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Former movie critic and "moral values" figure who claimed ''Happy Feet'' (Rated PG) was part of the "[[Homosexual agenda|Gay Agenda]]" but was an "outspoken" defender of ''Passion of the Christ'' (Rated R). On the political front, though, he does not mince words when it comes to birthers, so may not be quite as crazy as some on yack radio in that regard. Medved has debated the progressive host [[Thom Hartmann]] on Medved's show<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebcLKFROC9s The Great Health Care Debate]</ref> and in a public debate sponsored by Chicago radio stations.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-lqk5w8jVc The Great Debate: Thom Hartmann vs Michael Medved (1/10)] (other parts are available by clicking on the number of videos)</ref> | Former movie critic and "moral values" figure who claimed ''Happy Feet'' (Rated PG) was part of the "[[Homosexual agenda|Gay Agenda]]" but was an "outspoken" defender of ''Passion of the Christ'' (Rated R). On the political front, though, he does not mince words when it comes to birthers, so may not be quite as crazy as some on yack radio in that regard. Medved has debated the progressive host [[Thom Hartmann]] on Medved's show<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebcLKFROC9s The Great Health Care Debate]</ref> and in a public debate sponsored by Chicago radio stations.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-lqk5w8jVc The Great Debate: Thom Hartmann vs Michael Medved (1/10)] (other parts are available by clicking on the number of videos)</ref> | ||
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Conservative talk radio in the United States is a phenomenon that got its start in the 1980's when the Fairness Doctrine was allowed to expire under President Reagan. This allowed broadcasters to present a political opinion or point of view or pundit without being required to allow equal time for alternative views or rebuttal. At the same time, AM radio was languishing in the shadow of the higher quality sound of FM, with no remarkable content to attract listeners.
Into this perfect storm of opportunity rode Rush Limbaugh, with his fiery and pseudo-intellectual brand of liberal-bashing and conservative talking points. He has since been followed by many other more or less successful pundits; likewise, the creation of the Fox News network created a televised haven for similar programs and personalities. The New York City radio station WABC is the flagship station for the most popular conservative hosts: Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin. Many stations (especially those like WABC owned by Citadel Broadcasting) have all those hosts' shows composing the schedule.
Liberal talk radio has been rather less successful; some speculate that this is because liberals are less likely to want their talking points predigested and spoonfed.
Personalities
Chuck Baldwin
Chuckie baby was the Constitution Party candidate for president in 2008. He believes in a New World Order, headed by globalists who killed JFK and caused 9/11. He is against abortion in all cases. A very hard-right winger indeed. No relation to Alec Baldwin.
Glenn Beck
GET OFF MY PHONE! You people just... GET OFF MY PHONE!!!
William Bennett
Right-wing moralist who served as Ronnie Raygun's Secretary of Education and Papa Bush's drug czar. Has a very hard-line stance on the War on Drugs. Despite his history of moralizing, was a gambling addict. Has gone on record as once saying crime would be down if we "aborted every black baby," (he did go on to say that such a thing would be reprehensible, but the fact stands that he was linking black people to high crime rates) then tried to defend himself by claiming it was just a thought experiment. Wrote a book titled The Book of Virtues that was made into a cartoon on PBS, despite his hatred of said government-funded TV channel.[1]
Neal Boortz
Neal is a self-styled libertarian based out of Atlanta, GA. Boortz's "libertarianism" (ha ha) includes support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq and for the U.S. government spying on antiwar protesters[2], which has not made him all that popular among many other libertarians.[3]
Herman Cain
A former talk radio host and gym leader from Georgia who also filled in for Neal Boortz (above), he at one point was seriously running for the Republican nomination for President in 2012.
Ann Coulter
Not actually a talk radio host and never had a radio show, but she's a frequent guest on talk radio programs. Loves to shoot her mouth off, and is the author of multiple books, all but her first and most recent having her image on the cover, to get attention.
Bill Cunningham
Essentially a skinnier version of Rush Limbaugh. Bill Cunningham comes across as a pompous fat cat and the quintessential "country club Republican". Cunningham compared Barack Obama to dictators from the start. Used such incendiary rhetoric that even John McCain told him to cut it out, although it might have just been PR on his part, who knows? He has also claimed that people are poor in America "because they lack morals, values, and ethics".
Lou Dobbs
Former CNN Host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight". Known for his anti-immigration stances and latching onto the birther bandwagon towards the end of his run. Claims to be a "radical centrist" and a "populist" although at this point, nobody's buying it.
