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MSNBC Hires Homeless Man With a Murky Past As New Voice
Ted Williams the homeless man with the “golden throat” has now become the voice for MSNBC’s new Lean Forward campaign has a bit of a murky history.
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Joanna Molloy at the Daily News has a piece on Patricia Kirtley, the ex-wife of media darling Ted Williams, in today’s paper. Kirtley’s tale is one that has been glossed over, but it’s one that should be told if we’re all going to celebrate Williams as much as we have.
23 years ago Williams abandoned Kirtley and their four young daughters when he got caught up in the addictive world of drugs and alcohol. Kirtley, who is partially blind, then raised the girls, and another son Williams had with a different woman, mostly by herself. She tells Molloy that her sisters and mother helped in any way they could, including driving her and her kids places because Kirtley isn’t allowed to drive.
Here is the MSNBC press release;
“GOLDEN-VOICED” HOMELESS MAN TED WILLIAMS TO RECORD VOICE-OVERS FOR MSNBC
NEW YORK – January 6, 2011 – In light of the inspiring story of the “golden-voiced homeless man” Ted Williams, MSNBC announced Williams is recording voiceovers for its Lean Forward campaign, which will begin airing this evening.
Williams’s remarkable story of overcoming difficult circumstances and turning his life around embodies the very same American ideals that the Lean Forward campaign seeks to highlight.
Oops! It looks like instead of leaning forward MSNBC has taken a giant step backwards.
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4 Comments for MSNBC Hires Homeless Man With a Murky Past As New Voice
On the bright side, maybe having a trained voice will count for something in broadcasting again. When I first got into radio, everyone tried to sound like that.
I never waste time on any television, it is all mind control. This guy does have a voice though! Wow.
Like the man said,,the voice does NOT match up with the body or looks. Radio IS the ‘Theater of the Mind”
We as Americans always root for the underdog & our generosity as a people also root for a man on the ‘Comeback Trail’.
He has a God given talent & if he stays clean,,I hope he makes it,,wherever
that may be. Besides, there are not enough Baritones in the world,haha
Still wont ever be watching it becuase like the rest of the main-stream left-wing news media their still a bunch of soundrels and cads