From CNN.com

This is from CNN.com. It's from radio talk show host Glenn Beck.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/28/beck.commentary/index.html

From Glennbeck.com

Here's a link you might want to look at involving Dr. Jarvik. You've seen him on the Lipitor commercials, but he doesn't seem to be who he claims.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/6582/

Radio Show Newsletters

You've probably seen that I've posted a newsletter from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. The reason for this is to show a little bit of who I am and what I believe in. I am a conservative and listen to these two talk show hosts every now and then, although not as much as I used to. However, I do not intend to make this blog political. Instead, I wanted to use them every now and then to show what's been going on in radio news.

From the Rush Limbaugh Newsletter

On Today’s Show...
Show Highlight: Rush realizes he's not a Republican following weekend parties where GOP loyalists were more concerned with winning than principles. Rush wants to beat Democrats, not pick up their policy crumbs. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
Pearl of Wisdom: "I don't want Hillary getting out of the race! I know a lot of people have this romantic notion: 'Well, it will be the end of the Clintons. I can't wait for it to happen.' Yeah, I understand that. But this guy, Obama, needs to be roughed up a little bit politically. He's been getting a free ride." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
Angry White Women call Americans sexist for supporting nice black guy over Hillary.» The Nation: John McCain May be Old, but He's Still the White Guy
Obama's campaign brilliantly insulates him from criticism. He traced JFK's fatal route in Dallas, and keeps word out that he's a god who's also one of us. Poor Hillary can't even go after him for this absurd photo in a turban! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)» NYT: Obama Rallies, Security Swell » AT: Obama's Women Reveal His Secret
Look how we're talking about these people: Hillary copies Obama as man faints at rally.The Nation of Islam's "Calypso Louie" Farrakhan is backing Barack Obama. (link) Pearl of Wisdom: "Based on what we have learned today from the mouths of liberals, Hispanics in the Democrat Party are upset and might not vote for the black guy. Liberal Jewish people in South Florida are upset with the black guy, and want to know why nobody is using his middle name: Hussein. White, liberal Democrat women are mad at white men for supporting the black guy." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
The GOP, acting defensively and accepting false liberal premises yet again, is afraid to criticize Obama or Hillary because they'll call us racist or sexist. It's about the issues!» Politico: GOP Fears Charges of Racism, Sexism » SPT: Party Frets Fractious Tone
Pearl of Wisdom: "Let's explain the principles of conservatism -- and if we want to call it, you know, Rushism, fine. The label is not important. It's the principles, are they too infrequently articulated. Every parent is worried about whether their kids' going to have as bright a future. It's worth being optimistic about, but it's going to take the work of the American people to continue to produce an ever-growing US economy."
Restaurateur Michael in Wilmington, Delaware, laments high fuel costs and the liberals who refuse to get the energy we need to thrive. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:» Suicidal Pets Get Anti-Depressants? » McCain Has Big Trouble with FEC» NY Times Picked Our Nominee; Now Tells Us Why Conservatives Don't like Him» Communism Survives in Castro's Cuba » Oscar Ratings Lowest in History» Obama-Hillary Family Feud Leads to Stabbing. (Imagine the Convention Fights!)All that and more when we update RushLimbaugh.com!

