katrina telethon
 

there will be a live national simulcast tomorrow night to raise funds for immediate relief for victims of the gulf hurricane. i have voluntered to staff the phones for disney (abc) during the telecast until 11:00pm PST. all funds will go to the american red cross and united way. i hope that some of you will get a chance to tune in.




http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/05/television.katrina.telethon.reut/

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Way to go, LickeyRumball!

:snap: for volunteering, ML! Thanks for the reminder about the telethon. It will be broadcast on so many channels simultaneously that it will be hard to miss if your TV is on tonight, Sept. 9 from 8 p.m.-9 p.m.

FYI. Other telethon news:
--Last week, NBC's "A Concert for Hurricane Relief" raised about $50.8 million, according to the Red Cross, USA Today reported.

--"ReAct Now: Music & Relief" will air at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 on MTV, VH1 and CMT with the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Alan Jackson, Kelly Clarkson, the Neville Brothers and Kanye West.

--"Gospel Angels," a live concert from Atlanta, will air Thursday, Sept. 22 on the Gospel Music Channel and Paxson Communications' i network (formerly Pax). The show will include performances from hurricane victims' shelters.

Good Job Lickey! :snap:

If I call can I ask to speak with you?

Well, you can ask...

;)



Lickey, thanks for your efforts!

$2.00 per minute.

"MickeyLumbo's phone-sex-for-the-recovery-effort hotline"

Give till it squirts!

Oh my!

Sorry, just couldn't resist.

Ummmm, can I just give blood instead?

I'm glad you didn't try LOL

Nobody is buying it, Sac. We all know about the Matterhorn. ;)

D'oh!

And if it's broadcast simultaneously, it will be hard to censor out Kayne West telling the world that "George Bush doesn't like black people."

I say give Kayne another shot. His pertinent remark was removed from the west coast airing of the last Katrina telecast. (Of course, that just made it all the more newsworthy ... d'uh.)

I'd say based on the response from NFL kickoff pregame show in Boston last night prior to the Patriots-Raiders, it's kind of obvious that not a whole lot of people agree with it, and in fact, I'd say a vast majority are hostile to it. That's why Kanye has said he's not going to be saying anything else political at these things.

Oh? Many black people at that game, were there?

So only black people are qualified to make the judgement that Bush hates black people? Only black people are qualified to comment on the validity of it?

I am not black, but I think slavery was wrong. I guess I am not qualified to make that value judgement.

I am not jewish, but I think it is obvious that Yassir Arafat hated jews. I guess I am not qualified to make that value judgement.

As I am neither black nor jewish, I guess I am unqualifed to comment on David Duke.

And as you are not black, ISM, I guess you are unqualified to call Kanye's comment "pertinent".

Now of course, those last four statements are ridiculous, as is the implication that only black people can make a judgement as to the validity of Kanye's comment.

Overreaction, scaeagles ... but yes, I would find the determination that a lot of people are hostile to Kayne's statement to be bogus if those people were not black.

Just saying that most "people" are hostile to the statement is meaningless, since most people are not black. Yeah, I find the opinions of non-blacks to be without supreme consideration in this instance.

In fact, I think it would be very telling to find out just who is hostile to West's statement and who isn't. Very illuminating if white people are hostile, black people aren't, or conservatives are hostile and liberals aren't. I bet George Bush was hostile to that statement, but that's just the point.

I don't think it would be all that illuminating... we can pretty much EXPECT that to be the case, and you know it. Those who find Bush criticism politically expedient will not be offended, and those who don't like Bush criticism will say that it's not the time or place for such statements.

There is no way to tell who is "right" just from that assessment.

Well, while not scientific in the least, the game was in Massachusetts, a state not extremely friendly to Bush or conservatives. However, it was at an NFL game, and while I have nothing other than assumption to go by, I would suspect a majority of attendees at an NFL game would be right leaning.

flattered, i am. while others wanted to speak to Mariah, you want to speak to me. sweet!

He's just lookin' for a toaster oven. ;)

Sac, remember, your rate is less since you buy minutes in bulk.;)

You must spread some Mojo around before giving it to Motorboat Cruiser again.

classic!

too late.

George Bush hates midgets!

I sure hope the telethon was as entertaining as this thread. ;)