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Why did he REALLY leave the Tom Joyner Morning Show? What does he REALLY think about Senator Barack Obama personally and politically…and do they communicate on any level? Is he envious of Obama’s popularity and status? Did he EVER endorse Senator Hillary Clinton?

In this exclusive interview and extended conversation with The Mo’Kelly Report…Tavis tells his side. Decide for yourself what to make of it. No speculation, no innuendo…just his words. Some of which you’ve likely heard before, some you definitely have not. Of course not everyone will be pleased, satisfied or will wish to further parse Smiley’s answers…but at the minimum, he’s now officially on the record.

For those reading in a feedreader, click HERE to listen to the interview. For those visiting http://mokellyreport.blogspot.com, push right arrow on player below.

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Set your clocks as Tavis Smiley gives an exclusive interview to The Mo’Kelly Report…and tells it ALL. Now Mo’Kelly knows what you’re thinking…”just how ‘honest’ of an interview will this be and just how direct will the questions from Mo’Kelly be given the professional association?

Just trust Mo’Kelly.

And yes, Tavis gives “interviews” all the time, but rarely do hosts ask the questions folks like you and I want him to answer. To that end…

Friday October 3rd, 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Mo’Kelly and Tavis go through ALL the dramas, all the controversies, all the rumors, all the BS.

Specifically:

* What REALLY happened when Tavis decided to leave the Tom Joyner Morning Show and the precipitating events that led up to it. Some of which you’ve heard, but definitely most of this you have not.

* What REALLY happened during the “Obama chronicles”…what Tavis REALLY thinks and feels about Senator Obama personally and politically. And how often did they communicate with one-another during Obama’s campaign, if at all, outside of interviews?

And no…you will not have heard this anywhere. ANYWHERE.

* Who Tavis REALLY is endorsing for President…(if anyone). And whether he EVER endorsed or is beholden to the Clintons.

Any number of days Tavis and I would talk about the “issues” of the day, jousting back and forth. Make no mistake, we philosophically disagree about as often as we agree. What you’ll hear in this conversation is more a recapitulation of other “private” conversations we’ve had over recent months.

And we always agreed that the conversations had amongst people “off the air” (like Jesse’s unfortunate remarks…even though he “thought” he was “off” the air) are always better than the on-air discussions. I had said to Tavis on multiple occasions that people have no idea what the “real deal is” they just don’t know…be it good or bad. Most of what’s printed in the blogosphere is editorial and speculation (not all)…but most of it. Even still, there were some recurrent questions and formulations that weren’t ever borne out of fact or even semi-factual information.

Knowing this…

Under the guise of doing an interview “to promote his new Tom Joyner Morning Show CD collection set, Mo’Kelly took the opportunity to also ask the direct and detailed questions that all of us (ALL OF US) have had over this past election cycle. To a degree, Mo’Kelly set up Tavis. It was the only way to insure the integrity of the interview. Tavis does not know going into this interview what Mo’Kelly is going to ask…beyond the genesis of the new CD set. His answers are both authentic and in Mo’Kelly’s estimation sincere.

Friday October 3rd, 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Mo’Kelly and Tavis go through ALL the dramas, all the controversies, all the rumors, all the BS.

INTERVIEW IS NOW POSTED HERE

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.mokellyreport.blogspot.com.

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Help Bring Mo’Kelly to National Radio HERE

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Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at mokellyreport@sbcglobal.net and he welcomes all commentary.

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Set your clocks as Tavis Smiley gives an exclusive interview to The Mo’Kelly Report…and tells it ALL. Now Mo’Kelly knows what you’re thinking…”just how ‘honest’ of an interview will this be and just how direct will the questions from Mo’Kelly be given the professional association?

Just trust Mo’Kelly.

And yes, Tavis gives “interviews” all the time, but rarely do hosts ask the questions folks like you and I want him to answer. To that end…

Friday October 3rd, 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Mo’Kelly and Tavis go through ALL the dramas, all the controversies, all the rumors, all the BS.

Specifically:

* What REALLY happened when Tavis decided to leave the Tom Joyner Morning Show and the precipitating events that led up to it. Some of which you’ve heard, but definitely most of this you have not.

