Flaming Liberal

 May 5, 2004

TO: Mr. Joe Davis, Director of Public Affairs for the Veterans of Foreign Wars

FROM: David C. Bellinger

Dear Mr. Davis,

Mr. Davis, first let me thank you for taking the time to listen to my grievance and to listen to the evidence I played for you in our telephone conversation on May 3, 2004.  The telephone conversations I played for you were recorded on WWL AM 870 radio which is a 50,000 watt clear channel station broadcasting from New Orleans, La., and I strongly and firmly feel the discourse I played for you was responsible for my effective banishment from the Andre Trevigne program on WWL AM 870 radio where, very ironically and very sadly, the mantra of the program is, “Let’s Put the Truth on the Table!”

Mr. Davis, as you heard in the recording I played for you concerning my outrage regarding information from  an article published in the New Orleans Times-Picayune (copy of article pasted below ) titled, “va Services Cutback Riles Some Local Veterans” (http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf) I am sure you can attest to the fact that every word, syllable, and letter from the article I quoted on the Andre Trevigne program on WWL radio was accurate, true, and correct in every imaginable detail.

Well, Mr. Davis, as a result of my concern regarding what I felt was a totally unjustified and unwarranted cutback in veterans services on the part of the Bush administration based on the reputable source I have pasted in this e-mail, I was, as you heard in the recording I played for you, rudely shouted at by the host of the program, accused of lying no less than three times by Ms. Trevigne, and Ms. Trevigne twice inferred I was being “paid” to call her program!

And Mr. Davis just for the record, and I am disappointed that I have to even address this absolutely ludicrous and absurd accusation that I am being paid to telephone Ms. trevigne’s program, I am perfectly willing to  sign an affidavit under the penalty of perjury that I have at no time in my entire life have ever been offered or have I ever accepted so much as a penny for ever telephoning a radio talk program and, in addition, I will gladly donate every dollar I am worth to Children’s Hospital of New Orleans if anyone would produce evidence I have ever accepted money for telephoning a radio talk program and I would be willing to fully disclose my full and complete financial history to dismiss this silly and fallacious charge.

Furthermore, to repeat my earlier accusation, I most fervently feel and believe that Ms. Trevigne has quite deliberately and very perniciously refused to accept any of my future telephone calls to her program under my radio moniker, Elwood, from the time she most incorrectly accused me of lying on the veteran’s health care issue, a fact Mr. Davis you know I correctly and accurately related on her radio program because you very generously gave of your time to listen to the conversation, and making the ridiculous charge that I was being paid to call her program on a matter I felt so passionately concerned I could not help expressing my outrage on a radio talk show.

Mr. Davis, I am perfectly willing to agree and admit that WWL radio, for whatever reason, has a right to control their programming; however, I feel equally as strong that under the Constitution of the United States of America I have a constitutionally guaranteed right to “peacefully” speak out, as a form of protest, and communicate to citizens and organizations such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars my utter and absolute disgust that a radio broadcaster has essentially, in my opinion, instead of serving the public interest, which I believe is a FCC mandated regulation, has chosen to pursue and to disseminate a political agenda that is, in my opinion, quite clearly and evidently extremely protective, to the extent of stifling free and responsible speech, of the current administration occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C.

and Mr. Davis, you know for an undeniable fact when you were kind enough to listen to the recording I played for you of my conversation with ms Trevigne where I attempted to speak out against the veterans’ cutbacks that at “no” time was I, in any manner, ever rude, discourteous, or impolite or did I ever make any accusations directed at Ms. Trevigne of any kind as Ms. Trevigne most outrageously and impertinently directed at me, I believe, to somehow attempt to impugn my character and what an abominable shame my only “offense” was accurately and correctly speaking out and opposing what I honestly and sincerely felt was a matter of deep distress ; that is, a new policy by the Bush administration which would cause the discontinuance of medical care and treatment for 164,000 United States military veterans.

