I believe Art Bell was originally a conservative talk show host "waaay" before C2CAM.
I started listening to Bell (1980s) when he was doing the show in KDWN's Plaza Hotel studios. I recall that it was before the paranormal stuff. I heard him declare in the 1990s that he was libertarian.
Frankly I pretty much lost interest in him when he went nuts over the "global warming" stuff though he made it clear that he doubted that it was entirely man made nevertheless it was just we have to do something quick! Yell over and tell China, stop screaming about it at us, already!