Smithsonian Magazine Mocks Memory of Conservative Talk Show Host Joe Pyne

NewsBusters ^ | June 24, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

The basic subject matter of an article in the June edition of the Smithsonian Magazine is actually quite interesting. It is about the ongoing restoration of many videotapes of the old Joe Pyne television show. Unfortunately, the author, Kevin Cook, chose to use this restoration as a way to slam not only the generally conservative Joe Pyne but current conservatives in the media as well. 

However, despite Cook's petty slams, his article does provide some interesting information about Joe Pyne who many consider the father of entertaining talk radio and television interviewing. The good news is that sometime in the near future the public will have access to many Joe Pyne interviews long thought to be lost.

[BigEdLB]

Joe Payne. Marine Korean War vet who lost a leg and was a registered Democrat. Died of a rare lung infection in his 50s. But The Godfather of Conservative talk radio

[Bob]

They say that like it’s a bad thing.

[amihow]

At 45 he died? In those days lung cancer from cigarettes that were different in kind were not as lethal as were later ones.

I remember lots of people doubted cause of death

[Does so]

Alan Burke’s show was captivating while on WIOD, Miami. 1973? Ill remember his wife’s name later. He ended every show with “God bless America.”

I got hooked on “conservative talk” while driving through Washington, DC in the 1970s. Don’t recall whose show it was.

[luvbach1]

I think it was him who said would rather smoke than quit and become a fat neurotic

I don't think he ever quit.