True.
Then she lost her major show sidekick, Habib, for whatever reason,
He got a much better offer with more responsibilities, elsewhere in radio...major promotion.
...and then she just went shrill over the Dubai Ports deal and Harriet Miers.
She was right on both counts.
She seems to have anger as a major motivation for her show prep.
There's plenty of cause for anger in the news.
She could just as easily trade places with Randi Rhodes these days. They are on the same page.
Mulefritters. You just lost your friggin' mind, or what?
I wonder what Laura’s listenership numbers are?
She's doing great. She and Levin each did more to stop amnesty than Limbaugh and Savage and Hannity put together.
Absolutely.
I was sickened by Rush who did some shows in which he did a great job laying out the consequences of this thing (e.g., the death of the Republican party). But then there were lots of other days when the fight was raging that Rush seemed very annoyed to be distracted from his golf patter and other egomaniacal piffle. As he told us, he no longer gets to upset about these things. Naturally not. He does not frequent Walmart, he can build a wall around his compound, and he can be driven around in a tank from one chic restaurant and golf event to the next. He is exactly like politicians who forget their supporters when they join the celebrity class. And, of course, Rush enjoyed a week of vacation, as did Savage, during the intense part of the struggle.
I give Hannity more credit. The young man is not our most substantive talker, that's for sure, but he had his moments in this debate. He went toe to toe with Tony Snow, which is painful for all of us who once greatly admired Tony. And Sean was in there showing the passion everyday.
But you are absolutely right...it was Laura and Levine who carried this fight with both the passion and the intellect for day after relentless day.
(I used to like Bill Bennett, too. He said a lot of the right things. But you could see that he didn't really want to soil himself by identifying to closely with the angry and noisy ones.)
I wonder what Laura’s listenership numbers are?
She’s doing great. She and Levin each did more to stop amnesty than Limbaugh and Savage and Hannity put together.
^^^^^
Do you have any stats or just your wish for her continued presence on the radio?
That she and Levin “did more to stop amnesty” is just silly. Every conservative talk show host in every city in America was on the same page with that dreadful legislation.
Seriously, do you have any numbers of listeners for her or for Mark?