Bronx Residents Also Angry About Homeless Invasion

Ex-wife: 'Golden voice' no help with kids
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Ted Williams, a Homeless Ohio man whose "golden voice" has given him a second chance, did little to help raise his Children, his ex-wife says. Patricia Kirtley told the New York Daily News she raised their four daughters and even had her sisters take in children he had with another woman. "We survived," Kirtley, who is partially blind, said Thursday in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. "My children are survivors. They know if we get a little bit that God provides we make it...

Mother and Son Reunion "Like a Dream"
Like this Story? Share it: (CBS) (NEW YORK) -- From Homeless to famous in just a few days. And reunited with his mother. Ted Williams, the man with the velvet voice, and his mom, Julia Williams, finally got to lay eyes on each other after more than a decade apart yesterday afternoon, and hug and hug, and cry. "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!" Ted said as he approached her. It was all caught by "Early Show" cameras. Both sat down with "Early Show" co-anchors Erica Hill and Chris Wragge today. Seeing Ted ...

Watch Golden Voiced Homeless Dude Ted Williams Intro Guests For Jimmy Fallon
It has been roughly 12 hours since our last post on Ted Williams (aka the “Golden Voiced Homeless Man“), but please do not worry. All of your Ted Williams’ needs will be sated with the following video of the Brooklyn native introducing last night’s slate of guests next to The Roots for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Has anyone noticed that since Mr. Williams discovery on a street corner in Columbus, Ohio, birds and fish have started dying off? Not saying that there is a c...

Video: Ted Williams - Homeless Man with the Golden Voice:
A real feel good story. After his video went viral Ted Williams, a Homeless man from Cleveland, OH was hired on by WNCI. From the Streets to the Airwaves. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Please Support COMMON CENTS by doing your Christmas Shopping here. Thank You!! Watermark template. Powered by Blogger. ...

Golden Voice Ted Williams Interviewed on 'Today Show'
If this clip gets removed the NBC video is at the link: "Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden voice, does 'Today' show." Also at Althouse. Previously : "Golden Voice — UPDATED!! Ted Williams Lands Job With Cleveland Cavaliers!" Related : "'Hi Mommy': The emotional reunion between 'Golden Voice' beggar and his 92-year-old mother after ten years." ...

Advice To Golden-Voiced Ted Williams: Listen To Your Mom
What is this? Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden voice who's gone from the streets of Columbus, Ohio, to nationwide fame this week because of a Columbus Dispatch video, made another appearance on NBC's Today Show this morning — this time with his 90-year-old mother Julia. As we've reported, they were reunited yesterday (after 10 years apart, not 20 as previously thought). Today, they talked about his years of Drug Abuse, petty crime and Homelessness and the shame they brought o...

Andy Borowitz: My Idea of a Heartwarming Story
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - If you'll pardon me for being serious for a moment, here's my idea of a heartwarming story: A Homeless man with no special talent gets our compassion anyway. The Ted Williams story is, of course, riveting and hopeful. But the nation's fascination with it has nothing to do with our capacity for empathy and everything to do with our Addiction to instant celebrity. The coverage has also been shockingly patronizing. People have been amazed to learn that a Homeless ...

Ted Williams' Reunion With His Mother Delayed By Networks (VIDEO)
The reunion of golden-voiced Homeless man Ted Williams and the mother he had not seen for ten years was delayed by behind-the-scenes network wrangling over who would film the event. NBC and CBS were engaged in a fierce war over Williams, whose story has captivated people since a video of him using his smooth baritone while asking for money went viral earlier in the week. CBS had scored the first interview with Williams (via satellite Wednesday), but then NBC managed to get him on a flight from...

Forget the Homeless Radio Guy, Actual Hero Is His Ex-Wife
Photo: Today Show/NBC While the rest of the world cooed and melted over the story of Ted Williams's unexpected ascent from Homeless man with a talent for radio to Viral Video sensation and Cleveland Cavaliers announcer, we also sobbed gently into our keyboard remained unmoved. Sure this was an uplifting instance of rare second chances and dreams coming true, but what about other Homeless people who aren't blessed with a golden voice? Where is the Internet on that, huh? Now tha...

Advice To Golden-Voiced Ted Williams: Listen To Your Mom
What is this? Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden voice who's gone from the streets of Columbus, Ohio, to nationwide fame this week because of a Columbus Dispatch video, made another appearance on NBC's Today Show this morning — this time with his 90-year-old mother Julia. As we've reported, they were reunited yesterday (after 10 years apart, not 20 as previously thought). Today, they talked about his years of Drug Abuse, petty crime and Homelessness and the shame they brought o...

Former Homeless Man Gets a Break
It’s not political, but a story simply too remarkable not to cover. The reunion after a 20 year absence was touching, but it’s already started for Ted Williams, whose golden voice has opened up a new chance for him to restart his life. He’s now even an announcer for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Network wrangling evidently delayed son meeting up with his 90 year-old mother. He recorded voiceovers for MSNBC’s “Lean Forward” campaign, appeared on the “TodayR...

Not to sound like a grump, but...
The story of the you-can't-make-this-up-named Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden pipes who has in just a few days gone from the street to media darlinghood, is a lovely one. But the insanity surrounding the multiple offers and the relentless media self-congratulation on giving a hidden gem the exposure warranted by a media that loves a resonant voice disguises the larger problem of Homelessness in this country. Mr. Williams, for all his golden voice, has a backstory that fits what mo...

Since When are Deadbeat Dads Pop Culture Icons?
By now you've all see the story of the Homeless guy with the great voice, Ted Williams, as he's been making the rounds on television. But for years we've been told what worthless lowlifes deadbeat fathers are. So why all of a sudden the change in attitude? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving people a second or third chance, but let's not overlook the fact the guy is a deadbeat who's left a trail of misery and a broken family. So before we all get all misty-eyed over his shot at redemption, ...

