Audience Growing For Radio Clown Mark Levin

[JABBS]

WMAL-AM Washington and WJR-AM Detroit have added radio clown Mark Levin to their weeknight line-ups.

News like this is particularly frustrating for those of us fighting the conservative noise machine.

Levin now offers his unique mix of fact-challenged "angry right" radio (here, here or here) on four sister stations. The others are WABC-AM New York, as well as WBAP-AM Dallas.

"Could a syndicated rollout by ABC be in Levin's future?" asks Al Peterson, a columnist with Radioandrecords.com.

If truth matters, then the answer should be "no."

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This item first appeared at Journalists Against Bush's B.S.

[laststeamtrain]

1. It's strange to me that a certain number of people listen to radio that...

...validates their already (ill-formed) opinions.
I find 'ranting' boring most of the time. I prefer shows with guest interviews.
I haven't listened to this Levin guy but somehow I imagine another show with one person ranting.

[politicaholic]

2. I haven't heard the cat, but he probably doesn't have anything to add...

the syndicated market is pretty saturated. Bloomfield Hills residents probably get a chuckle while they're driving around their Rovers, but the people of Detroit proper are probably saying, "WTF man? My cousin died in Iraq and my brother just got fired from Ford. What the hell is this guy so confident about?"

[stevedeshazer]

3. I've heard him, he's despicable

He calls Hannity's show frequently, also Bill Bennett's.

[DancingBear]

4. No surprise about WMAL-AM

The station is wall to wall pigshit every day.

The good news here is that he is not being added to any stations that do not already carry the aforementioned pigshit every day.

Thankfully, the dials on all my radios just don't seem to be able to tune WMAL in. :)

[JABBS]

5. How Levin treate liberal callers

Anyone who listens to Levin's show knows that liberals never have a chance to get into a reasonable discussion.

I listen to Levin at least once or twice a week, and the few times he lets a liberal caller get through, he generally allows the caller to say two or three words, then:

-- Asks if the caller is drunk

-- Shouts over the caller

-- Hangs up on the caller

-- Makes fun of the caller

-- Moves on to other callers who praise him while misrepresenting the liberal caller's point.

I have yet to hear a liberal caller make an entire point without this happening.

Levin a few days ago admitted, "I am not a journalist." That's for sure. He's just a ranter with a microphone -- the angry right equivalent of Cliff Clavin.