James Spann’s Fifteen Minutes Sputters To Five
January 22nd, 2007Looks like local weatherman James Spann’s gambit to go national and get his 15 minutes of fame has fizzled to only five minutes, perhaps because his timing is bad. He’s been stuck in Birmingham WAY too long.
I remember when the dude’s hair fell out about 25 years ago. Mine’s longer than ever. Sorry James.
Apparently, Spann got bumped from Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” show tonight, as well as CNN, making him and the Birmingham News both wrong.
Then the FOX News Network called and asked (Spann) to appear on “Hannity and Colmes,” according to the Birmingham News. And CNN Headline News, the paper reported, “which wanted to book him for ‘Glenn Beck.’ Spann said he is scheduled to appear on both of those shows Monday night.”
Perhaps the reason Spann was “bumped” has something to do with a couple of breaking news stories today, both totally ignored by Fox and the News.
Maybe Spann could have pulled off a move from ABC 33/40, in one of the biggest “small time” markets in the country, to the big-time Fox “nothing” weather desk, if he had tried this 3-5 years ago. Then, Bush and the Republicans would have been on his side and he could have been the anti-global warming hero of the minute.
Now, it turns out, even corporate executives want Bush to start admitting the truth on “man-made” global warming and maybe begin doing something about it.
CEOs Ask Bush to Reduce Climate Changing Pollution
Or, how about this? The University of Innsbruck’s Institute for Ecology reported today that most glaciers will disappear from the Alps by 2050, more evidence of “man-made” global warming?
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In case you missed it, here’s our original post on the Spann Spanking, including the “clown” comment:
Global Warming Controversy Hits Local Weatherman
Tags: Media Notes
January 23rd, 2007 at 6:39 am
Spann did get a nice dig in at Heidi for not being able to debate him. Apparently she is at the Sundance film festival promoting a new film called “Everything’s Cool.” It sounds like she is not letting her critics get to her, at any rate, and I really hope that she continues to get support from the rest of the staff at The Weather Channel.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:24 am
I suspect ABC 33/40 is in a competition to get the Alabama Power blue bird green washing ad campaign on their station. I think it’s been running on NBC 13, the local Christian broadcasting leader.
This is all about getting the Baptist e-mail networks churning, and even to compete for church advertising.
Just like politics in Alabama, it’s all about who can pretend to be the biggest goddamn Christian.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:59 am
Great. Now let’s strand him in the Alps (in Switzerland, where his God
lives in a secret bank deposit box).
Jack Zylman
jzylman(at)bellsouth(dot)net
January 27th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Excellent post on James Spann, who I have always liked in spite of himself
and his wingnut religious views. But his post is just crazy - everybody
knows most of the private money for “scientific research” is going from the
oil companies to the “globa-warming-holocaust-deniers.”
Tommy Stevenson
stevensonblog.tuscaloosanews.com