Some people are wondering lately if Ann Coulter has gone off the deep end. I have more faith, even if I don’t always agree with her exact choice of words. Although she can string together a phrase better than I can ever hope to. See.
But it’s all a bit clearer now that I’ve seen this interview, published a few days ago. It’s author, Taylor Hill, termed it “the most surreal interview I have ever done in my life.” I don’t have much recollection of the very first Coulter interview I ever saw or read, other than it was awesome. Here’s another. Quoth the Coulter, “true Deadheads Are What Liberals Claim to Be But Aren’t: unique, free-thinking, open, kind, and interested in different ideas.”
Chris Francz of Talk Radio Fan has posted some neat sketches of several radio personalities. So far the portrait collection includes Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and Mark Simone. The Beck portrait has also been posted to Glennpedia.com, an online encyclopedia of everything, well Glenn Beck. All three are terrific, from the expression on Simone to the Clinton Happens cap on you know who.
Besides Talk Radio Fan, Chris also has a personal site with galleries of his other work. Check out chrisfrancz.com.
It won’t happen through my speakers. But that’s what a new study by Lund Media Research has recommended to Armed Forces Radio. The proposal suggests that a music mix, rather than talk, is the way to increase audience.
Officials for American Forces Radio will begin discussions on the proposed changes later this week, according to an article in Stars and Stripes. Any actual changes would likely not happen til next year.
Radio Commentator Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer has some analysis of the story. According to Maloney, “an astounding picture of anti-conservative bias is clearly revealed.” He also notes that conservative talkers are exceeding popular on the network with Rush receiving an amazing 35.2% share on the armed forces network, “far higher than the audience shares they generate at home.”
As spokesman Andy Friedrich, deputy director for AFRTS, explained in Stars and Stripes, “The goal is to have the largest audience possible hear the radio stations’ hourly inserts on local news, servicewide alerts and other military information.” This should be an interesting discussion over the coming months.
Update from Rush, as posted above in News & Features, via Brian Maloney -
“In terms of percentage, the total audience for this program in Armed Forces Radio is 24.9% — 25%! That’s a percentage of everybody in the military listening to this program. That is huge, folks. . . . Let me tell you what this is all about. This is all about getting us off of Armed Forces Radio because the libs that they put on there the last six months are not registering. I think that’s all this is about.”
Great article by Boortz in Nealz Nuze today about Bush and immigration(invasion) reform. Here is the heart of the issue. As Boortz posits, “This particular invasion force doesn’t need guns. They’re going to have a more potent weapon, the ballot.”
“Never in my 37 years of talk radio have I seen a time when the politicians inside the beltway have been so completely and thoroughly out of touch with the American people.”
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Boortz goes on to explain uses of ballots: “to change our very way of life . . . gain access to the pockets of every single working American . . . open the floodgates even further and destroy our rights to property.” So, in other words, the typical pastime of Congress.
The article was posted on Free Republic and has garnered a lengthy list of comments, beginning with “I totally agree with him” and “Absolutely! Boortz rocks!.”
