Actually had to agree with Clark Howard on something

[BushOut06]

Happened to be flipping through the channels in my car today, and stopped on one of the AM stations for a few seconds during a commercial break. There was one promo for Clark Howard's show that I absolutely had to agree with. He was talking about some recent survey showing that many people making $150,000 per year are struggling. His response was something like "The average household salary in this country is less than $50K, and they're getting by. I don't want to hear about people making $150K who are struggling!"

I know he's a conservative, but even a broken clock is right twice a day!

[napi21]

1. Clark may be a conservative, but he's very non-political!

I listen to him quite often, and I can't even remembera time he voiced a political opinion. He has a LOT of great information on his programs, and it's mostly about different product ratings, bad business practices, and consumer news stuff.

I've listened to him for seven years, and I really never knew he was a conservative. Are you sure?

[deadmessengers]

2. He's a conservative?

I've never heard him voice a political opinion either way. And even if he is a conservative, his consumer advice has proven absolutely invaluable to me over the years.

[BushOut06]

4. He was on some "speaking tour" with Hannity, Boortz

I think it was called "Meeting of the Mouths" or something like that, they did a stop here in Orlando awhile back. It was Clark, Hannity, Boortz, and some other neocon talk show host.

[Rosemary2205]

5. Um, clark howard is NOT a Republican.

He's "owned" by the same company that "owns" Boortz, Hannity and Michael Savage. They did these tours to promote the radio stations they all "appear" on.

Seriously, have you ever even listened to the Clark Howard Show? He is totally apolitical. Totally. He take GREAT PAINS to not bring politics onto his show.

[BushOut06]

9. I'm fairly certain he is a conservative

He and Neil Boortz seem quite buddy-buddy with each other, I've heard Clark several times on Boortz' show. And the station that carries him here in Orlando is a very conservative AM station.

Yes, I have listened to Clark Howard a few times. I never said that he's a rabid right-wing nutjob, I merely stated that he is a conservative. Hell, I never even said that he was Republican, so not quite sure where you got that from my OP.

[fairfaxvadem]

3. I just assumed he was a convervative, but I listen anyway.

Most of what he talks about affects everyone, especially the average Joe, and I think he is usually spot on with his advice to folks.

But I think Suze Orman does a good job as well. I think when it comes to sound financial advice, we can all use it.

[Codeine]

6. Huh? Clark Howard is fabulous.

I listened to him regularly before he was taken off the air for a couple of right-wing libertarian nutjobs and he always expressed great respect for the working poor and what they face in our country.

[lectrobyte]

7. He seems very non-political, and his show usually has good advice

on saving money and living frugally. Unfortunately our local AM talk radio pulled him from afternoon drive time in favor of Hannity.

[Longhorn]

8. I agree that I've never heard anything political from Clark Howard

or in his newsletter that I get through email. In fact, he names names of those corporations that are screwing their customers. He's very frugal and tries to help people get out of financial trouble and save money. I recommend him and his website to my college math students all the time when we're doing the chapter on loans, savings, investments, income taxes, and the federal debt. He's also one of the few talk show hosts who is polite to his callers, no matter how much they've screwed up! :)

[Jonathan50]

10. I listened to Clark Howard for many years..

He is/was local to me on WSB.

Clark avoids politics but in many ways he sounds like a liberal to me.

Clark and Boortz have a friendly relationship, but even Boortz admits that liberals are more fun to party with.

Brother Neal (as I call him) is not your average wingnut in many ways. BN doesn't like the religious right and I've heard him bash them more than a few times. BN actually goes out of his way to try and offend everybody, admittedly he goes after liberals more than anyone else but he and Bob Barr had a friendly running feud over cannabis legalization for many years.

I listened to Boortz on his first radio job at WRNG radio, a station that has been defunct for quite a few years now. He has a hilarious story about the time a listener dropped off some brownies at the station and BN ate a bunch of them and about forty five minutes later he starts talking gibberish on the air. The brownies were cannabis laced..

BN also has a hilarious story about why he hates cats..

[BushOut06]

11. Neil Boortz is a certifiable nutjob

He might not be a religious whack-job, but he more than makes up for it with his other views. For instance, his whole "Unfair Tax" scheme - which proposes to eliminate all corporate taxes, as well as all income tax and replacing it with a 23% national sales tax (I've read studies that show the sales tax would have to be much higher). He is vehemently against teacher unions and public schools. And although he does chastise the GOP from time to time, much of his venom is reserved for the Democratic Party.

[Greyhound]

12. Clark Howard is conservative in that he is a consumer money guy,

he talks about how to not spend money unnecessarily and how to save when you do have to spend. He and Niel Boortz came up together on WGST in Atlanta so they've known each other for over 20 years.

BTW, Boortz, while always an asshole (he's a lawyer after all), used to be sane, then they gave him a truckload of cash to parrot the reich-wing and the rest is history.

[Jonathan50]

13. Clark bashes corporations ... a lot..

Very few conservatives do that..

[Greyhound]

14. Exactly, conservative using today's twisted definition, does not include him.

He is a conservative in the classical sense. Sort of what I've seen referred to as a paleo-con.

[AnnInLa]

15. I check his website a few times a week for his

"show notes" because I'm not in ATL to hear the show. And, I subscribe to his monthly newsletter. I do find him quite conservative in some areas, but a decent consumer advocate.

www.clarkhoward.com