This nutball feeds EVERY stereotype the left has about those of us on the right.
Sounds to me as if you’ve never listened to Art Bell—hence, your very erroneous statement. Art Bell has a strong truth filter that is always up, and he will disagree on the air with his guests. George Noory, the current full-time host of Coast To Coast AM, gives vent to air every opinion on the show. And Ian Punnent—well, I haven’t heard Ian allow a guest to talk ever since he became a part of the show. I think Ian wants us to be certain that he knows more about anything and everything than anyone.
I think your comment, Engineer_Soldier, is not founded on fact but on something else. Listen to Art Bell, then listen to Chris Matthews, and then come back to us with an opinion about who the nutball is.
I've never heard anyone left of center identify Art Bell listeners as conservatives. NEVER.
People who listen to Coast to Coast in the very beginning, in the very early 90s found Art Bell quite interesting because he was the only Libertarian on the air - his show then was entirely political and current events oriented and very interesting.
He switched over to the UFO/paranormal format and got weirdos like Ian Punnet and Whitley Streibler for guest hosts, and it was all downhill. I thought that his audience was considered to be far lefty liberal New Age.
I cannot stand Ian Punnett, whose VERY high opinion of himself I fail to share.
And I frankly have extreme difficulty listening to Mr.Bell when he substitute hosts for George Noory, because I am very aware that Art Bell quit quasi-permanently just within weeks of a very long, very sad article about the two children he abandoned from his very first marriage very long ago.
Turns out Art has been married FOUR times, he simply never mentioned his first marriage, and never mentions his eldest son Vincent Pontius nor his eldest daughter Lisa.
It's hard to take anything he says about anything with any degree of genuine interest after reading that article.
If you're interested, it was posted on Free Republic back in 2007 and is POST NO.88 LOCATED HERE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1859484/posts?page=88