Conservative Talk Radio Recap: Oct 12-16

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Conservative Talk Radio Recap: Oct 12-16

Written By : Kathy Shaidle

My latest roundup of conservative talk radio highlights – including FREE audio and video clips — is now up at WND.

Needless to say, the Rush Limbaugh/NFL saga is a big part of it, and after deadline, there’ve been more developments. Rush Limbaugh tells his side of the story at the Wall Street Journal today, while his African-American call screener, “Bo Snerdly,” has some choice words for everyone who smeared his boss.

* Mark Steyn talked to Hugh Hewitt about Rush and other stuff; Steyn also spent an hour on Frank Gaffney’s newish (and free to listen to) podcast, which he may want to rename Fan Boy Radio. (In fairness: Steyn has that effect on women, too…)

* There’s nothing like Laura Ingraham when she gets really wound up about something. This week, it was the media’s coverage of Balloon Boy. (FREE audio.)

* Dennis Miller had another great week. Alas: audio archives are available to premium members only. (As are Dennis Prager’s and Hugh Hewitt’s now). However, he had his first column in the Washington Examiner, and it’s a goody.

PLUS: “Kansas City needs Fred Thompson” — and SNL needs… Glenn Beck?

(Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury, now in its ninth year. Among other things, she runs a web site devoted to conservative talk radio.)

aharris

Who are those people who say KC needs Fred Thompson? While I wouldn't be upset if Thompson replaced Shanin and Parks (think squish and closet lib), I think they do a disservice to Chris Stigall and Darla Jaye who are both involved to some degree or other with local Tea Party efforts and regularly tackle big government with a local persective. The big boogeymen around here are Dennis Moore and Claire McCaskill. Local activists have started a "Draft Darla" campaign to convince Jaye to run for Dennis Moore's seat; Jaye says that if 2000 people sign on, she'll seriously consider it. So far, there are somewhere between 1000 and 1500 signatures, including mine. If a local conservative media personality could beat Dennis Moore despite a history of having been part of a shock jock rock station show in her past with all the skeletons it would provide, it would signal in a big way that America is tired of the same old, same old from our politicians. Also, Moore apparently referred to one of his prospective challengers as "white trash" while bragging about the size of his prospective war chest for 2010 (7 million); the man so slandered is a recent Iraq vet.