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LSU Football?

The hotel deal?

A breaking IRBY story?

Too late. Already heard that George Bell had a prison sex change "operation".

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Good job this morning, Kingfish. You know, when the conversation is going well, like it was with you and Quentin, the hosts (Kent and Larry) would be better advised to forego any callers, or at least screen them better. The one I heard this morning had nothing interesting to offer, and was a real distraction. The conversation lost momentum. Just sayin'.

Good job? KF let Whitwell completely off the hook. What hard questions did KF ask? Can you recite one?

Nearly that whole damn hour was ONLY about Whitwell grandstanding on the radio to make it look like he even had a clue before the MOU vote. Whitwell presented NOTHING to support his voting 'Yes' on the MOU. Johnson had four votes. He didn't need Whitwell's kiss ass consensus clap trap vote.

Furthermore the notion that Jackson has to build a $92m hotel with this over-leveraged nearly BK clown posse TCI just to be able to unwind the f'd up deal for the land that Melton wrought is the ultimate in problem solving lunacy. Who in the world would ever hire Whitwell as an attorney after hearing that hackneyed logic?

If we have to pay TCI off to get them to go away then do that but Whitwell's bullshit that we've then got to follow through and pay to get back in bed with TCI to the tune of another $92m in general obligation bond debt on the backs of Jackson taxpayers because Melton's screw up has us over some barrel is as bogus as a $3 bill with Harvey Johnson's picture on the front.

As for "breaking even" on the hotel it is too bad that Nesbit goes all weak in the knees when he gets politicians on the radio because at the CUMC shitfest in 2004 about the convention center that was the very same argument used -- that the convention center WITHOUT a hotel would "break even". Which it doesn't. It has been operationally losing MILLIONS for the last 2 years and I'm not talking about the decoy $13m in lost convention opportunity money.

So if that was a good job Gyrohead in your mind of holding a politico accountable you ought to head on down to City Hall and just hand them over your money right now sight unseen. Then vote for Obama's re-election too since you like to be abused.

Hey, 11:42: Why the personal animus? The point I was trying to make, was that the give and take among the knowledgeable, more articulate parties is interrupted when unvetted callers are allowed on the air. A lot of Kent and Larry's callers are regulars whose shick is well known, and putting them on causes listeners to tune out, which is what I did. It was a flaw in the format, and an unforced error by the hosts. Sheesh.

The give and take? There was no give and take. It was Whitwell taking the hour over and spinning himself as some sort of all-knowing and all-wise dealer and player. The only person who asked a hard question was Kent Dear and Whitwell responded with some mealy mouth bullshit non-answer that did not refute Kent's cost/acre and/or square footage calculations.

It is the same f'ing ruse and obfuscation as we had in the run-up to the convention center vote except this time there is no poll of voters and instead of having Ben Allen blow smoke up Ward 1 asses Mr. Consensus Whitwell steps up to the role of blowmaster.

Nesbit is smart enough to figure out what is going on. But for some reason he talks a good game until the politicos get on the air then he goes all softy.

NINETY-TWO MILLION DOLLARS LARRY. With INTEREST that is easily ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FOUR MILLION over 20 years. And NO VOTE of the people. If that isn't enough to get you ASKING THE HARD questions then why the hell are you still on the radio?

Larry Nesbit is a leach. He moves from "idea" to "idea", sucking money off of a company or individual until that company or person figures out that he has sold them snake oil.

Check out his many business "strategies" over the last decade and see what he's actually accomplished besides surviving off of the largesse of others.

Here is a link to his company's awesome website.

http://www.investcapresources.com/

Worth a look!

4:14 DID YOU LOSE YOUR PACIFIER AGAIN?

@5:44- did you check out his awesome website?

Your comment doesn't do anything to attack my comments with fact. So, go away if that's all you got.

We didn't go easy on Whitwell. I invited him to call into the show and did so at 7:45. He dropped what he was doing and called in. There are two approaches to take. One is to beat the hell out of him over this. The other is to actually find out what the hell was going on at City Hall because the media reporting up until then was not that good, we had little information, and I thought it was more important to get out of him what was going on downtown.

What did we get? We found out they were not given appraisals or market analysis. Found out how bad of a deal the city made 4 years ago. Found out the vote was only for a MOU, not for bonds or anything else putting the city on the hook.

Right now, I'm just trying to find out what the hell was going on or actually, due diligence the city should have done.

The day before the show, I dropped a public records request on the city for...

the MOU, any market analysis given to the city (there is one from TCI several years ago), appraisals, loan closing docs on the deal in 2007, and the settlement statements for the land transaction.

There is ALOT we don't know and I am trying to find out. There will be a time to start hitting some of these politicians but frankly, I'm' more interested in getting all the facts first, then putting it in front of them and the media, and then we can figure out what to do with the politicians. Already we have managed to change the conversation.

Two Sundays ago, we knew nothing about TCI and this deal was sailing through. Now thanks to this website and you guys because it IS you who have been raising hell and asking questions of the other media and politicians, we know how shaky this company is, what problems they are having in other parts of the company, and how poorly the city vetted TCI. The city had a meeting behind closed doors with TCI the day after this website put all of this stuff out there. Then the CL had a nice story Sunday about TCI's financial problems although the lawsuits would've been nice. Takes time and doesn't happen overnight so bear with me.

It might indeed be the only deal available BUT we are going to get all of the facts out there regardless.

Whitwell dropped what he was doing? Really? He made time for the public? Did you have to tear him away from his daily dozen tweets extolling the grandness of himself? How f'ing generous that a City Councilperson could find the time to explain himself. Maybe we should have waited for his erasable board chat during the next installment of his Local 98 TV Whitwellmercial.

Only a vote for a MOU? You don't seem to understand at all that the MOU gave Johnson the green light to move forward. The MOU gave Johnson tons of political leverage. The MOU put the dumbshits on the Council in a one-down position. The MOU gave Johnson the marching authority to negotiate the final details of the deal. The MOU blessed TCI as the deal partner. Whitwell knows damn well what the MOU vote means because now he's scrambling to cover his exposed ass. So please don't dismiss the vote as some minor affair.

Your own outstanding research and research efforts aren't the issue Kingfish nor is the incompetence of the other media. Are you saying that because the other media are falling down drunk on the job again that Whitwell can't be held accountable for his votes until they get the whole story out there in front of the public? That can't be your position.

Whitwell's vote in favor of the MOU despite all the unknowns is the issue. Johnson had the votes of the other dummies and as protector of Jackson's cash cow ward where you can barely give away a house right now Whitwell should have voted 'No' to protest the complete lack of information the Council and public have been provided. Listen to the program again. Did any of you challenge his vote? NO. But y'all did allow him to duck Dear's question and take over the program in order to portray himself as somehow knowledgeable and in charge of the facts regarding TCI.

Now, today, Whitwell is in the Clarion Ledger begging for information from Harvey Johnson. The MOU was the game and Harvey Johnson knows it. Now the strong mayor goes into taxpayer streamroller mode.

10:41. WOW.