On Monday morning, Fox News issued this terse statement: “FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. Tucker Carlson was last seen eating interstate pizza Friday night, cheerily signing off with, “We’ll be back Monday!” It faces a similar $2.6 billion suit from Smartmatic. All three would be axed by the Murdoch hierarchy, with Carlson vanishing a week after Fox settled its Dominion defamation lawsuit for an astounding $787 million. That would be the forte of Fox hosts like Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, and from 2016 until recently, Tucker Carlson. More: Howey: Trump unhelpful for Hoosiers who joined his administration Pence would tout conservative positions, but they were not based on outright lies and vile propaganda. When Pence was broadcasting, he would often invite Democrats like Evan Bayh, Andy Jacobs, John Gregg and journalists like Harrison Ullmann and me on his show. While the reapportionment maps of 20 have helped create these vast competitive electoral deserts, Fox News, Limbaugh, Pence and Butcher helped alter the political landscape. Senate races, but we’re now in the midst of an unprecedented fifth consecutive General Assembly supermajority. Democrats are still competitive in recent gubernatorial and U.S. This has had compelling ramifications in Indiana, which is devoid of Democrats representing any rural district in Congress and the General Assembly. A significant portion of Indiana gets much of its news from Fox. Whether it’s a high school principal’s lobby, or a waiting room in a doctor’s office, tire store, or a bar, restaurant or the Antelope Club, if there’s a TV on, most likely it is tuned to Fox News. This conservative radio movement spawned Network Indiana’s Mike Pence Show and WOWO’s Charly Butcher and a gaggle of rightward talk shows on WIBC.įast forward to the 21st Century. More: Howey: What will stop this low-grade war on Americans? Bush43 in 2000 and Donald Trump in 2016 would lose the popular vote but win the Electoral College. Bush was the lone Republican to win the popular vote during his 2004 campaign - 50.7% to 48.3% for Democrat John Kerry). Bush, and 36.7% for Democrat Bill Clinton, who won the presidency with just 43%.Īnd that 1992 presidential contest would signal an ominous slide for the GOP, which has lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight elections (President George W. Perot would carry 19.7% of the Hoosier vote that year, compared to 42.9% for President George H.W. There would be noontime Rush listening sessions at small restaurants in this part of the state, which became a precursor to Ross Perot’s 1992 independent presidential bid. In the early 1990s, we listened as Rush Limbaugh burnished his conservative broadcast brand across northeastern Indiana. It was a broadcast staple heard daily in countless Hoosier homes, farms, factories, businesses and restaurants. That’s how the most popular AM radio host in the nation back in the 1960s and 70s, Paul Harvey, would sign off on his popular mid-day show, before telling us “the rest of the story” later in the afternoon.
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