Mark Levin On Fox’s Dana Perino: ‘I’m Sick Of The Preening, Elitist, Country Club Republicans!’

April 8, 2013 | Filed Under Congress, Conservatives, Elections, Ethics, Fox News, GOP, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Journalism, Media Bias, Radio, Republicans, Senate, TV, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

On April 2 on Fox News’ The Five, former George W. Bush press secretary Dana Perino criticized Doctor Ben Carson for appearing on too many conservative shows. This criticism sent talk show host Mark Levin into criticism of his own saying he was sick of these “preening, elitist, country club Republican(s).”

Ben Carson is the newest star in the conservative firmament and he’s now entering that spot in his debut onto the scene were pundits think they know better about how he should comport himself than he does. Thus, Perino’s advice for Carson is to stop doing TV and radio and “lay low” for a while.

Why? According to Perino it’s because doing conservative talk radio is bad for his image. Already Carson has “burned through so much of his credibility,” Perino claimed.
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Ohio Progressive Radio Station Fails, Blames Obama?

December 19, 2012 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Radio, Talk Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

WVKO, a left-wing radio station in Columbus, Ohio, is going under. Even after being the dutiful soldiers for team Obama the station can’t pay its bills. And as the station goes down the tubes they are pointing fingers. At Obama!

Talkers Magazine recently posted the announcement that WVKO, Ohio’s Progressive Radio, will cease operations for 2013. The station will replace the progressive shows with a new Gospel format.

“In a post at the station’s website, Richards spreads the blame around to everyone from the Obama campaign to local advertisers,” Talkers says.

Boy did WVKO’s Richards “spread the blame,” too. On the station’s website, it is a veritable whinefest.
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New York Times: Celebrating the End of ‘Rush Limbaugh’s Country’

November 21, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Entitlements, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Nanny State, President, Progressives, Radio, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Senate, Talk Radio, The New York Times, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

For his final Campaign Stops editorial November 18, New York Times columnist Thomas B, Edsall asked the seminal question left arising from the results of the re-election of Barack Obama: Is Rush Limbaugh’s Country Gone?

Beginning his piece with a quote from Limbaugh’s show where the most listened-to talker in the nation expressed his fear that “we’ve lost the country” to Obama and his followers, Edsall noted that Limbaugh’s worries “echoed a Republican theme” that was voiced before Obama’s re-election.

Barack Obama has unleashed a coalition of Americans “who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them” — as Mitt Romney put it in his notorious commentary on the 47 percent.

Edsall goes on to agree with Limbaugh that our country has drifted decidedly in favor of big government, nanny-state ideals and away from freedom and liberty — though he doesn’t say it that way, to be sure.
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Gay SiriusXM Talker Tells Conservative Gay Caller to Commit Suicide

November 2, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Gay Marriage, Gays, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Progressives, Radio, Talk Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Remember how liberals are the only ones tolerant of others? Well, keep that in mind as you listen to talk show host Michelangelo Signorile tell a gay caller who voted for Mitt Romney that he should take “arsenic” and commit suicide because he dared to vote for a Republican.

Via our friends at Gay Patriot, we get yet another example of the “more tolerant” set, who cannot stand to see someone think differently than they do, “tolerantly” wishing death on anyone that disagrees with them.

Signorile hosts a gay-themed radio show on SiriusXM and during his October 31 show slipped into full blown Obama flack mode as a caller tells him he is both gay and a Romney voter.
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Will Media Apologize for Airing Anti-Apple Computer Activist’s False Claims?

March 22, 2012 | Filed Under Apple, Business, Capitalism, China, Computers, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, MSNBC, NPR, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

When it broke, the Old Media was all over Mike Daisey’s story of the horrid working conditions at Apple Computer’s foreign manufacturing plants. The story had oppressed workers, pathos, and best of all, eeevil corporate greed. Daisey was well on the road to making Apple the liberal’s newest bete noire and was being hailed as the next Upton Sinclair. Until, that is, it became clear that he made it all up.

