The Congressional Candidate Interviews

The Congressional Candidate Interviews


Over the past two months (and, continuing through out this year) I have had the honour of meeting and speaking with some of the people who would shape the future of this nation.. Through hard work and downright being a pain in the ass I have arranged as guest on my radio show Congressional Candidates running in this year’s election season. These interviews have spread to include the two co-founders of the Worcester Tea Party, a few individuals who have started Second Amendment Advocacy Groups and some one, I consider, an expert on this health care debacle: hell, I may get to score a Gubernatorial interview before the end of April.
‘Big deal’, you are thinking. ‘These blowhards always get to talk to anyone who will give them a soap box’.
True, absolutely true; so what is making these interviews so different? The difference is in the nature of the interview and the medium that affords that condition. This example now dominates and has supplanted the once reigning king of media known as television. I am talking about two media. Believe it or not, the youngest one of those media will turn over thirty by the end of this year. The other is my show on radio.
This is not a cheap, exultation of The Meat and Potatoes Show (ok, yeah it is in a way. Stay with me, you’ll see the connection) nor is this the usual historical gnaw of how revolutionary the Internet has become. We get it, it’s great. It gives us something else we have to pay for and maintain. Move on. What changes this card game is that this media is able to have a conversation with someone and lay down substance to the person interviewed. The guest is no longer bridled by a thirty second soundbite which, for almost sixty years, has been the defining moment of all candidates from City Counsel to the President. One goof and you are toast.
I have two friends, that I could only have met here on the web, who have interviewed several candidates already and the impact is astounding. I actually get to read, watch, and partake in a conversation that allows me to actually get to know the person. I cannot remember seeing any of that on television. Oh, sure, there would be those times on a Sunday talk show where some one was the ‘special guest’. Made me feel as if I should be humbled to be watching that segment of Lame Stream Media. These two friends have created these sites and arranged these interviews all on their own with little or no connection to any major network and no apparent connection to any party ideological bullshit. The impact of these interviews has been phenomenonal and will affect the outcome in November.
Steven Tucker, creator and owner of The Small Business Insurance Services (sbisvcs.com) and John Feeny, author, teacher and writer for the blog America’s Right. One has been a past guest on my show and the other will be coming on later this spring. Both have been pivotal in garnering support for the candidates poised to overthrow the Manchurians who have taken over our government.
The Tea Party Movement cannot be overlooked and branded anymore. Rachel Maddow, Keith Oberman and Chris Mathews can continue sticking their feet in their mouths. Thank you, keep up the good work folks, see you in television history. This movement has galvanized this nation more than 9/11 could have ever done. The multi party, the multi ethnic, cultural, pro life, pro choice, for the war, against the war events have created an entirely new concept in political protest. These protests are organized, funded and are the most moving and uplifting public forums I have ever seen (and may never again see) in my life.
Two of the founders of The Worcester Tea Party; Ken Mandile and John Niewiecki have been guests on my show also. John invited me to speak at this past January event. Ken has worked tirelessly to create a formidable, local movement and John is the one I call the moral compass that keeps the movement honest and non partisan.
Something like this has never existed before. Our collective notion of a protest movement has been defined (again) by television. The hippies and anarchists, flamboyant homosexuals and anti American Panther and Nation of Islam groups have only managed to frighten the public and strong arm government policy. Neither of those groups have done anything to better this nation as a whole but rather promote an agenda and legislation that is strictly their own.

