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Perhaps it is easier to list what is not attacked in this brutal ridiculing of the Catholic faith. The production is called "Jerry Springer--The Opera in Concert" and it will run from June 26-August 3 at the New Stage Collective in Cincinnati. The so-called opera will also be showing at The Studio Theatre in Washington D.C. from July 16-Aug. 10 The American TFP and its America Needs Fatima campaign vehemently protest this production. The TFP is asking its friends and supporters to send their e-protests to both theaters right away. The TFP is also promoting a protest outside the...

The two Jerrys are in the news again. One is a pompous ringmaster who appeals to the lowest common denominator, exploiting ignorance, and preying on people's irrational fears. The other one is Jerry Springer. Together, Jerrys Wright and Springer represent the most startling examples of a disturbing socio-political phenomenon where we are instructed to treat remorseless carnival barkers as serious contributors to civilized society. Barack Obama's ole, kooky uncle Jeremiah, a living, breathing Horn of Plenty for John McCain, spent yesterday giving David Axelrod heart palpitations by roosting his chickens before the National Press Club. Reverend Ocho Cinco tended to...

One week from today, “Jerry Springer—The Opera” will open a two-day run at Carnegie Hall. Commenting on this is Catholic League president Bill Donohue: “Never before in its illustrious history has Carnegie Hall been home to Christian bashing, but that is all about to change on January 29 and 30. Incredibly, it is allowing a patently obscene and viciously anti-Christian musical to be performed on its stage. Thus has it got into bed with the bigots, making a mockery of art in the process. This isn’t art—it’s license. “Is it art when a world religion is trashed on stage in...

A shove in the canal and a punch in the eye have landed both Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell Stoddard, 52, and his wife, Leslie, a U.S. District clerk, in Lee County jail on battery and domestic violence charges. Both work at the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Myers. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy was called to the Stoddards’ Fort Myers home at around 3 a.m. Wednesday in response to a domestic disturbance call. When the deputy arrived on scene, the complainant, Leslie Stoddard, told him that her husband had pushed her off their dock and into...

The writing was on the wall. As part of an on-going shift in the liberal talk radio landscape, and three months after a schedule alignment at Air America Radio that saw him scuttled off to the secondary syndicated feed, mid-morning host Jerry Springer announced on his show today that, due to a heavy schedule of outside commitments, he is leaving his radio show effective Friday December 8. Springer has offers of a movie role and a possible Super Bowl commercial, partly thanks to his exposure on Dancing With The Stars. "These things are not going to come around again, particularly...

TAMPA - A Jerry Springer moment hit community television this weekend when a chair was hurled at Joe Redner. Redner and Tony Katz have exchanged verbal jabs before on "The Bleepin Truth," a political debate show that airs on Tampa Bay Community Network. But their mutual dislike for each other turned physical Saturday when Katz threw a high stool chair at Redner. The chair hit Redner on his back, forearm and head. "That is assault!" Redner yelled repeatedly. The whole thing was caught live on TV. "I was kind of just stunned," said Redner, a Democrat who is running for...

The "revolution of talk radio" and "Homer: The Sports Animal" are trading places. Clear Channel Cincinnati, which owns eight stations locally, announced Friday it is swapping the dial positions of its liberal talk and sports talk stations. Effective July 7, the liberal talker, which carries Jerry Springer's 9 a.m.-noon "Springer on the Radio," will move from WCKY-AM (1530) to the significantly less powerful WSAI-AM (1360). Homer, meanwhile is moving from WSAI to the WCKY frequency. For tri-state fans of each station, the move doesn't mean much except having to perhaps reset some car radio buttons. But it is significant in...

In yesterday's EDITION of the DUmmie FUnnies, the KOmmies at The Daily Kos asserted the wishful thinking that AM talk radio is fading fast. Perhaps they were thinking ONLY of leftwing AM radio. Just a couple of years ago, the leftwing Air America Radio was hailed by the MSM as the "answer" to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts who dominate the AM airwaves. What ended up fading fast wasn't AM talk radio but the dream of competing with conservative talk radio. The left in general has pretty much given up on Air America as you can...

I just heard on Fridays Springer Show that he endorses a national sales tax " as long as it is graduated and the first 20K of purchases if free". Please confirm!

