Category: Center-Right AltMedia
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Garbage In, Garbage Out
Two bits of news from talk radio that tie into a larger industry-wide trend. Brain Maloney notes that Citadel Radio – one of the chains of broadcasters that has led the way in trying to jam left-leaning programming down the listeners throats, and largely failing (judging by their stock, which has gone from a solid…
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Happy Birthday!
Gary Gross’ “Let Freedom Ring” blog – which has become an essential read for Sixth District politics and Minnesota GOP inside baseball – turns four today. And Gary’s still on a mission: Tony Snow asked some former CNN executive what he thought about these bloggers scooping the MSM. Out of that came the infamous line that…
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Back Underground
On Saturday, King and I filled in for John, Chad and Brian on the second hour of NARN Volume I. To kill the time with as little effort as possible, we did our “Top Ten” lists of best and worst things about having an Obama Administration. Because it beat doing show prep, that’s why. Anyway,…
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If A Plane Full Of Terrorists…
…had crashed into the green room at Orchestra Hall last night, it could have had a sweeping effect on Minnesota conservatism. At one point, I was sitting with Senator Coleman, Governor Pawlenty, Representative Bachmann, candidates Erik Paulsen (who will be a guest on the NARN this weekend), Barb Davis-White and Ed Matthews, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved,…
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Go Sox
I’m shocked and saddened to see Dean Barnett has passed away, apparently due to complications from Cystic Fibrosis. He was only 41. A few years back, he wrote one of the better essays on Cystic Fibrosis – and his battle with the disease – that I’ve ever seen. At the time, he’d just participated in…
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Pundits Gone Wild
I was sitting two booths down from Hugh Hewitt last night, on Radio Row. At one point, I was in a clutch of guys – Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Duane Patterson, King Banaian, Ed Morrissey – that’d challenge anyone’s intellectual adequacy (unless you, like I, ignore the concept). And you could tell they were elated at…
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The Two-Way Sluice
When I cast my first-ever conservative vote – for Ronald Reagan, in 1984 – I didn’t tell anyone. Part of it was that the whole conversion from mushy-left to right was so very recent. Part of it was that I was still feeling my way around an unfamiliar place. And a big part was that…