[Speed Gibson,
Friday February 24, 2006 at 11:08pm]
Dashed hopes
As I was driving home Monday, already feeling the onset of illness, I heard the old Going Up the Country joyfully shooting out of my car audio. "Yay!" I shouted, thinking that Hugh Hewitt had given up on what I think is the worst show opening in all of talk radio. It's poorly edited, muddy, and dark, more of a dirge than the etherial call to arms he imagines it to be. Oh, and don't forget the incongruous few bars of Toby Keith stuck on the front with no transition.
But then I remembered it was President's Day, and that this was probably an old show being rebroadcast, and it was. Still, it was so uplifting to hear that theme again.
I think I'm going to write Hewitt this weekend and plead not only for the old theme, but the old Hugh. He still has his moments, but fewer of them, and there's just no time left for fun anymore, as in domestic issues. It's all international politics and the War on Terror. Also, it seems that all I'm hearing is one interview after another, with ever less "quality time" for just Hugh and callers.
But the first change I want is the return of what was one of the best opening themes in talk radio.
But then I remembered it was President's Day, and that this was probably an old show being rebroadcast, and it was. Still, it was so uplifting to hear that theme again.
I think I'm going to write Hewitt this weekend and plead not only for the old theme, but the old Hugh. He still has his moments, but fewer of them, and there's just no time left for fun anymore, as in domestic issues. It's all international politics and the War on Terror. Also, it seems that all I'm hearing is one interview after another, with ever less "quality time" for just Hugh and callers.
But the first change I want is the return of what was one of the best opening themes in talk radio.