05-24-2016, 07:15 AM
(05-23-2016, 05:42 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Another founder of trash talk was Paul Harvey. He did return to an avuncular style so that he wasn't pure unlistenable rubbish.. but he was reading folksy trivia or trying to make ad copy seem as if news (really, really bad practice; I'd insist that a radio host not use his voice for ad copy on his show) between excoriations of liberals and counterculture types. Maybe that was GI style... go folksy to give the appearance of backing off.
Unlike most political trash-talkers today Harvey was actually funny and could make you laugh your ass off even if you disagreed with him. My maternal grandmother is as loyal a Dem as they come but she loved listening to Harvey because he was funny.