Three years ago I was at a crossroads in my life. I stepped outside one late night and walked to a local 24 hour store for a coffee. I met up with an old ‘townie’ friend who was there. His name is William LeBlanc. He is better known as Capt. PJ to the locals and on his radio show at WCUW Radio 91.3 fm, in Worcester Mass. His show is called the Rockin’ Revolution and has an overnight slot Wednesday night at midnight. Simply, by chance, he invited me to come to the show with him the following week and asked me to help and maybe get some time on the mic.
I have never looked back and I am eternally great full to that man for all he has done for me. I truly believe that at that dark moment in my life God picked me up and sent me to get that coffee: for what has resulted is the birth and growth of my own radio show and it is here I make the connection I promised the reader earlier.
In February of 2008 the first solo broadcast of The Meat and Potatoes Show aired and with it came something never before done at that station. In fact, I regularly cruise other stations during the day and am hard pressed to find any others with my unique formula. That formula was to include a deep love of music that has been lost at other stations and replaced with rules, edited music and worn out hit songs (That is my main beef). I also decided from the opening to do a ten to fifteen minute piece called “The Diatribe” where I would brazenly call to the carpet the sickness of Socialism, Liberalism, Political Correctness and decay of our great nation. I wanted to talk to people on my show openly and without edits who shared my feelings.
I decided to include myself in the electoral process. From politically charged interviews on various subjects I have grown to encompass and focus on the candidates who will shape the scene in Washington next January. I have been called to service by something, or some one to play a part and help change those dynamics I have watched erode this country over three decades.
There must be something I am doing right because I am often in trouble with the management at the radio station. I post copies of “The Diatribe” on the large bulletin board in the control room and get a chuckle from the hand written ‘hate’ scribbles in the margins. I have been censored and almost fined for my disregard of the status quo. I will try my best to live up to my reputation.
I have interviewed candidates from Massachusetts to California. I have interviewed Democrats and Republicans. I have had hour long conversations with candidates from Larouchepac.com about economic policy and rebuilding the scientific foundation of America. I have laughed with and dug deep into the ideas of the Tea Party Movement. I have had ‘gentlemen’s bets’ on the health care debate. I will be at the April 15th Tea Party Rally in Worcester Mass conducting taped street interviews amongst the crowd.
None of this could not have been done had the development of the internet and the freeing up of media not occurred. The old walls have fallen. There is a reason why many network news organizations and newspapers are going the way of the dinosaur. They are dinosaurs! They can repackage all they want. The public sees right through it. They are sick of it. Everyone is mobilizing and everyone is taking a stake in the game.
Never again will the landscape of the political process be familiar to those who remain committed to the policy of partisanship and a media formulated of bias. This swing back to the right is no longer some cyclical, political trend. I believe it is a revolutionary turn for the course of this nation. A turn that will last well beyond the next election cycle. This Conservative movement will include Democrats and Libertarians and Republicans and Tea Party. It is, quite simply, an evolutionary process born not of ‘adaptation’ but of old fashioned growth.

Great people are seldom called to serve in times of need. It is that time of need that defines great people. All of the names mentioned here were just ordinary Americans carrying on in life and being good citizens. I was not being a good citizen before. I was selfish, addicted to drugs and very angry. I am sorry for that.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the Meat and Potatoes Show. Thank you to Capt. PJ., Troy Tyree Steven Tucker, John Feeny, Wayne Peter Campbell, Rachel Brown, Ema Rueter, Kesha Rogers, Summer Shields, Harley Schlanger, Dave Arthur, Reid K Smith, Chris Damico, Stephan LaPierre, Ken Mandile, John Niewiecki, John McKeag, John Dennis, Tom Wesley and Thomas Zaleski and Brad Marston. See you after the election when we all make history.
Thank you Rebecca M. Goodall. My friend, my love, mother and anchor who stood firm in all storms..I love you..

This has been the Meat and Potatoes Show on WCUW 91.3 fm and online at WCUW.ORG. By God’s will and only by God’s will shall I see all of you here next week..



….And That Is The Diatribe….

Fuck you--Scott Brown

So, he came in as an outsider, some one who would lead the Republican party to respond to the wishes of the American People.We were duped. As a supporter of the Tea Party, I watched this campaign draw out. Now I see the swooning of the media over him. We were wrong, do not make this mistake again America! Stop playing this age old political game!!
Once inside, he did what all politicians do... They play ball.
What America is looking for is a politician who does not play ball, but rather, one who changes the rules of the game. That is right! Change the rules. New Sheriff in town mentality.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.." Guess what? We all got fooled again...
Scott Brown goes in 2012, I could care less if he cures cancer, he ignored his base and that stain is a stain on all free thinking Americans everywhere.
Are you candidates not listenning? Apperently not! You hijacked the Tea Party and spoke about being different and outsiders. You are moles. Nothing more, nothing less.
As a Tea Party Supporter and radio voice, I will expose all of you on my radio show.You all need to perform a.."Wait a sec!" Brown did what??..And he was elected by..Who?...Shit..I cannot make that mistake..That bastard is finished!
Listen to me America, Tom Zaleski, John Dennis, Kesha Rogers, Tom Wesley, Summer Shields, Rachel Brown, Christy Mihos, Tim Cahill. All of you.
This is not your seat! This is a calling from God and America's people. Our nation needs help and help fast!. Do your fucking job! I make no apologies for my language. I am an American and I will say how, what and whatever I want! Your salary is payed by me and other's taxes. You do what I/we say, not what you want!
So, get busy. Get busy actually solving the problems. Not just appointing some "commission": solve the fucking problems..Do the thing that no others have done in the past..Actually solving! Actually doing! Making the hard choice!
I stood up for Scott Brown and he fucked us! I will tear him down personally!. This is a warning! War is on the doorstep if you others do not do what we, America. wants!!


