OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, July 3, 2009 – According to numbers supplied by Awstats, the month of June recorded 5,061,259 hits on the Beefboy Rants site. The surge in hits have been steadily rising since the first of the year but exploded recently due to a switch to a Wordpress platform, which allows more interactivity and opens up new ways to distribute content throughout the internet. The Beefboy Rants has also benefitted from several opinion pieces and news coverage that got picked up and promoted through various news aggregator sites, primarily Digg, Fark and Daymix.

The Beefboy said, “I think the growing interest in The Beefboy Rants represents a very real need to find some information from anyone who is not a lapdog for either conservatives or liberals. People are hungry for new philosophies and insight from a source that asks for politicians in particular and government in general to get out of our wallets and out of our lives.” Given the current economic and political climate, the Beefboy adds, “I feel like I’m just offering the right thing at the right time. Outrageous humor and photos of hot chicks aren’t hurting my popularity either.”

The Beefboy Rants began as a regular feature on the Couch Pirates site (couchpirates.com) in 2002. Given the large amount of content and desire to expand the reach even further, The Beefboy Rants spun off into its own website The Beefboy Rants in 2004. Since then it has evolved to feature the Beefboy’s unique articles on politics, news, and entertainment, coupled with celebrity photos, podcasts and media reviews. The Beefboy’s irreverent commentary has attracted attention by hammering politicians and political pundits on the left and right. The Beefboy is described as being, “Your Radical Moderate Underground Icon” and is available for interviews by contacting him directly at me@thebeefboy.com.

Originally Published: March 8, 2009

I’ve got this great new idea. Since the government is running amok and seems to have forgotten that they serve US, instead of the other way around, how about creating some sort of civilian entity that the government has to answer to? This entity would be totally separate from government and privately financed. This entity would effectively become a watchdog over government. 

My proposal is that the new entity would conduct interviews with officials in government and provide them to the public without bias. This entity would root out and discover governmental abuses, and lies, and excess. This new entity would inform the public about corruption and when government breaks the law. 

This entity would disseminate their information in newspapers, books, television, radio and on the internet, so everyone would have access to what they report. We might even want to get an amendment to the Constitution to protect that entity from wrongful prosecution so they could do their job without fear of retribution!

What? You say we already have that? It’s called The Press? That’s interesting…

It seems to me that this thing called The Press has abdicated its adversarial role to talk radio and people like the Beefboy on the internet. Instead they have taken on the role of being a cheerleader for the government, getting “tingling feelings” up their legs when politicians talk, overlooking important news for the sake of telling us about celebrities, burying news that doesn’t fit their politically correct agenda and feeding us news about things that don’t matter.

Until The Press decides to start challenging our leaders then we need someone besides the Beefboy to do their job!

Originally Published: February 5th, 2009

Senator Chris Dodd has the audacity to blame President Bush for the abject failure of the TARP spending bill to loosen up the credit market. If you’re keeping track, that’s 350 billion dollars that was thrown to the wind in your name and mine! Ironically enough, Chris Dodd is ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THE LEGISLATION. Yes, Chris Dodd is in fact responsible for the wasted $350 billion. 

Members of Congress, including Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, are largely responsible for the economic mess in the first place! Yet Dodd has the nerve to blame Bush and herald himself as above it all. Dodd is not addressing the Beefboy and the Beefanatics though – we know better. Dodd is talking directly to the idiot masses who get their “news” from John Stewart, Saturday Night Live and left wing blogs! Dodd is talking to people who don’t have a fucking clue what’s happening in this world.

Chris Dodd and Barney Frank couldn’t run a successful snow cone stand if they had 10 million dollars and Megan Fox serving in a bikini! Congress is on a spending orgy with YOUR MONEY Beefanatics! Did Lindsay Lohan take over spending appropriations? All semblance of sense or reason has been tossed out the door! Fuck EVERYTHING! It’s spending time! Has anyone picked up a calculator and added up how much of YOUR MONEY that congress is offering everyone on the planet? 

- 250 billion for a stimulus package

- 700 billion for “bailing out” the financial sector

- 25 billion for the auto industry (maybe more to come)

- AIG took a 25 billion dollar dip and then came back for more!

Now they want another trillion dollar stimulus package!