As Sean Hannity is proving to Jerry Springer, a career boost can sometimes come from the most unlikely of circumstances. After all, why should the nation's number two-ranked talk host (by audience size, with Rush Limbaugh in first place) give one of Air America Radio's weakest performers the time of day? Because of Jerry's television fame? Even the liberal network's most diehard apologists seem lukewarm when it comes to supporting the syndicated television trashmeister. And we might add that Hannity has roughly 10 stations running his show for every one still saddled with the dreadful "Springer On The Radio". And...

A woman got a 30-day jail sentence for leaving her three young children home alone for several hours while she and her boyfriend attended a videotaping of "The Jerry Springer Show." Shannon Cook, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this week to misdemeanor child endangerment. She also was placed on probation for a year. The two girls and one boy, all under the age of 4, have been placed in foster homes... Police said Cook left the children alone at a suburban home Oct. 19 while she and her boyfriend went to Chicago for the taping. About five hours later, the two...

Even for those not particularly familiar with the broadcast legend, it was quite a moving send-off for WOR/New York's Bob Grant this evening. Saying goodbye after decades of trailblazing talk radio entertainment, Grant was praised by some of the industry's biggest names, including Howard Stern. In a particularly fascinating radio moment, Stern revealed just how much he had influenced his own career. In addition, Howard credited Grant for the development of the modern conservative movement, calling him years ahead of nearly everyone else. Stern wondered why Grant hadn't become a major national star along the lines of Rush Limbaugh and...

If a liberal radio network falls in the forest (hitting a few spotted owls on the way down) and there isn't anyone around to hear it, does it make a sound? After a second letter begging for help, that seems like a fair question today. Sent to supporters on Halloween, it makes more suspect claims and again paints a misleading picture of Air America Radio's overall health. To the Radio Equalizer, however, the real story is that few seemed to notice this second appeal to the network's remaining faithful diehards:

Despite new management assertions to the contrary, two KVI/Seattle talk show hosts believe a July court ruling now prevents them from discussing a key November statewide ballot initiative on the airwaves. In a stunning decision, a Thurston County, Washington judge forced organizers of Initiative 912 to report, as in-kind campaign contributions, favorable comments made by KVI hosts Kirby Wilbur and John Carlson. Backers of I-912, which seeks to repeal a statewide gas tax hike, were required to place a dollar value on talk radio's supportive statements....(snip) ....Despite the August sackings of its key participants, one of sports talk's most peculiar...

Perhaps Jerry Springer doesn't figure listeners think much of his credibility. After all, it's no secret his name recognition comes from being the king of trash television. Otherwise, why assert you've little to do with a network that certainly seems to claim Mr. Springer as one of its own? Is it that hard to admit to being part of a sleazy operation, one some of your lowlife TV guests could only admire? For two months, the ability of Air America's hosts (sans Franken) to pretend the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club scandal wasn't tearing their operation apart at the...

The plug's finally been pulled at Air America affiliate WHJJ-AM, where enormous ratings losses have nearly killed a once-successful Providence conservative talk station. While at least two tiny stations have already dropped Air America, this is significant because the Rhode Island talker has been one of the network's largest outlets. According to the Providence Journal, Jerry Springer's show is the first to be yanked and will be followed by Al Franken's imminent cancellation:

Memo to: Hillary Clinton, Her Indescribable Holiness from: Irv, New York Impresario re: your Presidential Gig Hillary, baby, Yes, I know the last time I offered you show biz advice, it was about your senatorial shtick. I said it wouldn’t work, and offered several reasons. You were right and I was wrong. But now you’re looking at a bigger league. You’ve put yourself in a great position to have a shot at the presidential gig. The Democratic Leadership Committee has just made you chairman (you don’t mind being referred to as a man, do you?) of the effort to write...

CINCINNATI Trash T-V talk show host Jerry Springer is taking his liberal radio program nationwide. He has reached a deal today to go live weekdays on the Air America Radio network beginning April First. The liberal all-talk radio network currently broadcasts programs on 51 radio stations and on two satellite networks. Springer will be heard on 45 of those stations initially. Air America President Jon Sinton says the network hopes to get Springer on the remaining stations soon. Air America started up a year ago. It includes comedian and liberal commentator Al Franken's show. Springer began his radio show in...

CHESTERFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Contractors working in New Jersey prisons will undergo special training after a skit authorized as part of a drug treatment program for inmates featured a spoof on the Ku Klux Klan. Five employees of the Chicago-based Gateway Foundation Inc., the company whose workers approved the skit, have been fired, and the company has been cautioned that further incidents won't be tolerated, said Matthew Schuman, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. "The company was told this better not happen again," he said. Several inmates who took part in the Jan. 6 skit at the Garden...

 March 1, 2005   “JERRY SPRINGER” BETTER STAY IN BRITAIN  The Catholic League has been monitoring plans to bring “Jerry Springer: The Opera” to Broadway for some time, but has refrained from saying anything because the initial plans were scrapped.  However, it is being reported today that if the producers can come up with the cash, they will bring “Springer” to Broadway in spring 2006.  Here is what others have said about the show: The opera "contains up to 8,000 profanities and features tap-dancers dressed as Ku Klux Klan members and a showdown between Satan and a diaper-wearing Jesus." Amidst...

CINCINNATI -- Jerry Springer's new radio talk show doesn't have guests who get in fist fights or blurt foul language. Springer promised to provide unabashed liberal views to counter the positions of President Bush in the first airing Monday of his radio show in Cincinnati, where he once served as mayor. Springer, who will continue to host his more raucous TV show, called the war in Iraq immoral, . . .

Trash TV king Jerry Springer is about to try his hand at political talk radio, saying he wants to be the liberal alternative to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Talk radio needs "a voice on the other side," Springer told the New York Post's John Mainelli on Monday, explaining that he wants to counter "the Republican noise machine." The TV gabber will launch his three-hour, daily radio show from Cincinnati next Monday, with plans for a national roll out beginning in February on about a dozen Clear Channel stations. "We'll talk about serious things in the world, but it's going...

LONDON (Reuters) - Christian protesters set fire to their television licenses outside the BBC's London offices on Friday as outrage spread over the public broadcaster's plans to air a profanity-laden musical. In the award-winning London show "Jerry Springer -- The Opera," viewers can watch a diaper fetishist confess all to his true love, catch a tap dance routine by the Ku Klux Klan and see Jesus and the Devil locked in a swearing match. Michael Reid, a pastor and self-styled bishop who organized the peaceful demonstration ahead of the airing on Saturday evening, called the musical "filth." "The use of...

I am not sure I know where to begin. On Friday, December 17, I was arrested and charged with a Class B Misdemeanor, the first time I have been arrested and charged with anything.Over the next seven days and six nights that I spent in the custody of the authorities awaiting bail, I found my wife of six years, the woman I had given my life and love to, had decided she had had enough of me, saying I had hurt her emotionally and she could trust, rely on or understand me. She intends to file for divorce next month....

A woman who gave birth to a child months before entering a same-sex civil union in Vermont is appealing a court ruling that granted parental standing to her former partner. Cheryl Barlow, who says she no longer is a lesbian, was united with Keri Jones, both residents of Utah, five months after Barlow became pregnant by artificial insemination in 2001. But the relationship ended in 2003 after Barlow discovered Jones was seeing another woman. Jones then sued for parental visitation rights to Barlow's child and was granted favor by Judge Timothy Hanson in Utah's 3rd District Court in Salt Lake...

Daily Recycler has the clip of tonight's Scarborough Country. You have to see it to believe it. A little over three minutes.

Who's that at the Democratic National Convention? You mean Bill Clinton and his senator wife, Hillary? Or maybe Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. How about John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry? No, it's Jerry Springer. He's the host of the TV show known for its bleeped verbiage and on-stage fighting, but he's also the former mayor of Cincinnati and is a delegate to the DNC from Ohio. In fact, he's been attending Dem conventions since 1972. This year, however, he's been so popular among Democrats and the mainstream media (is there a difference?) in attendance he may even be upstaging...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - The lawyer for an Army private photographed taunting naked Iraqi prisoners has accused the Pentagon of withholding evidence necessary to her defense. Giorgio Ra'Shadd maintains the Defense Department has denied him access to pictures, names and other information that could help his client, Pfc. Lynndie England. To help prove his point, Ra'Shadd on Wednesday held up nearly black photocopies of images turned over to him by military authorities. Outlines of nude men could be seen in some of the pictures. Some apparently do not include England, a 21-year-old reservist from West Virginia. Ra'Shadd said he cannot issue...