..And That Is The Diatribe..

Meat and Potatoes Soldiers Onward

Meat and Potatoes Soldiers Onward


I wrote once before in "The Diatribe" a piece entitled "My Catharsis". In that piece I wrote about gaining perspective on what I was called to do by fate, circumstance and (plainly) what God must have in store for me. No, I am not on some calling, just trying to say that I am at peace with what I am doing and my plans to make the best of what I am doing.

In fact, I have been waiting for that first roadblock, that first hiccup. It has arrived and I feel nothing but confidence and conviction of my course and what I will continue to do. Because, you see, I am better than my detractors. A detractor is nothing more than some one who has yet to become something better than themselvs and cannot stomach the existence of any one else who has discovered that very fact.

This rectal sore that has put The Meat and Potatoes Show in jeopardy is an example of what exists on our society today. The world is full of self righteous, self appointed stool pidgeons who have been educated by the likes of divorced, man hating, feminazi Socialist school teachers, cuckholded men, Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village", Opra Winfrey with her imagined sense of reality, Political Correction freaks and the, " ..I find that offensive.." crowd. These people are convinced that every one elses' business is their business and they must tell some one about it. They are paranoid, insecure and lonely people. Even our Social Services are designed on that premise of "...you have to say something, call this anonymous hotline number!.." My mother used to tell me people like that should be pittied. I agree. It is sad.

Anything worth doing is worth the risk, and the losses associated with it. I have had other events like this in my life. I was younger then I was stronger then. I should be tired of this shit by now. I am, actually, I was hoping that with age would come some rest. However, I have found a strenght that didn't exist then. I have become more informed, educated, read, I have friends and help of others who are reading this and nodding their heads.."yes!".

Think I have been silenced? I would rather be fired and removed from the air than oblige these penis warts. I will return to the roots of M&P2010 until the mud settles and the air clears. Then..Then, I will launch the next, great phase of my radio show where I take it until the dawn with politics, questionable interviews, controversey, great fucking music, and the all important "Diatribe". So I leave you all with this...

Ladies and gentleman, I am Christopher Maider, I am "The Diatribe", this is and shall always be The Meat and Potatoes Show. By God's will, and only by, God's will shall I see you all here next week on wcuw radio 91.3 fm and online at wcuw.org..Thank you and good morning...


..And That Is The Diatribe..

The Existence of Stooges

The Existence of Stooges.

It was another wonderful episode of The Meat and Potatoes Show. My fans had joined me, my friends had joined me online. The music was mixing perfectly. It was me, the microphone, vinyl and digital. I had even shut the lights off because I like the warm glow of the board in front of me.
Little did I know that amongst the audience crept a cancer. This is probably the worst form of cancer because it doesn't have to exist. It exists solely because small minded people choose it to exist. They feed it, they share it with like minded imbeciles and inflict its damage upon others who are just trying to have some fun, or do a job, or share an idea.

This puke kept in the backround, so it wasn't any wonder I did not know about it. How long this fecal scraping had been listening to my show is anyone's guess. It doesn't matter. It (yes I call it..It), finally made it's move on Friday, February 12th.

I received an e-mail from the station manager informing me that some one complained to him in a separate e-mail. The complaint centered around three main issues. The first is that I was playing too many tunes from a particular artist in violation of some programming committee's decision. The second was that I was not calling out the station ID every thirty minutes. The third was that I was on too late and should have signed off at two am.

I thought to myself.."Is this moron serious?" That is his complaint? How small is this idiot's genitals that he would e-mail my boss about something as infantile as that? Again, it didn't matter how long this festering sebatious gland had been listening, it's actions have inflicted consequences.

