For talk-radio host, IRS troubles lead to Obama not being a "friend of Christianity."

by: Jason Salzman

Tue May 21, 2013 at 08:58:23 AM MST

I offer Crank's comments below, from Saturday's show, to illustrate how the troubles at the IRS give echoers like Crank the perfect springboard to reach for their deepest anti-government rhetoric, while demonizing Obama at the same time in the most extreme and shadowy ways.

Crank: "This is the moment to stand up and say we need to rip the IRS out by its roots! Grab it and throw it away and eliminate it! Get RID of the IRS! Throw it out the window! Let it be-throw it on the ash heap of history! Make it be the Soviet Union! Something that we remember in the disant past! No federal agency should be feared like this - and bureaucrats should never ever have this kind of power. It's sickening! It's absolutely sickening to see this kind of thing."

Caller (Mrs. Youngblood): "The reason I thought why the IRS is attacking most of the religious organizations was that to silence them because he [Obama] is wanting to establish a One World Religion...which would be Muslim. These religious organizations just didn't meet his standards. [he's trying to] Keep them from growing. I know he's Muslim."

Crank:  "...Some people will argue, 'Oh, he's not Muslim.' Whatever, I'll tell you this -- He's no friend of Christianity. When you're attacking churches left and right and their tax status... there's not one mosque that's come forward and said, 'You know what? The IRS is really attacking us' Did you notice that, Mrs. Youngblood?"

Abortion and Gay Marriage Seen as GOP Saviors!

by: Jason Salzman

Wed Jan 02, 2013 at 10:58:17 AM MST

Crank told Sanchez, who's is on the board of the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, that the GOP can win over Hispanics on social issues.

CRANK:  Well, and a great example of that is on the social issues, you know?  I think that the Hispanic community naturally would align with conservative values, of family values, --

SANCHEZ:  Oh, they do!

CRANK:  --on marriage, on pro-life issues, and those sorts of things.  But the conservatives allow the Left to define them on that issue--

SANCHEZ:  Yes!  Yes.

CRANK:  -- so they didn't vote with us on those issues.

SANCHEZ:  I had a - one - I had - I just spoke to a Democrat, an Hispanic.  And he said that, "I was glad they didn't focus so much on those issues.  We would have lost at least four percentage points had that happened."  And the other thing that I would also add is to keep it simple.  There's a lot of times that we have a lot of facts,-- and on the conservative side, yeah, it makes a whole lot of sense, but keep the message simple.  And make it real clear.

The majority of Latinos actually favor gay marriage. Mexico City and some Latin American countries have legalized it.

And, really, how many Hispanics are going to swing to a GOP candidate who aims to ban abortion even for a raped woman? Evangelical Hispanics, yes, who make up about 15% of Latino voters and align with the GOP anyway. Seven of ten Catholic Hispanics align with the Democratic Party.

And it's not as if Democrats are pro-abortion. Most are pro-choice, which reflects an understanding, shared by Hispanics, even if they self-define as anti-choice, of real-world complexities as well as the struggles of poverty. I mean, one of the major reasons Hispanics turned against Romney, according to Project New America's David Winkler, was because he was so unsympathetic to the poor.

I could be wrong, but it's hard to see a significant number of Hispanics peel off from Democrats if the GOP pushed its abortion position even harder. And, again, at what cost to the GOP in terms of other voters, like women, young people, and the four reasonable Republican middle-aged white men out there?

So Sanchez and Crank, a former GOP congressional candidate, who defines himself as "a strong voice for social and fiscal conservative issues in Colorado," should look elsewhere, other than social issues, to prove Ronald Reagan's opinion, which still sits atop the website of Sanchez's Colorado Hispanic Republicans, that "Latinos are Republicans. They just don't know it yet."

As long as the talk-radio sounds keep reverberating, unchallenged, Hispanics will never know they're Republicans. Why would they?

Talk-show host sinks low in predicting

by: Jason Salzman

Wed Sep 12, 2012 at 13:11:43 PM MST

But one conservative talk-radio host in Colorado Springs sees the mob, even if it's not manipulated by Islam, in a group of Americans here at home: Obama supporters.

"If  Barack Obama is defeated, I fully expect for there to be riots in American cities," KVOR talk-radio host Richard Randall said Saturday on the Jeff Crank Show, substituting for regular host Jeff Crank. "I fully expect it."

