'Truth Fighter' Warren Ballentine goes Helen Thomas over the AJT assassination story

[RZM]

For those who don't know, Warren Ballentine is an African-American radio talk show host carried on XM 128 'The Power,' which is XM's African-American oriented talk station. Here is his show's site:

http://www.thewarrenballentineshow.com/

Generally I've enjoyed his show because he's very good at what he does. He's easy to follow and treats his callers with respect and almost never belittles them, which sets him apart from a lot of radio hosts. But today he really crossed the line.

He led today with the Atlanta Jewish Times assassination story and a minute or two in he made the claim that the reason that the story hasn't gotten bigger play in the MSM is because 'Jews control the media.' He repeated that claim several times and as the segment ended, he reminded his listeners that this media 'doesn't care about you and just wants to make money off of you.'

He has a point about that story not making the national rounds. A google search on it mostly turns up hits from Jewish media outets, local Atlanta outlets, and websites like Huffington Post, Drudge, and DU. But the irony here is that Ballentine claimed numerous times that if he were to call for the assassination of the Israeli president, he would be taken off of the air (that hypothetical scenario was his evidence that the media is Jewish controlled). But here he is saying something just about as bad and nobody seems to care or even notice. A google search with his name and any number of terms related to today's claims turn up nothing at all.

Ironically, Ballentine is also a Huffington Post blogger and one of this pieces there argues that Helen should be given a pass for her anti-Semitic statements because people like Rush and Beck have said worse things. But why is he getting a pass for saying pretty much exactly what she did?

Unfortunately, I cannot provide a link because nobody has reported on this and his show's site only has a handful of broadcasts archived. But trust me, he said it.

[i_sometimes]

1. Nope.

This:
"But why is he getting a pass for saying pretty much exactly what she did?"
Show me where she said she would kill the Who Ha Ra Ra of Israel?

This: "...and Helen should be given a pass for her anti-Semitic statements"
That assumes her statements were anti-semitic, that may be opinion but its not fact.

The guy who wrote the AJT column in the first place needs to have a chit chat with the SS or GTFO.


( I like how you never typed his name...)

[RZM]

4. I think you misundertood my post

I was comparing Helen and Ballentine, not Helen and Adler. Helen said last year that 'Zionists' controlled Hollywood, the White House, Wall St., etc. And she was rightfully called out for that.

If you want to argue that saying things like Zionists control the White House and that Jews should 'go back to Germany and Poland' don't constitute anti-Semitism, I really can't help you.

And why does it matter that I didn't type Adler's name? Who cares?

BTW, Ballentine followed this story up with speculation that Joe Paterno was murdered. He says that when the scandal broke, he predicted that Paterno would die before it got to trial. Call me crazy, but I don't consider predicting the death of an 85-year old man with cancer to be an amazing act of prescience.

[i_sometimes]

7. Yes.

Its so clouded with rage over what some one supposedly said that I must have been confused and now I have no idea what you are talking about.


Seems to me the issue should be Adler and as is noted downthread, the lack of coverage of his written and quite precise prompt to US based Mossad agents to shoot our President.
Not bashing some talkshow host who no one has ever heard of.
But we pick our demons, don't we...

[RZM]

8. Ballantine is certainly not unknown in the black community

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FWIW, Ebony magazine put him in their list of the 100 most influential African Americans a couple years ago.

And of course Adler's a douche. I'm glad he resigned today and no doubt he's heard from the secret service. But the OP isn't about Adler, it's about Ballantine. People are capable of dealing with more than one facet of a story.

[i_sometimes]

9. I must have missed that issue.

Really.
Hopefully its archived some where so I can learn about all things Ballantine.
And get outraged about his outrage over what that outrageous Adler said.
Carry on.

[RZM]

10. It isn't archived. Apparently you have to purchase it at newsstands or back order it

You are overusing the word 'outrage' here. I'm not outraged, I just thought people should know that he said it because it's a rather troubling comment, IMO.

[Poll_Blind]

2. You've gotta cough up a link or something. Can you link to the specific show somehow? nt

PB

[RZM]

5. I looked. The best I can come up with is his show's site

The last archived broadcast is from Oct. 2011. I understand the standards here . . . no link, no dice. It's unfortunate that his show isn't archived online anymore. You'll just have to take my word for it I guess. I understand if that's not good enough.

I'm not on some anti-Ballentine mission here though. Like I said, I generally enjoy his show (that's why I was listening today in the first place). I just thought people should know about this.

[hlthe2b]

3. I don't believe the reasons he gave for why the story is not being reported...

But, I do believe there is often intense self-censoring effect on any issue that could remotely be construed as anti-Semitic or even remotely harshly critical towards Israel. To wit, many progressive radio talk hosts refuse to even discuss anything remotely having to do with Israel-Palestinian issues in fact. (e.g., Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartman, Al Franken (when he had a show and others).

Clearly this story probably should have received more coverage. Perhaps those choosing NOT to sought to diminish any unwarranted attention this editor might receive that could propagate the whole nasty business.

As for his unfortunate tired old "media conspiracy" theory... He was wrong to say that. But, in the scheme of things it seems progressives who overstep once are drummed out amidst an intense clammer, while the hate talk continues and continues and continues on the RW side of the spectrum.

[RZM]

6. Except he's not going to receive any negative consequences whatsoever here

As far as I can tell, I'm the only person on the internet who has even noted it. I'm not trying to say I'm doing anything all that important here. But I find it odd that this hasn't been mentioned by anybody else at all. I assumed somebody somewhere would have picked it up. Guess not.

[i_sometimes]

11. No.

Adler the Assassin is out, good enough.

[RZM]

12. Except there's this aspect to the story, even if you are intent on not dealing with it

I think it's important. But that's just me.

And I do kind of like your binary headline system