Jamie Allman & Talk Radio
or, the Missouri Listener
Part 2
Steven Clark
Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
October 7, 2023 was like both September 11, 2001 and January 6, 2021 for American conservatives. Hamas’ attack on Israeli settlements and troops unleashed an immediate fury from the Right, especially when there were reports of “beheaded babies,” babies “baked in ovens,” and hundreds of Israeli women raped. That most of this was discounted as biased, unverified Jewish propaganda made no difference. Jamie Allman joined the mob screaming for vengeance, his shaking voice demanded Gaza “be made into dinosaur land,” and demanded no mercy be shown to the “dirtbag Palestinians.” He, like most of talk-show America, swallowed the propaganda which held that the helpless Jews were being slaughtered like sheep, ignoring reports (which were later confirmed) that Israeli troops, by opening fire into civilian areas, had as much to do with the killing as the Palestinians.
“1,400 men, women, and children were beheaded,” Allman screamed over the microphone. “If the civilization of Hamas dies, it’s because of Hamas. It’s bred into them, their lack of courage and hate. They’re hateful cowards. Their babies are brought up as savages.” Allman’s clenched-fist commentary was relentless. ‘We have to take a stand against beheaded babies.”
Was this simply for show? Perhaps, but Jamie Allman does have a temper.
I saw Jamie many times at the community recreation center in my town, and he was usually cheerful, happily pumping up the locker-room talk with other men. One day I came in when he was alone, angrily slamming locker doors and even kicking one. He glared at me. “I need some space, man! Hey! I need space! Space here!”
Another slam of the lockers. Allman glared at me, then stalked around me like a lion in a cage. I didn’t hold it against him. I lose my temper as well, and have slammed my share of locker-room doors, but it showed me that Allman does get emotional. I therefore believe his on-air rages are genuine.
October 7 loosened genuine fear and loathing against that nebulous, relentless foe called Muslims. All the talk shows copied Allman to a lesser but no less angry degree. The Missouri Listeners have kept beheaded babies locked in their minds, and even now, months after the initial Hamas attack, the mild Mark Cox and his middle-of-the-road conservatism regularly refers to beheaded babies.
A talk show host I listen to regularly, Howie Carr, is on Boston radio. Howie, like Jamie, was a journalist before going into talk radio, having worked on the Boston Herald, and he is still is a columnist (his recent book Paperboy was reviewed by me at Counter-Currents). I’ve enjoyed Howie for decades, especially his wisecracking, acerbic, Mencken-like attacks on the “hacks, rump swabs, and moon bats” ruining Massachusetts. Howie took on the notorious Boston gangster and murderer Whitey Bulger (alias “Rat Boy”) despite death threats. Thus, it was all the more disheartening when his attacks on Hamas were as brutal as Jamie’s, as he continually referred to Hamas as “Nazi savages,” and echoing, as Jamie and others have on the airwaves, the idea that the Palestinians need to be gotten rid of. Like Jamie, he claims that it’s pointless to avoid attacking Gazan civilians, even children. “They’re all murderers and will be brought up as murderers,” he says.
Allman has a special vitriol for pro-Palestine demonstrators here in America. They’re all “bums on welfare, taking our money while they support beheading babies,” while “they call for a Palestine from the river to the sea . . . another Holocaust.” This is an extreme view, but then the Jews have the same vision “from the Nile to the Euphrates” — that is, Greater Israel. It has been a long-term goal of the more extreme elements in Israel. But this gets a pass. Why?
Israel, and the Jews, are seen as “us.” They’re white, “the only democracy in the Middle East”, civilized , and a valuable ally that is keeping the Middle East from falling apart, while preventing another Holocaust. Never again.
At one of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Chicago, protestors were set on by the Black Hebrew Israelites, a sect of blacks who see themselves as Jews and who are largely disowned by the Jewish community as a whole. Their scuffling with Pro-Palestinian supporters brought a cry of relief from Allman. As always, he has a place in his heart for blacks, and saw this as a way for blacks and conservatives to build an alliance. “Yeah,” he rasped, “you come to Chicago waving that Palestinian flag shouting, and you’ll get a fist in your face!”
