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Talk radio illuminates Buck as deep social conservative

By | 08.13.10 | 7:50 am

Talk radio can put you in the middle of a political worldview that’s completely foreign, with an intimacy and intensity that some people can’t stand. That’s understandable, but it’s also unfortunate because there’s a lot to be learned from radio…

Tancredo’s Turkey Day tale: Multiculturalism sucks!

By | 12.01.09 | 1:19 pm

Colorado’s controversial former U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo spun an edifying Thanksgiving yarn over the holiday week. It was, you might say, an alternative reading of the story of the Pilgrims and the Indians. Among other things, listeners to his show Wednesday learned that, although slavery was not good, African Americans are better off for having been brought out of Africa to live in America and Native American culture is not environmentally friendly, that the trash piled up on reservations tells the real story!

Radio host Boyles ‘spends hours’ studying health bill, gets it all wrong

By | 09.11.09 | 7:15 am

On Thursday’s radio show, KHOW’s right-wing host Peter Boyles claimed that the Democratic health reform bill, H.R. 3200, contains Orwellian euphemisms. He said that, contrary to Pres. Obama’s statements to a joint session of Congress last night, the bill finances…

Denver wingnut radio audiences shrink under new ratings technology

By | 08.19.09 | 11:49 am

Americans love the hate radio… Or maybe a lot fewer people love it than we’ve been led to believe.

The Denver Post reports that Arbitron, the Nielson ratings of radio, has come up with a new computerized device said…

50,000 Watts of Hate: How Did You Celebrate “Gunny Bob Day”?

By | 09.20.06 | 8:00 pm

Colorado Media Matters reported this afternoon that Gov. BIll Owens proclaimed September 16, 2006 as “Gunny Bob Day” in honor of 850 KOA Radio’s conservative firebrand host Robert “Gunny Bob” Newman.

This accolade was awarded to a…