My show is effectively cut in half. My west coast, late night audience is done. See ya. The music will be fractionalized. The interviews; I planned on making a foundation of my show for 2010. They now will have to be spaced out to allow weeks where I just play music or, possibly phased out altogether.I am not sure yet.

You see folks this stool is exactly what I have been talking about in The Diatribe. This abortion is obviously a Liberal. How do I know this? Because no sane minded Conservative or fan of my show would do such a thing. I know that because I have done whatever the fuck I wanted on my radio show since its birth in the late winter of 2008 and no one has said a friggen word until now!

You see Mr Stool. I only deal in facts on my radio show and one fact is certain. You are a pathetic, intellectual amputee with the integrity of a wet paper bag. If you have a problem with something I am doing, come to me. I may disagree with you but I will respect you for cowboying up. Your chosen method of dealing with me is to undermine me and go behind my back. Well, Mr. Candidate for Dipshit of the Week I do not take kindly to mental midgits behind me. I have a tendency to pull what sub mariners call a Crazy Ivan. Every once and awhile I turn around to check my back. Now that I have discovered you there, I will be certain to expedite a solution to your insecurity.

This idiot reminds me of the same genetic mistakes I used to see all the time in High School. You know the ones, the cowards who run to the teacher because they saw you smoking a joint behind the bleachers. Then you get ambushed by Principal Fartwater and you are banned from the Prom. You want to find out who squealed and make them squeal more, but in a whole new manner.

You quickly realize, at that point, there could have been other courses of action to take. Mature and gentlemanly courses of action. They are, either confronting you personally (like a man) or just plain minding their own fucking business.

..And That Is The Diatribe..

Here is What is Going to Happen

Here is What is Going to Happen

We have heard the talk. We have heard about sanctions. The UN scrambles into passing letters of discontent! "We are very angry at you!"
The nation of Iran is on the cusp. Israel prepares. Why are we not doing so also? I am just asking?

Iran is speaking the words of war. We are speaking the words of apeasment and negotiation. Does anyone in this Administration read history? They claim to be college educated. I have been lambasted on my "Diatribe" about my lack of that esteemed prize...Yet, I ask a simple question.
Do you guys read history? I have. I pay attention to everything I read and what we have experienced. I am a researcher and a study of historical literature. I have also lived it! I am an old man. Apeasement means defeat and war upon those who choose that path. Simple, black and white. Sorry folks, this is the way it turns out..Always.

My mother taught me this. She told me to always watch and listen and learn: And watch..watch! Watch how our leaders try to explain away the reasons and the events that are in our faces and on our doorstep. Remember what our past leaders and Patriots did (at expence to their own lives, fortunes and family and beliefs) to actually solve these problems and put an end to them. That; for the better of the nation.

we ready? America?..Tell me I am correct? The clouds gather. Our nation has problems. Our enemies see that and are waiting to strike. I see hope in the surge of Patriotism. What happens when guns need to be loaded?.. Not just here to defeat the Socialists..But, there, to defend our homeland? Iran is aiming their missiles..

...And That Is The Diatribe...

..And In Second Place..The USA

..And in Second Place..The USA!



There is a disapointing, short sighted trend within the Obama Administration that is focused on all the wrong decisions. In order to pay for the wave of Socialism that remains unabated major infrastructure projects are getting cancelled that will set America into a second place standing against global competitors.

Paying for the huge corporate bailouts requires this be done. This was the first example of shortsighted and wrong decision making. Using the Bush Administration's failures as a crutch to excuse further bad decisions is petty and lacks in leadership.

Nothing exposed this more than the State of Union address; Congress was lectured, same old topics raised over and over, Bush was blamed and more emphasis was put, still, on failed policy. Quietly, behind the scenes, there was wholesale slaughter at NASA. Late last year the ribbon cutting ceremony at Yucca Mt. was, also, quietly cancelled. The layoffs will begin shortly and the lies of "saving jobs" will make Liberal media headlines.

While tacit mention was made of our children's educational future; SEIU and the teacher's unions will continue to dictate educational policy instead of parents. Nothing was mentioned of Southern California and the plight of the farmers there. The unemployment and destruction of families continues.

The promised shovel ready projects are still not moving shovels. High speed rail proposals will only go to those Senators who vote for Healthcare and Cap and Trade. Nothing was mentioned on actually creating jobs for everyday Americans who need to get to work now even if it means pumping gas or bagging groceries. Lots of talk on training for the "jobs of tomorrow" and the "green" economy: but this takes months, even years. What does an unemployed (or underemployed) parent do in the meantime? Hope for extensions in benefits from DOR?
That is exactly what the President said. That was his great solution. Extend UI benefits!

