Never let it be said that I’m unforgiving.
Despite being cut off, scurrilously insulted, and hung up on by him, on the air, then falsely accused of inventing “a conspiracy” after I was cut off and couldn’t refute his lie, here I am giving attention to David Boze of KTTH. After days of piling on Didier and Akers, misconstruing and misrepresenting their message and submitting them to name-calling and ridicule (along with KTTH self-appointed superstar Michael “medocre midstream middle-mongering mealy-mouthed” Medved) Boze finally had Clint on the show, live, in the studio on Friday. And while it didn’t dissuade the “blase one” from his committment to GOP Establishment group-think… suddenly…
His audience poll has completely reversed itself.
Despite a comfortable lead in their previous poll, Dino Rossi is now being completely blown away.
This is not a scientific poll, just the Boze Poll, the poll from KTTH “The Truth, as we conceive it.”
You can see it’s latest numbers as well as participate, yourself, by clicking on one of the pictures (David or the Poll).
I heard most of the interview and was pleased with
Didier’s performance although at times he seemed a little
too accepting of the Rossi’s going to win story line
promoted by Bose who I no longer can stand. He
reminded me of the Fox News fake conservative Hannity
and Reporter Carl Camerones deplorable treatment of
Presidential candidate Ron Paul in 2008. While Didier may
not be as eloquently nuanced as Rossi, it was very clearly
a win for the statesman and a loss for the establishment
liberal progressive control freaks. Didier is what the people
want. He did a great job; keep getting the word out. I’m
proud of Clint and what he stands for. It’s time to hammer
the GOP progressive elite in this state with the truth—the
people know it when they hear it. Hooray!
By the way, you know they’re progressives precisely
because of their efforts to control.
Currently:
Paul Akers 7% (162)
Clint Didier 52% (1265) !!
Dino Rossi 32% (775)
Patty Murray 10% (253)
It’s time for the liberty coalition to come out with their own
contract for America and get it well publicized before neo-
con progressive Newt gets to control the show again.
Hurry up please.
Boze takes some strange sides on the issues and candidates that they are attached to. Kind of makes a man wonder what his motivations are. Is he a conservative? Or is he more liberal than he lets on?
Jack, Boze is an establishment Republican who wants to always remain on the good side of Establishment Republicans; regardless of what his personal views are, when it comes to endorsing candidates, he will support the candidate that the establishment Republicans want to win.
Does anyone know how many LOCAL, politically focused talk shows there are out there in the country?
The background details of my point are below. The point I am trying to make is it seems to me, and I am sure there are exceptions, that radio talk show hosts holding LOCAL politicians accountable isn’t as common as it might have been a decade and a half ago. Were there more LOCAL talk shows then than now? I don’t know, but I would be interested in learning if this was the case.
Maybe it varies, but take Washington State as an example. We don’t have any good principled talk show hosts in the Seattle area. The last good one was Weissbach, though he had his problems (I still hear Weissbach every once in a while. http://www.weissbach.com/ He has been a substitute host on Michael Savage sometimes.
Dave Boze, John Carlson, and Bryan Suits in Seattle. I guess technically you can throw in Michael Siegel, broadcasting when few listen (6-7 pm on KITZ 1400 AM; http://www.kitz1400.com/ & http://nick8.surfernetwork.com/Media/KITZ.asx). You have some guy in KLAY in Tacoma who is hardly worth mentioning.
What was interesting about Siegel was that HE WAS A LIBERAL. He was a Democrat. But he was also a liberal who got a gig at pretty conservative (at that time) radio station appearing right after Rush Limbaugh. He figured out pretty quickly that he needed to find common ground with this audience or else he would not last long. So, he started focusing on government waste. Democrats in Washington State HATED him for it. But at the same time, he didn’t feel like he had to protect anyone in the Republican establishment, like Kirby Wilbur and John Carlson did.
Although most of the time Kirby Wilbur and John Carlson played their role in protecting the Republican Establishment of which they were are a part, the times they didn’t cost them their jobs. John Carlson is a strong believer that reverse discrimination, or affirmative action, is wrong and helped pass an initiative banning it in state contracts. For that he lost his job. Kirby Wilbur was really mad at Reichert’s vote on Cap and Trade. Really mad. And he expressed that over the air. He got fired.
None of these talk show hosts were really a Steve Deace, who doesn’t feel a need to protect the Republican establishment and I wish we were as fortunate as Iowa listeners.
(http://www.whoradio.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=deace.xml)
So what does that make it? Five? Perhaps I am missing a few but I don’t think many. And of those, how many want to take an “activist” view? Perhaps one sometimes, when it’s not against establishment republicans.
Now granted, three of the five or so of the hosts are on powerhouse stations, but that just covers Seattle. How about the rest of the state?
I imagine the talk show hosts have to consider not offending their sponsors. If you know the sponsor’s issues, you can bet the hosts will bow down to that point of view. No sponsor, no show.