Again, Allman shows that his obsession with the idea that blacks, once they’re on our side, will be a physical presence to take down the Left or whomever challenges American values never flags. He enlisted Stacey Washington, who happily joined the anti-Palestine train by saying that Muslims are the enemy of . . . African-Americans. “Islam hates black people, too,” she chimed in. “Did you know the Arabic word for black Christian means ‘slave?’” She repeated the usual canards about how “they hate us for our values,” and “from the sea to the river . . . then they’ll come for us. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, they’re holding down the fort . . . for us.” Stacey toed the conservative line on no foreign aid to anywhere — except for Israel. Needless to say, Stacey is a far more acceptable black spokeswoman to the conservative establishment than Candace Owen, whose criticism of Jews got her booted off the Internet.
Allman was thrilled when more Gazans were killed. Israel, he almost bragged, will do what they’re gonna do. H always likes tough talk. When General Soleimani, a high-ranking Iranian General, was assassinated, Allman said that “killing Soleimani was awesome,” and lapsed into one of his favorite moments from David Mamet’s film The Untouchables, when Sean Connery lays down the law to Kevin Costner’s Elliot Ness on how to get Al Capone: “He pulls a knife. You pull a gun. He sends one of yours to a hospital, you send one of his to a morgue. And that’s how you get Capone.”
Mamet’s s dialogue borrows from Joseph Wambaugh’s The New Centurions, and I always notice the tough-guy talk Allman and so many of his fellow talkies take to heart. It’s funny how they endorse gangster tactics, but America gets a pass — because we’re the good guys.
On Jamie’s Facebook page there is a huge photo of his hero, General George S. Patton, the patron saint of American bellicosity and bravado. But it isn’t a photo of the actual Patton: It’s George C. Scott from the 1970 film Patton, reminding us how talkies and their audience are influenced by the reality of Hollywood more than actual history, where America’s tough-guy view of reality is all for the good.
As Jim Carafano, who is part of Allman’s repertory, says, “We have a history of saving the world.” Thus, the tough talk is justified. Carafano went on to say, “Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba are the Hannibal Lectors of the global stage.” As terrorist states, they’re little more than monsters and cannibals, and have to be wiped out — or, as it is usually more subtly put, made democratic. This is basically the neocon strategy for the world since they ascended into the American establishment 30 years ago.
Carafano always gave a gentle laugh describing his job for the Heritage Foundation as going from place to place “spreading democracy.” This is an uncomfortable suggestion of clandestine government backing. Carafano was a dependable, strident activist for Ukraine, stating to Allman in 2022 that its military was the strongest in Europe and needed no help; they alone would wipe out the Russian military. Even now, he argues for eternal, never-ending military aid for Ukraine because, as he cheerfully put it, “We mustn’t waste our investment in the Ukraine.” Investment.
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And don’t forget China, which, as Carafano has said along with so many others, “caused COVID” in order to destroy our economy. True, the lab in Wuhan began things, but it was an American-sponsored lab overseen by Dr. Anthony Fauci, but, as always in everything tied to him, Fauci gets a pass, even from many conservatives. Allman has been merciless in attacking this intentional, official blindness, but after October 7, much of his stern conservatism was channeled into standing with Israel.
William Pierce said when a genuine movement against ZOG would begin, the Jews would simply raise the volume a notch to drown out the opposition. I’d say that instead of raising the volume, the Jews simply flipped the switch: Israel was under attack, and the reaction against Muslims was immediate and wild, almost surpassing the fabled two minutes of hate in George Orwell’s 1984. I see a growing consensus that something must be done about Palestinians, and in effect, Muslims. Us versus Them is a disquieting mantra where the Jews are being given quiet, silent permission to do with the Palestinians as they please, and they’re doing it with our arms. But the rest of the world doesn’t agree. As we said in my Vietnam-age youth, the whole world is watching.
There are so many contradictions to this stateless state that is called on by the Jamie Allmans to “ride their enemies like rented mules” and “cock the Bullpups.” To restate: to be truly conservative by maintaining the status quo is to accept the destruction of everything you supported when you grew up. The system, as it now exists, serves to destroy itself. It recalls an observation George Orwell noted in his diaries. He saw a wasp, with its body cut in half, proceed to suck in some jam that came out the other end, oblivious to its severed body. He judged this an apt metaphor of Western civilization after 1914.
In the TV series Homeland, a brave, intrepid CIA agent (inevitably female) suspects that a US Marine who had been held captive by Islamic “terrorists” and who is now a hero is actually an enemy agent. There is much jetting back and forth to the Middle East to investigate. It is made clear we will stay there forever. Terrorism and Islam are eternal enemies of our way of life. Yet, back in an American school, a white schoolboy who objects to Muslims in his class will be disliked and dealt with. There can never be racism, the series always implies. On any TV show, the illegal alien or refugee is never sent back. They always get to stay. It is simply a statement of our new, secular religion. (There is one exception. In Seinfeld, Jerry’s attempts to save Baboo, a Pakistani, from being deported, fail due to his and his friend’s screw-ups and self-obsessions — but that’s about it.)
