Not Your Sweetie

FlaGranny  (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-03-04 10:32 PM
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29. khephra, I agreed with your criticismEdited on Sat Apr-03-04 10:36 PM by FlaGranny
yesterday(?). I feel the same way about RR, but absolutely love her anyway. The criticism is justified, I guess, but she acts no different for a national audience than she did in WPB, where she did just fine with ratings. She changed nothing, she is just she, as you know because you've been listening for a while. Whatever she has, it works.
What most people here don't know is that there would probably have been no AA without RR. She's the one who went to Washington, talked to the right people, and convinced them that a liberal network would work. She convinced them people would listen and she proved it to them with her own success in this WPB market.
Edit: Her friendship with Bob Graham, Bob Wexler, and others, I am certain helped.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1339874#

39. Yes, she made multiple trips to
Washington talking this idea up. She doesn't get much credit because she's relatively unknown (compared to Frankin, etc.). Clear Channel, because of the threats of Limbaugh, has not allowed her syndication. It is telling that Clear Channel still broadcasts her locally in WPB - she earns them MONEY!