Gaylord

Here is something I found amusing:

These are the 10 states with the highest levels of adult obesity, according to a 2007 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Source: Associated Press).

1. Mississippi, 32.0 percent
2. Alabama, 30.3
3. Tennessee, 30.1
4. Louisiana, 29.8
5. West Virginia, 29.5
6. Arkansas, 28.7
7. South Carolina, 28.4
8. Georgia, 28.2
9. Oklahoma, 28.1
10. Texas, 28.1

Number 9, ha-ha. By the way, the new team is to be called the Thunder. Seems appropriate. Also, do not eat at Sonic Drive-Ins, the company is based in Oklahoma City. Nor should you watch the Country Music Television Channel and Spike TV, stay at any of the Gaylord Hotels, such as the Opryland Hotel, or, rather, any thing to do with the Grand Ole Opry, and, don’t read the Oklahoman. In the case of the Oklahoman, avoid it not only because of the nefaris connection to the evil that is Clay Bennett but also because, according to its Wiki entry:

“During the management by Edward Gaylord (Bennett’s father-in-law), the newspaper has been regularly accused of having an ultra conservative Republican /conservative bias in both its news coverage and particularly on its editorial pages. The January/February 1999 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review contained an article, titled ‘The Worst Newspaper in America,’ which made a lengthy and well-documented case for that designation.

Edward Gaylord routinely ran front page editorials against any political candidates whom Gaylord accused of supporting ‘big government spending.’ Businessman Gaylord has been accused of using his newspaper for personal financial or political gain at the public expense.

The most recent example was the paper's editorial support for the city to use public funds to promote ‘welfare for the rich’ to help finance the building of a new Bass Pro Shop in Oklahoma City, where Gaylord Entertainment was a large (24%) shareholder of Bass Pro private stock.

Another example of a double standard was one in which Gaylord, who had written strident editorials opposing ‘Affirmative Action’ and ‘Racial Quotas,’ successfully lobbied the US Congress to pass tax incentives in which Gaylord Media could receive tax breaks to sell broadcast stations to corporations which had a small percentage of ownership by what Gaylord had stridently described in editorials as ‘So-Called Minorities.’”

Nice. Do you think they ran any articles about how the state should finance the Ford Center? Oh, avoid Bass Pro Shops. The Gaylord evidently sold their share of the Texas Rangers to Bush. Bennett is reportedly a staunch Republican. Seeing his behavior, i.e., lies (to include potential perjury – see his explanation of the “man possessed” email), that doesn’t surprise me. Then there is his co-owner’s, Aubrey McClendon, stance on homosexuals, but I should get back to work. My point, there really isn’t much to like about these people. Stealing the Sonics was just the tip of the iceberg.

But we will be avenged. When the oil industry crashes in the next couple of decades, the dust bowl days will return. Plus, Willingham will exact revenge this fall!!!

(One more thing, the University of Oklahoma football stadium is named after Gaylord and the coach, Bob Stoops, was on the greeting committee for the NBA when they were “investigating” whether Oklahoma City was a viable NBA location.)