Local Media Taking Bribes in Support of the Stadium Tax

In the film Goodfellas, there is a great scene in which the main character Henry Hill watches his buddies beat the shit out of a Postman in order to protect one of their scams. After the incident Hill recalls, "How could I go to school after that and pledge allegiance and sit through good government bullshit?"

There is a certain point in everyone's life where they have to grow up and realize that much of what they've been taught is a lie. Wars are fought for money, real estate and oil but mainly money and not freedom or democracy. There is no such thing as equality and the Civil Rights Movement was lead by a great man who was also a philanderer and probably a plagiarist as well. Most of the Founding Fathers owned slaves and the most notable one who didn't (Benjamin Franklin) was a pervert and screwed the same hooker as his son. And your grandmother's cooking isn't really that good and it's probably part of what killed your Grandfather.

These realizations are important because they are part of what makes us adults. An adult knows that the besides the flag waving and the commitment to the troops and all of the empty rhetoric, the War in Iraq is lost. Additionally, an adult knows that every construction project in Kansas City has been nothing more than an exercise in corruption and graft since the days of Pendergast.

Recently, a bitter rivalry between two sports radio stations has revealed that the group supporting the Stadium Tax has made several payments to employees of Entercom's 610 sports station that claims to be "a fan's best friend" and is seemingly on good terms with Lamar Hunt and David Glass as well seeing as how they have endlessly supported the Stadium Tax, hosted images of the project on their page and talked up the benefits of the rolling roof rip-off in between every commercial break during some of their "sponsored" remote broadcasts.

Clearly, sports radio 810 might have struck the death blow in this match-up.

It was mentioned on a local message board that reportedly, Soren Petro and the folks at 810 initially mentioned all the sports talkers at KCSP-610 who have taken money from the pro-stadium group by matching up names from the expense report filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission.

According to one of my favorite tipsters, 610 has already released some kind of flimsy apology that I'm sure doesn't admit to any liability and in the coming days it will be interesting to find out who else is on the payroll of the push to pass the Stadium Tax.

The important thing is that all of these bribes (or whatever they want to call the payoffs) are indicative of the sleaze, dishonesty and unfairness of the Stadium Tax. This is the work of billionaire owners planting seed money in order to have the talking heads in this town sing their praises and convince the people of Kansas City to help them get richer. Not only is this reason enough to vote against the Stadium Tax but should also convince everyone that professional sports in this city does nothing but corrupt local media, beat down local skanks and provide entertainment for the rich JoCo jerks across the State Line.

Clearly, if these are the sleazy tactics of the pro sports teams in order to get their money then it's clearly no big loss if they are forced to leave the city and hopefully take their whore cheerleaders with them.