Barnes Makes His 99XWatch.org Debut

With TL&J off for for Fred's wedding, I took the opportunity to listen to All Access with Barnes and Firfer this morning.  At around 8:45, in a segment called "Hollywood Dirt," Former 99X Personality Steve Barnes and Holly Firfer discussed a story about a potential Smashing Pumpkins reunion.  Barnes added that "people" said that Earthlink Live, the venue for former Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan's solo concert last night,  "was a ghost town".  Casual listeners might have interpreted this as a dig at Corgan, but the comment was almost certainly a jab at 99X who sponsored the event. 

Coincidentally, I attended the Corgan show last night.  Beyond the empirical fact that the show sold out, "people" driving past Earthlink Live prior to the doors opening would have seen a line stretching well around the block.

I'm sure that 99X invests a great deal of money and effort trying to think of ways to win back its listeners who jumped to daveFM.  While a lot of TL&J's pandering to the Right is opinion, as former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not their own facts."  Perhaps TL&J might better distinguish themselves from Barnes by holding themselves to a higher standard for the truth.  As much as I like Corgan, there's a lot more at stake with politics.