Summer of Bean

No sooner did I get off the phone with my boss yesterday morning, than I got a call from Rick Emerson show producer Greg.  He apologized for waking me up, but he told me Rick had given him my number and told him to cajole me to come on the show.  While I swore I wouldn’t talk to any media about the Chappelle thing, I decided to make an exception for Rick.  He’s been a champion of my work going all the way back to the O-Live days, and I’ve always been loyal to him for that.  The rest of the media, and I did get emails, can go to hell.

Sidebar: I don’t care what the official police report says about what happened Tuesday night.  There were far more than 2,500 people in the Square.  Either that or attendance at rally ever held there has been grossly inflated.  The crowd was at least 10,000.  At least.  So I ask you:  10,000 people show up for something in downtown anywhere.  Do you think TV might be interested?  Maybe radio?  Someone?  Anyone?  But no.  There was NO ONE there.  I take that back.  I did see OPB.  And I know both the Merc and Willamette Week were there.  And Ben and Tim from O-Live were there too.  But TV was nowhere to be found.  This despite the fact that KGW has a studio IN THE SQUARE and KOIN is just up the street.  There was ample notice that something was going to go down.  There was plenty of time to get a reporter and a camera down there.  But they didn’t.

10,000 people showed up in Pioneer Square to see a comedian and they, for the most part, left as peacefully as they came and the only MSM video that exists was shot by OregonLive, a site everyone loves to hate on, yet one that consistently turns out fantastic local content.  But if someone had been shot down there,  you can bet all four stations would have had someone on the scene within minutes.  What a joke.  End sidebar rant.

Anyway, you can hear my semi-lucid thoughts on the Chappelle appearance here.  I start right at the three-minute mark.

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