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Colorado’s Bob Beauprez: Conservative Liar Of The Day

6:17 pm EST February 13th, 2009 | News | 18 Comments

Must they make everything up? EVERYTHING?

KOA guest host Bob Beauprez falsely suggested that President Obama failed to salute a Marine upon boarding the Marine One helicopter. Beauprez did not cite specifics about the purported incident, but his apparent reference to Obama shaking the hand of a Marine guard before a February 5 flight contrasts with video and photographs accompanying news accounts of the president traveling to Andrews Air Force Base on that day, clearly showing him saluting the Marine standing attention at the helicopter, then shaking his hand.

This guy was a member of congress. And he ran for governor of Colorado. Not Mars. Colorado!

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Thank You, Glenn Beck

10:59 am EST February 6th, 2009 | News | 9 Comments

Every time cons pretend like they’ve got a serious political movement going we can just point to the platform given to an idiot like Glenn Beck and move on with our collective lives.

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Obama 1260 Was A Joke, That’s Why It Died

11:42 am EST February 2nd, 2009 | Media | 17 Comments

Another Dan Snyder mistake.

President Obama may be riding high in Washington, but OBAMA 1260 is not.

The area’s only progressive talk station is changing formats, dropping such syndicated liberal hosts as Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press in favor of financial news, starting next week.

The move by Redskins owner Dan Snyder, who purchased the station, WWRC, and others in Washington last summer, leaves the city without a liberal radio outlet. Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election.

But ratings nearly doubled, he says, at Snyder’s conservative station, WTNT, which features Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett. Tantum said he will move Schultz to WTNT to give him another shot.

The major problem with this station was not its liberalism but the fact that most of the content was horrible. It ran the gamut from Ed Schultz, who I like, to just lame stuff like some program called “Clout” which was just the sort of NPR-lite programming too often put on liberal talk stations. People want hot talk, not a lecture without phone calls.

But even worse was the fact that the station management clearly didn’t care about the station. There was not a single bit of local programming on the air, not even a morning show! To succeed in talk radio you can’t just jam in syndicated stuff.

And EVEN WORSE, because they ran the station “automatically”, there were whole nights where the signal went off the air or an audible, loud beep just droned on. Nobody was paying attention.

Changing the call sign to “Obama 1260″ was a last desperate move of a lame station that should have died long ago.

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A Tired Old Man Watching History And The World Pass Him By

9:20 am EST January 23rd, 2009 | News | 22 Comments

You know him better as Rush Limbaugh. I point at him. I point at him and I laugh. Limbaugh has more money and wealth than I likely ever will have, but he’s a moron with a heart filled with hate and that makes the rest of us far wealthier than he ever will be.

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