'Golden-Voice' Man Credit's God for Redemption

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...

Homeless Man with Golden Voice is Actually a Druggie Deadbeat Dad
As usual, the Mainstream Media are a mile wide and an inch deep.  They have made a media sensation out of someone who is a despicable loser, crook and irresponsible parent.    I have not sunk to such depths as this jerk Ted Williams.  Why can’t normal people like ME, with radio experience and who needs a GOOD full-time job, get a job with the Cleveland Cavaliers?   Why does it have to be an undeserving dreg of society who deserves a “second chance&#...

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,&...

Turns Out the Homeless Man with the Golden Voice Had a Home to go to All Along ...
A Viral Video vaulted Ted Williams and his golden voice to fame, but the real hero of this story is the woman he left behind. Patricia Kirtley raised four daughters alone after Williams split 23 years ago and dove down the rabbit hole of drugs. Not only that, Kirtley took in the baby boy the radioman had with another woman and raised him as her own. Oh, and by the way, she's partially blind. "We survived," Kirtley said Thursday in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. "My Children are survivors. They know if we g...

Ted Williams: My Time with the Homeless Man with the Golden Voice
I met Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden voice who became a viral sensation, in a high-class dope den just before his descent into the world of Addiction. He struck me as one cool dude even back then. By Mansfield Frazier...

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...

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...

Sour note for man with golden voice sparks
A feel-good story about a Homeless man with a radio-voice from heaven has been soured by a war of words between two American broadcast networks. Ted Williams, a former DJ who had fallen on hard times, was a roadside beggar until a video of his singing went viral, bringing him more job offers and interview requests than there are stations on the dial. Now CBS is accusing NBC of blocking a meeting it had set up with his mother, Julia, whom he had not seen for 10 years. NBC claims its rival has sab...

Sour note for man with golden voice
A feel-good story about a Homeless man with a radio-voice from heaven has been soured by a war of words between two American broadcast networks. Ted Williams, a former DJ who had fallen on hard times, was a roadside beggar until a video of his singing went viral, bringing him more job offers and interview requests than there are stations on the dial. Now CBS is accusing NBC of blocking a meeting it had set up with his mother, Julia, whom he had not seen for 10 years. NBC claims its rival has sab...

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

Radio industry voices approval, frustration at Ted Williams story
There is no doubt that Ted Williams has an amazing voice. It's a voice that only belongs behind a microphone announcing a Basketball game, voicing an Infomercial, reading the news or reminiscing with us on our favorite oldies station. And who doesn't love a story about someone getting a second chance at life? It's inspiring to know that when we might need that second chance or if we are looking for one right now, there's hope. To see the outpouring of jobs, opportunities and ...

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 ...

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Ted Williams, the Homeless guy from Columbus, Ohio with a golden voice got his life changed by the Internet! A dude with a camera asked him to make good on displaying the “God Given GIft” advertised on his begging sign, and Mr. Williams, a former radio announcer whose life went sour when he turned to Alcohol and drug, delivered. The video was put on the internet, and the whole world got to listen to Ted’s talent. Within a day the Viral Video has been seen over 3 million times, ...

Nagging Questions As Ted Williams Saga Unfolds
In this photo taken in late December, 2010, Ted Williams holds a sign advertising his smooth radio voice near a highway ramp in Columbus, Ohio. Why come to grips with a big, messy social problem like Homelessness? So much easier — isn’t it? — to shower job offers, cash payments and network-TV time on one Homeless guy who happens to have a really nice voice? This is perfect: the low-cost, feel-good way of addressing America’s nagging ills, just in time for the small-govern...

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, ...

Will Fame Hurt Ted Williams?
(CBS) A few days ago, Ted Williams was a down-on-his-luck, Homeless panhandler on the side of a Columbus, Ohio interstate highway ramp. But then a reporter who had "discovered" the "man with the velvet voice" and made a video of Williams demonstrating his golden pipes put the video online. It's lured more than 13 million hits. On Wednesday, Williams sat down for an exclusive interview on "The Early Show." The rest, as they say, is history. Williams, 53, has been flooded with job offers, voice...

Homeless Man With 'Golden Radio Voice' Gets His Chance
The Homeless man with the "golden radio voice" wanted a second chance -- and did he ever get it. As soon as Ted Williams, a panhandler who became an online hit after video of him begging on an Ohio roadside was posted to the Internet, appeared on a local Radio Show this morning the offers began pouring in -- including a dream job with the Cleveland Cavaliers and a free house. "The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!," repeated a stunned Williams...

Ted Williams And His Golden Voice Are Headed To NYC!
America, we did it! The Homeless man that was interviewed by a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch—Brooklyn Native Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice—now has a slew of job opportunities, and will be in New York later today to make at least one big television appearance. Williams says he has the "God-given gift of a great voice" (he really does!) and that his life took a bad turn when he got into drugs and Alcohol—but now that he's over two years clean, he's been adver...

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...

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...

Conservative talk radio weekly recap: Jan 3-7
My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up! Enjoy FREE audio and video highlights from the week in conservative talk radio. Top stories include: Who got called "the Larry Flynt of talk radio" by Alec Baldwin? CLICK HERE for more. PLUS: Glenn Beck's latest hire -- former HuffPo CEO Betsy Morgan! -- grants an intriguing if jargon-stuffed interview to Forbes , explaining why she made the switch:The other thing I’ll say is it was very deliberate in the Press Release to talk about The Blaze...

The Man with the Golden Voice on the Jimmy Fallon Show Video 1/7/11
Here is video of “The Man with the Golden Voice” - Ted Williams - appearing on Jimmy Fallon. He announced that he is now the voice of “Kraft Foods,” and a new ad he just cut for them will appear this weekend during the “Huddle for Hunger Bowl” Game between Nebraska-Boston College. Below is video of him opening the show: ...

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...

Greg Archer: 'Stop Dieting and Start Loving Yourself!'
Shut up, and eat something. No, really. Do it. I swear, it's good for you. Blasphemy? After all, we've barely emerged from the dawn of 2011 and shouldn't we all be going on a diet? Shouldn't we all be restricting our food so we can be, look and feel "skinny." Yawn. Have a cupcake on Sunday and get back to me. I assure I'm telling you this for a very good reason. Part of it is because I need to remind myself the very same thing, which is: most diets don't work. This is one of the themes address...

Ted Williams and His Mother Finally Reunite
Ted Williams reunites with his mother (Doral Chenoweth/Columbus Dispatch via the AP) NEXT » Prior to his Today show appearance this morning, Ted Williams (the man with the golden voice) was going to finally reunite with his 90-year-old mother, Julia Williams. The reunion was to take place at the airport, where Early Show co-anchor Chris Wragge accompanied Julia, who hasn't seen her son—who has been Homeless and panhandling in Ohio—in over almost 20 years. The reunion didn't h...