Jerry Bader and Ambush Radio

Green Bay has a  little AM radio station that is a talking points republican oasis. The local morning show is a poor man’s version of Rush Limbaugh,  however, without the talent that God has loaned Rush.

There has been a story lately in the news about a women in Kewaunee, who does have close ties to the Republican Party, and she made statement at a recent townhall meeting, opening with the line,”I have no party affiliation”.  While she currently is not involved in the Republican Party, she most definitely is a Republican according to her own webpage,  no matter how you want to slice her statement she made that day.

But the real heart of this story is what happened today on his show. Jerry had the reporter who did the story on, it was clear from the start that Bader had him there for one reason and one reason only, to try and intimidate the guy.  He started with asking him if he talked to anyone at the meeting, if he had said anything to anyone at the meeting about the women, the reporter said no he did not. Jerry then asked the reporter if he knew  so and so, the reporter said yes.

What made that so clear that this was all a setup was when he said lets take a phone call, the reporter said that he was told no calls would be taken, Bader said, “I said we would take them only if we have time.”  What was so amazing is that the ONE  phone call he took was from this person who was accusing the reporter of lying.

Now the reporter said he never said the things this guy was accusing him of, but luckily Jerry just happened to take a phone call from the one person making the accusation which just luckily allowed him to ask the caller “is he lying?” The caller said yes and Jerry got hysterical and started to rant, accusing the reporter of lying on the air. He actually accused him a number of times of this. So Bader being the good Republican accepted the word of a fellow Republican over the evil liberal media reporter and his word. This is sort of like Obamas “I was not there” moment, say something even though you don’t know the facts.  But to accuse the reporter to being a liar, while ignoring the fact that he misled the reporter about taking calls, planting this person on hold to ambush the reporter, do we really need to point out whose creditability here is now in question.

Last week when the WGBA reporter asked Bader to comment on what was going on, Jerry just curled up and he hid under his desk, but when Bader asked the reporter to come on his show and do a live interview the reporter said sure, however I don’t think it was what the reporter was expecting.  Bader clearly set him up in hopes of embarrassing him and humiliating him, trying to show the reporter had an agenda when he did his story.

Lowbrow radio is something Green Bay listeners have come to expect since the GM at the station fired a popular host a  few years ago and replaced him with…..oh that’s right himself.

I give the reporter a lot of credit for trying to hold a reasonable conversation with Bader, but as many people have learned over the years it’s not a show that can be trusted and why he has so few people ever willing to come on and talk to him. It was a sad display by this man today and WTAQ should be ashame  the way he acted.

Maybe a little more honesty next time with the guest would help give the poormans Rush Limbaugh a little credibility back.

Filed under: Talk Radio , Jerry Bader, WGBA, WTAQ

Out Of Touch

Talk radio has come up with a new controversy, well at least in their small minds, to rant and rave about. Rush, Sean, Savage and even the local poor mans Rush on WTAQ have had their typical meltdown about something John McCain said when he came out against a ad that the North Carolina State Republican Party came out with.

It’s an ignorant ad, put out by apparently not real bright people. Somehow these mental giants have found a way to tie Barack Obama, and Rev Wright to the Governor and a senator in the state who are running for re-election, no stretch there.

What has the yakkers all wound up?

What Mr. McCain has said! He asked the party there to stop running the ad, “They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable,” McCain told NBC’s “Today” Show.

It’s time these “radio” guys realize who really are the ones becoming out of touch.

Filed under: Talk Radio , Jerry Bader, John McCain, Radio, WTAQ

Do They Ever Shut-up?

I have stopped listening to talk radio, the stupidity that is coming from that source these days is just annoying. They are whining and crying about McCain being not conservative enough! Well you windbags, conservatives had the White House for 8 years and Congress for what 12 years and they DID NOTHING! Illegal immigration is still rampant. The debt is out of control, you did nothing to protect the unborn, we have not opened up ANWAR or anywhere else for that matter for oil, and your tax cuts have done CRAP for the economy.

So SHUT UP already, your way has not worked and you are today about as relevant in the conservative movement as Air America is.

Now I am going back to listening to Sam Spade, Mr District Attorney, Jack Benny and radio when it really did have relevance.

Filed under: Conservatives, John McCain, Talk Radio

The Poormans Rush

Conservative talk radio has become lately, well to put it simply, unbearable. Mostly whining and crying by the host about John McCain, the lack of conservative candidates for the far right, on and on and on. Maybe instead of bashing the choice, they should look at the reality that the extreme right wings views may not be what real conservatisim is about, but that is another issue.

Locally we have a local talk show on WTAQ, the host is Jerry Bader. His stick is a copy of everything Rush does, bit for bit, cliche for cliche. There are tmies the show is interesting, especially when he is not holding his phony conversations with the call screener and then there are days like today where ignorance reigns.

I happen to be listening when the brilliant topic of is Chesley Clinton a dog? For 15 minutes you had all of the local knuckledraggers calling in and rating her looks, how else can you describe people who would find the topic funny or interesting. Talk about relevant radio!

I understand that it is important to have topics that will generate phone calls. I understand that it is important to have topics that will encourage participation, but to slink to a juvenile and childish topic like that, well I guess that is the quality one can expect from local conservative talk radio and it also shows what type of audience that the host believes he is pandering to.

Filed under: Talk Radio , Jerry Bader, WTAQ