Monday, May 10, 2004 Edwards slams abuse at Democrats' dinner By Gregory Korte The Cincinnati Enquirer COLUMBUS - The only way to send a message to the rest of the world that Americans emphatically reject the humiliating abuse of Iraqi prisoners is to elect John F. Kerry as president, Sen. John Edwards told Ohio Democrats at their annual dinner. "All of us - it goes without saying - condemn it. It goes against the values we hold as Americans. Just think about the damage it's doing to our image around the world," Edwards said Saturday night, adding that the prisoner...

<p>It didn't turn out to be a happy wedding day for a Centerville, Utah, couple.</p> <p>While buying makeup last Saturday for a wedding later that day, the Salt Lake Tribune reports, the maid of honor dropped a bombshell on the bride.</p> <p>She'd slept with the groom the night before.</p>

Sorry for the vanity but I just couldn't help it. I thought my first post of 2004 would be some sort of important news story of this political year. However, this morning, being the New Year, I decided for some strange reason to check out the Jerry Springer show for the first time in ages. I was not "disappointed." In fact I fell out of my seat laughing. It was a show about the "Midget Klan." It featured white racist midgets dressed in black Klan robes and masks. Later in the show the Midget Klan was confronted on stage by...

<p>October 21, 2003 -- NEXT up on "The Jerry Springer Show" - "I Want to Be Governor!" Jerry Springer, who earlier this year bowed out of a run for the U.S. Senate, now says he wants to be governor of Ohio and is thinking of running in 2006.</p>

<p>At the height of Wally George's fame in the mid-1980s, fans of the conservative talk-show host with the shock of white hair would wait several weeks to secure one of 60 tickets to his "Hot Seat" television show, taped in Anaheim.</p>

Jerry Springer is on Leno bashing the RECALL... He wants to know what happened between the election and the recall......HOW BOUT LIES JERRY! How bout endangering the intire federal Republic with phoney legilation...! BUT FREEPERS THE BEST NEWS IS THAT AFTER HIS LITTLE SOAP BOX SPEECH THE MAJORITY OF THE CROWD BOOOOOED!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jerry Springer’s name won’t be on the Ohio ballot. At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, the talk show host and former Cincinnati mayor announced he would not launch a campaign for U.S. Senate from Ohio. Calling it the “hardest” decision he’s ever had to make, Springer acknowledged he did not feel his message would be heard while his talk show was still on the air. Over the past seven months, Springer has traveled around Ohio, measuring support. Springer has also set up a website to test voter support. Springer has said that Ohioans accept his message, but his show makes...

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I am at a complete loss to understand how this country's politics would be enriched by massive voter turnout by people who consider Jerry Springer to be their dashboard saint. Voter turnout is not a good in itself, no matter what populists and demogogues claim.

BRADENTON, Fla. -- The episode of the "Jerry Springer Show" is dubbed "Sneaky Sex Affairs," but Bradenton officials say the real sneaking was done by a woman on house arrest who risked going to jail for an opportunity to appear on the raunchy talk show. Barbara Payne, 21, traveled to Chicago in April with her live-in boyfriend and twin sister to be on an episode of the show which airs Friday. On the show, the trio spun a tale that Payne's boyfriend was having an affair with her sister. Payne, who is seven months pregnant, was serving house arrest for...

Assuming people stop laughing, what are his chances? Jerry Springer says he will decide this month whether to launch a campaign for the U.S. Senate. "I would love to run," the TV talk-show host said this week. "There's no question. What I'm testing in focus groups is whether or not I can be heard on the issues." JERRY SPRINGER'S PROSPECTIVE CAMPAIGN FOR THE U.S. SENATE: SCRIPT FOR FOCUS GROUP MODERATORS Good afternoon, and thanks for agreeing to participate. Hope you're enjoying the complimentary Tang! I can now reveal the reason we have invited you all here. Jerry Springer, a man...

