Yes, the great Antagonist -though probably never heard of- to the Perfect Master has retired, again.
But now, a possibly even greater threat emerges. For you see, for every Dark Lord there is an apprentice. Always two, never more, never less. George Noory had been filling in for Art through much of this year and will head the show from now on.
What’s to be done with this? The Art Bell Show is in some ways larger than Rush Limbaugh’s. It has allowed Ignorance to continue to fester by spreading Urban Legends, hoaxes, myths, old wives’ tales, lies, claptrop, poppy cock, bullshit, and other flimflam. They’ve done countless shows on Rods for God’s sake!
I say every day vigilant Dopers post a thread debunking -as far was what can be debunked- the last night’s show. Then we combine the responses and e-mail the Webmaster of the Coast to Coast site, along with the link. What do you guys think?
Hey, I listen to Coast to Coast AM once in awhile. It’s entertaining. I think you are rather over-reacting. Not everyone that listens to his show believes everything they hear on it. Besides, if you want to debunk everything on his show, I think you’d be covered just posting two big links – one to Snopes, and one to the Skeptic’s Dictionary.
I used to listen to him and do my pottery. It was the only interesting thing I could get on the radio at that time of night (I would do my pottery at weird hours). I have very fond memories of his show. All those crackpots… It was fun listening.
I did and do listen and why? because I like to know what people are thinking so maybe I can survive if anything happens. maybe you should take the time and get to know all points of the world around you, For if you dont you are nothing more than just existing.
Sadly, far, far too many people fall for Bell’s line. Some certainly think of it as nothing more than telling ghost strories, but way too many have fallen for the scam. There’s still some arguement that his connection to the Heaven’s Gate actions and how much he fueled that fire.
It wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t load the show with scare tactics to get people to buy the products he shills.
It also would be vastly improved if he just asked an obvious critical quesiton every now and then, instead he prefers to let Hoagland drone on and on. He also only has a skeptical guest on after he’s milked a woowoo event dry and its starting to collapse on him (Hale-Bopp companion, Y2K, Planet X)
This is also the third time he has quit. The first two times he was trying to to duck out of the heat from one issue or another.
Add to that the fact that Art Bell was a control freak who couldn’t take parody or criticism (he had a website parodying him taken down several times), he also lied about denizens of a USENET newsgroup that bore his name. (A newsgroup he left because he could not control its content… and tried to have it removed.)
This list of reprehensible Art actions is quite long
I dont belive have the stuff on there, I just like to know what my fellow humans are thinking so if they come up to me prepared to die because of an attack of shadow people I can understand why and maybe try to help them. I also listen to Rush, Liddy, Reagan, Medved, Savage. I listen to them all to understand all points around me.
I will add that they do have real scientists on the show. I have been on twice, and several friends of mine have as well. In fact, George Noory said on the air that he thinks the Moon landings were real after I was on! Since the show promulgates many conspiracy theories, I take this as a pretty good victory.
Indeed. It is a shame that Art utterly refused to have any real scientists on during his Hale-Bopp companion fiasco. Then he grudgingly had Alan Hale* on the show to explain how all that Art had been talking about in the past few months was utter unsupported BS. Art reacted by shunning and blaming the fokls he’d been feeding from for that time, and refusing to acknowledge his own gullibilty in the matter. Art then lost the realaudio files from that time period to to a convenient ‘hard drive crash’.
Better never than late.
*Astronomy is perhaps the only hobby that has produced two minor celebrants with the name Alan Hale.
No, my pottery usually turned out fine. But I loved listening to the crackpots! I remember listening to another crackpot call-in show. One day a guy with a German accent called in. This guy said (with a serious tone) that 120 year old WW II Nazis lived on, thanks to the animal mutilations (cow mutilations etc.). I guess they had some scientific way of extending their life through these mutilations.
Anyway, this guy said that if you wanted verification of this story, to go to some German organization in Gorman, California, and they’d verify it. I know Gorman. It’s a hole in the wall. It is just a widening of the road about an hour north of L.A. It is best known for the fields of California poppies that blanket the rolling hills around it. (A big tourist attraction.) But thanks to this crackpot’s story, I now think of Gorman as this secretive, exotic place which holds evidence of 120 year old Nazis. I wonder where this organization is located. At the Chevron station?
I mean, you can’t get any more entertaining than that!
Bad news, Bad Astronomer, if you actually did really convince him, he’s backslid.
He just today had another moon-hoaxer on and once again our microcelephaic host, George Noory once again drooling and fawning over the moon hoaxer (Apparently this “Mark” character was the one punched by the astronaut recently), credulously hanging on every word, occassionally throwing out a softball “Some people say…” type-comment…
AND he’s giving advice to the hoaxer on how to be more effective: the hoaxer was talking about how he actually watched the films and saw people wandering around outside the windows of the rocket :rolleyes: and then compared people who are anti-moon hoax to Hitler defenders and compared anti-moon-hoaxers to Holocaust deniers while Noory gushed “Mark, your explainations are so technical that you’re confusing our audience.” (which may be true, given the mentality of people who believe in a moon-hoax) :rolleyes:
God what a dick*. I wish a skinhead would hit him* in the face with a chair.
No, my pottery usually turned out fine. But I loved listening to the crackpots! I remember listening to another crackpot call-in show. One day a guy with a German accent called in. This guy said (with a serious tone) that 120 year old WW II Nazis lived on, thanks to the animal mutilations (cow mutilations etc.). I guess they had some scientific way of extending their life through these mutilations.
