I got a comment saying “Fuch (sic) you all, bloggers.”

The e-mail address was chrismatthews@msnbc.com

Obviously this was not from Chris Matthews.

As you know, I hate the respect respectable conservatives show to liberals so they can be “respectable.”

So it may surprise you that I wrote back, “I knew Chris Matthews when I was on Capitol Hill. He was our opponent, but we respected him and I do not appreciate your using his name this way.”

Naturally the note came back as undeliverable. Chris had nothing to do with it.

This was a reaction, not a thought-out response.

Am I a hypocrite?

Now that I am doing interviews, I often hear the phrase “Break a leg!’

As you know, it is considered bad luck in theater circles to wish an actor good luck. So you say to him, “Break a leg!”

Recently a well-wisher told me, as I faced an interview, “Break his leg!”

I replied that “Break his leg” is not necessarily a good thing to say to a former combat mercenary. It was a joke, but it reminded me of something.

Once I was waiting for a plane in an airport in Eastern Europe.

You know how it is, in cases like that you strike up conversations with people and it turns out that the people you just happen to talk to you are amazingly similar to you. So I started talking with a guy and it turned out he was a former member of the Special Forces, Army.

The man is now wealthy, but I would be willing to bet that, like me, he got an assignment in that country and was doing the work gratis.

I know that a lot of you are experts in martial arts and will tell me I don’t know what I am talking about, but a million years ago when I was young I learned a special kick to take out a person’s knee.

When I say take out, I do not mean a temporary incapacitation. If you are in unarmed combat and you used that kick, the knee was gone forever. Maybe modern surgery can take care of it, but back then it shoved the knee backwards and took out everything that goes with it.

It is a useful kick. It puts a lot of pressure on something and I use it to shove luggage back into line and so forth. I did that in the airport. When I did, I noticed one guy who was also waiting for the plane flinch. He could see the horror I could be doing to the person such a kick was intended for.

I said to the former Special Forces man, “I’ll bet you that man there is somebody we can relate to.”

So I got that guy into the conversation and, lo and behold, he too had been Special Forces, Air Force.

It was an interesting experience on a number of levels, and I hadn’t remembered until someone told me, “Break his leg.”

INSIGHT FOR THE TRAINED EYES

I’m scheduled to do a nightly radio program through the month of August on the same Memphis AM radio station where James Edwards runs The Political Cesspool broadcast – WLRM 1380 AM. It will start off with a new interview of me by James about my book. We will then use a combination of my Untrained Eye programs and other interviews or repeats and see how things go. The broadcasts will be streamed live over the internet, as well as archived on my website.

The program scheduled now to run from 2 – 3 in the morning, Central, and we have no idea what kind of response we will get. It is a perfect month for talking about the subject in my book, as August is back-to-school time.

The program will not be cheap. I’m funding it out of my pocket. We would be ecstatic if we could even sell enough books to cover the cost. But we’re doing this to help out James, who is trying to build a whole 12 hour-a-day populist broadcast. It is a very important project, and one whose time has come.

Here is where you can help. Radio time costs money. I have to pay for it up front. If I can get sponsors, that will make a BIG difference. If you, or anyone you know, would be willing to buy commercial time, please email me at Bob@whyjohnny.com.

Here is the deal. We are going to sell a one-minute spot to run on all 23 shows for $100.

That is less than $5 per spot. We will even record the commercial for you, if you don’t have one already.

My staff and I are doing all of this on a voluntary basis. I’m funding this out-of-pocket. If we could line up 3 or 4 sponsors, that would really give us a good start.

If you know anyone in Memphis with a business, or anyone with an internet business, or anyone else interested in advertising, please have them email me at Bob@whyjohnny.com.

Remember this is an FCC licensed broadcast, and we don’t need anything silly or distasteful. All ads will be subject to James’s and my approval.

As he says, “ON to victory.”