Author: Kathy Shaidle

Let’s get this over with: Glenn Beck called President Obama a “racist.” If you care, click here. *** Controversial talk radio host Michael Savage now claims he was banned from visiting the U.K. because he is Jewish — and he might be onto something. Documents obtained as part of Savage’s lawsuit against the British Home […]

As we’ve reported here throughout the year, the White House has made no secret of its antipathy towards conservative talk radio. So Radio Ink magazine took note on July 24, when, discussing health-care reform at a "town hall" Q&A, President Obama said, "You know, all those folks who are out there saying, we can’t afford […]

Dennis Miller returned to the airwaves on Monday, after his vacation in Japan. Not a moment too soon — I was going through withdrawal. On Friday, Miller had on Steven Crowder, the young video satirist whose short video expose on Canadian "health care" I posted here earlier this week. (To those uninformed snarkers in the […]

As reported here earlier this week (audio included), pundits like Rush, Ann Coulter and Mark Levin were the among the first to comment on Sarah Palin’s suprise resignation as governor of Alaska. The subject took up less time on talk radio than I figured it would for the rest of the week. In a nod […]

Lots of talk radio hosts were on vacation this week, due to the Independence Day holiday. That means “best of” shows and guest hosts. Tammy Bruce (who has a superb new website, by the way) sat in for Laura Ingraham, for example (bringing to the show a blend of Ingraham’s familiar candor with a much […]

* It was a week marked by celebrity deaths. On Monday, Dennis Miller remembered Ed McMahon, who’d hosted Star Search when Miller had appeared as a young contestant. Years later, McMahon called Miller to ask if he’d appear on a Star Search retrospective, having apparently forgotten that Miller had actually lost. McMahon was flabbergasted, and […]

I wonder how long it will take partisan critics to dismiss Kevin Jackson‘s ideas because his upbringing was so unusual. But while Diff’rent Strokes was a silly sitcom, you might say Jackson lived a real-life, "lite" version of the show, and it gave him a truly unique perspective on race and class in America. An […]

“I’ve said hello to Stephen Johns a number of times…” Dennis Prager is on the board of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, the scene of a fatal terrorist attack earlier this week. On Thursday, Prager remembered the Museum security guard who died in the line of duty. (Audio archives are members-only). Because the […]

Jonah Goldberg’s bestseller Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change is finally in paperback after 18 months. He made the rounds of conservative talk radio shows, talking to Glenn Beck on Monday. Goldberg congratulated Beck for his constant attempts to educate Americans about the history, and […]

Monday was Memorial Day, so most conservative talk radio hosts took the day off and ran “best of” shows. Dennis Prager prides himself on working such holidays; on Monday, he took calls from listeners who wanted to honor friends and family who died in service of the country. It was a moving three hours. So […]

Wendy Sullivan scored a major coup this week: she got “columnist to the world” Mark Steyn (as Hugh Hewitt calls him) to host the first anniversary episode of her podcast Brass Balls Radio. For an hour, Steyn spun esoteric records and talked about the time he was sexually assaulted by… Well, you’ll have to download […]

As we noted here last week, controversial talk radio host Michael Savage unintentionally shoved Rush Limbaugh out of the news, when he was banned from visiting the U.K. as a “hatemonger.” Boris Johnson, the mayor of London and a one-time controversialist in his own right, insisted that Michael Savage posed no risk to British security, […]

For weeks, Rush Limbaugh has been in the news. Ever since his big CPAC speech, the media and the Democrat party have targeted Limbaugh as “the de facto leader of the GOP” (like that’s a bad thing, but anyhow…) Incredibly, Rush Limbaugh was pushed off the front pages by his fellow radio host Michael Savage. […]

Can’t believe I forgot to mention this last week: Dennis Miller got an email from Admiral Stockdale‘s son, thanking Miller for passionately and articulately defending his father during the 1992 Presidential election. Miller’s famous monologue at the time marked his the beginning of his turn from left to right; he was clearly moved to hear […]

Hugh Hewitt’s new book slams the Fair Tax. I find Hugh wrong about 25% of the time, and this might be one of those times… Rush Limbaugh on Monday’s third hour: if Obama isn’t responsible for the Bay of Pigs, since he was only three months old when it happened – that means the rest […]

