A Little Advice for Mr. Besco

I applaud this Besco guy for putting his hat in the ring for Rep. Reyes' seat.  Anybody having the courage to run should be congratulated for their effort - it's not an easy endeavor.

However, Mr. Besco didn't do himself any favors yesterday when he appeared on Paul Strelzin's daily radio interview of himself yesterday.... that sentence almost makes no sense.

I know that Besco is trying to get his name out there to attract voters. Good for him.  That's what a candidate does.  Appearing on Strelzin show seems like a good idea, but it's not. Here's why...

First off, he's got three listeners and they are certified as the dumbest people in town.  Even if they stop drooling for a few seconds to listen to what you have to say, they're too stupid to understand.  These people are brain dead idiots who worship Strelzin as an idol.  And when I write "idol," I mean it as in "false idol." 

Second, Strelzin isn't going to let you talk.  It's his talk show, you're just there to wear headphones and make sure that the chair next to him doesn't float off if for some reason we lose gravity.  The only thing Mr. Besco could have taught anyone yesterday is that he's a good listener.

Third, the three or so people he calls an audience spread nasty rumors about anybody they don't like.  These buggers on the face of the humanity are already running around claiming that Mr. Besco molests children, pushes old ladies down at the supermarket and is a holocaust denier.  I got an email last night in fact claiming that Mr. Besco hasn't paid his taxes.  I'm sure that's untrue, however, that's the kind of people who listen to Strelzin's show.  The person who sent me the email is an avid Strelzin listener and caller, which means he thinks the earth is flat and that Jimmy Carter was a good president.

Gossip is the play thing of idiots.  I just had to add that...

When I finally tuned in yesterday, I heard Mr. Besco sinking like a mob snitch in the Hudson with concrete water skis on his feet.  He was falling victim Strelzin's barrage of non sequiturs right from the beginning.  When he did get a word in, he wasted it. 

It was very hard to listen to because I think Mr. Besco is an honorable person and I hate to see good people get verbally raped like that. (And yes, I used the word "rape" and I don't care if it hurts your feelings.  Your democrat/Holly Wood buddies think that because you're artistic that it's okay to drug and rape a 13 year-old girl, so I get to make reference to it here.)

Besco's biggest mistake was to go on the show.  His second biggest mistake was not to do his homework on Strelzin.  Strelzin always goes to someone's campaign website and focuses his entire interview (if you can call it that) on it. 

For example, Besco's website says "Send a Veteran to Congress Who Believes in America."  Going into a commercial break Strelzin sucker punches him with "Are you saying Reyes isn't a veteran who believes in America?  He saw actual combat time! He was in the war!  He killed zipper heads with his bare hands and tossed grenades to gook toddlers!"  Okay, he didn't say the last two things, but he popped an unsuspecting Besco right in the jaw and went to break.  It's the kind of chicken-shit thing Strelzin does and you have to be ready for it.

Besco needed to answer - "Yes, I'm the only vet in the race who loves America. Reyes would rather investigate our security forces than support them.  Reyes let Pelosi and Obama strip of us the funding for future combat systems that would make our war machine more effective while keeping our soldiers safer.  Reyes ripped up the grass and put dirt on our fallen heroes..."  Besco could have said all of that, but he didn't because he was unprepared.

Then Besco started talking about schools.  He didn't have a clear issue to highlight and Strelzin went off on him again about the color of the new buildings at Coronado and the size of Franklin and then he moved on to interviewing himself about his own history with the schools.  At that point I had been listening for less than ten minutes and I was starting to lose brain cells.  I had to turn it off.

Mr. Besco needs to know what he's doing when speaking in public.  He has to have one issue in the chamber and three more in the clip when making public appearances.  For example, his main issue can  be taxes and how much of them are returned to our district.  He can use my latest article as the basis for his argument.  He can drive that home as the number one issue and use it as the answer to any and every question asked of him.  It sounds like this:

Strelzin:  "where are you from?"

Besco: "Who cares where I'm from, I live in a city that get's less than 50 percent of its federal tax dollars back and it's because Reyes is ineffective."

Strelzin: "I hear that you eat babies."