One of the first major media outlets to push Daisey’s anti-Apple claims was the program This American Life aired on the venerable Public Radio station WBEZ. The program featured Daisey’s claims in a January episode, but has now been faced with the “difficult news,” as representatives of the show have said, of Daisey’s fabrication.
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WARNING: If You Use Carbonite Computer Backup Service, Cancel it NOW

March 5, 2012 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Abortion, Constitution, Contraception, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media, PCism, President, Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Society/Culture, Talk Radio, Warner Todd Huston | 5 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

There is accidental “hypocrisy,” where you didn’t actually realize that you have committed the logic/moral sin, and then there is rank hypocrisy, that time when you do two things that are totally opposite each other yet you defend both. The on-line computer backup company, Carbonite, has committed the latter over this business with Slutgate and its ending of advertising with the Rush Limbaugh radio show.

For those unaware, a long-time liberal activist named Sandra Fluke was brought to a faux committee hearing in D.C. by former Speaker of the House Nancy “Sanfran” Pelosi to disgorge the left-wing, big government, liberal ideology about spending federal tax dollars to give free sex supplies to rich Georgetown coeds so that they can sleep around all they want without all those messy consequences.

After her White House planned “testimony” Rush Limbaugh, as is his wont, called this woman a slut. It’s hard to defeat his blustery logic with that. After all, what DO you call a woman that thinks everyone else should pay for both her education and her sex supplies? Anyway, Rush made such a splash with the comment that the inevitable, left-wing faux outrage was ginned up.

As a result, Carbonite announced that it would pull its advertising from the Limbaugh show.
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CBS Radio News: Still Attacking Sarah Palin in ‘News’ Reports

February 17, 2012 | Filed Under CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Radio, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a report on the recent FCC rules tightening requirements for telemarketers, CBS Radio couldn’t resist loosening a shot at Sarah Palin even though she has been out of office for several years already and has taken no part in political robocalls for some time. (Listen to audio HERE)

There is one area of media bias that many of us overlook and that is radio. All the big News outfits have radio shows, newsbreaks, radio offerings of all sorts, but we rarely talk about them for one reason… it’s hard to link to a just finished radio broadcast! Radio newsbreaks come and go in a nearly ephemeral manner and rarely can you catch it again, not to mention that rarely do you have something on hand to record it. Once you hear them they are gone so it’s hard to report on the bias constantly revealed in radio broadcasts. But the bias is there nonetheless.

Another reason radio is often ignored is that few of the networks put their newsbreaks up on the Internet so that you can review them. And those that do put them on the Internet, well they don’t make finding specific bits easy to track down. Then again, network radio news is not now a big focus of media with print and TV taking precedence.
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Restoring American Exceptionalism – Chicago Townhall

January 24, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Chicago, Children, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Jobs, Liberals, President, Public Employees Unions, Radio, Republicans, Rights, School Choice, Senate, Talk Radio, Taxes, Teachers Unions, Unions, Vouchers, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

I just got back from a wonderful evening taking school choice at the Restoring American Exceptionalism, Chicago Townhall. In attendance were radio talk show host Michael Medved, Fox News contributor Juan Williams, and Dr. Paul Worfel, Director of Education of Trinity International University. The discussion was moderated by John Tillman of the Illinois Policy Institute.

The event was sponsored by National School Choice Week, an effort by Americans for Prosperity, and is one of many events being held across the country to encourage parents, legislators, and activists to work toward allowing parents a choice in their children’s education. Co-sponsors were Townhall.com, Salem Radio Networks, and Chicago’s WIND Radio, AM 560

Arriving at the sprawling campus of Trinity International University of Deerfield, Illinois, the biting cold outside was quickly forgotten by the warm reception all received by the event staff. The program started promptly with an introduction by local radio host Big John Howell of AM 560, WIND radio who turned the program over to John Tillman of the Illinois Policy Institute.

The night’s debate was nicely balanced from right, center and left with a panel featuring the conservative side of the debate on education represented by talk show host Michael Medved, the center represented by Fox News contributor Juan Williams, and the more traditional educrat’s position taken by Dr. Worfel.

I won’t repeat the whole discussion, but here are some of the more interesting (and some might say provocative) highlights.
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Kelly Truth Squad is ON the Radio (And Yours Truly is the Cohost??)