* What REALLY happened during the “Obama chronicles”…what Tavis REALLY thinks and feels about Senator Obama personally and politically. And how often did they communicate with one-another during Obama’s campaign, if at all, outside of interviews?

And no…you will not have heard this anywhere. ANYWHERE.

* Who Tavis REALLY is endorsing for President…(if anyone). And whether he EVER endorsed or is beholden to the Clintons.

Any number of days Tavis and I would talk about the “issues” of the day, jousting back and forth. Make no mistake, we philosophically disagree about as often as we agree. What you’ll hear in this conversation is more a recapitulation of other “private” conversations we’ve had over recent months.

And we always agreed that the conversations had amongst people “off the air” (like Jesse’s unfortunate remarks…even though he “thought” he was “off” the air) are always better than the on-air discussions. I had said to Tavis on multiple occasions that people have no idea what the “real deal is” they just don’t know…be it good or bad. Most of what’s printed in the blogosphere is editorial and speculation (not all)…but most of it. Even still, there were some recurrent questions and formulations that weren’t ever borne out of fact or even semi-factual information.

Knowing this…

Under the guise of doing an interview “to promote his new Tom Joyner Morning Show CD collection set, Mo’Kelly took the opportunity to also ask the direct and detailed questions that all of us (ALL OF US) have had over this past election cycle. To a degree, Mo’Kelly set up Tavis. It was the only way to insure the integrity of the interview. Tavis does not know going into this interview what Mo’Kelly is going to ask…beyond the genesis of the new CD set. His answers are both authentic and in Mo’Kelly’s estimation sincere.

Friday October 3rd, 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Mo’Kelly and Tavis go through ALL the dramas, all the controversies, all the rumors, all the BS.

INTERVIEW IS NOW POSTED HERE

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

Subscribe in a reader or by email

Help Bring Mo’Kelly to National Radio HERE

Visit Mo’Kelly’s GIFT SHOP HERE

Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at Mo@MrMoKelly.com and he welcomes all commentary.

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Mo’Kelly engineered this 4-CD set of Tavis Smiley’s best Tom Joyner Morning Show commentaries…so yes, Mo’Kelly is more than slightly proud of himself. Mo’Kelly is a mixmaster, you didn’t know? Cuttin’, scratchin’ and blending together the best of the last four years of Tavis Smiley’s comedic (and of course controversial) commentaries on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

From the “Obama Chronicles” to “Checking the Clintons,” to even the origin of the Covenant movement, it’s all there. Tavis makes you laugh, Tavis pisses you off…but ultimately Tavis makes you think. Trust me, we verbally do battle on any number issues on a daily basis as we often disagree…but ultimately, he requires us to think.

The 4-CD set encapsulates the ups and downs of this past election cycle in the form of an audio chronology; a nice lead into the November 4th general election .

Real, real good stuff. And yes, I’m biased because I edited and engineered every piece of audio contained on it.

And no, Mo’Kelly is not getting “a cut” of the sales proceeds, so don’t even go there. Mo’Kelly just likes promoting his production work. Mo’Kelly is all about Mo’Kelly.

(Speaking of which…enjoy the audio teaser reel…). You can PRE-order (4CDs 4+ hours, under $17)…

The set is available nationwide on Oct. 15th.

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

Subscribe in a reader or by email

Help Bring Mo’Kelly to National Radio HERE

Visit Mo’Kelly’s GIFT SHOP HERE

Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at Mo@MrMoKelly.com and he welcomes all commentary.

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UPDATE 12.15.08 – Underwood hospitalized, organization argues over interim replacement
Click HERE
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UPDATE 7.31.08 – Mo’Kelly has NEWS!!

Lawsuit has been filed…click HERE
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Here is Sheryl’s “side” of the story. Remember, The Mo’Kelly Report broke this story. Tom Joyner (an Omega) asks questions here in which he ALREADY knows the answers, don’t get it twisted. He doesn’t let Underwood run from the reality that this is a “controversy.” And note, Underwood claims there is NO investigation with the election. She said it TWICE. Somebody is lying.

