This fellow's family used to own the station. I started listening to talk radio as a college student and when I came back here in my late 20s, this was and still is the only one, and it was the standard line-up of syndicated doctors, psychologists, and general topics, with only 3-minutes of wingnut rants from this guy in the mornings. Then came LIMBAUGH, who was a shock even to the wingnut owners to the point of only running an hour of him and keeping the local farm report, until they got the nerve to run his full three hours and then, over years, replacing the doctors with the full lineup of Faux yakkers, finally replacing ABC news with Faux, everything all Faux.
I started replying to this host with single spaced letters and he replied, all this way before computers/emails. He harbored hopes of converting me, to the point of making nice with socializing with his wife and friends at the Country Club (I never went). He is of the Old Repuke faction of the Repukes. After the first few years he figured out no conversion was going to happen and took a break saying, "I'm tired of being your Right Wing whipping boy." But then resumed, and emailing made it all zoom with immediacy. They had sold the company to a conglomerate that let their several stations keep their separate formats (country, rock, sports, this one wingnut yakking) for cash diversification's sake, and he continued with a solo yak show, then retired, then came back. So the sparring has gone on for some 30 years. He's got co-hosts who are younger and there is only one actual Lib/newsreader in the whole place. Sometimes he refers to my email in terms of "a friend of mine says... "
*** So his take on the Drumpf indictment ("petty. very petty" ) got this email (to him and others) from me:
As usual, opinions are opinions, but quality varies. And (wingnut’s) comprise a long rapsheet of wrongness, too bad there’s not a spreadsheet for instant substantiating - all wingnut world view for starters, Iraq, before Iraq, everything ever after. And his are never original or surprising, just parrot points of the conventional wingnut variety.
So his take on Drumpf’s indictment is just that it is “petty” and even more emphatically “VERY PETTY” along with the other wingnut assertions that everything is just Dem vindictive plotting to get rid of Drumpf and that it will all backfire and motivate Drumpf’s flying monkeys. Couldn’t be that Drumpf has brought everything on himself, all his life.
(Wingnut) is beyond conventional, he is for the status quo power structure of yore (America great AGAIN, the OLD childhood way). The way things WERE, with the people in power being the ones that WERE. I would say he is an institutionalist, but that’s a tricky word because it can mean NORMS, but norms can vary since all structures have their own institutions. And when Drumpf is involved, his whole m.o. is to rip down all norms, being just an authoritarian a-hole out only for himself – brute power for his own benefit.
(Wingnut) believes there is a class of leaders who deserve to be, should not be questioned, sort of Divine Right.
(Wingnut) supports anybody (minority tokens) who/tools will accommodate his wingnut power structure. Just as he said he didn’t agree with “EVERYTHING” Limbaugh said, when Drumpf DESCENDED the escalator he immediately jumped onto the descent, minimizing all of Drumpf’s atrocities, pooh-poohing all red flags, finding cover in The Atlantic’s article about not taking Drumpf LITERALLY, claiming that Drumpf is a POPULIST, saying that Drumpf would be all right if he would JUST SHUT UP – excuse, excuse, apologist-ing, apologist-ing, minimizing, slippery sloping – the question being, when he wakes up one morning in a Fascist system, will he pinpoint when he could have said, “Enough, too much, no more”?
So in the context of (wingnut's) lifelong wingnuttiness, no expectation that he will ever think outside that box, but Drumpf left wingnuts bare about their utter lack of principles, completely cynical about anything-goes for the sake of their own POWER, stripped of any pretense to higher moral ground of any kind. He and his ilk wingnuts never hesitated one little beat about dropping all of what they had professed: Tear down democracy, personal freedoms, institutions, law enforcement, veterans, DECENCY ITSELF. Why wasn’t any of Drumpf’s obnoxiousness - quite apart from his concrete criminal activities - in denigrating Gold Star families, military service (“losers”), disabled people, actually any stripe of disadvantaged people – enough?
As George W. Shrub said, “It (the Constitution) is just a piece of paper.” So, I can list at length things that need to be changed about the Constitution, but nihilism is something else. Like how WASPs claim to be good Christians because they socialize on Sunday mornings for business networking. The Acts of the Apostles is all MARKETING, fundraising, recruitment, reaping material rewards via surface “virtues.”
Seems like wingnuts wink-wink don't really believe in the Constitution or their religion (Heaven, Hell), are really in some sort of nihilistic mindset, opportunistic, self-survival.
So (Wingnut) and his ilk having exposed themselves as selling out their professed values, which we Libs always suspected were FALSE to begin with, all he can do in defending Drumpf is to IMPUGN MOTIVES projected on Dems. They used to harp on “personal responsibility”. Yet they don’t credit Drumpf for having done everything TO himself. Just Mr Victim.