January 10, 2012 | Filed Under Conservatives, Entertainment, Illinois, Kelly Truth Squad, Radio, Talk Radio, Warner Todd Huston, William J. Kelly | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

I’d like to announce my first official radio gig. Last week I started as the co-host of the Kelly Truth Squad on Chicago’s local station, WCEV AM 1450.

Our first show aired on Sunday, Jan. 8 (I didn’t write about it before because I wasn’t 100% sure that was the actual start date). You can hear the podcast here: The Kelly Truth Squad Radio.

The show is a two hour extravaganza made up of two segments. The first is an hour of discussion on national and local politics. The second is a showcase program of local charities and events Chicagoans need to know about.

The show is Mr. Kelly’s, certainly, but I am really enjoying being the “color” guy, the second banana. Kelly is such an outsized personality and it is fun to listen to him on the radio.

Now, some of you may be wondering just what the heck I’m doing? Warner with Kelly? Yep. I have to admit, being with Kelly, a political gadfly in Chicago to say the least, is great fun.

So, please check back at the podcast page every week to listen to what the William J. Kelly Truth Squad is up to, won’t you? If you are within the station’s signal, please do listen on the air On Sunday’s at 5AM, at AM 1450 on your dial.

Mark Levin: Ron Paul Not A Conservative, Not The Tea Party Founder

August 15, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Radio, Republicans, Ron Paul, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

From our friend, Pat Dollard: Mark Levin tells us that Ron Paul is neither a conservative nor is he a founder of the Tea Party movement. (Mark Levin can be heard here in Chicago evenings, 6PM to 9 PM on WLS AM 890).

Back on May 14 I also said that Ron Paul is not the father of the Tea Party.

UPDATE: NPR Chief Resigns Under Pressure Because of Video

March 9, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media, NPR, PBS, Radio, Taxes, TV, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

As of yesterday’s debut of James O’Keefe’s video showing NPR executives revealing their hatred for Americans while cozying up to enemies of the country by schmoozing with what the execs thought were radical Muslims willing to donate money to NPR, the CEO of NPR has now resigned.

Vivian Schiller, the woman responsible for the hashed-up firing of Juan Williams last year, has resigned in the face of pressure from NPR’s board. After meetings yesterday evening the board told Schiller that it would be best if she resigned and so she did. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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WGN’s Dean Richards: An Example of Chicago’s Rahm-Devoted Media

February 7, 2011 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Gery Chico, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Radio, Rahm Emanuel, Talk Radio, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

WGN AM 720 radio is one of the biggest radio stations in the country. It is traditionally one of Chicago’s most listened to radio stations and commonly tunes in as Chicago’s number one station. At least for the past few decades, WGN radio has also been the leading liberal station in the city. One thing WGN is not, however, is either edgy or independent of thought where it concerns Chicago’s ruling class. As a rule WGN is soldout all down the line to whomever is “the” Chicago guy.

This weekend Dean Richards, one of WGN’s weekend guys, employed the sort of “analysis” of Chicago’s mayoral election that tends to speak of what the station evidently feels must be the outcome of the election It was a not-so-subtle hint that Rahm Emanuel is the choice to take City Hall.

Richards took a segment of his weekend radio program to discuss the mayor’s race and the specific topic centered around candidate Gery Chico’s first major TV ad against Emanuel.
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Petty RI Gov. Bans Talk Radio Appearances for State Workers

January 15, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Censorship, Government, Corruption, Liberals, New Hampshire, Radio, Talk Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Lincoln Chafee was the bane of conservative talk radio when he was the RINO Senator from Rhode Island. Now that he is a newly minted “independent” and has become the Governor of the Ocean State, Chafee is in a position to take his revenge on the medium. And boy has this petty man used his power to do just that by banning his state employees from talking to talk radio.

Chafee has revealed some pretty warped logic to sustain his ban on talk radio, too. Through his spokesman, Chaffe said that he won’t go on talk radio because the medium is “ratings-driven, for-profit programming,” and that he doesn’t want his employees going on for the same reason.
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My Appearance on the Teri O’Brien Show

December 29, 2010 | Filed Under Entertainment, Media, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Over the weekend I appeared on the Teri O’Brien show, Chicago’s conservative warrior princess.

