Speaking strictly from an entertainment point of view, Stephanie Miller is a horrible choice, her show is one of the most obnoxious on the air, kinda like a really really bad morning show. There are much more entertaining liberal talk shows out there that would at least draw advertisers if not a few listeners also. Miller has a hard time drawing flies.
>>one of the most obnoxious on the air,
but liberals love that stuff (and also Olbermann) because it reflects their viewpoints. Talk radio is one medium that libs have had a tough time cracking and they embrace whatever
they can. I’m surprised Rosie O’D hasn’t tried to do a show yet. Boy, she’d make a WHALE of a talk show host :)
I saw Miller on a cable TV talk show one night. She’s arrogant as hell. Obnoxious, too. Her entire schtick is that the GOP has been taken over by the “radical religious right” and that in her father’s day the GOP was “tolerant”. Like Bill Moyers, she has a mythical view of the past, acting as if abortion, homosexuality, and public nudity were accepted, cherished institutions until Jerry Falwell & Ronald Reagan rose to power in 1980.
Try as I might, I can find no record of her father promoting abortion or homosexuality during his political career. He was a rock solid GOP conservative from the Buffalo area of New York. Yet she rants on and on about how, by opposing abortion and same sex “marriage”, the religious right has stolen the GOP away from people like her father.
It reminds me of Moyers’ idiotic assertion that when he first got involved in politics in Texas back in the fifties, you didn’t see politicians trying to ban abortion or same sex “marriage” like you do today. He says this is proof that Taliban-like fanatics have taken over the GOP. Uh, Bill, the reason you didn’t see politicians talking about abortion or homos circa 1956 is because abortion was illegal and same sex “marriage” wasn’t even on the radar screen. Even Democrats took a conservative position on those issues back then.