I’m origins.my from SoCal. I remember George Putnam well from television and radio. That was back during my apolitical youth, but I do remember the libs hated him.
The left did indeed hate George.
George liked to remind his listeners that he was a Democrat. And that he had been a member of the NAACP since maybe the 1940s, invited by Walter White himself.
My job gave me plenty of opportunity to listen to the radio and I’d catch George every day, right after Paul Harvey’s broadcast over on KABC.