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[Tom_]

Liberal Talkers - List - The Last Several Years

> Moderate libtalk has been a failure over the years it has
> been tried.

This is what Conservative hosts always say about their liberal colleagues. I have always disputed this, since there have always been lots of successful local liberal talkers, and a few syndicated ones...e.g. I'll just mention some hosts who have been broadcasting for years and still have name recognition in the industry today. Some are moderate Democrats, some are very liberal, and others are "alternative:"

Local:

Ray Talliaferro (KGO-AM/SanFrancisco)
Bernie Ward (KGO-AM/SanFrancisco)

Jay Diamond (WRKO-AM/Boston)

Tony Trupiano (WXDX-AM/Detroit)
Mike Webb (KIRO-AM/Seattle)
Doug Basham (KDWN-AM/Vegas,KLAV-AM/Vegas)
Karel (KFI-AM,KGO-AM)

Tom Leykis

Randi Rhodes (at CC/WJNO????)

Syndicated:

Alan Colmes (FOX, DAYNET)

I.E. America Network:
Mike Malloy
Peter Werbe
Thom Hartmann
Nancy Skinner
and...who else???
Peter B Collins? (was he with I.E.?)

And then various alternative talk hosts, Bush-bashing conspiracy theorists who are not necessarily always "progressive:"

Jeff Rense (TRN,TalkOne,Genesis)
Art Bell (Premeire)
Alex Jones (Genesis)
Whitley Streiber (Premeire, now w/ IBC)
Chuck Harder (TalkNet,TalkAmerica,Liberty,TalkStar)


> But watch Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller. I
> particularly expect the latter host to see some major
> ratings spikes in the coming year. Neither of those hosts
> are moderate.

Certainly there are no rules that are universally applicable. Stephanie Miller is very entertaining for those who like her sense of humor. Another example like this would be Ray Talliaferro/KGO-AM, who is also very entertaining and about as far to the left as you can go.

 

[zaxxons1]

Re: Liberal Talkers - List - The Last Several Years

> And then various alternative talk hosts, Bush-bashing
> conspiracy theorists who are not necessarily always
> "progressive:"
>
> Jeff Rense (TRN,TalkOne,Genesis)
> Art Bell (Premeire)
> Alex Jones (Genesis)
> Whitley Streiber (Premeire, now w/ IBC)
> Chuck Harder (TalkNet,TalkAmerica,Liberty,TalkStar)
>
You may have to drop Chuck Harder from the list ... his "For The People" program is fading away fast.
In November, Harder was off the air for two weeks; this month, he's been off the air since last Friday. Indeed, you could say Harder has been off the air since early this year, when he changed his format from the conventional caller-driven format to an interview format, with individual segments lasting from a half-hour to two hours.
I really don't know why this bloke is still on TalkStar Radio Network. I suspect that he's in such bad health, he does his interviews when he's feeling well ("live to tape") and broadcasts them from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM weekdays.
But what does that really accomplish? What good does it do to hear him drool, stutter and stammer on the air and screw up important dates - including the year Ronald Reagan was elected President?
For those of you who forgot, that was 1980. But Chuck Harder thinks it was 1972.
No kidding.
Then Harder claimes that that infamous Richard Gardner "Foreign Affairs" article - "The Hard Road To World Order" - was published in 1977.
Wrong. It came out in April 1974.
Oh, did I mention the time Harder told us that World War II ended in 1957?
Sheesh!
Someone PLEASE give Chuck Harder his gold watch and a fond farewell. Or is having one more "Bush-bashing conspiracy theorist" so damned important, that the health of the "Bush-basher" is in jeopardy?
Pro-Bush conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer (a psychiatrist by training) had a phrase for this: "Bush Derangement Syndrome."
Obviously, Chuck Harder and his myrmidons have caught a bad case of this terrible malady.

 

[zaxxons1]

Re: Liberal Talkers - List - The Last Several Years

> >
> You may have to drop Chuck Harder from the list ...

which I finally did.
I think the "straw in the camel's back" was Harder's contention that, in 1992, Ross Perot went to New York City the day before he dropped out of the 1992 campaign and was threatened by David Rockefeller and the "Jewish bankers." These diabolical "New World Order" thugs, according to Harder, forced Perot to quit his Presidential bid.
That did it.
I had listened to Harder on my PC notebook via Internet audio streaming and Microsoft Media Player 10.0 on TalkStar Radio's Web site, but I was so ticked off at Harder, I went into my control panel settings and manually blocked all of Harder's Web sites including TalkStar. I set my blocking password to a random series of numbers and letters, wrote the password on a piece of paper, and promptly shredded it.
Now I can't reset the blocking feature, which means I can't get on Harder's Web sites to listen to him. Which is fine with me.
A disclaimer: Any similarity between Chuck Harder and the monkeys in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., is an insult to the latter.