In January 2012, John B. Wells replaced Punnett as host of the Saturday evening and the second Sunday evening programs. He was fired in January 2014 because the show's producers wanted to go in a "different direction on Saturday nights", and is now the host of his own subscriber based program, Caravan to Midnight.[5] On the February 4, 2014 episode of that program, Wells stated that he thought he had been fired from Coast to Coast because he hated Barack Obama to the point where he can't bear the sight or sound of him, going even further to state that he avoids "even speaking his (Obama's) name," and that he thought Obama is a communist.
I'm thinking that it was not Norry who was the prime reason for firing Mr. Wells. It was clear the Wells was willing to criticize Obama and I recall emailing him thanking him early in his time at C2C. IMO the show's producers did not like Mr. Well's criticism of Obama mostly C2C attacked Bush going back as far as Prescott Bush. IMO.
I’ll take Wells’ word for it.