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WIBC Adds Tea Partier Dana Loesch After Rush

The USA Today was the first example, depending on what they included and how valid/slanted the info is, add to it the 10% receiving unemployment checks (not working, are you more apt to vote for or against the person running for office that wants to cut back your 99 weeks? Are you strong enough to vote for responsibility, or are you going to vote for the guy that wants to not only give you 99 weeks, but even more if he could?).

And a 19% unfavorable rating for Limbaugh is laughable considering over 30,000,000 listeners tune in. (Even Washington Post will admit it's a minimum of 20,000,000 - google it). WIBC couldn't survive without him, and the additional conservative talk isn't on a whim. Research dictates it.
 
As someone who loves radio, especially news/talk radio, I just wanted to throw in my hat.

I am one of those social parasites who has gotten all my federal income taxes refunded for most of the last 24 years, yet I have always voted libertarian or third party on principle, whenever I could. The idea that any particular vote of mine could possibly have had any effect on the tax laws is truly absurd, but I realize it is a popular superstition, so let's just pass over all that stuff about voting.

Being a far-right libertarian conservative and subscriber of the old American Spectator, I was excited when Rush first came on the radio 20 or so years ago. Up until then, I was stuck with NPR during the day. After a few years, though, Rush began to wear thin. After awhile, his egocentrism and dittohead listeners, along with the lack of actual "news", became quite bo-ring. NPR was OK for me to listen to all day during the 1990s, up until they changed hosts on "Talk of the Nation." Also, Diane Rehm started to get annoying when she would get on her anti-third party soapbox, like when she tore into Ralph Nader in 2000. Eventually, after hearing the third interview in a week with a gay urban performance artist, I stopped listening to "Fresh Air." My favorite show was "Odyssey," so of course it was canceled.

I do wish there were a conservative version of NPR on the radio, one that did on-site reporting, intelligent in-depth interviews, broad news coverage, occasional light feature stories, bipartisan political discussions, and science news, but without all the blah blah gay rights blah blah Christian fundamentalists blah blah libertarian nutcases.

On the other hand, NPR does that "journalism" stuff, and without all the blah blah Cloward-Piven strategy blah blah socialized medicine blah blah welfare fraud blah blah "talent on loan from God."

On balance, I'd rather listen to NPR, but I haven't listened to Dana's show yet.
 
NPR and Rush Limbaugh both do a good job of doing what they do. There actually are people who listen to both points of view. Hopefully very FEW people agree with everything Rush says or every opinion heard on NPR. As far as local radio news, flawed as it may be at times, WIBC is the only real full time source. Their current mantra though seems to be "faster, shorter".
 
I like Dana's show and I'm a liberal Democrat. I'd love to see Dave Ramsey on WIBC. He's one of only a few talk hosts who tend to bring in respectable numbers with women. He'd ditch his current affiliate for WIBC in a heartbeat; just like he did in Atlanta to be a part of the WSB lineup.
 
i like danas feed and listen to the second hour on the internet feed available earlier in this thread for the second hour.
 
Had a chance to listen today and thought she is just what WIBC needs. Not too harsh, not too whiny, not in your face. Sounds like she has a decent personality and knows what she's doing and talking about. A big step forward in my opinion.
 
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