I've been a radio talk show person for almost fifty years now going back to KDKA's Party Line with Ed and Wendy King and later midnight's Jack Wheeler then Mike Levine and then Roy Fox who was avant-garde with his Fox's Den that was a lot like today's talk radio with the exception that conservative talk radio of today is our news in a culture where the mainstream news has become state-run, profligate in its responsibilities to inform and almost as if hypnotized in its cultic devotion to Barack Obama. I slowed down a little in the 80s and it took me a while to get my nose out of a book long enough to find conservative talk radio but that's where I often go today, out of necessity, for news on this war on America from both without and within.
So there's my resume' and here are my top three conservative talk show hosts. Rush Limbaugh is indeed the best even though he's not nearly as accurate as the 99.7% of the time that he jokingly reminds us of every day. It's one of his traits that will be the focus of this post. Mark Levin gets my vote for #2. Quite simply, he holds Republican's feet to the fire far better than anyone, he's uncompromising on truth as it pertains to the defense of our heritage, plus he's an author of significance with his legal and constitutional expertise. You may or may not have heard of my #3. He's a former disk jockey Jim Quinn that I used to listen to here in Pittsburgh in the 60s and 70s.
Quinn is part of the Quinn and Rose (Rose Tennent) team (www.warroom.com). Up until recently you could hear them on XM and other venues emanating from their home base at a Pittsburgh radio station. XM Satellite Radio inexplicably had Jim Quinn on an alternate conservative channel 244 until in what was even more baffling they did away with that channel and Quinn and Rose! More recently, within the last month, his Pittsburgh home base dropped his show. I don't claim to know the ins and outs of this decision but it certainly wasn't based on popularity or profits. This man is ultra popular in this area and for good reason. I don't mean to slight Rose but Jim Quinn is up there with Limbaugh and Levin. He has insight into the ploys of the liberal politician and he cuts to the quick. He knows what issues are important and he has a gift for explaining them. I won't speculate on executive decisions but I will on high level liberal political operative's anxieties. They were very uncomfortable with Jim Quinn and with good reason. Hopefully their celebrating will be short lived.
OK, now for my disagreement with Rush. He consistently reminds us that he is an optimist on America. It's part of who he is, on the radio at least. There was a Grammy nominated #1 song by Starship in the mid-80s called We Built This City. Well, we built America as it has become today. I bear plenty of responsibility for I added to the defective brick and mortar into my 30s and I was well into my 40s until I finally realized that America had turned from its Benefactor and had not only rejected God but in its influential professions and entertainments brazenly began to ridicule Him. As it stands today, God's judgment on America must be near. I am an optimist in that I do believe that America will repent, I just don't know if it will be from the ashes of a ruined nation or from an awakening beforehand as to what we have become.
I finally picked up Diana West's 2007 book The Death of the Grown-up, How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. George Will and Michele Malkin both used the word "wit"..."witty" in their blurbs but I personally can no longer smile at witticisms concerning the mockery of reason that describes our government and our nation. No, there were even tears formed as I read and recognized her description of our journey to the center of perpetual adolescence that has rendered us Godless, defenseless and clueless as to who and what our enemies are. Read it and weep might be my blurb. So that's my difference with Rush. We have to address politics and government and foreign affairs and taxes and on and on but our sickness is stage four and the doctor....the only doctor.... is God. These are very sad times and they are going to get worse. The question, as I previously inferred, is will we realize beforehand, when there may be time, that God's hand has already been withdrawn.
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