I listen to a lot of different radio at work. I bounce between broadcast and internet radio. Typically, I like either Christian music stations, or talk radio. I like the local guys here in Granite City that do a conservative talk show in the morning, and I like Dennis Prager. I also like Joe Soucheray, a guy who broadcasts all over Minnesota and the Internet out of St. Paul’s AM1500.
A few years ago, another local conservative radio host, Jason Lewis, left for a gig in North Carolina. When he left, 1500 rearranged the schedule and pushed everything back an hour. To make a long story short without boring you too much (if it’s not too late), the station in Granite City had an hour it needed to fill between Limbaugh (who I listen to very very little) and Soucheray. They have been filling it with the last hour Neil Boortz’s show since the switch.
I’m switching him off from now on. I like that he’s conservative, and I am confortable with his level of edginess. I am not a fan of his anti-Christian views though. He seems to make himself out to be a moderate Christian himself, but he frequently bashes those Christians who make up a large constituency of the Right, which happen to be a large part of his audience. No thanks! It’s nice to have a guy who stands on the right side of the political spectrum, but that doesn’t mean you get a pass from me when you slam my faith, which is the basis of my conservatism.
I guess that leaves me with Christian Radio or Sean Hannity between 2:00 and 3:00. I’m not the biggest of Hannity fans, but he has never slammed my faith, so he may start getting my ears for an hour a day.
Sorry for the rant, we now return to our regularly scheduled blog.
And now I get Jason Lewis every day from 3-6. I only hear him from 4-5 (longer if traffic is bad), but we’re happy with him so far!
I really liked him and was disappointed when he left.
I heard a rumor not long ago that he may come back to Minnesota. I’m guessing it was just a rumor though.
He was on from 5-8:00 here, ideal spot because of drive time. They pushed Soucheray back an hour and filled the other two hours with a delayed airing of Hannity. I like Hannity, but I liked Lewis a lot more.
He’s really ripping the RINO politicians here. They really, really hate him — so much so that they’ve forced the radio station to create a brand-new disclaimer for him before he comes on the radio! Something about “the views on this show do not represent the stations or it’s advertisers.” That “Warning” was created in response to various “leaders” being very annoyed at his blasting and exposing of them. Good stuff.
That’s really cool. He did that here too, but I don’t htink they’re as bad here as you describe them in NC.
I found Lewis online yesterday and saw that they have an internet stream. I may have to tune in from time to time.
It’s amazing how he compares NC to MN and can’t believe that it really is more liberal here than in MN!
MN isn’r really that bad. The downtowns of the Twin Cities are bad (Vox pointed out recently that people who live in Minneapolis act like they’re from Manhattan or something). The rest of the state is fairly moderate, with pockets of hard-core conservatives in areas and hard-core liberals in other areas.
Our electoral votes have gone Democrat for decades because the liberals know they only have to win the Twin Cities (not even the metros, just the cities) and the Iron Range to take the state.
MN has had a Republican or Independent (Jesse Ventura) governor for two decades, and usually have one Republican Senator of the two.
I’d rather live in a more conservative state, but there is much worse politically than Minnesota. I just wish we weren’t one of the top 5 highest taxed states in the union.