Tax credits to small business is not the answer either. A tax credit is a voucher to be cashed in on a later date. It does nothing in the immediate to help hire, pay bills, manage costs. The President was eager to claim not "one dime" was raised on American incomes. Nothing was done to lower them either at a time when we need every "dime" we can get.
The spending freeze doesn't take effect until 2011 (actually June of 2011). That gives sixteen months of largesse still to come; but in the words of the President, "thats how budgets work"..What? Thats not how mine works!

Well, at least there has been "headway" made on earmarks. Like a ship heading for the rocks, but at least, it has slowed down a bit. We are still making smoke filled room deals, taxpayer funded junkets (Copenhagen) and amendments buried in bills that are not even related to one another.(Case in point: the time line of Cobra benefits for recently layed off workers has been increased from nine months to fifteen months. It was an amendment buried in the Defense Appropriations Bill for fundng Iraq and Afghanistan).

Nothing has changed. Washington continues to ignore and nibble around the edges and call it "sweeping reform!" It is not. Barak Hussien Obama said what ever he had to say (or, what he was told to say by Andy Stern and Roger Emult) in order to get elected. This Administration took the least educated and poorest among us and used them as a catalyst for "Hope and Change".
Oh, but, their lives are going to change alright, for the worse.

....And That Is The Diatribe....

The Tragic Tale Continues..

The Tragic Tale Continues..


I have a friend from High School who has recently engaged me in an open dialogue concerning my "Diatribe". His arguements are laced with personal attacks and constant references to my lack of a college education as if that is the be all and end all of one's ability to conduct any kind of political discourse or right of offering an opinion. His references to my "supposed" radio show and my lack of historical context, or understanding of history and grammatical errors seem to be the foundation of his vitriol towards myself. I have asked him to come on the show and explain his reasons and the convictions of his reasons.

Thus far, no answer. Hey, nobody is perfect.

I gauge my development of opinion based on mitigating factors. This was not always the case. I was once a card carrying Liberal and always surrounded myself with like minded people and exposed myself to literature and print of that lean. My research and self education have steadily ramped up since my days as a Staff Officer for the U.S. Coast Guard Aux.. Now, that I do this radio show, I must be acutely aware of information, where it comes from, the context of its message and how I package it to specifically express the desired effect I am trying to impart. It can be quite a process at times.

I have also, well, grown up.

Being able to pontificate a political opinion armed with your diploma and sense of self righteous archetype theories are a great weapon to wield against an opponent who has based his/her political standards upon common sense, personal experiences, and years of watching those said 'theories' relegated to the ash heap of history. Marx can be studied all he wants. He was wrong. History has proven it.

All these crazy theorists (Cloward+Piven, Van Jones, Sunstien, etc) all get their ideas from dead politics. Thats right, dead politics. All their heroes are dead along with their failed experiments. It is as simple as that in my mind.

Maybe that is the dilemna my adversary cannot ascertain. The simplicity. For me I have the past as prologue. For him he has the past as proof I don't know what I am talking about.

There is something we should all watch for when listening to a politico speak. Watch for the use of negativety towards the nation and it's people. Always a red flag. Hitler told of a great empire yet always talked of crushing the enemy. Lenin spoke of a revolution that will sweep away the old, Obama said he was days away from "...fundamentally changing the United States". What was wrong with the old United States?..Yeah..See what I'm saying?

It is here that I superimpose my friend in this catagory. Always the negative, always the personal and be-littleing. Nothing positive in his presentation. Ergo, I am wary.

I love this nation and and he hates it. Based on that premise alone I win the arguement without uttering a word. Bring on the exultations of Marx all you want, please, ( I know nothing about him) I want you too. That way branding you a Socialist nutbag can be done by your own hand. Again, I do not need to utter a word.

I will use the words of Reagan, JFK, Eisenhower, Palin, McCain, Bush 1+2, even Nixon who all helped lead a nation and triumphed and failed all at some time but believed in one overiding principle. That America is exceptional and our best days are still ahead and that the people know what is best for them not some theorist with a college diploma.

..And That Is The Diatribe..