Larry Elder
Coined the term 'victicrat', although god knows he could just look at his side of the aisle to see who really "feels good being the victim". He is Sean Hannity's token black friend, which automatically means that despite what his other pal Hal says, Sean's not racist.
Barry Farber
Farber effects an erudite style showing off his intellectual acumen, much like William F. Buckley. Since this doesn't really fit the gutter level ranting style popular today, he is strictly a has-been, although he does fill in on Laura Ingraham's show from time to time. For a time during the 1990s he had a show jointly with Alan Colmes, before Colmes decided he could better boost his career by toadying up to Sean Hannity.
Bryan Fischer
Bryan Fischer is a radio host and Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association (AFA).
John Gibson
The former 5:00 Fox News host still has a radio show. Fears the War on Christmas just like O'Reilly. Just like any "good" Christian, thinks other religions are wrong. Also, just like any "good" Christian, made fun of the death of Heath Ledger.
Sean Hannity
You're a great American. YOU'RE an enemy of the state (seriously had a segment with that label for his political opponents for a few weeks).
Hugh Hewitt
Fiercely loyal to George W. Bush and enthusiastically supported Mitt Romney's campaign for the presidency in 2008. Once said one of Romney's speeches was "objectively a great speech". Quite partisan.
Laura Ingraham
A bleach blonde religious right fanatic, mostly. Obsessed with pro-life issues and ranting against the "pornification" of American culture. Also thinks that the popularity of the TV show 24 amounts to a public endorsement of waterboarding. Fills in for O'Reilly's show on Fox News as well.
Alex Jones
Not really conservative in an orthodox way, although he is an heir to the John Birch Society, along with Glenn Beck, Joseph Farah, Michele Bachmann, and Ron Paul, to name a few just really whacked conspiracy a go-go fans.
Alan Keyes
Batshit crazy ideologue who's ran for office several times. Leading birther.
Bob Larson
Bob Larson is an evangelist who has variously railed against Satanism in rock music (even opposing Christian Rock for a time) and performing live exorcisms. He is, basically, a Satanic panic peddler. His long-format talk show, now defunct, was called Talk-Back With Bob Larson. Hear Bob Larson battling "The Keeper" and, er, trying to stop a teenager from liking The Cure.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin likes to rant against "activist judges". He tacks way to the right in his strict constructionist views. The Bush administration was too centrist for him. As with the others, also obsessed with an alleged Islamic jihad against the United States. Thinks Obama and the Supreme Court are conspiring to bring Stalinism to the United States.
G. Gordon Liddy
Liddy's career was seemingly over when he was convicted for his role in the Watergate break-in during the Richard Nixon administration. He found his new calling a couple of decades later as a conservative talk show host, where now he tells viewers how to kill ATF agents (but only if they try to take their guns away...and armed, apparently, so no worry) between shilling for Goldline. Watch out for this one.
Rush Limbaugh
Where do we start with Rush? He's responsible for talk radio becoming so influential on the right, if you want to give him that much "credit". Because of that and having the highest ratings of them, he's the "Queen Bee" of talk radio, and most of the other hosts feel the need to kiss his ass, where a cyst once resided when the Vietnam War was going on.
Marlin Maddoux
Maddoux pioneered modern conservative talk radio with an explicitly religious right bent, starting in 1972. His show, "Point of View", was carried mostly on Christian stations in the 1970s and 1980s because of the Fairness Doctrine. Also founded the USA Radio Network which supplies hourly news feeds to many conservative talk stations and Christian stations alike. He died in 2004 and "Point of View" is now hosted by Kirby Anderson.
Michael Medved
Former movie critic and "moral values" figure who claimed Happy Feet (Rated PG) was part of the "Gay Agenda" but was an "outspoken" defender of Passion of the Christ (Rated R). On the political front, though, he does not mince words when it comes to birthers, so may not be quite as crazy as some on yack radio in that regard. Medved has debated the progressive host Thom Hartmann on Medved's show[4] and in a public debate sponsored by Chicago radio stations.[5]
Dennis Miller
O'Reilly's sidekick. A former, wait, still a 'comedian'.
Oliver North
As noted in Reagan's memoirs, Oliver North betrayed his nation, his service, and his President in the 1987 Iran-Contra scandal. Looking handsome and earnest as he testified in the uniform he didn't deserve, he became a hero of the far right, even as Iran continues to use the weapons against American soldiers in Iraq.
Bill O'Reilly
A guy who's pissed off about everything. Has not had a radio show since he quit his around the same time as the 2008 election, but he's still on Fox.
