{"id":8520,"date":"2013-10-02T18:31:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T22:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2013-10-02T18:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T22:31:06","slug":"the-stupidity-of-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8520","title":{"rendered":"The stupidity of John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been accused of liking to point out the obvious.<\/p>\n

The 3rd day of the Nielsen Audio Radio (former Arbitron) ratings came out today. One number just jumps off the page.<\/p>\n

WLW-AM in Cincinnati has a 13.7% market share (top line). That is one of the highest in the country.<\/p>\n

So what’s the connection? That rating is due to a significant degree to Bill Cunningham (he does a local show in addition to his Sunday night national show). Back in the 2008 campaign, John McCain decided to make an example of Cunningham and “took him to the woodshed” for daring to emphasize that Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein, implying that the future president may still have sympathies with Islamic religion.<\/p>\n

OK, fine. Why is anyone still listening to McCain? They clearly are listening to Cunningham now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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