October 3, 2005

Can you feel the love in this one. Besides the cheap uneducated and cowardly shot at my wife, what really cracks me up is after all the shotgun blasts he asks for my help. Huh????

To: Vince Jericho
Subject: accountablility

Mr. Jericho,
I'm feeling compelled to sit and write you this letter on the basis of holding you accountable like you seem to want to do to everyone else. Why do you get on the show and blab on about people who arent listening to you? Lets take Monday mornings's show- after a big protest last weekend you got on the air trying to act like you just had the roughest weekend making comments like "Im getting all kinds of opposition folks" and really hamming it up. You sounded like a big whinebag- it was ridiculous. What was actualy worse was when you started lashing out at that leader of the peace group when you know that she's not listening to
you- it sounded HORRIBLE. Monday morningo's show was one of the worse that I have heard. What really pushed it over the top was when you said that you wanted to get some security or maybe even a few guardian angels out there to back you up- come on pal, if the guardian angels are so needed then they dont have time to be out guarding you from what your big mouth can get you into. The last thing you really need is security out there- what you DO need is to learn to control your mouth- of course since youve been beat, kicked, stabbed im sure you think your invinceable- your not!

Your going to come up against someone who is going to clean your clock and then leave your cripped wife and kids all alone and a burden on the government which your so critical of. At least calm down at events for the sake of your family. When your at public events consider your appearance and your actions- look at the pictures on the website, the ones for Cider days with the uncombed mop and the hat was just rediculous. When your out there at puiblic events your representing not only the cause and the show but the station as well.
If you dont want to station to look like a bunch of Hoosiers then take your appearance into consideration.

I understand that you like to go for the "hippy" vibe but at least try to look like a hippy that is clean. I tell you these things to hold you accountable and make you aware of what you may not realize. I think Kortny doing the weight loss thing and focusing on her appearance is POSITIVE. I seen her at some of the events (Auto Magic and a couple others) and she has always looked nice and been a good reflection of the station and integerity of the station and show and now she looks even better. Kudo';s to Kortny

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Wednesday I was listening to the show and you started in about not having a downtown library- I thought it was funny when people called in and started telling you �HELLO- WE DOOOOOOO HAVE A DOWNTOWN LIBRARY! Of course like EVERYTHING else- the one we have just isnt good enough. Funny thing is- if they were to build one you'd cry that it wasnt big enough OR that it was too big, or SOMETHING else- regaurdless of what was done youd find SOMETHING to gripe about. Where does the city REALLY need a library? The SOUTH side of town, take the area of independence and Glenstone- the closest library to that section is the library center (south) Campbell or the brentwood branch (seminole- behind the community blood center) that area needs one more than one at the square!

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Your stand against James River Assembly is unmerited and just off base. That church has done A LOT for our community and for you to not get your way with one issue and start to try to strong arm money out of them is just wrong. That church seen the need for hurricane relief and raised OVER 1/4 million in less than a week from the congregation to help the people in need- THATS effective Christianity. I dont agree with everything as in regaurds to their doctrine and some other things BUT what they are doing is an overall good thing. You have talked down to them for a LONG time before you invited that pastor on to promote their circus that they put on for the 4th of July (the biggest event in the history of missouri). I dont see why they SHOULD give any money to a cause that your trying to lead. Its looked like your crime lab has just fizzeled. The last progress that I heard on the air was "I've got some things working behind the scenes"- Come one Vince.

If you REALLY want to meet with the pastors from James River, you HAVE to go about it a different way. If you cared about the crime lab more than the ratings of you show, youd swallow your PRIDE and call them, apologize and ask whoever over there for a meeting- ONE ON ONE- NOT ON AIR, and talk about the facts. The congregation at James River is BIGGER than your listening audience.

THINK ABOUT THAT. If you would handle yourself correctly you COULD get something done. You mentioned a few weeks ago that you kinda prefered when your daughters school teachers feared you and when you "got in their face" it always got things done. This isnt the way that anyone that has integerity works- the leadership of that church HAS integerity. A good comparison is the way that President Bush dealt with Ciny Sheehan (im sure I have mispelled her name- I apologize about that),Bush had enough integerity that he really was just above the situation and didnt need to deal with her and didnt have to deal with her.
Replace those people with you as Cindy and President Bush with John Lindell or ANYONE on the pastoral
staff- they just dont feel the need to deal with you, mainly because of their perception of you through your actions and words.