Dennis Prager
Figure heavily on the Religious Right and moralist. Has attacked homosexuality. Thinks equality isn't an American value, but a pinko European one. For those of you wondering how this works, he thinks the proper limit towards equality, as it were, is liberty--freedom of opportunities that can accept you, but not results. That some equalization might be needed to allow taking of opportunities does not seem to be accepted in his arguments. Counts as one of his fans Mike J. Nelson of MST3K and Rifftrax fame--heartbreaking.
Michael Reagan
Ronald Reagan's adopted son is a talk radio host. Now, Reagan's biological son Ron Reagan is a liberal, but the Dark Prince Michael Reagan is a far-right Fox News commentator, and probably sees himself as the "true heir" to his adoptive father's name.
Phyllis Schlafly
Andy's mom has a radio show for her organization, the Eagle Forum. Her son Andy was a guest on the show at least once.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Evangelical Jewish commentator on all things socially conservative (whose doctorate, by the way, is not in psychology or psychiatry but in physiology). Can be very judgmental towards people who don't live their life the exact way she wants them to, especially homosexuals. Was recently canned after going on a rant of saying the n-word repeatedly and proudly while talking to a black caller.
Dwight Schultz
Host of the podcast Howling Mad Radio, and former mentally institutionalized Captain H.M. Murdock of the A-Team.
Charlie Sykes
A third rate Rush Limbaugh wanna-be from Wisconsin. Has written three books about how "liberals" have dumbed-down the current generation of children in academia and rants about the "victim mentality" of left-wingers and minorities. One of his books is Fifty Things You Won't Learn In School, which is basically him telling teenagers that they're nothing special and they're stupid and narcissistic for thinking that they are. He's a huge fan of Paul Ryan and subscribes to his ideology that people on welfare are all "entitled" and are moochers that are responsible for the "decay of American culture." He also occasionally writes for the American Thinker. In other words, he's a pseudo-intellectual hack who isn't nearly as well-informed or as observant as he thinks he is.
Hal Turner
Not really a conservative at all, just an unreconstructed neo-Nazi and dear friend of Sean Hannity.
Michael "Savage" Wiener
Michael Wiener is a hate-spewing, crow-eating Neo-Nazi who likes to bully children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.[6] Before becoming the absolute bottom of the talk radio pit, he used to be a health food and alternative medicine charlatan.
Others
Most local markets have their own conservative talk personalities who have a large listener base locally, have sometimes guest hosted national shows, have written books, or have been guest commentators on national media outlets, but never really made the jump to a nationally popular talk show. A short list might include John Carlson (Seattle), Brian Sussman (San Francisco), Armstrong & Getty (Sacramento), Howie Carr (Boston), Mark Davis (Dallas), Les Kinsolving (Baltimore), and shock jocks John & Ken (Los Angeles). Carlson also ran for governor of Washington (he lost), Kinsolving is infamous for his cranky questioning during White House press briefings, and John & Ken hold the dubious honor of being the most listened to local talk show in the United States at present. Art Bell got his start this way, with a conservative political talk show in Las Vegas, before taking his show national and dropping political talk in favor of whacky paranormal topics.
Brian Sussman
Sussman was a weather forecaster with the CBS station in San Francisco, KPIX, from the 1990s to 2001. He occasionally did weather forecasts on CBS This Morning during the '90s. In 2003, he began hosting an evening show, pretentiously called Right Thinking from the Left Coast, on San Francisco conservative talk station KSFO, and he became the morning host in 2010.[7] In 2010, he also published the book Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes The Global Warming Scam with the WorldNetDaily publishing arm. Sussman has been interviewed on Fox News[8] and Fox Business.[9] He has also made birther comments.[10]
- M-F, 5AM-9AM (Pacific), KSFO 560 (San Francisco)
Les Kinsolving
Kinsolving is the White House correspondent at WorldNetDaily and evening host at Baltimore's WCBM. Of course, combine WorldNetDaily's brand of sensationalist non-journalism and a Democratic administration, this guy does go nuts in his commentary and conduct at White House press briefings.[11][12] He is outspokenly anti-gay and was once reprimanded for taking "gifts" in exchange for reporting favorably on apartheid South Africa; however, in a genuine bit of stopped clock public service, he was the first reporter to expose the People's Temple as an abusive cult in a series of 1972 articles for the San Francisco Examiner, long before anyone else was interested.[13]
- M-F, 9PM-11PM (Eastern), WCBM 680 (Baltimore)
Brian Maloney
Controversially, KIRO-AM canceled Maloney's Sunday talk show during NFL season as the station broadcast Seattle Seahawks games, but Maloney and his supporters claim it was a politically-motivated move.[14] Now, Maloney writes the Radio Equalizer blog and hosts a similarly named YouTube channel where he posts video clips from liberal talk radio shows in a critical light in response to liberal criticisms of conservative talk radio.
