Life in the Slug Lane

I’m Mad Too Eddie

Growing up in the 70′s in Northeastern Oklahoma, if you wanted to listen to music while driving your options were pretty much the radio or…the radio.  Any time in the car with dad meant the dial was set to KVOO.  KVOO was country in those days – what they call classic country now but it was new country then….oops….I feel old.  Billy Parker was the main man on KVOO – that is until they called him away to play Ernest Tubbs in his life story.  Just kidding, I think Billy died at the controls of KVOO but I imagined him as a western suit wearing, banjo picking fellar – one that just talked better than he sang.  

Anyway, there was a conservative commentator named Eddie Chilles that broadcast on KVOO.  Anyone from our part of the country probably remembers him for his famous line…I’m Eddie Chilles and I’m mad.   Today, Eddie would be a member of the Tea Party and probably relagated to only Fox where they actually ATTEMPT Fair and Balanced Journalism but in the 1970′s he was heard far and wide – with no reprocussions.  Far from it – he was acutually…oh perish the thought…. he was…POPULAR!  Seemingly overnight, bumperstickers sprang up on cars everywhere saying, ”I’m mad too Eddie!”

Well it’s 2010 and I’m madder than ever.  What’s going on in Washington has got to stop.  When you take all the incentive away from the producer, they stop producing.  If you like socialism, I hear Venezula is lovely this time of year. 

Here’s something Eddie said in 1980

Eddie Chiles: Yes I’m mad. I’m sad for the Americans who are trying to raise a family and trying to buy a home when the liberals in Washington are spending more and more to destroy the American dream. You get mad, too.

I’d say we are slow learners.  Ya think?

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