So you can’t blame Baldwin, who plays Jack Donaghy on the award-winning NBC sitcom, for prepping for the next stage in his career.

Baldwin is recording a series of interview podcasts with the likes of Chris Rock, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, to be heard on New York’s WNYC radio station.

Hey, if it keeps him out of politics, all the better.

Baldwin could be a great fit for radio. He’s got those killer pipes that could make even an antacid commercial sound inspiring. I’ve heard his narration on some older ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ episodes, and it transformed those insipid stories into something a parent could actually tolerate.

A radio gig would simply mark the latest left field turn for Baldwin’s career.

The actor seemed headed for stardom back in the 1980 thanks to quality supporting turns in ‘Talk Radio’ and ‘Married to the Mob.’ Those early performances, plus a marquee worthy mug and killer hair, set up a major franchise starter in ‘The Hunt for Red October.’ But Harrison Ford was tabbed to replace Baldwin as Jack Ryan in a series of profitable sequels. That left Baldwin to headline commercial duds like ‘The Marrying Man’ and ‘Malice.’

The actor hit middle age, gained a few pounds, and saw his leading man roles dry up. Only when he embraced smaller, more comical parts in films like ‘Along Came Polly’ did audiences start to see him in a new light. His deft touch also let movie goers forgive some of his more outrageous public statements, like wishing for the stoning of Henry Hyde during the height of the Clinton impeachment imbroglio.

Enter ‘30 Rock’ and ‘Saturday Night Live,’ the twin franchises which rebranded Baldwin and helped conservatives look past his oft-angry comments concerning the Right.

An actor of Baldwin’s talents could have been a leading man well into his sixties, not unlike fellow actors Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson. Instead, Baldwin took another path, one that might lead him to becoming this generation’s Dick Cavett.

Or, the radio gigs could be a prelude to a political career in which opponents scramble to find the most damaging Baldwin sound bites they can uncover. And that could take a while.

For the actor’s sake, let’s hope he steers clear of elective office. He’s already made some troubling career choices, but that one could be his worst.

During the Friday night premiere of his new film “God Bless America,” writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait sat in an aisle seat in the middle of Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre. His elation and surprise were obvious as the audience responded with rowdy, pumped-up enthusiasm to the film’s wild rants and violent satire.

The movie itself is something of an oddball roadtrip comedy crossed with a furious social critique. After divorced office drone Frank (Joel Murray, recently of “Mad Men”) is told by his doctor he has a brain tumor, he sets off into a downward spiral. Having also lost his job and realizing his increasingly bratty daughter wants nothing to do with him, he projects his frustration out onto the world, setting off on a kill-spree rampage that targets meanness, rudeness and the coarsening of American culture.

Along the way he picks up teenage Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr, in a performance both sweet and psychotic) and takes her under his wing as the family he wishes he had.

Friday night’s audience loudly received Frank and Roxy’s rants on the state of what’s wrong in the world, which included the Kardashians, talk radio and anger-driven TV newcasts, people who say “literally” too much, phones in movie theaters, high-fives and other assorted annoyances. Even such unlikely targets as the writer Diablo Cody and her movie “Juno” come under fire. ”How can we be a civilization if we can’t even be civilized?” asks Frank at one point. …

“I think people think that I hate and I’m angry at all these things,” Goldthwait said. “And that’s not really my point. It’s that there’s this weird undertow right now of people being disenfranchised, but they don’t know who to react against. And what we really need to revolt against is ourselves.”

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On his Wednesday show, Adam Carolla interviewed Andrew Breitbart to discuss Andrew’s new book, Righteous Indignation. Let me assure you, you’ll LOVE this duo. Andrew’s been a guest on Carolla’s show before, but this was hands down the most entertaining so far.

Check out some of the comments from Carolla’s regular listeners – not surprisingly, some aren’t exactly Breitbart fans (which makes it that much more enjoyable for me, at least).

Carolla tackled topics with Andrew on just about everything – from Righteous Indignation to Communism, the Left’s Racist meme, the racket of building permits and greenwashing, and unions, just to name a few. And a whole lotta LA, which, as Andrew illustrates for us, ain’t what is used to be. The two were on such a rant roll over our waning freedoms, Carolla, who has described himself as having libertarian leanings, almost sounded like another grassroots activist. Who knows? Sounds like he may just have a bit of Presidential appeal. Andrew certainly thought so!

