[Speed Gibson,
Sunday November 5, 2006 at 9:01pm]
Michele Bachmann 24/7
I like Michele Bachmann. I like her politics. If I lived in the Sixth District, I'd vote for her. But frankly, I'm a bit sick of her right now.
Could I just listen to one show without her as a guest or a caller? I heard her every two hours on the Patriot yesterday, though maybe the "Final Word" segment escaped. (I only heard their first hour so far.)
I know Bachmann outworks anyone in politics. And despite the encouraging polls, yes, she's in a dogfight with what might be the sleaziest campaign I can recall, that of Patty Wetterling. But maybe even the Patriot has to set some rules.
In fact, I think the Patriot went over the "good radio" line in general yesterday. It was a pretty obvious Republican get out the vote effort all day long, and it got as tedious as the wall-stripping I was doing at the time.
I normally would argue it was too one-sided as well, but not in this extraordinary year of appallingly obvious DFL support and bias by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Besides, DFL candidates refuse to appear anyway. Only the old Patrick Campion show "Patriot Insider" seemed to have any consistent success booking liberal candidates. Maybe they're still smarting from those appearances, and won't go near the Patriot now.
I will be especially thankful this Thanksgiving to have this particular Election cycle finally over.
Could I just listen to one show without her as a guest or a caller? I heard her every two hours on the Patriot yesterday, though maybe the "Final Word" segment escaped. (I only heard their first hour so far.)
I know Bachmann outworks anyone in politics. And despite the encouraging polls, yes, she's in a dogfight with what might be the sleaziest campaign I can recall, that of Patty Wetterling. But maybe even the Patriot has to set some rules.
In fact, I think the Patriot went over the "good radio" line in general yesterday. It was a pretty obvious Republican get out the vote effort all day long, and it got as tedious as the wall-stripping I was doing at the time.
I normally would argue it was too one-sided as well, but not in this extraordinary year of appallingly obvious DFL support and bias by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Besides, DFL candidates refuse to appear anyway. Only the old Patrick Campion show "Patriot Insider" seemed to have any consistent success booking liberal candidates. Maybe they're still smarting from those appearances, and won't go near the Patriot now.
I will be especially thankful this Thanksgiving to have this particular Election cycle finally over.
FYI - I think the Patriot has an opening 5 - 7 AM Satudays. You might want to pitch that wall-stripping show, it sounds pretty good to me.