Wonder where Caren was, she usually keeps him on a slow boil.

I have it on good authority from someone who has heard the entire show that Court Martial records have already been sent for.

When will Ed archive this show, I missed the live version?

That sounded quite scripted to me. The abrupt transition from screaming hateful language (known in Birfistan as "fowl language") to a calm, soft-spoken voice was the key; it was fully planned. His purpose? Maybe he thinks he can intimidate those two officers at whom he is so (supposedly) angry. Then, again, maybe all he was trying to do was boost his declining audience.

Ed is a great old time radio entertainer. He writes the scripts and plays all the parts himself. I remember the suspense when he kept trying to get "Mickey Martin" on the line.
He is a fabulous comedian and dramatist. I love Caren as his straight-man... "I'll whack ya wih the fryin' pan inna head, Ed!".

He is hilarious!!!! He wept on air that his dog, Lucky, died died because he didn't have money to take it to the vet, but makes $20k a month on 'Red River'. Then he wept because another dog died in the hallway over two days without a vet... then he has puppies for sale! OMG OMG

Don't even mention his special documents he has on Obama!! Nobody does good old radio comedy like that anymore.

First time I've ever listened to a word this guy says. Once again, I'm thankful there are thousands of miles of water between Hawaii & the Mainland. Good for Lent. This guy has gotten much more attention than he deserves & it's good to hear him using such a ruse to beg for more, as his little sphere shrinks from under him.

Looking at these stats, have we honestly posted 2603 posts about this total asshat?

Whoops. 2604.

Understand that I removed silence/dead-air (as well as the annoying background hiss from his shitty equipment). He did pause for a few seconds after the screaming rant at Barry, so the compressed time version seems unnatural.

But yeah, he planned it out. Caren wasn't home when he did this show for she would have likely gotten that frying pan out. He wants attention and listeners, which he is not getting.

Why not give Ed your Shanghai address, Barry? Or Sydney. Or Rome. Or etc.

Catch him if you can, Ed, you "screwball bastard".

That's one of my favorite segments. Ed said he couldn't refuse written orders, apparently a reference to USMJ Articles 90 and 92. The trick here is that Article 92 refers to lawfully given orders. Ed knows that this order is unlawful, so he asks for it in writing. But then he fails to follow his next obligation as an officer, he has a duty to disobey that order as it is unlawful.



Could Ed have been shot for treason if he disobeyed? Perhaps, but only after a Court Martial to determine that. He wouldn't have been just perp walked out to a paddy and shot. Well, maybe as a fragging.

In this clip, Ed also invents a new term for someone set up to take the fall. I'd never heard of an "escape goat" before.

Ed's recollection of his CM is interesting. He says they wanted him to rat out lower ranking people, but he refuses, takes 100% blame. Only, he's got in his pocket the written orders from higher up that are introduced as evidence. Now why would the CM board be looking down the chain, when they have in their hands the original order? To me, it's just Ed trying to be a hero to the little guys, "I'll look out for ya" kind of deal, all made up of course. (Sorry, I'll never believe anything Ed says)

The CM Board offers Ed a choice: take a General Discharge and get the hell out of here, or get busted to E-1 and we'll let ya have a General AND Honorable. Later in Ed's story, that becomes rat out some lower guys and we'll let ya off with a reprimand and you can stay in the Marines. WTF?

What ya didn't hear in this clip is the psychological disconnect within Ed. He tells of some battle on hill 61A around Khe Sanh. Says he went in on Feb 3, 1968 with 720 men, and came out 3 weeks later with 30, a loss of 690. Now, according to Wiki, total losses in the Khe Sanh battle 21 January to April 8m 1968 were 720. Is Ed saying he is accountable for almost 96% of the losses? (Yes, I'm being extreme and not considering casualties, because Ed implies everyone was killed)

Anyway, Ed says that after Khe Sanh he "hated the gooks, wanted to kill them all". But the next big event in Ed's Nam experience is the orders to waste an entire village, and he balks. Why? Here's a perfect chance to "kill them all", but he hesitates.

LM_K, time for your expertise.

GG,

Screw Ed. Whatever.

Ed Hale is such a god-awful and practiced liar. This is even more tear-jerking than his "my dawg died" checkers speech. He really missed his calling as a stump politician or TV preacher.

Like Sinclair, he is a inveterate (though not so skillful) liar, that will come up with a brazen, in-your-face lie, no matter the occasion. I would like to hear the entire spiel and study it as an example compulsive pathological lying.

Edit:
Another thing. You would expect a batallion (commanded by a Major) to contain 600-700 infantry men. A full Colonel would have at least a Regiment.

A Colonel Hale is mentioned with regard to "History of the 8th Bn 4th Field Artillery Vietnam 1967-1971". No further identification is provided. Another Hale, Sergeant Hollis Ray Hale, was at Khe Sanh; he was killed in February 1968. Recounting the Casualties at Khe Sanh concludes

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"Someone should tell Mrs. Reagan that young people -- not even young people on drugs -- are not the ones responsible for the major problems besetting the world!" John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel, p. 370.

The 8th Bn was Army...so not our Ed.

Ed claims to have seen a "Gook" at the Dallas airport (@ 5:50).

Nothing there you need to apologize for, Grey!

How about the other units listed in the post? All of them have Khe Sanh histories, and none of them seems to have had a Col. Ed Hale.

Yep, I haven't found any records of him in country either yet.

Bastid better not try putting ME on bread and water, dammit.



He puts me on bread and water, I"m putting him on dead cat and horse piss.

Damn, Foggy. Another good keyboard and monitor shot to shit. Thanks!

Awwww, Ed baned me for posting a Huffpo story on Palin admitting she used the Canadian Health Care system.

This from the hero of Khe Sanh who demands that Obots post facts -- a fact that nevertheless gets the poster "baned."

The irony!

Jimbot says,

http://theregulator.net/neonzx/edhale/edhale-jimbot-2010-03-08.mp3

Right off the bat, Ed invents a new reason for not doing shows on Texas Broadcasting. Fred wouldn't give him enough time to accommodate his multitude of Congressmen that wanted to come on? Oh yea, the trio from the Oklahoma Legislature.

But at the time... http://www.ptarmigannest.net/audio/EdBails.mp3

I always enjoy Ed's conversations with Obama's lawyer who is INSIDE the White House.

I found it interesting to hear what's up regarding Ed's equipmnet that Frank the sliver has. Goin' to Small Claims in Texas over it. None of these folks can ever play nice with one another. Ed had posted the agreement that he & sliver signed, and if I recall it correctly, it looks to me like Ed will win this one.