Conservative talk radio weekly recap: Nov 30-Dec 4

by Kathy Shaidle | December 5, 2009 8:54 pm

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND[1]. Is Rush Limbaugh getting married? Is Glenn Beck the answer to some conservatives’ prayers?

Find out all the latest, listen to Mark Levin‘s real-time commentary on Obama‘s Afghanistan speech, and lots more HERE.[2]

Here’s some stuff that didn’t make it into the column…

“Radio Rancid”:[3] British journalist calls Glenn Beck the “scourge of Barack Obama.” Like most UK journalists, he reports on Beck’s “only in America” story of disgrace, redemption and financial success:  with a snotty combination of envy and loathing.

(And is the sub/copyediting at the Times — of all places — so bad these days that nobody thought to clarify that Beck, a Mormon convert, divorced his first wife before marrying the second? Or did they think it would be amusing to leave readers wondering?)

If you can’t get enough about Glenn Beck,[4] pro, con or simply confused-and-vaguely-terrified, go here[5], here [6]and here[7].

Liberals like to mock “flyover country” Americans for not knowing what’s going on beyond the nation’s borders, so it was particularly funny when a far-left broadcaster was stopped at the US/Canada border and had to confess her ignorance about a major upcoming event.[8]

Those old notebook diaries are being phased out — today radio ratings are being calculated by Portable People Meter[9]s. But are they “racist”?[10]

Captain Capitalism’s “Talk Radio as Punishment”[11] is another delightful read by that underrated blogger.

9/11 Truther Jesse Ventura disgraces himself on live radio[12] — a scene that was, fortunately, caught on video:

(Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury[13]. Among many other things, she runs a website devoted to conservative talk radio[14].)

Endnotes:
  1. Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117958
  2. lots more HERE.: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117958
  3. “Radio Rancid”:: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6946007.ece
  4. Glenn Beck,: http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2009/12/02/media_technology/inside_media/doc4b0d681063953299927626.txt
  5. here: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/12/01/2009-12-01_gospel_truth_for_glenn_harlem_choir_cancels_movie_role_over_finances_not_politic.html
  6. here : http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo181.html
  7. here: http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/demand-glenn-beck-taking-eventfulcom
  8. had to confess her ignorance about a major upcoming event.: http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/732039--what-olympics-baffled-u-s-radio-host-interrogated-at-border
  9. Portable People Meter: http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/local-broadcast/e3ib78b45167c272412922d313a7835ecea
  10. But are they “racist”?: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/70119-radio-measurement-tool-under-fire-from-minority-stations
  11. “Talk Radio as Punishment”: http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2009/12/talk-radio-as-punishment.html
  12. Jesse Ventura disgraces himself on live radio: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/02/video-minnesota-governor-turned-truther-superpatriot-walks-off-radio-show-in-huff/
  13. FiveFeetOfFury: http://www.fivefeetoffury.com
  14. conservative talk radio: http://www.squidoo.com/conservativetalkradio

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