Book says g. O. A. T. Of Radio Broadcasting, the greatest of all time. He revolutionized talk radio, singlehandedly saved the am band, and later the fm band in radio, and in doing so forge a path, a path for people like me, the great one, mark levin, people like glenn beck, who you just heard from, and others. When Rush Limbaugh first syndicated, the year 1988. Ronald reagan was president. Nobody thought it would ever work. They thought it was impossible. A daytime segment data talk show. There were less than 200 Talk Radio Stations in the entire country. Now i believe theres well over 4,000 stations. Talk radio is by far the largest format and all of radio. You add podcasts, website listening, x and listening its a lot. He also paved the way, even for this network, fox news, and even opinion shows on not that they would ever acknowledge it. Over five decades, it was his words, his principles from his ideals, his spirit, it shaped the soul of a nation. Generations of americans. Now, ru
Quote, the anecdote to the poise of Political Correctness. Smerconish takes on entertaining outlandish anecdotes about pc gone wild. Stories that are hilarious, horrifying and unbelievably true. Each chapter was a story. Some of them stand the test of time and others do not. The guy who tried to stop ladies night at bars because he said they discriminated against men. I say ridiculous then and still believe it. The honorary guard who said stop saying god bless you as he presented graveside. Maybe i was wrong. Maybe it was a church state issue. When conservatives began rallying to the pc cause i kind of backed off. It made all of the stories sound partisan. Which was never my motivation. What was then pc has more into cancel culture. And conservatives, they own this ground. These sort of stories get lots play on fox. Why . Because they make for good tv and they fire people up. But i think its important that all audiences Pay Attention to them because i think they have political ramifica
Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
michael smerconish in philadelphia. it s hard not to jump to conclusions about the tennessee state house. the r word it needs to be reserved for clear and convincing cases of prejudice, discrimination or antagonism. against the person or people based on their membership in a racial or ethnic group. after all, there is an appropriate permanence to labeling conduct as racist. but from the outside looking in, this sure does seem to be such a case. three tennessee state legislators who engaged in roughly the same behavior were meted out disparate treatment. just days after 39 year olds and three adults were murdered in a mass shooting at the covenant school in nashville. these legislators led what was described as a disorderly gun reform chant that interrupted house proceedings. there seems to be no debate as to whether they broke the rules. justin jones of nashville, justin pearson of memphis and gloria johnson of knoxville the only difference between the behavior of the three i
morning, everyone it is saturday . april 8th. i m amro walker. i m victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom and we begin with the abortion debate across the country. this time, it s over access to medication. abortion after federal courts issued conflicting rulings began after a federal judge in texas ruled to suspend the fda s two decade old approval. of method. pistone then washington state judge ruled the fda must keep the pill on the shelves and 17 democratic states and the district of columbia. cnn s senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen joins us now. so explain what medford press stone is and what happens next. so victor medford. redstone is one of two drugs that are used in medicated abortions. in other words, abortions that are used by pill rather than by a surgical procedure. as you said they ve been used safely from more than 20 years. they have an excellent safety profile, and actually, they are now quite common. let s take a look at what s happened wi