I've been listening to radio talk show host Chuck Harder since 1991.
No more.
I've had it with him. I'm tuning him out forever.
I refuse to subject my intelligence to Chuck's infantile verbal
assaults, goofy conspiracy theories, lame-brain Bush bashing, and so
on, and so forth.
Hey, I never liked the guy in the first place ... so, in essence, this
is no big deal. Yes, yes, yes, I know: Chuck suffered a lot in the last
10 years, most notably his bad accident in 1999 that confined him to a
wheelchair for years. And I do realize the charitable efforts on the
part of his network (TalkStar) and some radio stations (KCAA AM 1050,
Loma Linda, CA for example) to keep him on the air.
But charity only goes so far.
Chuck should have stayed in Tampa; failing that, he should have stayed
the hell out of politics. He is incapable of expressing a rational
political thought - the mental version of his physical handicap, as it
were - a handicap caused by his pathological hatred of the U.S.
government, a hatred that defies all logical explanation.
Only Timothy McVeigh hated Uncle Sam more than Chuck Harder does, in my
opinion. And we all know what McVeigh did.
Chuck Harder is not a "populist"; he is most definitely not a
conservative. I would venture to say that he is not even a patriot. He
is a government-hater, a "counter-culture-nik" born 40 years too late,
a contemporary of Dr. Ward Churchill. He stands for nothing, but is
against everything. And he, in my view, is dragging down everyone and
everything associated with him: his radio network, his family, his
friends, his listeners, his ideological comrades.
The most tragic thing of all is the fact that it's too late for him to
reform. If this were 1992 or 1995, there might be a chance. Not now.
In a way, I feel sorry for the SOB. But my sympathy is tempered by my
disdain for his politics. Nobody forced him to take that road to
nowhere; he did it himself.
I cannot predict when Chuck Harder will go off the air permanently, but
whenever that happens, it will be none too soon.