Yes, they're alive: right-wing candidates emerge as radio hosts

[depakid]

ANYONE tempted to feel sorry for the Republican candidates who lost in such spectacular style in the US presidential race can now relax. A clutch of 2008 hopefuls have started to re-emerge in a new guise: as the hosts of right-wing radio talk shows.

Like a scene from Night Of The Living Dead, several political corpses left scattered across the early primary states have been spotted twitching, then crawling and finally standing up and dusting themselves down.

The first to be born again as a radio host is Fred Thompson, who has just been awarded a two-hour program with the syndicated network Westwood One. The choice of Thompson to replace the conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly, who is giving up his program to concentrate on television broadcasting, has astonished commentators.

Not only was Thompson thoroughly trounced during the Republican nomination process, but his performance on the campaign stump was so lacklustre that many wondered whether he was alive even then.

From March his Tennessee drawl will be heard assailing angry Republican voters with angry Republican views - a form of preaching to the converted pioneered by Rush Limbaugh about two decades ago.

More than 2000 radio stations have followed Limbaugh's suit, with news talk now the most popular format in the US, ahead even of country music. Of the top five most talk radio shows, four are hosted by conservatives and one by a libertarian. Limbaugh remains the king, with almost 4 million listeners tuning in to him at any one time.

The second figure to emerge in a radio reincarnation is Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas. The bass guitar-playing pastor will be taking his softer-spoken variety of conservatism on air next month with a show for ABC radio. The third presidential hopeful reported to have been seeking to revive himself on air is Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, who was in the frame for the Bill O'Reilly slot but has succumbed to Thompson.

More: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/yes-theyre-alive-rightwing-candidates-emerge-as-radio-hosts/2008/12/23/1229998526960.html

[Trajan]

1. All that hot air has to go somewhere ...

In science, it is believed that hot air rises, but the Right Wing idiots once again defy science by blowing that hot air to the lowest places ....

[BlueManDude]

2. they'll all fail. i remember when cuomo tried this.

[boppers]

3. Thompson?

Geez, that's like providing free sedatives over the airwaves.

Come to think of it, there's something about that....

[rurallib]

4. Thompson in for O'Reilly? OMFG

"Somebody wake up Fred!! I think he fell asleep again!"
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[CAG]

5. Can Thompson do it from his bed? Make sure its mid-day, you know,

just before his nap

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Guess that means those who can't run, do radio.

[yurbud]

7. how about Nosferatu Giuliani? But I can't figure out who his audience would be...