http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/seminole/orl-shannon-burke-profile-05260905,0,4488804.storyFor those of you unaware, Shannon Burke is a local Orlando radio talk show host who is now sitting in jail for shooting a gun at his dog, with the bullet grazing his wife's head. He started his career in Orlando as a conservative AM talk show host, before jumping to FM and changing to a more casual talk format.
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Burke was a free-wheeling, left-wing talk-show host in Austin, Texas, when Clear Channel brought him to Orlando in 2001. Three years later, after Burke cultivated a local following as a staunchly conservative — though not highly rated — host on 540 AM, the company promoted him. Burke moved down the hall to Real Radio 104.1 FM, a popular blue-collar show that did well in the ratings.
Duncan said Clear Channel encouraged Burke to develop a "bad guy" image.
And Burke dove into the role, adding tattoos to his body and riding his motorcycle around town.
That move, ultimately, carried long-term consequences, Duncan said.
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I guess this shouldn't be a surprise, a "conservative" talk show idiot exposed as being a two-faced hypocritical asshole, who will say and do anything his corporate radio bosses tell him. And no surprise either that Clear Channel would push him into being a "conservative". I used to occasionally listen to his AM show, he would frequently rail against minorities, immigrants, whatever the conservative meme of the day happened to be.
Go figure - a conservative talk show host exposed as a phony.
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