So as a consequence of my speaking out and opposing what I most sincerely and honestly felt was an affront and an inexcusable outright attack on the medical care and benefits of the men and women who have served and have sacrificed in the United States military for the purpose of upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States of America, Ms. Trevigne, or perhaps the decision was made by the management of WWL radio, my privilege to express a responsible and factual viewpoint by way of using the public airways I feel has been very unfairly, if not maliciously,  revoked because Ms. Trevigne has discontinued accepting my telephone calls to her program under my radio moniker from the time the incident I have related to you occurred and I have been left on hold for as long as two hours which is the length of her program!

So Mr. Davis, if the veterans of foreign wars would do nothing other then to express the same revulsion that I am feeling at this time by giving me the moral support of the Veterans of Foreign Wars regarding, what I feel should be a right given that men and women of the U. S. Armed Forces are currently dying in Iraq for freedom, my privilege to call and express a factual and responsible viewpoint using the public airways, the same airspace men and women of the United States Armed Forces have fought, sacrificed, and died to defend.

Therefore, Mr. Davis, just as you asked me to I have listed below the names and addresses of the top management of the Entercom Corp, the owner of WWL AM 870 radio in New Orleans and would you please consider posting my e-mail and your response or responses to my e-mail on the VFW website.  And would you also please copy me in by e-mail any response or responses you may write regarding my e-mail and my e-mail address is: davidc53@juno.com

Sincerely and respectfully a concerned citizen proud to take a stance for United States veterans,

David C. Bellinger

Chairman and Chief Executive officer of D & B Research

New Orleans, La.

(504) 246-3100 or (504) 246-2857

P. S. I have on tape the conversation I had with Ms. Trevigne which I feel was responsible for my banishment from her program and will most gladly play for any interested party and any interested party is very welcome to telephone me at (504) 246-2863 and you are welcome to telephone 24/7.

Mr. David Field

President and CEO Entercom Corp.

401 City Avenue

Suite 809

Bala Cynwyd, PA  19004

Tel. No. (610) 660 5610

E-mail address: djfield@entercom.com

Mr. Jack Donlevie, Attorney

Entercom, Corp.

401 City Avenue

Suite 809

Bala Cynwyd, PA  19004

Telephone No. 610 660 5638

E-mail address: jack@entercom.com

Ms. Connie Macera

Vice-President and General Manager for Entercom of New Orleans

1450 Poydras Street

Suite 500

New Orleans, La.  70122

Tel No. (504) 593-1897

E-mail address: cmacera@entercom.com

Mr. Phil Hoover

General Manager of WWL AM 870

1450 Poydras Street

Suite 500

New Orleans, La.  70122

Tel No. (504) 593-1875

E-mail address: phoover@entercom.com

Cc: U. S. Senator Tom Daschle, Minority Leader of the U. S. Senate,  U. S. Senator, John Kerry, U. S. Senator John Breaux, U. S. Senator Mary  Landrieu, Us. Representative Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the U. S. House of Representatives,  U. S. Representative William Jefferson,  Mr. Michael Powell, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, The American Legion National Headquarters, AFL-CIO National Headquarters, Mr. Howard Stern, The American Family Assn., ABC News 26, Mr. Terry O’Connor, Editor of New Orleans City Business, Mr. Jim Amoss, Editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Mr. Bruce Alpert, Newhouse Publishing, Mr. David Walker, Times-Picayune Reporter,  Ms. Rene Peck, Times-Picayune Reporter, Mr. Jerry McLeod, Times-Picayune TV Focus Editor, Ms. Martha Carr, Times-Picayune Reporter, Mr. James gill, times-picayune Reporter, Mr. Kris rose, times-picayune Reporter, Mr. David Cuthbert, Times-Picayune Reporter, Ms. Annette Cisco, Times-Picayune Editorial Editor, Mr. Bruce Nolan, Times-Picayune Reporter, Mr. Michael Tisserand, Editor of Gambit Weekly, Mr. Chris Tidmore, Political Writer for the Louisiana Weekly, Mr. Gene Gaudette, Editor of American Politics.com, ACORN, The ACLU of Louisiana

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