Selective Compassion and the Pathologies of Inequality
© Columbia Broadcasting System Ted Williams kisses his mom, Julia Williams, on The Early Show "We believe in second chances and second opportunities," declared the senior vice president for marketing from the Cleveland Cavaliers. This pronouncement accompanied the offer of an announcing job to Ted Williams, the Homeless man whose "golden" voice and impoverished visage went viral on a YouTube video. Beyond his elevation by the media to visible and viable economic status, Williams became a ...

So Much Unseen
Before Ted Williams hit the viral big time I had the original YouTube video linked on my Facebook page, for I hoped the evolution starkly demonstrated how easy it is to apparently see and classify a Homeless person as unemployable yet be completely blind to their talents and potential. For some reason Epistemology has been branded a “ten dollar word” of intellectual nerds, but it’s simply the process of answering the question how do you know what you know? Many times the answer induces mil

City Says It's Prepared for Friday's Snow
We’re watching the white flakes come down, and so is the Bloomberg administration. Snow Watch The mayor vows that the city is better prepared for a blast of snow forecast for Friday. [NYT] [New York Post] The mayor is still dealing with lower Approval Ratings in the wake of December’s blizzard. [Daily News] The president of New York City Transit, Thomas F. Prendergast, also pledged a “distinctly different” approach to Friday’s storm and canceled weekend constructi...

UWS Residents Oppose New Homeless Shelter
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — Residents on the Upper West Side were protesting another planned Homeless Shelter in their neighborhood. The concerned voiced their concerns at a community board meeting Tuesday night. The City plans to open a Homeless Shelter for 200 men at the Alexander Hotel on West 94th Street near West End Avenue. People in the neighborhood said the area is already saturated with shelters, Rehab centers and housing projects, and they worry another shelter will bring more problems. &...

Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Mayor Bloomberg: An Abject Failure
And it's snowing the city today and it's sticking ..... oyish. Another opportunity to show New Yorkers what an inept, self-aggrandizing asshat Doomberg is. Mayor Bloomberg: An Abject Failure Pamela Geller, American Thinker New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg continues to confound and betray the very constituency that elected this increasingly dangerous apologist and tool of the global Jihad. You can take the measure of a mayor by how he handles difficulty...like, say, snow.  I...

Council Speaker Chris Quinn: Budget Cuts Ahead
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was on the John Gambling show on WOR radio this morning, and said flat out that if Tax Cuts are not an option (which she says they no longer are), the city is going to have to cut. "You know, the truth is given that we are on ninth round of Budget cuts and that we face big cuts from Albany, there aren't any ideas as it relates to Budget cuts that are going to disappear and never come back," she said. "Look, we are not at a point anymore [w...

NYPD Investigates Fatal Attack On Elderly Bronx Woman
NEW YORK (CBS 2) - The hunt continued Thursday for the person behind the deadly stabbing of an elderly woman inside her home in The Bronx. As Magee Hickey reports, the woman spent her life trying to keep her neighborhood safe. Neighbors said 70-year-old Ethal Parish was a really well-known and well-liked resident of the Murphy Houses. For decades, they said she worked on the tenant patrol, checking who came in and out of her building. When she didn’t come to work Wednesday, police sa...

Homeless Ohio man with velvety voice back with mom
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Homeless man whose silky announcing voice has catapulted him to national fame reunited Thursday with his mother, recorded a commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and agreed to do voiceover work for MSNBC. Video posted by The Columbus Dispatch shows Ted Williams walking quickly toward his 90-year-old mother at their New York reunion. Williams says, “Hi, Mommy. Hi, Mommy,” when he sees her in a hotel for the first time in about 20 years. Brooklyn resi...

The viral story of the homeless man with the golden voice
Ted Williams - the Homeless man with the golden voice: In a matter of days the video went viral and Williams became the toast of New York: Via Greg Hengler on YouTube: Homeless Man Finds Love & Mercy, Thanks God For It The job offers kept pouring in, and he ended up doing "The Today Show:" Visit MSNBC.com for breaking news, world news, and news about The Economy Visit MSNBC.com for breaking news, world news, and news about The Economy Visit MSNBC.com for breaking news, world news, and news...

Homeless Video Star Offered Movie Role
(NewsCore) - Global sensation Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the pitch-perfect voice, has been offered a role in a Jack Nicholson movie, Entertainment Tonight reported Thursday. The 53-year-old Ohio man has been flooded with job offers after showcasing his pitch-perfect voice in a YouTube video recorded by a Columbus Dispatch reporter. He is currently weighing up an offer as an announcer for NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and was offered a commercial stint recording an ad for Kraft Macaroni & Ch...

To-Do List: The Suspicious Bagel Edition
To know : President Obama picked William Daley, who was the commerce secretary under President Clinton, as the next White House Chief of Staff, and is expected to appoint Gene Sperling, another Clinton-era Veteran, as the new head of his National Economic Council today. Unemployment fell in December to its Lowest Level since May 2009, from 9.8 to 9.4 per cent. And a Professor was arrested and removed from an airplane for having a “Suspicious Package” in the overhead compartment that ...

Silky-Voiced Homeless Man Copes With Sudden Fame
NEW YORK (CBS 2/AP) — A Homeless man from Ohio who quickly became a celebrity thanks to his smooth announcing voice indicates it’s been challenging dealing with the rush of fame. “I wanted a nerve pill yesterday, to be honest with you,” Ted Williams said Friday on CBS’ “Early Show.” The 53-year-old recovering addict said a psychologist talked him out of it. “She said, ‘Listen, you’re going to have to learn to meditate and not medicate,&...