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TED BELL - Spolied BRAT
By: John Brengman
I was listening to the Phil Henry show last night on the radio. Mr. Henry's show seems to use debunking various theories as his main topic. A few nights ago, he trashed a woman who was a part of a religion that worshipped God as a kind of combined gender, a he/she, and Mary was a she/he. And the total lunacy started from there and continued. That particular topic ended with both Henry and several callers agreeing that the woman was "of the Devil."
One of the topics yesterday was a former Korean War vet who felt that President Bush had in fact apologized to the Chinese for the incident that led to 24 of our people being held on Hainan Island for eleven days. To this man, Bush had not displayed the guts to be commander in chief.
Apparemtly it was not enough for this man that our people were safely home. China had to be taught a lesson. In this way, they would think twice before offending the United States.
The vet's answer: He and a few other Korean War vets are awaiting a signal from the President, and upon receiving this secret signal, which is a birdcall, they will sweep into the National Zoo in Washington DC and put two bullets into each of the two pandas.
This man too was discredited by both Phil Henry and a few of his callers.
Then came TED BELL, an independent film producer who lives in Beverly Hills, California and runs a steak house.
Bell is also an associate of Mr. Henry, and he had apparently called in earlier and asked Henry to announce on the air that he was heading to the post office to submit his taxes. He said he'd be wearing a certain kind of pants, a hot pink golf shirt, a certain pair of sunglasses, etc. He expected to be able to go to the front of the line and get his taxes processed because he is TED BELL, and his tax payment of roughly $700,000 is more than the rest of the people in line made in a year. (Apparently he was not at the post office in Beverly Hills.)
So, TED BELL goes to the front of the line and doesn't get assistance. The woman at the front of the line tells him that the line goes back that way somewhere and has no reaction whatsoever when he asks, "Do you know who I am? I'm TED BELL."
Well, TED BELL ended up at the back of the line, where he waited 90 minutes behind a woman with a baby who kept staring at him.
So, Bell called Phil Henry during the show to complain. Henry admitted that he had forgotten about the announcement that he had agreed to make, and apologized. However, there was more to the story.
- TED BELL had called to propose that an express line be set up at the post office. Elligibility to use the express line would be determined by how wealthy the person is. What you would do is bring in your car keys or a picture of you standing next to your car, and apparently only those people driving ritzy cars would be allowed to use the express line.
- TED BELL littered his comments with lines like: "I'm TED BELL, and I shouldn't have to wait in line..." and other elitist drivel.
- TED BELL explained that he felt that the baby was invading his private space by staring at him and that if the people at his steak house see a baby staring at other people, they go over and get the baby to stop.
Then Phil Henry started taking callers, and both the callers and Mr. Henry proceeded to rip TED BELL a new orifice. How could he think he is above other people who also have to wait in line? Why didn't he send someone else to file his taxes? Why did he wait until the last minute to file them?
TED BELL answered all of these questions by insulting the caller, saying that he makes more money than they do, and that he is more important than they are. It didn't stop...even when the caller was a woman who served a drink to one of the 24 US servicemen held hostage by China. "Oh what good were they doing for me?" He asked. "They sat on their butts and played chinese checkers..." and so the comments went. He also asked the woman if she was on her knees when she served the US serviceman.
As the call ended, TED BELL announced that Phil Henry was not allowed to visit his steak house for 90 days, and he was not going to get some arena football tickets that had been in the owrks between the two of them. Also, the callers who had called in to the show were banned from the steak house.
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Having said all of this, let me say a few words in closing. I will be the first person in line to defend the rich. TED BELL was right on one point. The money he paid in taxes was probably more than the amount paid by the other people in line, and more money than those people made in the last year. The money the rich pay into the tax system runs this country.
However, there's rich, and then there's being a pompous ASS. There are acts that come from being rich, and then there are acts that come from being human scum. People like Bill Gates, who donate tens of millions of dollars to charity each year and make a product that millions of people use is an excellent example of a wealthy man who is kind and generous.
TED BELL is a pompous ASS, who makes films nobody will see, and he has just demonstrated those qualities that make him human scum. Unfortunately, people are too quick to focus on the TED BELLs of the world and make a blanket generalization about the rich in general.
The good news is that Phil Henry mentioned TED BELL's steak house enough that people can opt NOT to go there to eat, and perhaps a few well-informed citizens can put up pickets out in front of the place.
Hopefully TED BELL's steak house will crash and burn. Hopefully TED BELL's next few movies make no money and drive him into debt. Hopefully TED BELL will end up on a street corner panhandling for loose change.
Perhaps at that point, TED BELL will loose the attitude problem and learn to respect those people around him.
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