The Other Sarah
Monday, July 6th, 2009Sarah Brady dropped me two poison pen emails. Mrs. Brady is the wife of former Reagan Press Secretary Jim Brady. She’s also a gun confiscation advocate and you probably don’t need an explanation for her position. More than a year has passed since I last heard from her. During the Delaware Presidential Primary she called my program when Patrick Kennedy was an on-air guest. “Hi, Patrick”, she giggled. Then she didn’t have anything else to say.
The emails arrived at my work account late Saturday morning. One was addressed only to me and the second was addressed to me, my coworkers and managers. She demands my show move to overnights and she says the demographics of our region have changed and we need more enlightened talk show hosts. I wrote a polite reply and suggested she get back to enjoying her retirement.
The woman claims she rarely listens but can cite all sorts of things I’ve said offending her.
First, I’ve been a broadcaster for 25 years. People who make such claims are lying. They tune in everyday for their regular dose of righteous indignation. Two, the demographics along a narrow stretch of beach have changed. The rest of the region is about the same as it has been for 300 years, exceptions being paved roads and electricity. Three, Michael Savage came to national prominence broadcasting a local show in San Francisco. He wasn’t fired or moved to overnights for needling the loons on the left. In fact, his ratings soared. Fourth, since I arrived the afternoon drive slot has become so popular (in a numbers sense) the station’s entire ratings have nearly doubled. If you figure the weak kneed on the left don’t admit to hearing me then you can extrapolate an even larger audience.
Fifth, I’m not a conservative but primarily a libertarian. While I admire Pat Buchanan I gravitate politically in the direction of Ron Paul, however. If this country can’t survive as a Republic I sure as heck wouldn’t choose a socialist to run the show. Number six, a program director in Raleigh called me a “Rush” impersonator some two summers ago. While it would be nice to be making Rush money if I had been a Bush basher would the man have called me an “Air America” Impersonator? Opinion leaders don’t reside in the center and I’m paid to be an opinion leader. My opinions aren’t moderate and certainly not left-of-center. Read the map of where I was raised and how my parents raised me.
Seventh, Sarah Brady self identified in her first email as a “moderate”. The word, from my perspective, is synonymous with “wimp”. I concur the woman is anything but wimpy. In fact she’s a clear and present danger from the vantage of our Constitution. No moderates are campaigning to expunge the Second Amendment. It’s number two and not 18 or 23 for a reason. It’s number two because the brilliant people drafting the document recognized the value of self defense. There are 305 million American citizens. An overwhelming majority didn’t shoot anyone else over the holiday weekend. Many more blew fingers off with fireworks, drowned or got loaded and slammed a car into someone else. Even far greater numbers instead sought to have someone else kill their own children growing inside mommy’s tummy. Yet Mrs. Brady chooses to lobby for my silence. I pray to God I’ve a voice until he calls me home.
