We ran several posts last week noting how conservative talk radio did not give President Elect Barack Obama the slightest honeymoon after his election — starting right in Wednesday morning with a continuation of the most vitriolic and demonizing parts of the Presidential election campaign. One host even plays Reverend Wright at the beginning of his show.
Be sure to read this Los Angeles Times story which goes into a lot more detail about what I heard last week as I monitored a variety of conservative talk shows. And the L.A. Times doesn’t really include what the local talkers said — which at times was worse.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.