{"id":7765,"date":"2013-07-24T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2013-07-24T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:10:23","slug":"president-obamas-war-on-black-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7765","title":{"rendered":"President Obama&#8217;s war on black leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good gang leader knows you have to take out your competition before they take you out.  Jessie Jackson Jr is sitting in a jail cell.  Travis Smiley was warned not to support Hillary in 2008 or there would be consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Black Talk radio host Warren Ballentine lost his network show overnight when the Obama DoJ decided to charge him with a pretty tenuous charge of signing client&#8217;s closing paperwork that turned out to not be accurate.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about Ballentine today and wondering if the case against him has gone forward.<\/p>\n<p>What I found was this pretty amazing talk about Obama&#8217;s war on black radio hosts, and the man who is putting Ballentine back on the air on a tiny network<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Empowerment Radio Network&#039;s David Anderson brings Warren Ballentine back to radio\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78WfepBTRpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bev Smith also got the boot about the same time.  I found out last night he has &#8220;returned&#8221; to radio on WWRL in New York &#8211; from 1-4 AM &#8211; but only on Monday AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good gang leader knows you have to take out your competition before they take you out. Jessie Jackson Jr is sitting in a jail cell. Travis Smiley was warned not to support Hillary in 2008 or there would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7765\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-radio-biz","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7770,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}