Radio & TV Talk Shows Quotes

While most talk show radio hosts in the political arena were highly partisan and not very polite about opinions contary to theirs and their major audience, Rehm was a real standout who not only was civil to all people regardless of view point but over her decades of broadcasting, always reminded her audience to also be so with suggestions like this classic.

Extremist, hate filled, right wing conservative radio tak shows were not invented in the 21st century. Charles Edward Coughlin, a Roman Catholic Priest who was finally reigned in by the Vatican, started his anti Democratic, anti-Semetic, racist radio broadcasts in 1926 and attracated a hugh audience of Americans, most of whom were disillusioned by the politicians of the day. After the Great Depression in 1929, he drew disillusioned and un or marginally employes people whe began to believe the scapegoating of blaming the depression on the minorities. When FDR assumed the Presidency and acted to relieve the crises people gradually abandoned the Hate Priest who tried to organziae a right wing Political Party in 1936 but was defeated badly. See related quotes for some examples of his extremism.

After Eisenhower’s successful use of TV, in 1952 and 1956, the next election—1960—had a plethora of TV ads which were mostly talking heads and in addition pundits were appearing on TV in the same format.

The congressman had a 93% Conservative voting record and was castigated by right wing talk radio so much that he lost his Republican primary election after 12 years of excellent representation in Congress.

In the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, right wing talk show hosts had extensive conservative audiences who were very susceptible to hyperbole, exaggerations, vitriol, ideology, and conspiracy theories. They in turn pressured the conservative politicians along the lines of the media shows version of conservatism. The result was that the most powerful conservatives in America were media personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. They had more influence on the Republican party than any of the Republican elected officials. Moyers, used to working with Republicans in many bi-partisan efforts attributed the extreme hyperpartisanship, and nasty, gridlocked political scene that developed in these media personalities.

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At the time most of the right wing talk show hosts were advocating Sarah Palin as a Republican presidential candidate. Palin, after her first experience at national politics as John McCain’s running mate, quit as Alaska governor, wrote a book and explored her further national political prospects, but her only visible support seemed to be coming from the radio talk show hosts.

He was one of the few Radio Talk Show hosts who was a middle-of-the-roader as opposed to catering to a very leberal or very conservative audience.