I discovered FTL on day 12 of the free Ian count up (Oct 2011) since then Michelle has been one of my favorite co hosts. Around the end of last year it was very entertaining hearing about her right to travel escapades. I enjoyed hearing her stories about how she interacted with officialdom in a very interesting polite civil disobedient way. Some things that come to mind is how she let the judge know it was polite to stand when a woman leaves the room, and the judge did it, that is grade A classy, or when she was on her way to the county jail and she called the warden to let him know she was not “interested” in eating their food, giving her name, or being strip searched.
I was sad when she quit being a regular on the show around November of last year, and excited for her recent return. That excitement was short lived. I have been very uncomfortable with the way she communicated with the last couple of Obama supporters. I have heard the blacks voted for Obama because he is black before, at one time I even subscribed to that theory, but really? I mean come on, how many people that voted for Obama, would have voted for McCain, or one of the third party candidates had Obama been classified as white? There would be a few, but statistically the odds are against the random Obama supporting caller being one of them.
I think that Ian handled the situation well on the air, and I am sure there has been some off the air discussion, but I am not sure Michelle got it, so please Michelle if you read this, take it from a listener, please no more referring to callers as flavors when referring to the color of their skin. Also keep in mind a well placed sexual innuendo can be funny, but too many too often, just degrade form the conversation. Friday nights are starting to sound like Steve Carell in The Office saying “that’s what she said” after any random sentence, which is satire of someone who adds too many innuendos too often.
I look forward to hearing more from Michelle, hopefully in “Michelle Classic” form.
In case you are wondering, I am white chocolate, at least that’s what she said!