Here is the embed. I appear about 1/2 hour in…

In Which I Come to Meghan McCain’s Defense… Sort Of

November 7, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Politico, President, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Politico must feel it has a delicious little story of media feuding to report upon. Recently Meghan McCain shook her head in amazement that President Obama would stoop so low as to appear on a Ryan Seacrest show. Seacrest has shot back at McCain snarking that McCain herself tried to get on his show, so what’s the deal with her criticism he wonders? For its part Politico is lapping it all up. But the whole story misses an important point, one that mitigates in favor of McCain’s point.

When it was announced that President Obama was going on Seacret’s show, McCain was somewhat aghast at it all. Of the plans, McCain said, “there is something so unbelievably desperate and sad about the president going on Ryan Seacrest -exactly WHO is on his communications staff?” She went on to say, “it is belittling to The Office of The Presidency. But at the end of the day, it’s all good things for Republicans…”
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WINDs Amy Jacobson Slams Kelly, Reveals Inner Elitist

October 18, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Radio, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

WIND’s Amy Jacobson is an elitist. There really isn’t any other way to say it. Last week on the WIND AM 560 morning show where she serves as second banana to host Big John Howell, Jacobson indulged her inner elitist by attacking William Kelly for last week’s video where he was confronted by the Old Media for having the temerity to ask a question of Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel.

Kelly tracked Rahm Emanuel as he walked about shaking hands with the voters in Chicago and when he tried to ask a few questions, members of the Old Media in Chicago intervened for Rahm and tried to shove Kelly out of the way to protect Emanuel from tough questions. For her part, Jacobson was on the side of the left-wing, Old Media establishment.

One might find it amusing that Jacobson is the one, nose in the air, attacking others for not being a “real,” professional journalist, by the way. It was she that in 2007 was discovered cavorting about in a bikini at the home of one of the people she was supposed to be “professionally” interviewing. She was fired from her TV job for this extremely unprofessional behavior. Yet this woman has the gall to be telling others how to comport themselves?
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Lefty Bloggers Eating Each Other, White House Not Amused

October 4, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, Media, Politicians, President, Radio, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Politico has a delicious story detailing how lefty bloggers seem to be on the outs with the Obama administration over their constant stream of complaints unleashed about the president’s lack of supplication to the most extreme left-wing policies.

Politico found Peter Daou, another “progressive” blogger, who thinks he knows why Deputy White House Press Sec. Bill Burton didn’t name any left-wing bloggers along with his absolving of some of MSNBC’s hectoring on-air talkers.

Daou recently wrote a post hyperbolically titled, “How a Handful of Liberal Bloggers Are Bringing Down the Obama Presidency” exploring the idea. In it the blogger slams his own, claims that other lefty bloggers are tearing down the president among the progressives, and says it is damaging the administration.
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The Kelly Truth Squad on AM 560 WIND Moves to 6pm Saturdays

September 30, 2010 | Filed Under Illinois, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

From the Kelly Truth Squad Radio Show…

(CHICAGO) – The Kelly Truth Squad on AM 560 WIND is pleased to announce its move to a new primetime time slot at 6 pm beginning this Saturday. The political entertainment program is hosted by Emmy-nominated TV personality, William J. Kelly, who also pens Bill Kelly’s Truth Squad and the Tea Party Report for the Washington Times Communities. The host is known for his high octane political antics with an entertainment bent.

Last Sunday night, Kelly stepped into the middle of the Jesse Jackson Jr. controversy. Jackson, who has been linked to Giovanna Huidobro in an adulterous affair, has more trouble on the horizon as more details surface about his dealings with indicted Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Trying to help the DC hostess get a “fresh start,” Kelly contacted Huidobro at her DC nightclub hostessing job at the Ozio Lounge to offer her a job as a radio contributor to his program.
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My Appearance on ‘The Conscience of Kansas’ Radio Show

August 4, 2010 | Filed Under Entertainment, Paul A. Ibbetson, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

I was a recent guest on the “The Conscience of Kansas” Radio Show hosted by Paul Ibbetson.

