Nancy –
Finally got to hear your show in San Diego by luck on Friday April 3 on the Air America station there — WOW! You rock! I am asking my local Air America radio station in San Francisco, KKGN, to carry your show.
Can you tell me the name of the song you use to open the show?
How can I support the program? And how can I get my local station to carry you? And if you are running for office, I would like to support you.
Congratulations! We need more brave intelligent voices like yours on the airwaves! Go Nancy!
Eric Malone
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Love Ya!
You are gracious and polite. You have points to make and your own agenda, but you let others talk, even when they are boobs. And from what I’ve heard thus far you don’t insult them or cut them off just for expressing an opposing opinion. Your show is easy on the ears as well as informative. Hope you do well, you are a welcome addition to talk radio in the Buffalo region.
CJ (trapped in Batavia!)
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Nancy –
You are extremely patient with this yahoo from the National Republican Trust PAC and I want to commend you.
First off, nobody, even the wealthiest, are paying half their income. Warren Buffet, one of the top three wealthiest in the world, said his secretary pays more in taxes than he does.
Does this goof think that the wealthy got their money scott free? What about services provided by Government that helped the wealthy get and secure their wealth? He makes it sound like the wealthy get their money in a vacuum and it’s just not the way it works.
Love that you called him on his anger issues.
Greg
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Hi Nancy –
I was a radio only guy until audio streaming came along (video is the slime). I was (like) totally surprised when I got to this website and saw your picture. You’ve got that pretty blond thing going on, big time. Rush is really in trouble!
Prior to audio streaming, radio was a wasteland for me. I had to read a lot. Now, I’m ecstatic that there is moderate and liberal radio out there. I’m especially glad for the streaming because the righties still have vastly more kilowatt-hours in the electromagnetic universe.
Anyway, I listen to you on KPOJ streaming out of Portland. They air you on a “tape” delayed basis in the time slot where I used to hear Randi Rhodes (she was also delayed). I’ve come to enjoy your sense of humor and moderate perspective. However, I would like to be able to download a podcast and listen to it even later in the day. I had hoped to find a podcast option on this web site. Please make it available sometime soon…as if you haven’t been busy enough already.
Keep up the good work!
Chuck in Central Oregon
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Hi Nancy –
I’ve enjoyed your excellent work since the late 90’s. I actually listened to the Sunday show on WLS – which you announced your Illinois Senate candidacy – and I even voted for you in the primary over State Senator Obama! How about that?! I’ve contributed to both of your Michigan campaigns – because you are exactly the kind of person who should be in Congress – brilliant and enthusiastic about helping everybody. Your tremendous knowledge of finance and government are fabulously entertaining and inspiring. You sold me 10 years ago with your terrific explanation of the Asian currency crash – comparing it to an intersection with strip malls.
Thank you for bringing your progressive voice to the airwaves. You make me feel as though good guys finally have a chance.
Sincerely,
Jon in NYC
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Nancy,
I am probably everything that most of your listeners hate. Dyed-in-the-wool Republican. Social conservative. Evangelical Christian. White male. Work in the nuclear weapons arena.
For years I listened to Rush, Sean, et al but started hunting for something different when I grew tired of their continual bashing of the Left and their cutting off callers who had a different point of view. That’s when I found Air America.
… At one point on your show you relayed a message from a listener promising to never listen to you again because you had something decent to say about Republicans. I thought your response about treating people well was great.
That comment and all of the calls leading up to it crystalized for me what I had been understanding at a subconscious level but could never put words on until this afternoon. I don’t believe that nuclear weapons, the economic crisis, global warming, or any of the other things normally discussed on these shows are the greatest threat to our nation. The real threat is our collective arrogance and selfishness.
It dawned on me today that the host of every show on TV and radio focused on politics comes from the perspective of “I am right on everything that I say and the opposition is completely wrong.” Maybe it is all just theater, in a sense — a way to bump ratings — but I think that it is more than that. Some of the folks who called into your show today had hearts full of hate. One guy would have been comical if the irony hadn’t been so tragic. He complained about the tea parties being a cover for hateful white racists even as every syllable he spoke was overflowing with his own poisonous hatred for the “haters” he was condemning. And it’s not just on the liberal side you see this. Much of what happens in conservative talk radio is callers genuflecting to right-wing dogma and getting the same kinds of verbal strokes of approval from the right wing hosts that I hear being handed out by left wing hosts to their callers.
It struck me today that the whole lot of it is overflowing with arrogance and selfishness. If I believe that I am absolutely correct in every opinion that I hold, if I believe that I have nothing to learn from someone with differing opinions, if I don’t take time to try to understand what “the others” believe and why, then I am an arrogant fool. If I insist that our national leaders work only those issues that are important to me, that they advance only my causes and in my way, then I am selfish.
Years ago I heard Tip O’Neill, commenting on how American politics used to be, say that they would fight like cats and dogs during the day in Congress and then go out after work and all have beers together. In the bar, it didn’t matter who was Democrat or Republican. They generally respected one another.
My fear is that our nation is a house deeply divided and I wonder how much longer we can stand if, at the end of the day, we can’t be civil to one another when the debating is done. We should each be able to hold our own positions passionately but should never allow these differences to foment hatred. Calling each other “idiot” or “mentally deficient” simply because we don’t see things the same must come to an end if we want our nation to regain its strength. More than anything we need to grow big hearts and listening ears. We need to embrace humility (“I am sure that I don’t see things the way you do; help me understand what you believe and why”) and respect (“I will see you as a fellow American — as my brother — and not as my enemy”).
Today, I saw a glimmer of that in your comments. Keep it up. Encourage dialog, not division, and I’ll keep listening. I don’t believe the Right is right on everything (there is much that has happened over the last few years that really disappoint me). I don’t believe the Left has a monopoly on truth either. Maybe if we seek to understand more that we seek to be understood, we will all be better off.
Rick C.
Albuquerque, NM
