Kathy Shaidle

Juggalo-phobia: are Insane Clown Posse fans a trailer park Tea Party?

White trash rappers Insane Clown Posse have been around for 20 years, but only recently have they shown up on the radar of the political punditry.Folks on the Left and the Right all have something to say about ICP...

The Hard Hat Riot: 40 years later, rare photographs emerge

The Hard Hat Riot of 1970 took place a few days after the shootings at Kent State. During that brief skirmish on Wall Street, construction workers from the World Trade Center site battle hippies who were protesting the deaths of...

Andrew Breitbart talks to 'The 700 Club'

Liberals have been demonizing the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) since the Reagan era. Defying all cynical liberal expectations, CBN is still around, looking more polished and “big time” than ever. Not a potted fern or cheap suit in...

Take Olbermann out of the ballgame, says new group

A new group called Respect the Great Game has just launched an intriguing campaign: they’re asking folks to sign a petition calling on Major League Baseball to rethink its relationship with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, who occasionally...

Glenn Beck and the Nielsen Ratings: an insider's view

I got an email today I’d like to share with you: "Your comment today about Glenn Beck’s “falling” Nielsen ratings was bang on, especially when you wondered if the recession has some people...

Conservative Talk Radio weekly recap: April 26-30, 2010

My NEW Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND. Grab a coffee and enjoy a selection of FREE audio and webcam highlights from the week in talk radio: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham and more...

ABC News slashes 400 jobs as TV news continues freefall

"The process of cutting up to 25% of the jobs at ABC News is all but complete," reports MediaBistro. I'm not shocked that one of the Big Three networks is shedding staff. What's amazing...

What Glenn Beck's 'falling ratings' really mean

Media Matters and the Huffington Post are crowing about the latest Nielsen ratings, showing a dip in Glenn Beck's viewership at Fox News. Media Matters thinks Beck's weird (and now largely forgotten) hour-long interview with...

Deuling videos: ex-Geico announcer vs. Tea Parties

No doubt by now, you've heard that the guy who did the voiceovers for those clever Geico commercials left a foul-mouthed message on the conservative FreedomWorks group's answering machine. This being the 21st century, FreedomWorks...

Rush Limbaugh strikes back, and finds unlikely defender

Rush Limbaugh is the Wayne Gretzky of talk radio. They say Gretzky, unlike 99% of the players on the ice, intuitively knew where the puck was going, and duly skated in that direction. Likewise, Limbaugh thinks a few steps ahead...

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