An Acquired Taste

Mary Katherine Ham spent a week listening to Radio America, and offers some salient observations.

Radio America is something of an acquired taste. At first, it's somewhat shocking to realize that there are people out there who actually buy into a lot of what's spewed on the network. But after a while, listening becomes entertaining and inspiriting, especially for a conservative. That's because everyone on Air America always sounds so unhappy about everything -- notably absent are the happy warriors like Rush Limbaugh or Hugh Hewitt.

Eventually, one starts to feel very confident about the prospect of ultimate conservative political victory, because Americans are, by and large, an optimistic people -- and they don't resonate with the kind of downbeat snideness and discontent that occupies a lot of Radio America's airtime.