CLICK HERE to go to the podcast to hear it.

I’ll Be on Chicago’s WGN Radio on Saturday Morning, 11AM

July 30, 2010 | Filed Under Media, Radio, Warner Todd Huston, WGN | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In connection with my ChicagoNow.com Publius Forum site, I have once again been asked to appear at the WGN radio studios in downtown Chicago Saturday morning, July 31.

Hitting the airwaves at about 11AM, I’ll be again meeting hosts Alex Quigley and Amy Guth for a half hour of politics talk. I’ll be appearing with the wonderful and vivacious Em Zanotti of the American Princess blog.

If you aren’t in the Midwest where the WGN 720 AM blowtorch can reach, you can always listen live on the Internet tubuals at: http://www.wgnradio.com/.
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I’ll Be on Chicago’s WGN Radio on Saturday Morning, 11AM

July 10, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In connection with my ChicagoNow.com Publius Forum site, I have once again been asked to appear at the WGN radio studios in beeeoootiful downtown Chicago tomorrow morning.

Hitting the airwaves at about 11AM, Saturday morning I’ll be again meeting hosts Alex Quigley and Amy Guth for a half hour of politics talk.

If you aren’t in the Midwest where the WGN 720 AM blowtorch can reach, you can always listen live on the Internet tubuals at: http://www.wgnradio.com/.
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1929 Radio Broadcast Audio Featuring Thomas Edison Recovered

June 20, 2010 | Filed Under History, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is absolutely cool, a 1929 recording of a radio broadcast of Thomas Edison has been recovered from a recording made on a machine that no longer exists. (CLICK HERE to hear audio)

Audio experts had to recreate the early sound recording device based only on old photos and descriptions of the machine. Called the “pallophotophone,” the machine recorded onto movie film light emissions made from sound.

It is simply amazing to hear this recording, but even more amazing that it is so clear and precise. I was ready to hear scratchy, hard to understand muddle, but the sound is incredibly clear.

The whole interesting story can be seen at the timesunion.com

AM 560 WIND is Bringing The Kelly Truth Squad to the Airwaves in Chicago

June 17, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

(CHICAGO) – Bringing the Kelly Truth Squad to the AM 560 WIND airwaves, political commentator and satirist, William J. Kelly, takes on the worlds of politics, sports, and entertainment in “humorous pursuit of truth, justice and all things America.” Kelly pens the popular Bill Kelly’s Truth Squad for the Washington Times Communities Pages, where it is consistently among the Times’ #1 reads and is regularly featured on the daily paper’s front page website, which receives 400,000 views. Kelly also edits and manages the Times’ Tea Party Report, which reports nationally on the Tea Party Movement.

A graduate of the Second City Conservatory, Kelly is also a producer of Emmy award-winning television and received a nomination for outstanding on-camera achievement. He made conservatives stand up and cheer with the documentary, “A Conservative in Chicago.” He was formerly the Executive Director of National Taxpayers United, an affiliate of the National Taxpayers Union. In 2010, he ran statewide for Illinois comptroller in the Republican primary and also blogs at Chicagonow.com.

If you can take the heat, turn up the volume as the Kelly Truth Squad radio revolution begins! The bad guys in Washington just won’t know what hit ‘em and…it’s about time! The Kelly Truth Squad launches July 11 and will air Sunday evenings at 10 pm.
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A Wonderful Example of Fascism at Chicagoland Radio and Media Message Board

June 12, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Chicago, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Freedom, Illinois, Liberals, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The fascist way that the left deals with opinion differing from its own is just one of the many reasons why the left in America today is so hypocritical. Aside from the oppressive aire of our Universities and colleges no better example of the quashing of opposing views can be seen than on Internet message boards. And on the Chicagoland Radio and Media website we have as perfect an example as one can find.

The altercation that revealed a leftist’s fascist fascination with quashing differing opinion happened in a discussion analyzing a Chicago radio station’s relative political bent. This altercation occurred between the owner of the board me, a fellow that goes under the fake name “Larz.” (I posted under my own, full name.)

