The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

There was a long-time radio host on WJR Radio in Detroit, Joseph Priestly McCarthy. He used his real name but used his initials so that people would not confuse him with the Great Liar (then-Senator Joseph R. McCarthy) of Wisconsin. (To say that we have Senators now just as awful as Joe McCarthy is little exaggeration if at all. I doubt that I need to name names, except to say that Ron Johnson may have supplanted Joe McCarthy as the worst political heel ever from Wisconsin).

J P McCarthy was a great radio announcer from the days in which radio had the programs that distinguished one radio station from another, so it might have been a worthy exercise to listen to distant radio stations. From where I live I can get radio stations fro as far away as San Antonio, Winnipeg, and Montreal at night on the AM band due to ionospheric scatter. (I tried it in Phoenix and got radio stations out of Boise, San Francisco, Tulsa, and Dallas clearly. From Dallas I could get Chicago and Cincinnati clearly, Detroit poorly, and Los Angeles and Pittsburgh sporadically, Radio programming has been more homogenized due to Clear Channel belching out the late "Rash Libel" and his ilk... WJR long touted itself as the Great Voice of the Great Lakes... but it isn't so great now that Clear Channel has hijacked it and destroyed the once-distinctive programming.