Besco: "I do eat babies to keep them from growing up and realizing that Congressman Reyes gives all their hard earned tax money away to people in Maine to research moose sex."

Strelzin: "You know I used to call the basketball games at UTEP!"

Besco: "And when the government took that money out of your check, Reyes made sure it never came back anywhere near where it was earned."

When Besco knows an issue an pounds it home, he can then go off in another direction like the veteran's hospital we don't have. 

Why he was talking about schools is beyond me.  He's not running for school board, he's running for Congress.  Don't pull in issues that you have no authority over. 

In general, the talk radio circuit here is not worth wasting your time on.  You've got four egomaniacs blabbing to hear themselves blab and they've all got the same three listeners.  The advertising on the station is nearly 100 percent give aways, which should tell you that nobody is listening.  That hour wasted at the station could have been used to canvas a neighborhood.  God knows if you talk to three people, you've reached more voters than you would on local talk radio.

And I know what they are going to claim, "all the candidates who come on my show win!"  That's not completely true and the ones who do win are expected to win easily because their opponents are usually crazy ankle-biters who live in vans under the bridge down by the river.  

If you don't believe me when I say that these people have killed talk radio, ask someone you know that doesn't read this blog about local talk radio.  They will have no idea what you are talking about.

with that, I must go.

Comments

[Rob]

Well I do read this blog, and I do listen to talk radio, but the only local show I listen to is SportsTalk on KROD.

Years ago I used to tune into Paul's show and Barb's show on whatever stations they were on at the time, but they both got old real quick. They have nothing to offer to keep you interested.

You make a good point about how limited the awareness is of these local shows being on the air, I couldn't tell you what station they are on or when they air.
Truth is I really don't have any desire to listen to these people, I have lived here 44 years and I know all I need to know about Paul and Barb and what they are all about.

I guess there are others doing shows too..I don't have a clue who they are..I will say I gave Sito and whatever her name was over at NPT a listen to when they had their failed attempts at shows , but I couldn't take it for more than a few mins at a time..it was amateur hour and didn't offer anything worthwhile to draw me away from the national shows.

Honestly I would love for there to be a quality local show, without an agenda, without it being a non-stop parade of the hosts buddies, hosted by an interesting, intelligent, objective individual without aspirations for political office or/and electing their pals.

Anyone?...Bueller?

[Too Tired To Care]

Unfortunately, except for a few minutes when I was called away from my office, I sat through the whole "interview".

It was the usual Paul show - he interviewed himself and once again reminded El Paso that he: Was a principal (at an endless list of schools), was an (unpaid) announcer for UTEP, The Diablos...), has three beautiflu and successful daughters - all of whom went to Tech, but the third was too good to stay in the same dorm as the first two (despite the almighty Paul arranging for her to even have the same room), was once more reminded that Paul is a disabled vet (how did he become disabled in a single enlistment in a non-war zone by the way), and so on and so on and so on.

As for Tim Besco - wasted hour. I found out he doesn't have the strength of his convictions to come right out and tell Paull to ask a question and shut up or he would leave.

[David K]

Rob,

Thanks for reading the blog and you're right - local radio is best for sports only.

[Mike]

"Besco needed to answer - "Yes, I'm the only vet in the race who loves America. Reyes would rather investigate our security forces than support them. Reyes let Pelosi and Obama strip of us the funding for future combat systems that would make our war machine more effective while keeping our soldiers safer. Reyes ripped up the grass and put dirt on our fallen heroes..." "

Hoooooookay. So in the space of one paragraph Dave confirms himself to be an idiot warmonger and against the US Constitution.

Investigate our "security forces"? Hah! You mean the contractors staffing secret prisons where innocent people are renditioned, tortured, and murdered without even a hint of habeas corpus, due process, etc.? Mmmmmkay. Or did you mean the CIA, busy killing foreigners and fomenting coups and 'realpolitiking' our asses into perpetual war and bankruptcy?

And then we have that all important "war machine"to keep bed wetters like David K and his fighting keyboard commandos and armchair generals safe from the mean terrorists in IRAQ!???

Fighting them over there so we don't have to over here, eh?

But who am I kidding? Logic has never been the neocon strong suit.

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