Rick "Shark and Shepherd" Esenberg, perhaps whilst sipping Oregon pinot grigio(noir -- apologies, Ese), types:
But I can't agree with the notion - advanced by Begel and others (and more civilly by him) - that last week's election marked some type of defeat for "angry" talk radio. It wasn't a good night for conservatives, but this stereotype of talk radio as "angry" and "divisive" and "against everything" is tired. Listen to Joel McNally's morning show (or read his Shepherd Express column) and tell me that he doesn't take the position - at least for public consumption - that his political opponents are moral or intellectual defectives. Try reading this guy's blog. You won't find that kind of vituperative self-righteousness in many other places.
I understand that Belling's schtick is outrage, but Sykes and Wagner are hardly breathing fire.
Huh? Who is this "Charlie Sykes" he is talking about?
The guy who called President-elect Barack HUSSEIN Obama a "sniveling, snot-nosed community organizer"?
The guy who whipped his listeners into a lather about the potential for "massive voter fraud" in Milwaukee and warned that voter fraud could decide the election?
The guy who humored a caller who suggested that George Soros and the Dems might be manipulating the stock market in order to win the election?
The guy who approvingly noted that Palinistas were flipping off the media bus in Cedarburg?
The guy who said that Obama had used crack?
Obviously the Brawler could go on. I'm not sure who this reasonable Charlie Sykes person is that Rick Esenberg listens to. But he doesn't have a radio show on 620 WTMJ in Milwaukee.
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