Best thing that could happen to sattelite radio

Rep Charles Schumer recently equated conservative talk radio to porn....well at least so far as the goverment's right to regulate it.    Here is a friend of mine - Peoria Pundit who blogged the issue.

I think if the Dems move ahead with fairness doctrine regulations, I will be purchasing stock in Sattelite Radio.  What Howard Stern was not able to do for Sirus, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage would.   Frequently my local station pre-empts Savage for some local content.  Oh well, I pull him off of the internet on his home station out of San Francisco, KNEW 901.   Listening to stations around the country is interesting.  I still think that some of the best Obama coverage was WLS 890 - the Roe Conn  Show, and you can imagine the mental curve one gets, listening to Savage and then a commerical for Cindy Sheehan in her Congressional race against Speaker Nanci Pelosi.

Bill AKA Peoria Pundit is off about the talk radio listener.  Yes, there are retired, conservative people listening, myu 80 year old WWII grandfather was an example of a faithful California listener.  But the majority of listeners are the people who are self employed or who have a job where they are listening to a radio:  construction workers, self employed, truck drivers, homeschoolers....this includes the children who are being homeschooled who call in and advise that they are a "Rush Baby".   I first listened to Limbaugh the summer of the Bush, Clinton, Perot election when I was on the groundscrew (union job) at Bradley University.     I did not then, nor do I now agree with every Limbaugh position.  But the guy was hillarious and a master of communication.   

Savage is also pretty funny, but without the ability to immitate voices of politicians.    Another, more recent to the talk radio scene and with an incredible lexicon and perhaps the most agile linguist I have ever heard - Dennis Miller.    He is by far the least radical, very gentle in his humor but if talk radio were to be compared ot a high art form he would be what Pavaroti was to Opera or Barishnikov was to Ballet.  I look fondly back on his season with Monday Night Football.   Here is a link to stations that carry the Dennis Miller Show