Get the audio HERE

Although you’d tried to clown today Sheryl…let the record reflect that irrespective of any “credentials” you listed on the TJMS show today…the truth doesn’t change. 13 year-old girls don’t know you for your professional “duality”…they know you for your vulgar comedy about sucking d#$@% and having your p#$%(@ eaten. The fact that you had to go on a national radio program to list your “credentials” is proof that the nation doesn’t know (or care) about your credentials. If you had to “tell” everybody about them, then ipso facto…you’re not KNOWN for them.

You are KNOWN as a vulgar comedian. Your work as a comedian has “touched” more people than as a “community leader.” And “community leader” is a stretch to begin with.

Mo’Kelly doesn’t need to be a Zeta to know for a fact that Underwood is not a representation of “finer womanhood.” There are some things that just “are” not what we would hope for them to be. Mo’Kelly isn’t a citizen of Zimbabwe either but he damn sure knows that Mugabe must go. Mo’Kelly’s never been to Darfur but we should be able to agree that genocide is not ok.

You can glue chicken feathers on that chinchilla all day long. It’s not ever going to be a chicken and Mo’Kelly is not ever going to want it as part of his 2-piece and biscuit meal. It’s a chinchilla…and Sheryl Underwood is a horrible representation of Black womanhood. One can find a foul-mouthed, self-loathing “sorority member” in each and every NPHC sorority. None of these members should be leading the way. So don’t take it “personally” Sheryl…Mo’Kelly wouldn’t want you OR anyone LIKE you at the top.

And that’s the triple truth…Ruth.

FROM THE ARCHIVES
* Re: Juanita Bynum – Here Am I, Send Me

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.mokellyreport.blogspot.com.

Subscribe in a reader or by email

Help Bring Mo’Kelly to National Radio HERE

Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at mokellyreport@sbcglobal.net and he welcomes all commentary.

UPDATE 12.15.08 – Underwood hospitalized, organization argues over interim replacement
Click HERE
___________________
UPDATE 7.31.08 – Mo’Kelly has NEWS!!

Lawsuit has been filed…click HERE
____________________________

Here is Sheryl’s “side” of the story. Remember, The Mo’Kelly Report broke this story. Tom Joyner (an Omega) asks questions here in which he ALREADY knows the answers, don’t get it twisted. He doesn’t let Underwood run from the reality that this is a “controversy.” And note, Underwood claims there is NO investigation with the election. She said it TWICE. Somebody is lying.

Get the audio HERE

Although you’d tried to clown today Sheryl…let the record reflect that irrespective of any “credentials” you listed on the TJMS show today…the truth doesn’t change. 13 year-old girls don’t know you for your professional “duality”…they know you for your vulgar comedy about sucking d#$@% and having your p#$%(@ eaten. The fact that you had to go on a national radio program to list your “credentials” is proof that the nation doesn’t know (or care) about your credentials. If you had to “tell” everybody about them, then ipso facto…you’re not KNOWN for them.

You are KNOWN as a vulgar comedian. Your work as a comedian has “touched” more people than as a “community leader.” And “community leader” is a stretch to begin with.

Mo’Kelly doesn’t need to be a Zeta to know for a fact that Underwood is not a representation of “finer womanhood.” There are some things that just “are” not what we would hope for them to be. Mo’Kelly isn’t a citizen of Zimbabwe either but he damn sure knows that Mugabe must go. Mo’Kelly’s never been to Darfur but we should be able to agree that genocide is not ok.

You can glue chicken feathers on that chinchilla all day long. It’s not ever going to be a chicken and Mo’Kelly is not ever going to want it as part of his 2-piece and biscuit meal. It’s a chinchilla…and Sheryl Underwood is a horrible representation of Black womanhood. One can find a foul-mouthed, self-loathing “sorority member” in each and every NPHC sorority. None of these members should be leading the way. So don’t take it “personally” Sheryl…Mo’Kelly wouldn’t want you OR anyone LIKE you at the top.

And that’s the triple truth…Ruth.

