KC Confidential

Refrain for a moment from cherry picking the beautiful things Muhammad Ali said…

Consider instead the total of Ali’s words. By far, most of what he said was basically, “I am the best.” The second most common thing was, “I will publicly ridicule those who oppose me.” And there was also a large dose of, “I don’t like the people in power right now.”

Sounds a lot like Donald Trump.

So what was the public reaction to Muhammad Ali? At the time, he was polarizing. At the time, many people vehemently hated him.  Sports writers likened him to “unwashed punks who picket and demonstrate” and said “boxing should throw Clay (Ali) out on his inflated head.”

Even Sports Illustrated labeled him, “The Louisville Lip.”

The New York Times official policy was to refuse to refer to Ali as the Heavyweight Champion while continuing until 1970 to call him “Cassius Clay.”

Many Americans are appalled that Trump calls people names.

And this past week Hillary said Trump couldn’t insult his way to the presidency. Continue reading →

Comedy super star Louis CK will be at Sprint one July 7th…

Louis did an interview with the Kansas City Star this week wherein he explained that he didn’t hate Kansas City as he’d ranted a while back on late night talk shows. Louie had done a national tour that included the Midland and it seems most of his shows sold, However he didn’t draw well here, thus his anger.

He compared KC to Cleveland.

However he did say he liked Stanford & Sons were he’d played a few times on his way to the top. So Louis now says he was kidding and is pleased his show at Sprint will be loaded with fans. He even told the Star he’d had great shows at Stanford’s.

Louis has a thing for Stanford’s.

He put the club in bits on his TV shows more than once. He even had actors playing me and Johnny Dare on a goof about his morning radio promoting his theater show on 98.9. Continue reading →

Will the general public ever tire of superhero movies?

Well, 20th Century-Fox sure hopes it won’t be with their latest edition in the highly profitable ‘X-Men’ series poised to rule the box office this Memorial Day weekend.

Advance tracking has it opening in the $100 million range.

So here we are already at the end of May.

And we’ve already experienced DEADPOOL, BATMAN v SUPERMAN, THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR—and now here comes No. 5.

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE brings the emergence of the world’s first mutant—forcing the X-Men to unite to defeat his plan of global extinction.

He is the immortal Apocalypse who rises in 1983 after thousands of dormant years.

Now, along with his Four Horsemen and unlimited powers, he sets out to create a new world order.

And as the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, Professor X, Mystique and a handful of new troops set out to stop this seemingly invincible nemesis from destroying mankind.

So far. So good. Continue reading →

Hillary Clinton was considered a shoe in to become President of the United States…

Then a funny thing happened. As in, Donald Trump. And now while most of her following still think Hillary will win – she’s still the favorite in Vegas – it’s gone from 5 to 1 down to 2 to 1 and falling.

Why?

That crazy Donald Trump guy.

Everyone knows – or think they know, anyway – that Trump’s anti women, a racist, that he’ll have his trigger finger on the button, wants to stop muslims from entering the counter and is talking about building a wall and kicking out illegal aliens.

Crazy stuff, huh?

Meanwhile, Hillary has her “secret weapon” – the ever popular (but fading) Bill Clinton.

Now Hillary plans to ask Wild Bill to “fix” the economy. He did it in the 1990’s, right?

So how can Hillary lose?

Oh yeah, there’s that pesky Bernie Sanders dude who won’t stop winning primary after primary. Even though Hillary has more delegates (mainly more super delegates and voters), he’s a total headache.

So why all the concern about the Clintons? Isn’t Hillary still a shoe in?

Well, older voters think so, but not so fast. Continue reading →