“By the way, are you aware that the Republican Party has nobody running for the presidency right now, and if you had put that out there by mistake and people heard that, and that was your spiel, you would have gone up to Donald Trump level, you would have gone up to 17%?”

Oh yeah – Carolla’s also not a big fan of Maxine Waters. Not. At. All. Which reminds me, this audio is NSFW.

If you’re familiar with the political concept of The Overton Window (no, not the Glenn Beck thriller), you’ll also enjoy the duo’s discussion about how smokers have unwittingly allowed themselves over time to be regulated almost out of existence. Carolla makes creative use of both the war on smokers and the NRA to make that analogy, in a rather unforgettable way. Listen as he sets up what has happened over the years and how we’ve gotten where we are today.

It’s funny that you used the smoking thing. I think about that all the time and I always use it as an example of the difference between the guys who wanted to smoke and the NRA… I secretly suspect this is what the NRA does, not a fan, but this is what they do, this is part of their strategy…see…

So, somebody came into the restaurant and said ‘Hey smokers, you know what, we’re gonna need to move you on over here and just create a little smoking section on this side of the restaurant, so would you just pick it up and move it over here please?’ And everyone went ‘oh yeah, OK,’ and they went and sat in the smoking section. And then at a certain point, somebody came up and said ‘Hey, uh, smokers listen, uh, gonna need you to clear out of the dining area but if you wanna smoke at the bar that’d be fine‘, and they just sort of got up and went ‘yeak, OK, alright’ and then went and sat at the bar. And then the same guy came back again and said, ‘bad news, gonna need to move you out front, outside, can’t have any smoking in the bar or the restaurant, just go out front’ so they went ‘yeah, OK,’ so they stood out on the sidewalk in front of the valet and smoked a cigarette. And then the guy came out and said ‘gonna need you to move down the street 80 paces to smoke a cigarette’ and you see, they just kept getting up and moving.

What the NRA does is they say, ‘f*** you, we’re not moving, let’s argue about it,’ and they’re staying where they are. Meaning, they said, ‘hey man, we need those hollow tip bullets’ and went ‘I don’t think so,’ and now they just argue about it. Now, I don’t think they’re really arguing about that. They just don’t wanna keep sliding out down the sidewalk with the smokers.

And this is the way we are, especially in CA. Which is, we go, ‘hey do this,’ and then someone goes ‘alright.’ Or, we’ll go ‘hey put a tax on cigarettes for a dollar,’ and then next time they go ‘hey make it another buck’ and then they go, ‘eh make it 5 bucks!’ And then Rob Reiner goes, ‘it should be 10 bucks!’ And then all the people that don’t smoke and are full of f***ing righteous indignation, they go ‘oh yeah!’ And then someone says ‘give it to the kids’ and then, next thing you know, we’re where we’re at.

All in all, Carolla seemed quite inspired by Andrew’s plight (and that of Righteous Indignation). Political correctness has run amok, regulations are overbearing, and our freedoms are dissipating before our eyes. How much longer are people going to just sit back and take it all? While there are so many memorable…and colorful quotes in this interview, perhaps this one from Carolla bluntly states the sentiment best:

“What we all need to do in life is just start standing up and telling people to f*** off.”

I suspect many of the Bigs readers might agree. Hell, I certainly do.

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Have you heard about “Poetry Night” at the White House?  I find it appalling and very inappropriate (yet not at all that surprising) that the Obamas have invited “Common”, a rapper who grew up in the pews of America-hating “Reverend” Wright’s church, who he describes as an “intelligent, strong individual…a great man…a conduit of love.”   He denigrates women with his misogynistic lyrics, promotes killing cops, and burning (President) Bush. Isn’t that special?  His lyrics have been praised by a Fox News reporter as being “very positive.”  Are you kidding me?

Hi Caliber

This is just another tactic this administration is using to convince young Americans that Barrack Obama is just that “cool” and that these are the kinds of artists your kids should be listening to.

Please.

