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[Chandler]...So could that matter ANNNY less..?
Posted on 09/17/2004 8:18:26 PM PDT by RedOhio
I was just wondering what everyone's favorite talk radio show is. My favorite is Glenn Beck. Your thoughts?
Other than Rush my second fav is Laura Ingraham and then Sean Hannity.
RUSH-He was the first to tread where no one had gone before.
The King of Talk Radio.
Laura Ingraham--She fears no one, is comparable to Ann Coulter, can dissect these prigs like a a Beni Hana chef.
Michael Medvad: Brilliant historian. Can turn any BS Liberal assertion into babbling.
Michael Savage--depends on his topic
Hugh Hewitt--again, depends on his topic.
Tammy Bruce--she has three hours on Saturdays, KFI--I agree with her 98 % of the time A Zell Miller Democrat.If she had a daily show, I would not miss any of it.
Tony Snow--only an hour a day, but again, he can explain thingds better than any political commentator.
Ron Smith - Talk Show Man WBAL - Baltimore
Yeah, I just started listening to talk radio when he came back down here. He's great.
Hedgecock is my favorite RUSH substitute.
G. Gordon Liddy--I'll always have a soft spot for the G-Man, since he was the first conservative talk radio host I ever heard, on WJFK in Washington in the late '80s. He used to come on after Howard Stern (back when Stern was actually funny). His "review and comment on the news" segment in the 11 o'clock hour was FANTASTIC. It was great to hear the news stories and conservative columns that he'd read. So now he's like, what, 114 years old and trying to break Strom Thurmond's nookie record in the Master's Division?
Rush--still The Man. It seems like some of the life has gone out of the show since I started listening in 1991--I really miss all the different "updates" (who can forget "we're fierce, we're feminist, and we're in your face!")--but he still really does make it look easy, even after all his problems. None of his analysis is particularly original or insightful, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly reconstituted from other writers, but he packages it in a way that's very easy for the listener to understand and is a total master of the medium in all its forms. He's a pro's pro.
Glenn Beck--the first few times I listened to him, I was like, "Who is this guy? WHAT is this guy?" But now I really like the show. I like the humor, and those moments when he gets really personal can be absolutely wrenching.
Laura Ingraham--grr, baby. VERY grrr. Hotter than a South Carolina summer day and smart to boot. I don't usually get to listen to her show that much since it comes on in the mornings here, but when I do I'm never disappointed.
Neal Boortz--I can take him in VERY small doses. He's guaranteed to say something that sends me ballistic after a short time. He doesn't debate, he pontificates. I can't deal with his blanket dismissal of pro-lifers and "flaggots"...for a guy who went to school in Texas and has lived in Atlanta forever, he's the most Southern-bashing host on the air.
Hannity--uh-uh. I am NOT Hannitized. He's an OK guy, I'd probably love to sit down and slam a couple of beers with him, but I can't handle the show. He's either sucking up to his Republican guests or berating and yelling at his Democratic ones. No real debate. Oh, and buy his book so he'll shut up about it, please?
Mike Gallagher comes on here in the afternoons but I haven't listened to him yet. Dr. Laura's actually back on the air here too...why would anyone call that show? Why would you call and tell the World's Most Judgemental I-Am-My-Kid's-Mom just how bad you screwed up your life, so she can rip you a new one in front of four million people?
I don't listen to that much political talk anymore anyhow. I'm a sports-talk guy, and a huge Jim Rome fan.
Rack me, I'm out.
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Your thoughts?
You will fit in nicely on this self serving blog .
Yep, dude! Let's have a race! She's single too! LOL!
I'm listening to Bennett's show now as I post. I love it. Thank you so much for giving me this URL. My husband and I will use it often.
Actually I just started listening to G. Gordon Liddy and it took awhile before I appreciated him but he's actually quite good.
Howie Carr...WRKO Boston. There are no sacred cows with him!!!!!
I'm with you, sink. I love Medved. The man is brilliant.
My favorites vary with subject matter...
For the best, inside-baseball politics, nobody is better than Hugh Hewitt.
The best for conservative, social commentary, is someone I haven't seen mentioned, Dennis Prager.. He is the personification of compassionate conservatism.
The best debater (with the possible exception of Levin, but we don't hear him much in Colorado) is KOA's Mike Rosen. He's not a social conservative but for pure debate, no one is better.
The best host for historical perspective and all-around versatility is Medved.
The best host for entertainment and production value is still Limbaugh. Annoying quirks aside, the man has great theatrical instincts.
Now the nitpicking... Hannity is good natured but mostly annoying... He lacks any original insight and seems to parrot what he's heard or read somewhere else.
Laura Ingraham goes off on too many populist rants. Her constant harping about the "elites" gets tiresome. She is a dogged debater, though.
Savage is mostly a blustery buffoon trading off on his angry-man meme. He lacks Limbaugh's self-depracting sense of humor.
Ditto that!
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[Chandler]...So could that matter ANNNY less..?
Boortz
He's really still on the air? Last time I heard him was in Richmond 8 or 9 years ago and he was starting to lose his edge back then. His show in the late '80s really didn't have a lot of debate...it was basically "I'm G. Gordon Liddy, I'm smarter than you, I like guns, I'm a total badass, and I have a huge schlong," but despite that it was still great. His best shows were when he'd bring Marion Barry on and the two of them would go walking around some of the war zones in Southeast DC. Despite their divergent political beliefs, the two were apparently close friends.
I never could quite figure just how much of his own bovine fertilizer Liddy believed...which, I guess, means that he was doing a good job!
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Mark Levine . I do believe he post here and goodness knows why he does .
El Rushbo!
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