Wednesday.....Culture.....KQV... Radio

It's truly a small world. In 1967 I could often be found on the step in front of the local dairy with a baseball glove under my arm, a pop and steamed hot dog in my hands, watching the girls go by, as if I had the slightest idea what to say if they looked over. Every night I listened to a radio station's popular disc jockey whose studios were only a few miles away. Five years later I was a returning Vietnam veteran, on the same step, this time with a softball glove under my arm, the same pop and hot dog in my hands and listening at night to the same disc jockey who had left Pittsburgh and returned, possibly due in some way to the influence of my cousin who had the capacity to do so. Skip ahead another five years. I was married and listening to the same disc jockey and probably (for I really can't remember the name) listening to a newly hired disc jockey. Thrilling so far, huh? This second platter pushin papa (here's to you Porky) was Rush Limbaugh, working under the name of Jeff Christie but it's the first guy I want to talk about here. Conservative talk radio is a phenomenon today. On the few occasions that I turn on the national evening news television shows, I am pulling my hair out within a few minutes. America is hooked on talk radio because their beloved country is collapsing and this is one of the few places they can hear the news accurately reported. It's not that dissimilar to the plight of Americans in the early 40s sitting close to the RCA and finely tuning the dial to hear news on the war. A lot of the conservative talk show hosts are very good! Some are just....good. Others require a couple of aspirins handy. A few are beyond measure in their discernment. Limbaugh is one and is without equal. The first disc jockey I mentioned is Jim Quinn. When in the music business here in Pittsburgh he was hugely popular. As a conservative radio talk show personality his program The Quinn and Rose Show (http://www.warroom.com/) emanates from WPGB 104.7 FM in Pittsburgh, and his show occupies the 6am to 10am slot on channel 158 Sirius/XM. He might show up on the top 25 conservative radio talk show hosts poll but this is not indicative of what he has to offer. I'm compelled to write this blog about him because of his ability to see beyond the hype, hyperbole and hypocrisy of the mainstream media and statements of public officials and financial elites throughout the world. This is not run of the mill commentary and it is a tad above even the best of conservative radio talk show hosts! Why hasn't he drawn the scorn of the radical left on a national level? Just a guess here, but if I were in their position, I should like it that he doesn't get any more exposure than he has right now. Somewhere in a previous blog, I commented that his delivery is rough, and it is, but this rough opinion given has something at its core that we need. There's a 7 year age difference in these two men but very little difference in the political commentary of these former deejays turned medium wave patriots.