In the New York Times Bestseller Obama Zombies:  How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation, author Jason Mattera describes how liberals successfully launched their highly successful technology-based campaign to take advantage of and brain-wash his generation into becoming “zombies” for Team Obama.  They used every facet of new media to reach our youth through their computers, iPods, and cell phones via new media venues and services like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and text messaging and “rocked the vote” in favor of “That One.”

Thankfully, we conservative keyboard warriors are fighting back with those very same tactics to reach our young voters using every weapon in our arsenal (e.g., conservative websites, blogs, video rants, music, books, artwork, and the list goes on).   In less than two years (since the 2008 elections), through the effective use of  new media, the TEA Party movement managed to rise up and put a major hurtin’ on the Democrats in the House and Senate in the mid-term elections.  It was interesting to note that younger voters seemed less than enthusiastic about voting in 2010.  Perhaps voter’s remorse is setting in?

Good.

Make no mistake, we have our work cut out for us and it is up to us to reverse the damage done by the left to our kids.  We need to keep hammering away at them with the truth, we need to speak their language, and present the conservative message in ways they are more apt to take notice.  One way is through the music they listen to.

Allow me to introduce Hi Caliber.

Hi-Caliber, one of our fine culture warriors at BigDawg Music Mafia, is a conservative hip-hop artist, a proud TEA Party member, and political talk radio guru.  His mission is to battle the left-wing media with a tool rarely used by his fellow right-wingers.  That tool is hip-hop.  Hi Cal states:

The goal is to show our youth that being patriotic is “cool” and that not all conservatives are rich, racist, hatemongers as some would have them believe.

After a political and spiritual awakening in 2001, Hi Cal discovered conservative talk radio and accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.  It was shortly after that he decided to combine his life-long passion for hip hop with his new-found passion for politics.  His first “buzz” came during the 2008 election when he recorded a song called Use Your Brain which gained multiple spins on the Imus in the Morning show.

Hi-Cal  had heard a lot about the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2009 and decided he needed to be there. With absolutely zero contacts or connections, a backpack loaded with copies of his first CD Mr. Conservative, and $30 to his name, he showed up in an old beat-up Buick carrying a sign that said “Support Conservative Music”.   He was approached by liberal blogger, Max Blumenthal, who was looking to depict him as a nut job.  Hi Cal “spit” a couple rhymes on camera which later showed up on the Daily Beast and Breitbart.tv.

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Via Elizabeth Snead at The Dish Rag, who got the video, story and transcript:

“Go home, get online and find out the facts about climate change. And then the next time you hear some crap on talk radio or Fox News, you’ll know the truth. Don’t get your science from demagogues. Get your science from scientists.”

Does James Cameron mean we should get our science from … these scientists?

See, if I’m going to get my Global Warming science from anyone it’s going to be a troop-smearing, anti-Christian, chicken little, environmental hypocrite of epic proportions, cuz that’s how I roll.

But first…

…watch the video below and ask yourself who the real demagogue is.

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For those who are unfamiliar with this band, it is comprised of three sisters from Utah: Kristyn, Kelsi, and Kassidy Osborn.  Originally they were brought to Nashville by CBS records as the band The Osborn Sisters.  While the name was possibly structured in that manner to evoke such acts as the Andrews Sisters, the moniker didn’t stick.  They presumably got sick of questions about whether or not they would be biting the heads off of bats during their live shows, or how it was working with the late Randy Rhodes, so they changed their name to SheDaisy.  If She-Myth is to be believed, the word is Navajo for “my little sister.”  My Navajo is about as good as my German, so somebody could tell me the name means “hold the pickles” and I would have to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The whole naming thing aside, these are three highly skilled and accomplished young women.  From a vocal, writing, and pure “God given talent” standpoint, they are head and shoulders above the Dixie Chicks, but without all the evil.  SheDaisy has the sort of harmonization skills that would either bring smiles to the faces of classic vocal bands like the aforementioned Andrews Sisters or the Mamas and the Pappas.  Or, quite possibly, tears of bitter envy.  The musical arrangement of many of their songs runs the range from the sort of simple structure with catchy hooks that make for a good pop offering to highly complex and layered vocals that challenge the listener.  The latter they can manage without the sort of studio tricks that turned Britney Spears from a Karaoke Superstar in her own shower to an international sensation.  The elder sister (oops…”elder” is probably a bad word in XX chromosome world. Let’s try again)…  The most experienced sister (um… that probably doesn’t sound good either)…  The first born sister (there we go), Kristyn, handles the bulk of the writing.  Her songs tend to be well put together, imaginative, and with an occasionally off beat sense of humor.  She can go from sensitive to snarky without missing a beat.  She has penned sensitive ballads, such as the song Come Home Soon (about a wife at home while her husband is away at war) and then changed gears and wrote about a female serial killer in the song A Woman’s Work.

