save me. If I had
any sense, I would just hole myself up in a Motel 6 with a case of Jack
Daniel's and slowly drink myself into the gaping maw of death itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I've imagined my death a thousand times over, and it's always the same.
In my mind's eye, a serene setting comes into view. I see a funeral procession
driving down Main Street in Houston Texas, U.S.A. On one side of the street, a
collection of sycophants and morons are paying their respects in subliterate,
sanctimonious tones. Meanwhile, on the other side of the street, I can just
make out the faint image of a young boy, his brow furrowed in confusion,
clutching the hand of his father. "Who is that man, Daddy?" he asks
as the hearse containing my bloated, lifeless body rolls by. "Who is that
person they speak of?" The father will then lower his head and say,
"There, my son, go the remains of Michael Berry, the most abominable lump
of festering dog shit in the history of American broadcasting. May the likes of
him never again soil or tarnish the greatness of our fair country." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Be sure to check out his Twitter Time Line, it will most likely make
you sick to your stomach; but you need to see what a sorry ass pig he is.</span></div>
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based in Houston, Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Berry was a three-term Houston city councilman, elected at-large
(citywide). He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Houston with a
bachelor of arts degree in political science, earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence
degree from the University of Texas School of Law, and earned a Master of Laws
and Letters degree from the University of Nottingham in England.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He was named "Councilman of the Year" by the Houston Police
Officers Union. Berry is co-host of the Face-Off segment on Fox 26 News.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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film Mindsight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He has been heard nationally as a fill-in for Citadel Media syndicated
talk show host Mark Levin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He is married to Nandita "Nandy" Berry, a lawyer who hails
from Hyderabad, India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On May 26, 2010, regarding the Muslim community center proposed to be
built near Ground Zero in NYC; Berry said on his program that if it was
completed, "I hope that someone blows it up". The following day, he
expressed partial regret, issuing a statement which said in part, “I apologize
to you, my listeners, for insulting your intelligence and saying something so stupid.
I do not apologize, however, for my opinion that that mosque should not be
built."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Below, is a link with current companies that sponsor the Michael Berry
hate fest on local Houston radio 740 KTRH. As the months go by, I will focus
more attention on Mr. Berry. Please, click on link. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.ktrh.com/pages/berry-featured-partners.html">MICHAEL BERRY FEATURED PARTNERS (The companies that pay for his HATE filled radio show)</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Berry actually gay?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to the bouncer at T.C.’s Show Bar in Montrose, Michael Berry
left the club, where he was attending as a patron, at 11:00 PM on January 31.
The bouncer, Tuderia Bennett, said Berry drove in reverse for 70 feet, hit
Bennett’s car, and drove away. Bennett wrote down the license plate, which was
registered to Berry, and identified Berry in a photograph. Security footage of
Berry inside the club has been turned over to police. Local station KPRC broke
the news.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Berry peddles the usual fear and loathing of liberals, immigrants,
minorities, et al. on his three-hour talk show on KTRH and KPRC. He got
national attention in 2010 when he said, regarding a mosque near “Ground Zero,”
“I hope the mosque isn't built, and if it is, I hope it's blown up, and I mean
that."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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figure, a three-term former city councilmember who ran for mayor in 2003 and
has a JD from the University of Texas School of Law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You wouldn’t know it to listen to his show, though. Full of racist and
xenophobic tweets, his Twitter account @MichaelBerrySho also indicates that
Berry has an active imagination when it comes to homosexuality:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beheaded in Saudi Arabia unless the king joined in. #superbowl<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lambert has a mancrush on Mr Taxachoosits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Beagle; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Berry is now the featured “winner” on gayhomophobe.com, which tracks
anti-gay public figures who are caught in compromising circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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