Dispatches from Conservistan

Andy Furman can suck it.

I swear that Cincinnati is the only place in America where the local AM talk radio hosts are so right wing that they make Rush Limbaugh a relief to listen to. This is rather weird, since all of them are Rush wannabes: They hold blind faith in the same ideologies, and they have the same exact manner of speaking... That annoying, right-eingnut accent. Get Rush's voice going through you head for a minute and pay close attention to how it sounds, then ask yourself: What American talks like this? In what region of America are people's voices always tinged with this high degree of comeuppance? Nobody in America talks like this!

Except for the hosts on 700 WLW, like Andy Furman. And Furman went in such a roll yesterday that he forced me to search for Rush. At least Rush checks his facts sometimes, but Furman is just unbelievable. Not only does he spout off Republican talking points from 5 months ago that nobody talks about anymore because they were proven wrong, but then he says, "You won't hear this in the liberal media, you have to come here!" It's so ridiculous. Yesterday, in five minutes he nearly managed to drive me insane:

• Since there have been more deaths in LA than soldier's deaths in Baghdad this year, he declared that Baghdad was safe than LA. He neglected to mention the 21,000+ Iraqi civilian deaths, nor did he take percentages into account. He would have realized that a much higher percentage of Americans have died in Baghdad then they have in LA sicne LA has millions off residents, and Iraq only has 140,000 US troops.
  
• He said that unemployment is low. Do I even need to get into that one?
  
• He actually disagreed with Bush and said that our government shouldn't pay for anybody to get new job training at community college. He said that people who are out of work simply need to sit there and think about what to do, do that, and the boatloads of cash will start flowing in.

And this was what he covered in five minutes! Had I listened to the rest of his show, I probably would have driven up Mt. Adams to his braodcasting booth and beat a clue into the guy. Furman makes Rush look like he's rooted in reality. He really is a joke.

But, unfortunately, many people in Cincinnati take him seriously. And then they'll vote.

And we wonder why the whole world hates us?