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The liberal lie that only rednecks and morons listen to conservative talk radio is belied by the fact that Limbaugh and Hannity get big ratings in the most sophisticated city in America that has a very liberal population. WOR wouldn't be dumping liberals like former Governor Paterson or even the RINO Huckabee to replace with Hannity and Limbaugh if the numbers didn't add up. Radio, just like TV, is first and foremost a business. It exists to sell products and make money. Conservative talk radio gets listeners and that means money for the station's owners. Leftists refuse to understand this simple fact of life. More power to Rush and Sean.

After Mr. Buckley passed away, his daughter took over and made the station lib, and then it went the way of all lib stations. Steve Malzberg was let go in favor of Gov. Patterson, and now that the station has been sold, I hope Clear Channel hires Steve back.

It is a business

—In New England there are only 2 libtalk stations, one in
Brattleboro VT and one in Bangor ME owned by a certain well-known horror author..and he just took it off FM (for now it’s
AM only). This does not include NPR though.

—In Boston there was one station that aired libtalk because a guy bought time but money started drying up and the station
changed to sports anyway. Now he does a show where he pays
a Worcester station to run it—for one hour a day.

—In the Seattle area you can find libtalker Thom
Hartmann on KBCS (they displaced folk music for him).
Usually on commercial libtalk stations but they are
drying up; Seattle’s will go all sports after the new
year (CBS Sports; CBS owns the station). Portland’s libtalk
station changed to Fox Sports (KPOJ, owned by Clear
Channel, who syndicates Fox Sports). So a non-commercial
station runs Hartmann now...

NPR stations get taxpayer money...and it’s doubtful you were even hear a conservative view on them at all. When the libs
pushed for a Fairness Doctrine I said “so does that mean
conservatives get 50 per cent of the time on NPR?” (Of
course not...)