Of their seven CDs, five have appeared in the top 10 on the country charts, one has gone gold with another going platinum.   The talent is there, the accomplishments are there, so why are these girls in currently in music limbo?

Last March, with the CD A Story to Tell on the launch pad and ready to send to the consumer, they parted ways with their record company, Lyric Street.   To my knowledge, they have not yet been signed to another deal.  It is true that their last couple CDs, Fortuneteller’s Memory and The Best of SheDaisy, didn’t pull in the numbers that their previous work has managed.  While a record company may be quick to blame the artist, I believe they were the possible victims of a label who simply didn’t know what the hell to do with them.

Arguably their best year, in terms of sales, was 1999.  Their debut CD, The Whole SHeBANG went Platinum, and they were given the 1999 CMT Rising Stars award.  In 2000 they put out what is arguably the best Christmas CD of the modern era.  It hit number 10 on the country charts.  These two successes were not followed up upon for a full two years.   By the time the 2002 CD, Knock on the Sky came out, much of the buzz had faded, and it was reflected in the sales.  In truth it was three-years between commercial releases.  While they did put out the holiday CD in 2000 and a remixed version of The Whole SHeBANG in 2001, Lyric Street should have been aware of how short the attention span of the American music fan is.  Three-years was simply too long between Mainstream commercial releases to maintain momentum in a new band.

In that three-year period, there were also some missed opportunities.  A big opportunity that was not seized upon was when in 2001 SheDaisy sang the national anthem at the Christening of the Navy’s most advanced and deadly Aircraft Carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan (perhaps our most advanced and deadly President).  Their label should have had them on Fox and Friends in the morning doing a performance and then get them booked on shows like Hannity and Laura Ingraham; talking about how proud they are to be singing the National Anthem at an event that honored the man who ended the cold war.  There is a huge crossover audience between country music, Fox News, and talk radio.  The label would have been putting them in front of their core audience in the most favorable light humanly possible.  Again this looked like a missed opportunity by their management.

While the sales for Knock on the Sky were down, they started to regain momentum with the 2004 release, Sweet Right Here.  This CD went gold.  Part of the success of this release was because of the brilliant move of having them contribute a song to the album Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives.  Desperate Housewives was the hottest thing on television at that point in time.  The song God Bless the American Housewife, though not on the CD Knock on the Sky, got enough play on radio (along with the supporting video on CMT and other networks),that it helped extend the life of that CD, introduced them to an audience who may have been unfamiliar with them, and reignited interest in the band.

While associating SheDaisy with an incredibly hot TV show was a stroke of genius, the powers that be at the label didn’t seem to put that sort of effort into promoting the 2006 CD Fortuneteller’s Melodies.  In fact, over the last several years some of the promotional moves for the band have been hit and miss.  SheDaisy has worked with Walt Disney and been the spokes band for Select Comfort Beds.  Neither of these are bad ideas, but most entertainment demographics studies (in this case, we are linked to Comcast Spotlight) put the median age for Country Music fans at 40.  The Disney audience is more likely to buy Miranda Cosgrove CD’s (or Jeanette McCurdy if they are country fans), and until the middle of the decade, Select Comfort was openly targeting their ads to people over 55.  This put SheDaisy in the position of using these vehicles to draw fans from the extreme ends of the demographic, not the heart of it.  While working with Disney and Select Comfort were both good things, somebody in the management should have been talking to energy drink manufacturers, car companies, and the universe of other products that appeal to people between the age of 18 and 40.