Howie Carr
In addition to his radio show, Carr is a Boston Herald columnist and has written two true crime books about fugitive "Whitey" Bulger and published a novel in 2012. Carr has also appeared on Fox News to spew lies about Democrats.[15][16] Carr also runs a John Kerry-bashing site and a Ted Kennedy-bashing site.
- M-F, 3PM-7PM (Eastern), WRKO 680 Boston (and other stations in New England). The fourth hour of Carr forces WRKO and the other Carr affiliates to broadcast Michael Savage on a one-hour delay.
Jason Mattera
Former activist for Young America's Foundation and author of Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation, Mattera became editor of Human Events magazine and a Sunday talk show host on New York City's WABC radio in 2010.[17]
As the Human Events editor, he hosted a satirical clip mocking Kwanzaa as a "crackpot holiday."[18] In addition, he has also done ambush interviews at Capitol Hill, basically throwing right-wing talking points at Democratic members of Congress.[19] One in which he complained to Senator Al Franken about a provision in the health care reform bill spending seven billion dollars for jungle gyms got him much negative attention.[20] Mattera's video where he confronted White House press secretary Robert Gibbs "if he ever feels dirty defending this administration's lies and deception" also has had a bad reception on YouTube.[21] The closest he's gotten to the White House was a surprise confrontation with Vice Pres. Joe Biden regarding a minor bungle of a Michigan city's crime rate by Biden.[22]
In short, he's an arrogant tool who thinks he's smarter than he really is.
- Sundays, 4PM-6PM (Eastern), WABC 770 (New York City)
Networks
- Excellence in Broadcasting Network
- Salem Radio Network
- Radio America
See also
- Liberal talk radio
- Lesbian Gang Epidemic
- Father Coughlin. If Barry Farber and Marlin Maddoux are old school, this guy is really old school.
- Chuck Harder, more of a populist of the radical center, but the rise and fall of his 1990s era show is part of the same milieu in which conservative talk radio arose
- Coast to Coast AM (George Noory, Ian Punnett, and Art Bell), another show that isn't conservative, it's mostly about paranormal and pseudoscience topics, but arose as part of the same milieu
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/29/17714781.php
- ↑ http://www.antiwar.com/justin/jspecial112603.html
- ↑ http://www.antiwar.com/justin/jspecial120903.html
- ↑ The Great Health Care Debate
- ↑ The Great Debate: Thom Hartmann vs Michael Medved (1/10) (other parts are available by clicking on the number of videos)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Biography from Sussman's official website
- ↑ Fox Helps Right-Wing Radio Shill Re-Invent Self As Global Warming Expert
- ↑ Follow The Money Hosts Brian Sussman, Fox's New Favorite Global Warming Expert
- ↑ Conservative radio hosts continue to promote discredited claim that Obama has yet to prove he was born in the U.S.
- ↑ Les Kinsolving, Homophobe (Conwebwatch)
- ↑ WND's Kinsolving Has Earned the Contempt He Receives (Conwebwatch)
- ↑ Lester Kinsolving articles on People's Temple
- ↑ KIRO-AM disputes radio show host fired for criticizing Rather
- ↑ Carr lied about Dem Convention's impact on Boston's pregnant women, cancer patients
- ↑ CNN's Beck, Fox & Friends continued smearing Pelosi over Syria trip
- ↑ Jason Mattera bio, WABC
- ↑ Celebrating Kwanzaa at Human Events
- ↑ For example, this one "Jason Mattera ambushes John Kerry" accusing John Kerry of sympathizing with Vietnamese communists and attacking him over the Winter Soldier investigations.
- ↑ As of August 1, 2011, that video "Does Al Franken even know what was in the health-care bill he voted for? Um..nope" has 220 likes and 1,139 dislikes on YouTube. Media Matters published an article "Mattera's video attacks on Franken and Grayson based on falsehoods" debunking that video and Mattera's video attacking Rep. Alan Grayson "Why would Alan Grayson want to give your money over to Native American child molesters?" (as of Aug. 1, 2011: 96 likes, 44 dislikes)
- ↑ Gibbs asked if he ever feels dirty defending this administration's lies and deception: 325 likes, 202 dislikes as of Aug. 1, 2011
- ↑ Jason Mattera: D.C.’s bad boy reporter. Politico.com, Oct. 28, 2011.