Over the years I have become wary of anyone that refuses to use his proper name on the web. Though I have done so in the past myself, I have shied away from it as time has progressed. It’s one thing to be just a commenter on a site using a fake Internet handle, but when it comes to people that wish to run major websites anonymously, that always makes me suspicious of their motives and veracity. We start off right away with a deficit of trust when people run sites under cutesy names. And after seeing the skewed “opinion” of this “Larz” fellow, trust is definitely a forlorn hope.

As I was saying we were discussing the political leaning of one of Chicago’s largest radio stations. It is, of course, a lefty station. Now, it isn’t that the station is a politics talk station, it isn’t, its programming is more for lite entertainment than politics. But the station is in downtown Chicago and politics is naturally a common topic of discussion. In fact it is almost a daily topic with one host or all.
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My Latest Visit on WGN’s ChicagoNow Radio Program

June 2, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Entertainment, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Last Saturday I was again in the studios of the blowtorch, WGN AM 720 radio to appear on the ChicagoNow Radio extravaganza, this time with new hosts Amy Guth and Alex Quigley.

I was supposed to appear with Ryan Justice, but he took ill with an unwanted and unexpected bout of food poisoning. Sorry to miss ya, Ryan. I was looking forward to meeting you.

We spoke of things political and had an all around good time. It is likely they’ll ask me back sometime in the future, as well, so maybe we’ll get a chance to do it all again.

Have a listen for yourself…

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Warner Todd Huston Takes Over WGN’s Studios!

Michigan To License Journalists?

May 29, 2010 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Blogging, Civil Rights, Computers, Constitution, Free Speech, Freedom, Government, Government, Corruption, Inernet, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Michigan, Newspapers, Radio, Technology, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is the face of tyranny. A Michigan State Senator has introduced an Orwellian bill that would provide for the licensing of journalists. There is no doubt that this thing is aimed squarely at delegitimizing the New Media, silencing bloggers, and creating a protected class of state approved “journalists.”

State Senator Bruce Patterson is the braintrust behind this flouting of the U.S. Constitution and outrageously enough, this Patterson fellow claims to be a “constitutional lawyer.” Pair him with the “constitutional scholar” we have as president and we have a matched set of revisionists out to steal as much power for themselves as one can find in any tinpot dictatorship! Even more ridiculously, this mustachioed villain is a Michigan Republican, proving that this sort of megalomania infests both sides of the aisle.

So what is this licensing deal supposed to do for we, the stupid people not able to figure out what end is up with current events, anyway? According to Patterson we can’t get “good information” any more because of the proliferation of new sources of info. But not to worry, granny Patterson is here to save the day and he’ll selflessly take it upon himself to determine what news source is a “legitimate media source.” What could possibly go wrong, eh?
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I’ll Be on Chicago’s WGN Radio on Saturday Morning, 10AM

May 28, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Entertainment, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In connection with my ChicagoNow.com Publius Forum site, I have been asked to appear at the WGN radio studios in beeeoootiful downtown Chicago tomorrow morning.

I’ll be appearing next to Ryan Justice, another ChicagoNow blogger whose blog comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum as mine. In fact, he even plays for the other team, if’n ya know what I mean? (OK, I have to admit, I’m not sure what that saying is logically supposed to mean, but it what “they” say anyway, innit?)

Ryan and I have had a few go’rounds on my blog over things political, so it ought to be an interesting half hour. Let’s see if Ryan and I can ignore host Alex Quigley and just let us take over the show!! Ha, ha.

If you aren’t in the midwest where the WGN 720 AM blowtorch can reach, you can always listen live on the Internet tubuals at: http://www.wgnradio.com/

Tea Party: Instantly Attacked by Old Media, Coffee Party: Immediate Respect from Old Media

April 28, 2010 | Filed Under Associated Press, Budget, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Huffington Post, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, Radio, Tea Party, TV News, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Nothing says “media bias” like coffee in the morning.

If anyone ever wanted to see an example of the bias of the Old Media no better example can be found than the different ways that it has treated the tea party movement and the coffee party astroturf effort. The tea party movement was initially ignored, then it was ridiculed, then it was attacked as dangerous, but no where in the Old Media was it treated as a valid, powerful political movement despite the literally millions of Americans that have attended them.