From the Glenn Beck Newsletter 2-22-08

**SPECIAL REPORT: Emulating FDR is a horrible idea**This is the final special report in a week-long series with author Jonah Goldberg, investigating how Liberal Fascism is trying to control your life from the cradle to the grave. Don't miss tonight on TV as Glenn spends a full hour with Jonah Goldberg at 7 and 9pm ET, only on Headline News. And look for a recap of this series, the TV segments and the special reports will all be included in Monday's newsletter. Emulating FDR: A horrible idea By Jonah Goldberg "America has a dictator," Benito Mussolini proclaimed, watching FDR from abroad. He marveled at how the forces of "spiritual renewal" on display in the New Deal were destroying the outdated notion that democracy and liberalism were "immortal principles." "Roosevelt is moving, acting, giving orders independently of the decisions or wishes of the Senate or Congress. ... A sole will silences dissenting voices." That almost sounds like Harry Reid talking about Bush. Mussolini reviewed FDR's book, Looking Forward proclaiming the author a kindred spirit. The way Roosevelt "calls his readers to battle," he wrote, "is reminiscent of the ways and means by which fascism awakened the Italian people." "Without question," he continued, the "sea change" in America "resembles that of fascism." Indeed, the comparisons were so commonplace, Mussolini's press office banned the practice. "It is not to be emphasized that Roosevelt's policy is fascist because these comments are immediately cabled to the United States and are used by his foes to attack him." The German press adored FDR. In 1934, the Vlkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party's official newspaper, described Roosevelt as a man of "irreproachable, extremely responsible character and immovable will" and a "warm-hearted leader of the people with a profound understanding of social needs." Hitler sent FDR a letter celebrating his "heroic efforts" and "successful battle against economic distress." Hitler informed the U.S. ambassador, William Dodd, that New Dealism was also "the quintessence of the German state philosophy." The New Dealers were not so much mimicking the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. They were attempting to recreate what they had built -up under Woodrow Wilson's war socialism. Today we have no historical memory of how brutal the Wilson Administration was, nor do we realize that many Progressives supported the war not so much because they championed its foreign policy aims, but because they yearned for the "social possibilities of war," in the words of John Dewey, the 20th century's premier political philosopher. The war provided an opportunity to force Americans to, as journalist Frederick Lewis Allen put it, "lay by our good-natured individualism and march in step." Or as another progressive put it, "Laissez faire is dead. Long live social control." It was this spirit which informed FDR's administration. By 1944 he made good on Wilson's conviction that the US constitution was outmoded and in need of replacing with a new "living constitution." FDR's proposed innovation was a new "economic bill of rights" which included: >The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation. >The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment. >The right of every family to a decent home. >The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation. You read correctly, the right to 'recreation'. With the intellectuals on their side, Wilson recruited journalist George Creel to become a propaganda minister as head of the newly formed Committee on Public Information (CPI). Mr. Creel declared that it was his mission to inflame the American public into "one white-hot mass" under the banner of "100 percent Americanism." Fear was a vital tool, he argued, "an important element to be bred in the civilian population." The CPI printed millions of posters, buttons, pamphlets, that did just that. A typical poster for Liberty Bonds cautioned, "I am Public Opinion. All men fear me!... [I]f you have the money to buy and do not buy, I will make this No Man's Land for you!" Meanwhile, the CPI released a string of propaganda films with such titles as "The Kaiser," "The Beast of Berlin," and "The Prussian Cur." Remember when French fries became "freedom fries" in the run-up to the Iraq war? Thanks in part to the CPI, sauerkraut become "victory cabbage." Under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, Wilson's administration shut down newspapers and magazines at an astounding pace. Indeed, any criticism of the government, even in your own home, could earn you a prison sentence. One man was brought to trial for explaining in his own home why he didn't want to buy Liberty Bonds. The Wilson administration sanctioned what could be called an American fascist, the American Protective League. The APL - a quarter million strong at its height, with offices in 600 cities - carried government-issued badges while beating up dissidents and protesters and conducting warrantless searches and interrogations. Even after the war, Wilson refused to release the last of America's political prisoners, leaving it to subsequent Republican administrations to free the anti-war Socialist Eugene V. Debs and others. The left claims that president Bush seeks to do something like this with the war on terror. But look at the evidence. No newspapers closed down, a sum total of three detainees water-boarded, two hard core terrorists who happen to be American citizens have had their habeus corpus rights "infringed." After 9/11 President Bush asked the American people to go shopping, not to give up capitalism. Meanwhile, on the left, self-styled progressives keep trying to recreate the New Deal and the progressive era. New York Times columnist pines for a "new progressive era." Barack Obama gushed about how he was re-dedicating his campaign at the University of Wisconsin where the Progressive movement was born. Hillary says she's not a liberal but a "modern progressive." Now, obviously, none of the current crop of self-described progressives are eager to replay the darkest chapters of the past. But we make a mistake when we assume that we can cherry pick only the good parts of our past to re-create. Jonah Goldberg is the author of the New York Times bestseller Liberal Fascism.

My Interest

The reason I chose this topic was because of my fascination with radio in all its formats. I'll admit that there are some that I like more than others, but I'd say I'm no different than most people. I saw my first studio when I was about 10-12 years old. I became even more fascinated with radio after hearing some of the old time radio programs that my grandpa had copies of. Call me whatever you want, but I enjoy using my imagination to see the scene as opposed to being shown somebody else's vision of it. Anyway, I figured I should throw this post in there just as some background on me and why I would pick such a topic.