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Chuck Harder, former sydicated talk host

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FreddyE1977

While looking for something completely unrelated, I swerved into the news that
former syndicated talk host Chuck Harder had passed away (with little fanfare) on April 10.

https://news.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n35449

Though often controversial, he was a pretty big deal at one point, having been
syndicated on over 300 stations in the mid-1990's. For sure he had a big following
in the rural areas of the Midwest where I was living at the time.
 
I recall listening to Mr. Harder on WWCR. He helped us survive this thing called life. I learned about the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act through him.
 
He was in a pretty severe car accident in the early 2000's and ended up in a wheelchair.

His show stayed on the air for another seven or eight years (albeit dwindling to just a handful of stations). There was this weird conspiracy theory going around that he had actually died in that crash, and that his show had been carried on by a Chuck Harder impersonator!
 
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In the beginning he did have a decent program with his helping of listeners with their consumer affairs problems. It was a joy to listen to him. Later on it was just a diatribe about how the government was out to get him and any and all of his problems were always because of some conspiracy with him directly in the bullseye.
 
DOGDOG said:
In the beginning he did have a decent program with his helping of listeners with their consumer affairs problems. It was a joy to listen to him. Later on it was just a diatribe about how the government was out to get him and any and all of his problems were always because of some conspiracy with him directly in the bullseye.
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Wasn't he into the "Black Helicopter" conspiracy?
 
Oh, yeah. Black helicopters were a major part of his show, along with just about every other conspiracy theory you could think of. It was what made listening to him a guilty pleasure for me. Nick Begich, brother of Alaska Senator Mark Begich, was a regular guest with his conspiracy theories about the Project H.A.A.R.P. antenna array in that state (allegedly used for everything from mind control to manipulating the weather).

He got himself into trouble because he organized his network as a nonprofit, but then went after both George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton politically. This resulted in years of IRS audits and the forced sale of his network to the United Auto Workers Union, which dumped him.

Would make for an interesting movie script actually.
 
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