On this subject I can’t speak from a position of inside knowledge.  I am just an outside observer who has a little marketing experience and dies a little on the inside with the knowledge that these young ladies don’t have a record deal but somehow Winger still does.  For that matter, Harvey Danger was signed to a label until they retired last year, and Styx (who get most of their sales presumably by hawking CDs from the trunks of their cars) are still signed by a record company.  A savvy record executive would realize that besides the annoying habit of putting the word “she” (SHeBANG, A SHeVERY Merry Christmas, SHeLOVE, etc.) in front of just about everything associated with them, these girls have real commercial value that is currently going to waste.

With the holidays coming up quickly, those who still wish their friends and family a Merry Christmas (instead “happy holidays,” or “have a tolerable winter solstice”) should pick up their CD A Brand New Year.  It is worth it for the inspired version of Hark the Herald Angels Sing alone.

Now I don’t get this. How can someone who made millions speaking her mind, now say she’s quitting, so she can speak her mind? Bottom line: you can’t get a better gig for exercising your freedom of speech – than getting a fat check every time you exercise it! For me, it’s like getting paid to shop for unicorn figurines!

So that’s kinda stupid.

But I will say this – she’s getting heat for doing what others do -who suffer no consequences.

Take Louis C.K., the brilliant male comedian. He kicked off a cable special with a bit in which he says the “n-word” over and over. Now, maybe before he took it public, he ran it by Chris Rock. Or maybe he made sure the audience wasn’t one that would kill him afterwards.

Anyway, he gets a pass cuz he’s a comic and funnier than crap.

Now Laura has none of the good faith that C.K. has. Mainly because she’s a conservative who rails against the touchy feeling culture that created so many spineless men and messed up women. For that, she’s been more right than wrong. But when she’s wrong, boy is she ever. This current mess is an example.

Finally, this thing reminds me of the mosque thing.

In both cases, people are obsessing over constitutionality – instead of common sense. Common sense tells you that using the n-word – even in some sort of “context” – is thoughtless. Common sense also tells you building a mosque near Ground Zero is thoughtless, too.

And so there you have it: I was able to link the Dr. Laura flap to the mosque.

For that, I should get tomorrow off.

And if you disagree with me, you’re the racist homophobe who stole my woodland creature chess set.

Tonight:

the hilarious Amy Schumer!

the delightful Juliet Huddy!

the outspoken (and hot) Angela McGlowan!

It’s an all-lass Thursday!

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Now, only CNN could do this with a straight face. According to the network, some say talk radio is “viciously partisan,” without of course defining “some,” as “people who work at CNN.” And so the segment began, with CNN using a shrink to examine the typical listener, as though he belonged to a rare breed of lizard that dines only on feces.

Check it out, check-it-outers. 

So the shrink, probably a devoted NPR fan – dismisses Rush’s popularity as the product of a bullying mentality – that the typical conservative finds safety and security under Rush’s protection in an otherwise friendless universe.

The solution? You could smell it coming: More access to liberal talk radio. According to the nutso radio host Randi Rhodes (who claims she’s not a liberal!), that’s what’s missing. Apparently, the left is banned from talk radio!

I’m sorry, but I don’t see a sign at the clubhouse, saying “no liberal hosts.” The only sign is from the public, who hates them. It’s called supply and demand. The demand is for a conservative viewpoint – and it’s currently being supplied.

What happens when you supply a product for which there is no demand?

You get Air America. Some might call that a noble experiment, but it was neither noble, or experimental. Instead it functioned like a jar of leftwing preserves– a time capsule of corrupt liberal thinking, circa 1977. And, of course, for NPR to succeed, it needs government assistance. For liberal ideas to survive, you need welfare.

So, in short, CNN is right: talk radio is about access. But they’ve got it backwards. The reason why talk radio is conservative isn’t because radio limits access for the left. It’s conservative, because the rest of the media limits access from the right. Other than Fox News, talk radio is the only place you can hear another point of view.

It’s a shame CNN can’t be happy with that. But like a whiny child who needs all the stuffed animals in the toy store, it won’t rest until there’s no opposition. It wants the Fairness Doctrine, when what it really needs is a spanking.

And if you disagree with me, then you’re probably a racist.

Tonight we’ve have the delicious Remi Spencer, the delightful Father Jonathan, the hilarious Joe DeRosa, and more!