Mark Steyn writes: “Did you hear about the Catholic, the Jew and the Muslim who walked into a theatre in London, Ontario?” “It’s a stellar bill — Kathy Shaidle, Ezra Levant and Salim Mansur, three staunch friends of real human rights taking on Canada’s pseudo-‘human rights’ racket — live this Monday evening. “(If you’re in […]

Camille Paglia may be a lesbian liberal literary critic, but she’s also an unapologetic fan of conservative talk radio. In her latest exchange of letters and ideas with her readers at Salon.com, she rightly praises Rush Limbaugh’s house parodist, Paul Shanklin as “one of the most brilliant” – and criminally underrated – “satirists of our […]

It was Mark Levin‘s week. His just-launched book Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto went into its 11th printing, hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and inspired a nationwide craze. Thousands of fans waited on line for hours to get a copy at one particular bookstore. Hugh Hewitt talked to Levin about […]

Weeks after his news-making CPAC speech, and revelations that he’d been the target of a White House smear campaign, Rush Limbaugh continued to enjoy a through the roof ratings boost. Radio Equalizer crunches the numbers, adding this tidbit: “…implementation of the new, far more accurate electronic Portable People Meter (PPM) ratings system has benefited talk […]

“What has talk radio done for us lately?” That’s the title of Andrew Pavelyev’s new article at David Frum’s NewMajority.com. Since Frum has been making a new career out of critcizing Rush Limbaugh – complete with a widely discussed Newsweek cover story —  you can guess the thesis of Pavelyev’s wonkish article: “While not actually […]

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday They draft the white trash first,’round here anyway I done two tours of duty in Vietnam — “Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle Songs like “Copperhead Road” and CCR’s “Fortunate Son,” not to mention numerous award-winning Hollywood movies, perpetuate stubborn Vietnam War myths about the American soldiers who fought […]

Rumors of Islamic terrorist training camps operating within the United States and Canada have been making the rounds ever since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A new film is re-focusing attention on the subject, but authoritative proof of their existence – -at least in the numbers being claimed — can be difficult to acquire. […]

My enemies are belligerent Muslims — from now on I’m calling them “brown supremicists” — and the radical left. Both are unfortunately being enabled by our liberal elite Establishment. It should go without saying, therefore, that I refuse to allow my enemies to control the way I speak. Because if they control the way I […]

“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” One of the most persistent myths of the Vietnam War concerns that sentence, supposedly uttered by an American general to excuse a massacre. It quickly came to symbolize the absurdity of war and has by now become a cliché. However, to invoke another cliché […]

(This is the first of my multi-part series for Examiner.com, debunking liberal media myths about the Vietnam War.) It’s one of the most famous images of the 20th century. Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize winning 1968 photograph of an execution on a Vietnam street has been reprinted and reenacted countless times. In the film Stardust Memories, […]

Another day, another illiterate, belligerent Muslim takes a Canadian conservative to the “Human Rights” Commission… When I was in London talking about my book The Tyranny of Nice, I met lots of wonderful folks, including blogger Andrew Lawton. (If you’ve ever been to CPAC, you might have met Andrew — he’s quite the gregarious fellow.) […]

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done…” declares Teleprompter Jesus. Depends on what your definition of “things” is… The $400-Million Man’s day is made. You just know he and Snerdly are working on new merch with that slogan. His callers will now say, “Dittos, Rush! I was just listening to you […]

Barack Obama’s pick for his new “climate czar”, Carol Browner, is an odd choice for this influential post. Not because her radical views about global warming and economics don’t line up perfectly with the latest far Left fads, but because her background is marred by incidents of racial discrimination that happened on her watch at […]

Considering our numbers, Canada has suffered big losses in Afghanistan, fighting an unpopular war (public support in Canada runs about 50/50). Now Canadian mil-blogger Damian Brooks is headed over to cover Afghanistan, on his own dime. He writes: It’s going to be a couple thousand bucks: insurance so my family’s covered if something goes wrong, […]

I assume that most lists of the Best Conservative Books of 2008 will place Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism in the number one spot. The long-awaited first book by the National Review‘s deservingly popular young writer didn’t disappoint; not only was it an instant bestseller, but it contributed a new phrase to the conservative vocabulary, and […]