FROM THE ARCHIVES
* Re: Juanita Bynum – Here Am I, Send Me

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

Subscribe in a reader or by email

Help Bring Mo’Kelly to National Radio HERE

Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at Mo@MrMoKelly.com and he welcomes all commentary.

Tavis Smiley in his first radio commentary on the Tom Joyner Morning Show since Joyner announced that Smiley had resigned, publicly addressed his reasons for leaving as well as put to rest some concerns as to any underlying circumstances that may have impacted his decision.

(To hear the audio below, you must visit www.mokellyreport.blogspot.com, the audio is not available in a reader or in the email blast.)

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Tavis Smiley Commentary on the Tom Joyner Morning Show

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

There is no way to put into words the love and respect that I have for Tom Joyner or the love

affair that I’ve had with Tom Joyner Morning Show listeners for almost 12 years now.

Tom’s announcement last Friday about my decision to leave this morning show at the end of

June came, I suspect, as a surprise to you and, honestly, as a shock to me. I had no idea that my

dear friend Tom Joyner was going to share with you Friday morning what we had just discussed

barely 12 hours earlier Thursday evening. But I have accepted Tom’s apology and that is for me,

now, old business.

You see, even when you take issue with his methodology, it’s hard for me to have any sustained

angst or anger with the man. The man who almost 12 years ago realized that I had a little

something to say and that HE had a platform on which I could say it.

Here again, words cannot convey my abiding appreciation, my deep gratitude for the man who

allowed me to express myself: before BET, before NPR, before PBS, before PRI (Public Radio

International), before my New York Times best selling books, before my own imprint

SmileyBooks, before my High Quality Speakers Bureau, before … well, I think you get my

point.

Sometimes I joke that my life is really divided into two periods, “BT” and “AT”, “Before Tom”

and “After Tom”. On the real, I’d take a bullet for Tom Joyner. Not in my heart, maybe in my arm …my left

arm… maybe in my leg! Not in my heart, but I would take a bullet for Tom Joyner. I love this

brother.

But if finding a love language to tell you how I feel about Tom Joyner is a challenge this

morning, then you better believe that trying to express how I feel about YOU, each and every

one of you, is next to impossible. And you know that I am never speechless. I pray that by the

end of June when I transition out of this Tuesday/Thursday sacred and consecrated space – that’s

what it is for me – I hope by then, I will have found the words to describe and an appropriate

way to thank you for 12 years of putting love in my heart, hope in my soul and a smile on my

face.

In July I will celebrate 12 years as the resident political commentator and social critic on this

radio program.
Twelve years of 3 AM wakeup calls. Twelve years of asking questions,

addressing topics, raising issues, profiling people and places. Twelve years of challenging us to

re-examine the assumptions that we hold. Twelve years of trying to expand our inventory of

ideas. Twelve years of standing on my square, trying to lead by loving, trying to save by

serving. Twelve years of love and service.

Now, I realized a long time ago that you’re never rewarded for virtue, so, I’ve just tried to tell the

truth as I see it, even when you didn’t agree. I can almost guarantee that between now and the

to the end of June, you’re going to fall out with me again! That said, I always prefer light, but you

better believe that I can take the heat. I always prefer light, ALWAYS prefer light, but you can best believe that I can take the heat.

Twelve years of never taking an opinion poll, never putting my finger to the wind to test what

might be the acceptable, politically correct, popular thing to say. Twelve years of asking God to

give me the courage to say and do what I think is right, even when I think it’s hopeless.

I was just past the age of 30 when I started with Tom. I’m now 43. I wasn’t a math major, but I

think 43 and 43 equals 86. Given the life expectancy of Black men, and let’s be honest for that

matter, Black women, I now have more years behind me than I have in front of me.

We tend to not like to think about mortality, especially when we’re 43 years young. But this

isn’t really about mortality as much as it is about reality. My granddad used to say to me all the

time, “Tavis, the best ideas in Black America can be found in the graveyard.”

For so long as a child I didn’t quite get that. I do now. So many of us go to our graves with

good ideas that we never did anything about. You see, death may come like a thief in the night,

but it cannot steal the love you’ve already given away.

