WHO radio – Politics and Religion

Radio prediction!

I always thought Jan Mickelson was a lame radio talk show host on WHO 1040. Smart as a whip but always pulled back from the edge. Wouldn’t “go there”. His replacement Jeff Angelo said, “You think he’s lame? Hold my beer!” I’ll go out on a limb here, I don’t see Angelo having a show on WHO January 1, 2022. A year and a half. He brings nothing. We’re at a pivotal moment in the nation’s history, and the best he can come up the past week with is whether or not the Hawkeyes should play football this fall.

One of the most devastating pandemics since 1917. Social revolution on par with 1968. A pivotal moment in time, we are deciding this moment whether government belongs to the people, or not (the rise of Trump). An Iowa incumbent Representative loses his primary. An incumbent Iowa Senator is trailing to the Democrat challenger. And Angelo is talking football?

But what do I know? KASI in Ames had Trent Rice talk to himself for 2 hours everyday for years! [The more I think about that example with KASI, it just boggles the mind. They absolutely wasted 2 hours a day for years. They didn’t have some “special insight”. They weren’t privy to some insider knowledge, that was just dumb.] Talk radio along with the internet have been the 2 big communication stories of the past 30 years. There is big money in it. The corporate decision in so many markets to go with substandard hosts is a headscratcher.

[Like I say, I understand talk radio addiction. Spinning your wheels, in the misguided thought that things would ever improve. But listen to someone like ‘Armstrong and Getty’ in this timeslot. Don’t reward stupidity.]

There’s a primary today

You’d never know it from listening to “news” radio WHO 1040 am, but there’s a primary today. I have no idea what the important issues or races are. The media today has no concept of conveying information. All they are concerned about is revenue. The only interesting race I was able to glean for today was Iowa’s 4th District (we used to have 7). Steve King against Randy Feenstra (above) and a gaggle of others. The others will split the vote enough so King slips in. Their 1%, 3%, 1% and 2% (7%) will be what Feenstra loses by. Democrats have the chance of a lifetime to switch parties for a day and take out King in June instead of losing to him in November, but they’re too stupid. So instead we’ll have King for another 20 years. If there’s enough “mo” to overthrow King I’d be surprised. And a lot of it will be because what used to be the ‘engine’ of conservative politics in Iowa, WHO radio, ran out of gas. Nobody knew about the race.

[The idiocy of party politics was thrust into my face in 2002 when Bill Salier ran to unseat ultra-liberal Tom Harkin. Salier first had to beat Representative Greg Ganske. You knew a conventional establishment candidate like Ganske would get wiped out in the general, and he did. In situations like that you need a guerilla candidate. Someone with charisma, momentum. But on primary night the party zombies turned out and pulled the establishment lever. That’s all they know. They’re just zombies. They don’t think. The only chance Feenstra has is the Blue Bloods are sick of King. The top has abandoned King, we’ll see if the base does.] (6/5/20 update: King lost.)