Posted on 01/10/2003 10:36:26 AM PST by Pliney the younger
10 most influential Conservative AM radio commentators. (Vanity, Vanity all is Vanity!)
My dear friends,
Rush “the great” has been described as the scourge of the leftists, socialists, and other anti-American groups of thugs.
His most powerful technique is simply to point out the 5 biggest lies that the socialist, anti-American, Islamic terrorist axis of evil spread the day before.
Rush then informs the world, of those portions of the news stories, that the “people of the lie” censored or distorted while producing their propaganda the day before.
But reports now state that there are close to 700 AM radio commentators ( local, regional, and national) who describe themselves as conservative.
Out of interest
First: Who do you think are the 10 most influential syndicated Conservative American AM radio commentators.
Second: How do you personally rate their shows.
If you are a hate-filled leftist anti-American you can skip this survey. And please feel free to go back to listening to your favorite NPR show.
Love as always,
Octavian Pliny
1. Rush : Rating 12 (on a scale of 1-10) 2. Shawn Hannity: 7 3. Dr. Laura: 4 (Yes, I know that very little of her show is directly political but she has a huge audience) 4. Michael Savage: 10 5. Paul Harvey: 8 (Once again minimal political discussion, HUGE audience) 6. G Gordon Liddy 7 7. Cal Thomas 7 8. Oliver North 6 9. Michael Reagan 5. 10. Hue Hewitt 8
Honorable Mention:
In no particular order, Larry Elders, Drudge, Dennis Prager (9), Michael Medford and on and on and on.
Who are your personal favorites?
Extra point question: Do you think that the leftists and socialists have a snowball’s chance in hell, of breaking into the AM radio audience (unless their shows are federally subsidized, and maintained by tax free leftist foundations)?
To answer your question, yes we do have standards, and based on the basic information out on the net I would not want Hedgecock to regain public office. That being said, he is noetheless at this time very articulate in presenting viewpoints which most conservatives can agree with. I'd leave any further comment to San Diegans who will know and remember much more about the eaxct circumstances of a case that ended seventeen years ago.
Plus his manners are impeccable.
Rush
Medved
Boortz is a Libertarian so I won't include him but he is one of the best.
I don't like Liddy. He's too old and gets befuddled easily.
Sounds like your jealous that your local secret made it to the big time!
I love em both, but Glenn is more my style, sarcastic and biting and laugh my ass of funny.
This is from a book review at www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86fall/dominelli.htm
Captain Money and the Golden Girl: The J. David Affair.
By Donald Bauder. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. 1985. Illustrations. Index. 244 Pages. $15.95. Reviewed by Harry McDean, Professor of History at San Diego State University, who specializes in business and economic history.
If you're looking for another version of 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' in this book, you'll be disappointed. No hot tempestuous blood flows in the veins of this book's characters. Their blood is more like that of the late 19th century Victorian characters who may have been moved by six of the Seven Deadly Sins, but not by the seventh, lust. David Dominelli, in fact, comes across as a prude. Nancy Hoover appears as the fair maiden who seems unaffected by the downfall of J. David's empire, but shattered by the fact that Dominelli headed off to jail refusing to marry her.
So lackluster are the romantic relationships in this book that one soon realizes without reading the inside cover of the dust-jacket -- that this book was not written by an out-of-work Payton Place scriptwriter. Donald Bauder has been financial editor of the San Diego Union since 1973. Positioned there, Bauder not only covered his share of legitimate commodities, real estate and stock offerings, but scores of illegal ones as well. And in the case of J. David, Bauder was the first of the journalists to sniff out the scam that Dominelli had created.
This book provides as careful an analysis as one can find of the nation's oldest money making scheme, the "Ponzi". As Bauder explains, Charles Ponzi first used this scam to amass a fortune in late 19th century Boston. Ponzi played on investors' greed to make his scheme work. He never invested any investor's money. He returned part of it to investors as astronomical "annual earnings," then spent the rest on himself. Ponzi's scam could have worked indefinitely, because investors'pride caused them to brag to others about their fantastic earnings, and, as the news was spread, new investors poured fresh monies into Ponzi's pocket, Their investments then were divided up among the other investors and Ponzi.
Ponzi scams materialize from time to time, each taking advantage of new economic developments that make investors vulnerable. In recent years, interbank trading for international currencies (a method by which banks throughout the world trade currencies with one another through a network of hi-tech computer and communication systems) is a mystery to many investors, and more importantly, is unregulated by international, federal, or state law. Because only a few hundred professionals have access to modern computer and communications systems employed in interbank currency trading, knowledge about this world is scant, and what there is of it is closely guarded by the elite group who do the trading. Since the trading is not regulated, interbank traders need report to no auditors on the nature of their trades.
Because of both the mystery that surrounds this trading and the absence of regulators, interbank currency trading is a natural for the Ponzi. All that is needed is someone to stir up in investors several of the Seven Deadly Sins -- greed, gluttony and envy - and a scam is born.
Dominelli, described alternately as a boob and a recluse, could not do the stirring himself. But, Nancy Hoover, perhaps unwittingly, helped accomplish this through her social network of immensely powerful and wealthy friends, including Roger Hedgecock. The extravagant parties, social regattas, and lifestyle of Hoover helped convince many investors of the genius in J. David's interbank trading scheme. Even so, Dominelli employed "moneyfinders," whose job it was to locate new investors and thereby maintain the necessary inflow of fresh money.
Bauder allows his materials to suggest an eye-opening conclusion: such was the greed of Americans, that J. David's scam might have worked indefinitely, had Dominelli been a better accountant and listened more attentively to his lawyers.
Having gushed on Limbaugh to the point of embarrassment, I now listen to Beck, when given the choice. If the guy would reduce the sophomoric commercial crap, he would be the heir apparent.
Medved, one sharp, educated Jew. He impresses me in the simple fact, that no one person has that much knowledge!!
We all have our local favorites, mine is none other than my fellow disciple, and local, Tom Sullivan, when he has a topic!
Savage cuts to the chase. In my humble opinion, he is also insane.
Last but not least, that devilishly handsome, one of the greatest Black men of our time, Professor Williams.
The rest of the group, well, we agree politically, in my humble opinion.
I still miss Ken Hamblin! He was so funny, too, with that lady, "Welfare Shirley" and her song, "The 12 Days of Kwanzaa."
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