WESTCalifornia. Rosario Marin stepped down Monday as the 41st treasurer of the United States, paving the way for a possible challenge in 2004 to Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. Marin, a Republican, formerly served in GOP Gov. Pete Wilson's administration as legislative analyst for the Department of Developmental Services. She was also mayor of Huntington Park. California political consultant Kevin Spillane said Marin would make an announcement this month about running against Boxer, whose lukewarm fundraising and liberal voting record have made her a prime Republican target in 2004. Toni Casey, the Republican mayor of Los Altos Hills, already has announced...

'Trash TV' king Jerry Springer plots career in US Senate JERRY Springer came to this Rust Belt town in search of votes, and ended up addressing the crowd in the middle of the summer fair. "I was trying to figure out why I felt at home here," he told long-suffering residents, whose jobs disappeared with the steel mill decades ago. "Because I'm in a carnival! I do this every day." The British-born king of 'trash TV' is out on the stump in Ohio for a possible run for a US Senate seat in the 2004 elections. The response he receives...

Emergencies'often cry out for drastic and expensive changes in public policy that later, on reflection, seem ill-conceived. Government responses to the Great Depression, for example, drastically altered the U.S. system of limited government and took an immense toll on American liberty and privateproperty rights'a toll that has never been repaid (Roots 2000). Declaration of a national emergency in 1933 facilitated the creation of a number of colossal government programs that survived long after the Depression had ended, even if they had done nothing to end the Depression (Roots 2000, 267 n. 44). A similar climate of hysteria regarding alleged runaway...

It's the bus drivers, waitresses and construction workers who give hope to Jerry Springer as he crosses Ohio to gauge support for a possible U.S. Senate run. While Springer was walking to a recent event in Cleveland, a driver stopped his transit bus in the middle of Superior Avenue -- a busy downtown thoroughfare -- and strolled over to warmly greet the TV talk show host, oblivious to the chaos he was causing. Springer was pleased by that type of reaction, which he says has been repeated at numerous stops in the state. That's because working class people realize he's...

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Talk show host Jerry Springer, considering a U.S. Senate run from Ohio, said he will form an exploratory committee in the coming weeks, while former Gov. Jim Edgar pondered through the weekend whether to jump into an Illinois Senate race. Springer, a former mayor of Cincinnati who hosts a raucous Chicago-based show, said he hired Democratic pollsters Paul Maslin and Diane Feldman to conduct polls and focus groups to determine his viability. "The question is whether I can cut through the clutter of the show,'' said Springer, who attended the White House Corres- pondents Association annual dinner Saturday night...

Jerry Springer, the daytime television host we know and love for bringing us such classic intellectually stimulating topics as “Is Your Brother Your Lover?” and “My Boyfriend is a Girl,” is thinking of running for the United States Senate. Well, I say, “You go, Jerry!” ...........

In a 90-minute face-off marked by verbal cuts and sarcasm, Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. sharply attacked each other's records and political promises last night as they debated for the first time in Maryland's gubernatorial campaign. Neither candidate broke new ground in the ragged debate, repeating themes they've emphasized through the campaign. Townsend argued that Ehrlich's congressional record shows he has turned his back on schoolchildren, minorities and the poor. Ehrlich said Townsend lacks the experience to lead the state and almost four decades of Democratic rule has led to arrogance and budget shortfalls.

Talk show host Jerry Springer has given $50,000 to a political committee that is helping several Florida Democrats, including attorney general hopeful George Sheldon and Mary Barley, a candidate for commissioner of agriculture. Springer gave the money to the Kew Gardens Committee, an Internal Revenue Service 527 committee, whose founders are trying to remain anonymous. Such IRS committees can collect unlimited amounts of money as long as they don't specifically call for the election or defeat of a candidate. Kew Gardens has supported Sheldon and Barley with mail- out advertising portraying them favorably. Springer also gave $500 in a direct...

A Sarasota jury Tuesday convicted Ralf Panitz of second-degree murder for beating his ex-wife to death just hours after their appearance on "The Jerry Springer Show" aired. Panitz, 42, was convicted of killing Nancy Campbell. The prosecution had sought a first-degree murder conviction. The jury opted for the lesser charge after deliberating more than 16 hours over two days. The panel also could have chosen manslaughter. Prosecutor Charlie Roberts said in closing arguments Monday that Campbell had been stomped to death after she was choked. Defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who has represented Dr. Jack Kervorkian in euthanasia cases, said she...