Congratulations KPTK! WE GOT ED!

And Randi and Stephanie, and Thom
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Air America Radio
Progressive Talk Radio KPTK AM1090 Seattle
FILTER OF SORTS]
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[adjusted this date 8-11-07: ifilm of Spike TV
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show ]

Five of the Heavy Hundred are on one local station: AM1090

The 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America!

NUMBER 5.
Ed Schultz www.wegoted.com

Number 13.
Randi Rhodes: The Randi Rhodes Show

Number 36.
Stephanie Miller: The Stephanie Miller Show

Number 51 Thom Hartmann: The Thom Hartmann Show

Rounding out the court. Maybe the center.
Number 27. Clark Howard.

OK! My progressive spin almost missed Clark, but the term "important" over "popular" was a factor in the "Heavy Hundred", and his 1 hr time-slot midnight to 1AM may hint at that and the progressive lean of the listeners or hourly demographics. Clark is both important and popular, just not labeled progressive.*

FLIP FLOP THE LIST!
Considering these personalities and their news value, entertainment and progressive intent,Rachel Maddow (while not even found in the top 250) must be on the bench.
What I am saying is that, rounded out to a balance of sort
but with progressive and informative and entertainment value, she may have topped a list with the numbers flipped. It would be hard to say that Thom, Stephanie, Randi and Ed have any particular strengths that would flip-flop the list, other than my feeling that being progressive, informative and entertaining should be considered in that order, rather than the method used for the Heavy Hundred.
On my scale Rachel Maddow plays well off the bench and deserve her own honors, not to mention her on-air teammate Kent Jones.

MY IDEAL PROGRESSIVE LIST[Reality Flip Flopped]
Or from spirited to spiritual. Going up?

[RACHEL MADDOW] A UNIQUE BALANCE OF INFO AND HUMOR
THOM HARTMANN
STEPHANIE MILLER
RANDI RHODES
ED SCHULTZ
MIKE MALLOY: REALITY BASED
[NOT BEST REPRESENTED IN LINEAR FORM]

[Apologies for not noting one of the top 250, Mike Malloy who is a spiritual warrior of sorts.
If there were a FOX NEWS of the left, Mike Malloy would fit the bill as the nightly lead,
but for me he is too much on a Reality Rant to make good bedtime stories.]
Now just to sort my own review, I love all these guys, for different reasons, but would put progress over money and fun, and that is what I wish for all.

* I don't relish labels, but then, it is a sorting. Long Story Short: (or in my usual way: Runting the Rant) Maybe the Heavy Hitter (Oops) Hundred list does reflect the order of "Agressive Progressives", but I would flip flop the list and call it Just Progressive! But the problem always is, coming from a perspective or getting somewhere.

The Real Deal?

Obama Climate Change w/China*
w/Power*
 VA/Ebola, *
Howard Dean,
Obama suit , *
Wisconsin,

Obama Survey Wreckage
Lunch Bucket Dean
New Faces in Congress
America's not Broken, but Washington is.
Private sector must lead recovery Starbucks CEO
2014/2016 Battleground Map
Stephanie Cutter: bench problem
MTP panel: Future of both parties
Walker: Governors better presidents**
que sera
Transcript Meet the Press,
Walker /Future
Previous Week Transcript,
Cantor Immigration incendiary,
uneven Recovery,
Howard Schultz ,
Urban Rural Divide,
Obama care down,
Obama/GOP breaking bread,


*not Meet the Press but First Reads ?
** italics Politicfact

11-13-14 nothing

Establish-ment words.

"The ruling was attacked by supporters of the law, which was passed by the Legislature with bipartisan support in 2004."

"It's another case of an activist court trying to legislate from the bench," said Republican Rep. Thad Balkman. "It's unfortunate that a single judge is trying to rewrite the law."

Focusing just on the comments which sound very familiar but are indeed a bipartisan problem: pardon me, but it is the job of a judge, to interpret the law and the constitution and cause executives to follow and representatives to sometimes have to rewrite the law, regardless of the legislative support, or an executives interpretation of the law.

Period. Not. That is the we part.

There should be equal but separate branches or jobs of government that seem to be preempted by preempting intelligence. The only job beyond those, that need more responsibility and accountability is the press that is our job one(see amendment I).

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Ronald Reagan would have said about this: "There he goes again" and worried about the government being "here to help you". Well.. Uhh... there is a difference between establishment, the verb and the noun and "we" take both. "We the people of the United States, (are) in order to form..." that are the hard work.

Sorry, a little Bushism crept in too.