William Pierce, when writing about Jewish control of America, argued in the end that the system would collapse because it would become overloaded with crises that its elite and ethos couldn’t finesse, repress, or buy their way out of. He compared this crisis to someone doing an act spinning plates on sticks, and running back and forth to keep them up. Eventually there would be too many plates spinning at once to keep under control, and the system would break down here and there. Then, suddenly, everything stops.
But if the country collapsed, would the war against terrorism continue? Suppose that in some perverted manner, America’s economy went bust; the infrastructure is overburdened by welfare payments; a hundred or more special interest groups are taking a cut of the budget — any budget, every budget. Your budget. The lights would dim, or wink off and on. Yet, the deep state would continue, seize what industry was left (perhaps suck up what’s left of Europe’s industry and relocate it here), and mobilize those Missouri Listeners into some kind of phalanx supplemented — or watched — by mercenaries. A newly-integrated corps of migrants led by BlackRock or Executive Outcome types. The country’s worst urban sewers would simply be walled up, and wars for freedom, fighting terrorism, and so on would continue from some well-guard facilities — probably nestled among the scattered, rural enclaves of Missouri Listeners.
Allman in particular liked Trump’s unpredictability and cockiness. It kept the world on edge and afraid of us. As Jamie said, “When Trump was President, nothing happened in the Ukraine, because if Putin had tried something, Trump would have said, ‘You move into Ukraine and Moscow becomes an ashtray.’” Yet the savage Jewish reaction to Hamas, as well as the equally blunt reaction against the massive demonstrations here in America, have created a popular movement that, for now, is hard to put down or appease. The talk-show types equate students with those “savages” who are threatening civilization. But slowly, more and more people are no longer quite so subservient to the usual bowing to Israel; not after seeing thousands of civilians slaughtered in Gaza.
The Missouri Listeners are the last group in America who will go to war for anything, at any time, against anyone. A vacuum is opening and adding another spinning plate to America’s social chaos. But even Missouri Listeners aren’t all that excited about dying for Israel (unless it will be in the true American fashion: bombing the crap out of somewhere far away). Talk radio and its adherents seem to be another sign that their biggest supporters are Baby Boomers, and the Boomers are passing away. Netanyahu and his supporters understand that their chance of seizing the land from the Nile to the Euphrates needs to be completed soon, because American military support is essential to deal once and all with the “savages.”
While Allman and his crowd whoop up war against Muslims, the ruling class has its own savages to contend with: us angry whites, or “Deplorables.” Certainly the establishment is more than happy riding us like a rented mule, especially if we pursue more boisterous means of change than voting harder. The inability of these talkies to connect the dots back to who really plans and instigates wars and social crises for America is the great problem of our time. The popularity and acceptance of the government’s sponsored them of the moment is disheartening. The idea that elements in America and its global upper-class allies may be creating these crises is never examined. Certainly, the American system, and especially its conservatives, is dutifully warlike. Nikki Haley recently visited Israel, happily writing “Finish them!” and “America Loves Israel” on artillery shells meant for Gaza. Hailey is an Indian — the curry kind, not the buffalo hunters. But this is equal opportunity aggression.
As for Jamie Allman, he was yanked off the air again a couple of months ago with no prelude, and then became a media non-person. Why?
There was speculation by his Leftist enemies that he had shot his mouth off one too many times and that it was time to go. Also, FM 104.9 has one of the lowest ratings in the St. Louis market and the station probably couldn’t get advertisers because of Allman. As it was, Allman was the only local host, and he was replaced by syndicated host Michael DelGiorno, and Glenn Beck got an extra hour as well. Thus, “Patriot Radio” is essentially canned conservatism. But Allman always seems to bounce back. And we are waiting for what may be the time when the suits are nearing the limits of their power and the people are nearing the limits of their patience. A time when the spinning plates finally start crashing . . . . it may be our chance. Not the conservatives . . . us.
Let’s hope the Missouri Listeners are thinking as well as listening.
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I must say, this Allman fellow certainly can’t be faulted for lack of thumos, but he really needs to figure out who’s who and what’s what. He’s like the muggle conservative guy on Murdoch Murdoch who ends every sentence with a chirp from a squeaky toy.
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