Who's your favorite in Conservative Talk Radio?

Vanity

[Arch-Conservative]

I have noticed the broad spectrum of "conservative" opinions that emerge from the threads on this website. There is a similar diversity of "conservative" thought in talk radio, and I was wondering which of the preeminent talk hosts you identify most with - and, of course, why you choose that particular spokesman over the others.

[OldFriend]

I love John McCaslin when he is filling in for Rush.

[HardStarboard]

I live in Seattle, and spend a fair amount of time in San Diego: My picks (in order of preference):
Rush Limbaugh

Roger Hedgecock (former mayor of SD - fills in on Rush occasionally)
Hugh Hewitt
Ollie North
Kirby Wilbur (Seattle)
John Carlson (Seattle)

I think Hedgecock is the natural heir to Rush's throne! He comes on after Rush in SD and has filled in for Rush a number of times. He is incisive, keeps the show moving, is great with callers that have something to say and doesn't suffer fools gladly (without painting them out to be what they are).
Hannity, Medved, and Dr. Williams are all very good with the following caviats: John is a bit hard edged, needs polish; Medved tends to whine too much and talks too much about Israel and abortion; Williams is a brilliant economist but not as hip on current events as I like.

Sorry for the disertation - nobody asked but I just started typing and couldn't stop!

[agitator]

I like to say that when you're in a streetfight, you don't fight by Roberts Rules of Order. You bash a garbage can over your opponent's head, you grind a broken bottle into his face, and then "continue to kick and stomp until victim is subdued."

;-)

[anncoulteriscool]

Lets be honest! In talk radio, its Rush Limbaugh over here and everyone else over there!

[Corin Stormhands]

I don't know that he's my favorite, but I love it when Glenn Beck yells, "Get off my phone!" We need more people like that.

[Cornjonny]

I have always enjoyed Sean from the time he filled in for Rush. His call screener Flipper is a bit of a liberal loony though. One time she was talking about praying to her bird.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Oh yeah, how could I have forgotten his Clipped-haired quip. That's a classic. Savage is very good sometimes. He once had a caller on from Vermont. Savage spent around thirty seconds giving in my estimation a 100% accurate synopsis of what has happened to the state. (I've lived there)

He also cracks me up when he gives his descriptive stories about the greenhaired punk kids who work around SF.

[felinesforever]

I like Rush the best. Then Hannity is very good and cute. A good local guy is Dave Macy-WOWO, Ft. Wayne, IN. He claims that the FBI has a file on him. I don't like Savage, I have tried listening to him for a long while and He is just plain rude!

[Cornjonny]

Before his last vacation he gave himself two angioplasties by yelling "GET OFF MY PHONE!!" at two pinheads. One disputed the audio that Glenn had on X42 speaking about Sudan giving over Osama and to some Iraqi dude who was the biggest Saddam apologist. He was blowing a gasket on those two.

[bankwalker]

The great Bob Grant, the one who started it all, and certainly one of the most informed of the entire bunch. Too bad his madatory sterilization act didn't get implemented about 25 years ago when he proposed it.

[Jesse]

Still like Rush, and he is much better since his new implants started working. Boortz has some good ideas, but along with Medved can be far too preachy and prim. Libertarianism does not mean personal anarchy. It is a free country Boortz...if people want to smoke, let them smoke. If people think that all human beings have rights, then quit bashing the people who think humanity begins at conception.

Haven't heard Hannity. O'Reilly too preachy too. Drudge is boring on radio. Michael Reagan is hackneyed and tired, and so is Liddy. Have not heard Ollie North recently. Quinn is good, but not compelling.

[Brimack34]

Rush followed closely by Laura Ingraham. Then local man Jason Lewis (www.am1500.com) I wish you all could hear him he is a local Savage. He was dropped by two liberal cities for being to conservative.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Michael Savage.

Michael Savage.

Michael Savage.

The lovable curmudgeon who rants to and about himself mostly, and in the process gives voice to all the conservatives and libertarians who are full up to here with the namby-pamby bullsh*t from "conservatives" that has resulted essentially in handing the country over to leftist swill. He will scream about illegal immigration when many of us want to do the same, but are afraid of being labelled racist; he will call the current administration on the carpet for being chummy with Muslims, when no small number of Muslims want to see the USA destroyed; he'll berate the stupid sheeple who sleepwalk through life, oblivious to the nation crashing down around their heads.

And the dude is just hilarious. "Everything has to be fuuuunn; my lunch has to be fuuunnn...WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE FUN IN THIS COUNTRY!?!" He has a way with words that go beyone his word selection. His delivery is like Richard Lewis, if Richard Lewis was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. He's put's on a one-man show that noone else can touch.

I hated him when I first heard him. Got sick of his self-referential arrogance. Now I don't even notice it. What I notice is caller after caller saying, "Thank God you are out there, talking for all of us."

[BUSHdude2000]

Savage by far is my favorite. Lush has gotten to the point where he reads the RNC talking points and calls it a show. He rarely differs from the party, or Bush. I am a conservative before I am a Republican. Bush could care less about the party platform, he himself has said he has his own agenda: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/734886/posts

[MissAmericanPie]

How interesting...and she makes it to work, and holds a job, and drives...Flipper, not her bird. Well, I like Hannity anyway.

[A CA Guy]

Rush, Hannity and then it turns to mush!

[Inkie]

One thing I did enjoy on Savage was his "Corned Beef Commies" monologue.

[fellowpatriot]

You can listen to Mark Scott from 9am-12pm M-F here:

http://www.markscottshow.com/

[A CA Guy]

Who needs a show? She can be a guest as often as she wants, write books, be well paid for all of it and still have time for a life - perhaps !!!