Members of congress have absolutely lost their fucking minds! Do you realize that our yearly budget is 3 trillion dollars? With a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Social Security rapidly becoming insolvent and all of the new programs that Democrats are itching to pass, how the hell are we ever going to pay for all of that?!!!

Moreover, does it concern anyone that the method for generating this debt is to sell Treasury bonds to China and print money like its rolls of toilet paper?

WHAT THE FUCK?!!!

Seriously, Beefanatics… go buy a gun, pay off your debt and get your zombie apocalypse emergency kit together. You’re going to need it soon.

Dig it!

Originally Published: February 2, 2009

The January 22nd, 2009 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine has an illustration of President Bush on the cover with these exact words, “EXCLUSIVE! BUSH APOLOGIZES – The Farewell Interview We Wish He’s Give – By Matt Tiabbi”

I have some big problems with this mock interview. At best, this is a masturbatory exercise by Matt Tiabbi. I’m sure he wrote this “interview” with his boxers around his ankles and a bottle of lotion close by. Any pretense at journalistic integrity is officially dead and should be buried along with the Bush Presidency. The indignant nature that the press answers allegations of abject bias should be countered with this article and sound bites of NBC election coverage that includes, but is not limited to, Chris Mathews admitting that he “feels a tingle” go up his leg when he listens to Obama speak.

There’s enough disconnect between reality and fantasy regarding the general public and politics as it is. I had one woman come into my office, pick up the issue, say, “He’s not smiling now,” and walk out! It’s a fucking ILLUSTRATED COVER (above) for fucks sake! They could have made him green, or give him sticks for hair, OR MAKE HIM LOOK SAD! 

Furthermore, that co-worker is a good example of the general populace, who get their political news from Oprah and John Stewart and SNL. They are so fired up and confident about their opinions but it’s all based on half truths, bullshit and comedy. People don’t pay attention and they don’t get any more information than sound bites and the headline. If Rolling Stone has a forlorn Bush on the cover with the words “Bush Apologizes” most people will accept that as fact and go watch American Idol. And Rolling Stone KNOWS THAT!

A hundred years ago we had to deal with Yellow Journalism, which was the practice of running sensationalistic headlines in lieu of hard news. Now, we’ve got that, but it’s coupled with an exceptionally short attention span from a misinformed, ignorant and uninterested populace, and a tendency of the media to break everything into sound bites and presenting fantasy scenarios or comedy as real news. The Beefboy calls that Nano Journalism (trademark and copyright 2009 by the Beefboy) and it’s dangerous. 

So, to demonstrate the absurdity and power of Nano Journalism, the Beefboy is going to conduct a series of Interviews I Wish I’d Done. Stay Tuned.

Originally posted on January 29, 2009

The Beefboy just saw this and it’s so good and so insightful on so many levels that I had to share it with you.

Originally Posted January 20, 2009

I think just about everyone in the world watched the inaugural speech by President Obama today. I think it was a solid speech, delivered with a lot of power, but I don’t think he gave us one of those, “ask not what your country can do for you” or “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these walls” moments. He’s certainly capable of that, but I think he’s keeping his powder dry for the State of the Union.

The greatest achievement today is the United States proving to the world what a peaceful transfer of power looks like. Obama was sworn in with Bush and several other former Presidents present. There were no bombs, or threats, or bullshit. There were no tanks, or riots, or deaths. We did it in a way that only civilized countries, with great people and great tradition do it. We fired off some cannons to bring the new guy in, shook hands, gave a speech and then retired to a bunch of parties for the rest of the evening.

Simple. Peaceful.

I want you to imagine for a moment that you are the guy who vowed to protect the United States today. You go dance with your wife and head back to your new house (and it’s a big empty house). You’re tired from a long campaign and shaking hands and delivering speeches. You go to sleep and wake up the next day, grab some coffee and someone in your staff hands you the President’s Daily Brief that tells you just how fucked up the world is today.

Even with all the power you now have and all the goodwill you want to bring to the planet… that has to be the loneliest job on the Earth. I wish President Obama all the luck and wisdom possible… he’s going to need it.

I’ll tell you one thing. If you looked out at that crowd today and saw the throngs of people who stood for hours in 19 degree weather to glimpse the first black President deliver words of hope to a frightened nation… a frightened planet, then you’ll understand why I’m proud to be an American today.