Slow Code wrote:



Funny you put it that way because that's the way I remember it too. The
last time I listened was maybe ten years ago. He kept talking the McVeigh
& nickols story and played that stupid steam boat Swaney River over &
over. And power beams from space trying to talk control of him or some
such thing.

SC, if you wanted to really figure out why I HATE Chuck Harder (and I
do not use that all-caps word lightly), you had to have listened to his
second hour yesterday, when he had on Doctor Jerome Corsi (another
tinfoil hat psycho). Chuck and Jerome claimed that the Bush
Administration is plotting to end the U. S. of A. as we know it, via an
evil document signed by Bush, Vincente Fox of Mexico and the prime
minister of Canada on March 23, 2005, called the "Security and
Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) initiative.
According to Chuck and Jerome, the SPP will quickly lead to a
three-nation currency (the "Amero"), the dissolving of the borders
between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, and a "super-government"
overseeing all three. The U.S. Constitution will be voided, to be
replaced with something very much like what the E.U. is considering.
Other political entities pushing this insane conspiracy theory? None
other than the John Birch Society, that paragon of Americanist
conservatism that claimed back in 1958 (the year I was born) that
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Communist.
The really tragic thing about all this is that Chuck was saying the
exact same things about Dubya's daddy back in 1992; back then, Bush Sr.
was plotting to set up a world government, the so-called "New World
Order," according to Chuck.
Chuck will never learn.
Naturally, there is absolutely nothing to the SPP conspiracy theory.
One telltale sign is how defensive Dr. Corsi got as he was spinning his
wheels; he said over and over again that "this is no conspiracy
theory." That's a dead giveaway that it is indeed a conspiracy theory.
Look, SC, you may not agree with me, but this "michigoss" (Yiddish for
"crap") is not conservatism. It is lunacy, draped in the 'Merican flag.
No one in their right mind would fall for it. If it were true, every
reporter, pundit, Congressman, and Senator would be all over the Bush
Administration. Remember Dubai? This would be a million times worse!
Don't you think that if it were true, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) would
put it at the top of his Web site?
Do you know what Rep. Tancredo's big issue is right now?
"Tancredo Discusses Sierra Leone Issues with Isaiah Washington."
No, I'm not making this up. And no, I do not know who Isaiah Washington
is.
QED!

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.