On the other hand, the astroturf coffee party effort created by an Obama campaign staffer was treated as a viable, important effort from the second it was announced and all that quite despite the fact that no coffee party event seems to have been able to turn out more than 20 people at a time.

Let’s look at some numbers. Just from those first tax day tea party events (April 15, 2009) the number of participants topped *500,000. And since then there have been thousands of more tea party protests of all sorts sponsored by any number of local and national groups and they, too, have turned out thousands of participants. There have been tea party participants in the millions since April of 2009.

Of course, the Old Media has done its best to downplay the number of tea party protestors. Instead of detailing the actual numbers, the Old Media continues to use the nebulous phrase “hundreds of protestors,” or when the numbers are greater the dismissive “thousands of protestors.” An excellent example of this can be seen in the great Washington D.C. protest of September of 2009. Where the foreign press noted that as many as a million flooded Washington D.C. on September 12, 2009, the American Old Media insisted on using the less accurate phrase “tens of thousands.” When asked to quantify a million people no one would use the phrase “tens of thousands,” unless, of course, they were trying to diminish the amount.

Also since April of 2009, we have seen tea party groups begin a foray into local politics. From coast to coast tea party groups have been holding candidate forums, endorsing candidates, and proffering candidates from their own ranks. Now, as it is right now this moment, we are still at a nascent stage of these electoral efforts, so it is difficult to say what will come of it. But the fact is, they’ve begun at various levels from north to south and east to west.
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Does Obama Want to Destroy America? Yes, But…

April 26, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Government, Government, Corruption, History, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Radio, Socialism, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Rush Limbaugh and a few other radio hosts have made it a center piece of the attack against President Obama, the Tea Partiers have often put such sentiment on their protest signs, and the conservative chattering classes have been abuzz with the question: does Barack Obama want to destroy the United States?

The only real answer is “yes, but…” Yes he does, but only if it’s your ox being gored. Yes he does but there is more to it than that. And if it’s someone else’s veritable Oxen the answer might still be “yes, but…”

Conservative radio host Michael Medved, for one, emphatically denies that Obama wants to “destroy the country.” Medved employs the conventional logic that a politician that wants to be re-elected would not want to destroy the very nation that he has been elected to lead. That would make sense if only Obama were a conventional politician and if only Obama himself hadn’t told ABC News, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” That very sentence straight from this president’s own mouth seems to shoot full of holes Medved’s conventional logic.

Still, in a way, Medved has stumbled upon a certain amount of truth no matter how small. The problem is that what we really have here is a misunderstanding of concepts. The fact is, following his straight down the line, left-wing, anti-American, radical ideology, Obama does want to destroy the U.S.A. as it is now. But in his mind he is not trying to destroy America simply because he wants utter destruction and devastation to be the only outcome. You see, mere destruction isn’t his end goal as those on the right fear. In his left-wing ideology, he thinks after America’s fall he and his left-wing comrades will be building a new and better U.S.A. Where real Americans see destruction and the end of everything, the leftists see a re-birth to a better and, in their eyes, more moral America. He and his left-wing friends see the U.S. as a Phoenix rising from the ashes of the bad old days.
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Chicago Radio: the Laughing Stock of the Midwest

April 22, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Government, Corruption, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Media, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Welcome to Chicago Con the Air!

What the heck is going on with Chicago’s AM radio stations? For some ungodly reason… and I DO mean ungodly… convicts are turning up all over the place as radio hosts. No, I mean real convicts. Not just your average car-jacker or B&E guy, I mean political convicts. It’s no wonder Chicago is the laughing stock of the country. The city is so crooked that crooked politicians even infest the radio, fer cripes sakes!

Just announced by WVON a Monday morning radio show will be hosted by convicted Cicero Mayor Betty Loren-Maltese. Maltese just got out of jail for misappropriation of city funds.

As Chicago Radio maven Larz notes, “It should be noted that the man Betty Loren-Maltese is filling in for, Cliff Kelley, is himself a disgraced former politician.”
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