"If [Obama] is re-elected, you're not going to see riots, but you're going to see people who are very close to their rights and hang on to them closely... I'm not big on armed revolution.  I hope, in our country, there is never, ever again any form of government that would  require the American public to do what many of us are prepared to do, and that is, we own guns-

I own guns. People ask me, 'why do you  own guns?'  Because they're cool, and  I like them, Um, they're fun to shoot.  And I own them primarily for protection.  My number one job as a parent is to keep my family safe and that is one of the mechanisms for doing it.  [...] I hope I never have to use those weapons.  And some of them are military,  you know.  [...]  I don't hope that we ever have to have armed conflict.  But it's going to be dicey, no matter who wins this election.

I would hate to be in Chicago or Detroit, some of those areas when President Barak Obama is defeated, because I think there has been this mentality that they are entitled to him to be president.  And somehow if he's not, it would have been rigged against him, or something.

Maybe Randall has said the word "entitlement" so many times, so mindlessly, that he can't keep it in his mouth. Now would be a good time for him to do so, because how much more disrespectful can you get?

Well, ask a Muslim who listened to many a conservative talk show this morning.

Does Fluke's "Birth Control" Include "Hotel Room" and "Cigarettes After?"

by: Jason Salzman

Wed Mar 14, 2012 at 07:30:00 AM MST

Lakey, who ran for Congress in the 2010 Republican primary for Rep. Ed Perlmutter's seat, said he couldn't believe that Fluke spends $3,000 per year on birth control. He did the math and calculated her monthly birth-control expenditure to be $249.

From there, Lakey went into a jag March 4 on his 740 KVOR talk show about how in the world Fluke's birth control could cost so much?

Lakey:  Two hundred and forty nine dollars a month.  That's ... Does that include the booze?  Does that include the cigarettes afterwards?  I mean, what does that include?

Guest Nathan Fisk:  It's gotta include something other than prophylactics, I'm sorry...

Lakey:  Does that include the hotel room?  Does that include....  I... I..

Fisk:  [inaudible]. I don't know.

"Oh, I'm sorry I'm laughing. Laughing makes many people nervous on this radio show"

by: Jason Salzman

Thu Oct 06, 2011 at 06:00:30 AM MST

On his show Sunday, September 25, Lakey offered up a response of sorts.

He was laughing about something, and he cut off his laughter abruptly and said:

"Oh, I'm sorry I'm laughing. Laughing makes many people nervous on this radio show."

CO Springs Radio host: If I say Chewbacca, what do you think of? Michele Obama?

by: Jason Salzman

Mon Oct 03, 2011 at 06:19:46 AM MST

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Colorado Springs talk-radio host Jimmy Lakey was sitting at a cigar club at some point, he didn't say when, and he heard someone refer to Michelle Obama as "Chewbacca."

He'd never used the word himself, he told his radio audience Aug. 14, but "at the cigar club, someone used the phrase Chewbacca, and everyone knew or assumed who this person was talking about."

"I've tested it," Lakey said on 740 KVOR, laughing. "I've done group testing, and I've said, if I say Chewbacca, what do you think? And, I'm telling you. I'm in so much trouble right now."

Co Springs radio host might want to hear from you

by: Jason Salzman

Tue Sep 27, 2011 at 06:00:26 AM MST

I've been trying to get a response from Lakey himself but to no avail.

Is he sorry? How could he not figure out if he was feeling uncomfortable or elated?

So I posted a question on Lakey's fan page on Facebook Sept. 21:

Hi Jimmy -- I'm a progressive blogger in Denver, and I heard you howl with laughter Aug. 21 when a caller told you that Michele Obama reminded you of a character in The Planet of the Apes. I admit that the left is sometimes too quick to condemn "insensitive" jokes, but I'm wondering why you were laughing Aug. 21. Here's the audio clip.

I'd like to conduct a poll of readers of Jimmy Lakey's Facebook page. Do you think he should respond to my question below, posted on Sept. 21?

Within a couple days, my posts were deleted, and I was banned from posting further comments.

If you want to try to get an answer from Lakey to my questions or any others, please post them on Lakey's fan page here. We'll see if he deletes your questions, too, or answers them.

I had a feeling Lakey would expunge my queries from his page, so I made a screen grab of his Facebook page before he deleted my questions. see it here