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CROSSOVER HITS!

By TALKERS | by TALKERS

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Noted humorist and political commentator Bill Maher (above, left) is a longtime acquaintance and guest of WPHT, Philadelphia midday legend Dom Giordano (right). The two independent thinkers pictured here represent a large swath of the ever-evolving political spectrum. Giordano tells TALKERS, “Bill Maher has been a steady guest of mine over the last several years, particularly on issues like cancel culture. In the course of my recent interview with him on his appearance at The Met in Philadelphia (6/3), I told him that Roe, my wife, and I would be attending his show. He invited us backstage and we talked talk radio, the writers’ strike and his audience including a lot more conservatives.”

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NAB’s First Amendment Defense a Farce

By Editor | by Editor

By Pete Schartel
KCXL-AM
Owner

 

LIBERTY, Kan. — It is my patriotic duty alert fellow broadcasters that last week the new driver of the National Association of Broadcasters threw both our cherished First Amendment right of free speech and the preservation of independent broadcast voices under the bus by calling for the silencing of broadcasters that carry Russian-sponsored programming.

New NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt states that “the NAB is a fierce defender of the First Amendment.” Perhaps he should have used the word “farce” instead. Advocating to shut down independent radio stations, such as my own which has zealously practiced the American ideal of creating a fully informed electorate, doesn’t strike me as being a “fierce defender.” Since his statement came out during meetings with 300 lawmakers it seems more plausible that this was a knee-jerk attempt to make them like him by playing on public sympathy and emotion.

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