There are some unfair opinions here. I listened to Barbara off and on, I’m fairly liberal, and didn’t often agree with her, but she was (is) intelligent, and a good interviewer, she also did many shows that was not about politics, and they were often interesting. As for trying to destroy conservative radio, I doubt it, I think it is more a matter of destroying intelligent radio. There are still, in this area, many conservative hosts such as: Hannity, Levin, Savage, Beck, Tom Sullivan, Rush and few others. Uver the past year, those of us who are left leaning have lost Norm Goldman, Bill Press, Tom Hartman, and we are about to loose Randi Rhoades, before that we lost John Rothmann, Ray Talifaro, and the late great Gene Burns. Even with the few liberal host left, there are enough comments on blog (mostly Rich Lieberman) from conservative who is glad to see liberal hosts disappear. How sad that someone can’t tolerate a diversity of opinions, being it from the left or the right. Who wants to constantly listen to hosts they disagree with? Apparently quite a few.