Next issue........
Hypocrisy, You were barking this morning about chrstians who are hypocrites, how do you justify that?
You get on air day after day hour after hour and claim to be a Christian while using some of the most fould language a (christian) talk host could use. If your going to say youre a christian PLEASE clean up the way you live. Theres a scripture that says something along the lines 'in your anger, dont sin'. If you want to be "angry and standing up for whats right' thats fine- just at least make an effort to live according to what you are claiming to be. Its funny to me that you call Christians who doesnt hop on board board with you, you call a hypocrite. A couple months back you were griping that James River advertises in the News Leader and calling that hypocritical- if that IS hypocritical then yourself being the program director carrying a show like Neal Boortz, who has an OPPOSITE view of what you claim to stand for is hypocritical. Boortz hold view that are directly contradictory to yours, the stations, your shows, and Gods, how can it be that you carry his show and not consider yourself a hypocrite. Back in August you had a guy that called in and made some ignorant remark and then hung up and then you called him dumb A _ _ and then proceeded to keep going with it and then have a twist on the word was just NOT what a christian man would do. If you did lose your cool for a second you would have apologized for it and then went on about the show. Im trying my best to use actual examples to help you realized what im talking about.

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Why is it that you cant find ANYTHING positive to talk about as in reguards to our country, our gonvernment, our city, our county, or any church in the area? Its odd that all you do is complain about the politicians and our gonvernemt and then at the end of the show 'this is STILL the greatest country' If you dont like the way this country is run then go find someother country. Try to at least come up with something good to say about the wonderful country that we live in.
All the negativity gets old after awhile- I find myself changing the station more often lately- I generaly go to Mike Gallager on 1340 if your show becomes unbearable.
I know that theres a part of you that ISNT in this and making issues for the ratings, and I can appriciate that- all of us would like to see changes here and there but try to at least be able recognize people when they DO accomplish something. An example is when James River Assembly seen the need for hurricane relief and raised the money from the congregations pocket and sent medical teams down to help people- and if I understand it right, they were RUNNING a hospital down there and helping victims- yet you had to much pride to at least acknowlege they WERE doing something positive. Convoy of Hope is a GREAT organization and from talking to them, MOST (not all but most) of the people that run that place attend James River and that church sent MULTIPLE trucks out to the disaster via Convoy of Hope and covered the cost. Do you have so much pride that you cant at least say- 'I dont agree with everything they do but I have to say James River has done a good job stepping up to the need in LA.'
You cant stomach the idea that they ARE doing some good.
I have a sister that was raped and I would have loved to see evidence get processed quicker- im the first to stand up and say that having a crime lab here WOULD be a good thing, I dont think its practical- but I think it would be a good thing. Me personaly being effected by crimes and would have been benifited by having a crime lab here- I still dont have anything against a church that is doing something good but not coughing up the money to buy a crime lab.

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Wednesdays show- I thought it was EXTREMELY tacky of you getting your wife on the show and exploiting her disability and really tugging on the emotions of people to get them to pledge money- that was WRONG!
Ive met Denise, when I shook her hand I knew that she was a sweet lady and then when I heard you introducing her on the radio I felt someone kick me in the stomach because I just felt so bad for her that you were out parading your wife like that. You were saying thats its her idea but its YOUR job as her husband to protect her and putting her out like that was not protection but exploitaion. If you were sensative to what shes going through instead of out trying to be a hero you would have told her that youd mention it on the radio and push for the donations. Instead you seen a way to out her out there and take advantage of a sad situation.

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For the sake of the station who carries the greats like Bill ORielly, Hannity, Savage, Ingram try to clean it up a bit and lighten up. There are mornings that people dont want to be bombarded with negativity as soon as they wake up. There are certain things and people that SHOULD be called out and held accountable but just picking everyone apart for every little thing just doesnt work on a long term basis. I remember the Bible saying something like 'take the beam out of your eye before complaining about the speck in anothers eye (it may say your brothers eye)' Im no expert on the bible so I may have that off just a bit, but since you are also a bible scholar im sure you know the passage that im talking about and youre able to correct me on that as well.
Im a fairly loyal listener and I listen from 6:00-7:00 and then depending on my work load in the A.M. I listen till the end or like I mentioned before I'll switch to 1340 at 8:00. I just feel its important to hold you accountable and take you to task on a few issues since from what Ive gathered im not the only one who feels this way.

Im considering entering the 'blogeshphere' what do you think is the best blog host.


I think I'll take this clown on Tuesday or Wednesday this week.

See you on the radio!