And so, every year on my birthday I spend time reflecting how I did with the goals that I set for

myself last year. And I spend time wrestling with what I’d like to accomplish over the next year

of my life. Not New Year’s resolutions, but on my natal day.

Big Mama always told me, “Tavis, you can do anything, but son you can’t do everything.” Big

Mama, as usual, was right.

And so, I find myself having to clean some stuff off my plate so that I can pursue certain other

passion projects which require, at this point in my life, a deeper commitment on my part. We are

in the process now of doing not one, not two, but three documentaries. One directed by the

Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme. I’ll tell you more about that later.

Another documentary, already in development, takes a microscopic look, a no-holds barred look,

at what happens in our communities when the few hospitals that are serving our people close

down. It’s starting to happen all across the country.

We’re also working on America I Am: The African American Imprint on America. We

talked about this at the State of the Black Union, but this is the biggest, baddest, boldest, Black

exhibit ever created. Imagine, 15,000 square feet. It’s a massive exhibit that tells the story of

our imprint on America.

W.E.B. DuBois asked the question, “Would America have been America without her Negro

people?” It’s about time 400 years later that we put together an exhibit that will travel the

country, for five years, to major cities, that tells the story of our imprint on America. We’re

about to announce in just a few weeks where that exhibit will kick off this fall. That

announcement will be made right here on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

SmileyBooks. As a kid, I grew up reading Dr. Cornel West. I am now blessed to publish Dr.

West. His next book, called Hope On A Tightrope is coming out this Fall.

I mentioned my birthday earlier. I share my birthday with a dear sister named Iyanla Vanzant.

Iyanla’s next book, Tapping the Power Within (20th Anniversary edition) is coming out this

Fall as well on SmileyBooks. I owe it to them to help put their books on the list as well.

The Accountable book, the last book in the Covenant trilogy. Accountable is about making the

Covenant real. You don’t know the work that goes into putting these books together. We got the

first two on the list and made America take notice of The Covenant and The Covenant In

Action. We can’t come up short on this last book, holding the new President and leaders across

the country accountable to making the Covenant real. That book is coming out in February.

Speaking of February, next year is the 10th anniversary of the State of the Black Union

symposium. It’s because of Tom Joyner and this platform that we created the State of the Black

Union. It is now the most watched program on C-Span and the most requested DVD every year.

We’ve got a lot of work to do to celebrate this Anniversary the way it ought to be celebrated.

Next year is also the 10th anniversary of the Tavis Smiley Foundation, working to empower

young people around the issue of leadership development.

I’ve got the two major party conventions back-to-back this summer – Democrats in Denver

followed the next week by the Republicans in Minneapolis.

None of this includes my day jobs! I’ve got a television show every night on PBS, I’ve got a

radio show on PRI (Public Radio International) where we’re about to start a wonderful series

called “My America 2008”. There’s a lot of stuff on my plate. I’ve got to move some of the

stuff off my plate to concentrate on these new passion projects.

And so, 12 years later, this platform, the Tom Joyner Morning Show, has provided a space for

my gift from God to make room for itself. My gift has made room for itself and so will yours.

Put another way, the more you do, the more you can do.

And so, I’m excited
about the opportunity to bear witness and to share our story with a broader

audience of Americans who need to be enlightened, encouraged and empowered by our story.

I’ve committed to help Tom identify the person, who will take these reins on Tuesday and

Thursday mornings, through an exciting process which Tom and I will roll out for you just a

little bit later. A process that you, the listener, will be involved in to help select my successor.

Finally, it seems to me, that if being Black is about anything, then it ought to be about Black folk

giving other Black folk a chance to grow, a chance to succeed. My definition of success is

simple: “How many other folk did you help make successful?”

So, Tom Joyner, 12 years ago knew that I had something to say, but needed a platform on which

to say it. Somewhere there’s somebody else 12 years later who has something to say but needs a

platform. The time has come.

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

Subscribe in a reader or by email

Morris W. O’Kelly can be reached at Mo@MrMoKelly.com and he welcomes all commentary.