Conservative media outlets are in the news—again—as mainstream news organizations roll out their familiar talking points: from Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin to Charlie Kirk’s 2024 voter registration drives or Sean Hannity’s televised town halls, the debates rage over whether “right-wing” media figures are heroes or goats.

Exhibit A: for decades, the Left’s rap on conservative talk radio has been that it only exists as a forum where angry and ill-informed men and women regularly gather around AM radios to subtract from the sum total of human knowledge. Why, they query, are there no “liberal” talk radio hosts on most networks or local radio stations…ignoring such failed experiments as 2004’s AIR AMERICA network featuring hosts like the pre-U.S. Senate Al Franken, Rachel Maddow, Janeane Garafalo, and Cenk Uygur. (AIR AMERICA went belly-up in about five years because of anemic listenership, a/k/a the dogs didn’t like the food.)

Exhibit B: Democratic politicians love to use talk radio as their whipping boy, trying to reintroduce the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which would muzzle the popular medium. For example, Bill........

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