When Silence if Golden
Mike Huckabee, that snake oil salesman from Arkansas who thought he should be President to bring a moral center to the United States, has lost his radio show.
Huckabee says it was contract disputes and that he wanted to devote more time to “other endeavors.”
Yeah, got it.
Other endeavors like …. I dunno, preaching on street corners? Shining flashlights into the parked cars of teenagers? Finger shaking?
Thanks to Maggie for the heads up.
Contract disputes covers an awful lot of territory, about the size of the Louisiana Purchase. Gosh, it just couldn’t be because of his close friendship with potty mouth totally nutcakes Ted Nugent, could it? Naw! Heck! One less batcrap crazy mouthpiece on the airwaves!
1So he’s “keeping his options open” with regard to running for office again, the last quote says. Hmmm. Huckabee, better consider your options for staying home and taking out the trash and raking leaves and cleaning gutters.
“Moral centers” belong inside of people. Anyone setting up to be a moral center for other people is…a huckster looking to make something out of it. Well, the name *almost* fits.
2Huckabee/Palin coming to a comedy club near you!
3I mean, aren’t they both keeping their options open?
But, but I love Jesus, doesn’t that count for anything these days?
4No matter how right-wing bat crap crazy you are, if your talk show consistently generates low numbers locally, radio stations will replace you with anything that generates higher numbers. And this is the reality of the market economy Huckeybee and his ilk worship.
5Uh-oh, The Huckster’s getting ready to run.
6I’m seeeing Clear Channel here.
7Heckfire, he’s still got that Foxy thing goin’ for him so all this means is that his fans will not be able to listen to him on their truck radios. Maybe they’ll try to get it on their phones while driving.
8There are more and more signs that the political pendulum is swinging back to the left. Demographic trends clearly show that the radical right is dying off. Since tv and radio stations are essentially for-profit entities and need big audiences to produce those profits, I expect that they will start adjusting accordingly. FOX will be the most fun to watch–their right-wing “ethics” won’t last a minute if it’s costing them profit.
9I guess the contact dispute is that he’s not allowed to have his own radio show at the same time he’s running for office?
10I don’t know about the radical Right being in retreat, but perhaps commercial viability of the brand is…waning(?). Radio is an antiquated and marginalized medium in the age of Google in your pocket, the necessity of income will bring out the old fashioned pragmatism of the fiscally conservative.
11Hate to be a “Debbie Downer” but here in Los Angeles (and San Francisco and NY) Clear Channel has taken over Progressive radio. No more Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann et al. There are ZERO progressive terrestrial radio stations here now. KTLK is now (shudder) “Patriot Radio”
12Another passenger on the clown bus.
13I’m seeing sequins and a 4th round ouster on Dancing with the stars in this.
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