The Loud Talker

[This article inspired by RFC Radio co-founder Andrew Riley.]

One year ago this month RFC Radio was born, and later in that same month I signed up as a partner and show host. If you think about what life as a conservative was like in February 2009 you quickly realize that we had just experienced a two-year political beating thanks to the most annoying, obtrusive and angst-filled election campaign in recent history. By the time February arrived were less than a month into the actual Obama presidency, but we were already worn, scarred and still bitterly frustrated. Here are a few Obama-related news items from February, 2009:

• He said that “renditions” (the practice in which agents turn detainees over to authorities in their home country for interrogation) were “more necessary than ever.” Never mind the fact that the left hated this idea. Foreign countries torture for info. But that’s ok, chalk up another Obama lie/flip-flop/shattered liberal expectation.
• Daschle stepped down from his HHS Secretary nomination thanks to tax problems, he would be one of many,
• Obama Radio (AM 1260) in Washington D.C. failed miserably.
• We learned Obama advisors had been meeting with leaders with Iran and Syria since before the election.
• The list of supposedly evil lobbyists that Obama associated with grew. He campaigned against them, remember?
• Stimulus. Iran launching improved missiles. Transparency? What transparency. Franken vote recount. Schumer says nobody cares about pork. Fairness doctrine. Reid sais vote will wait until Franken wins (didn’t sound that way after Brown won, right?)

I could go on… after all, the items above all took place in the first two weeks of February! However, these wonderful news tidbits, and all of those that preceded them before and after the election were enough to drive me to the political brink and I was ready to do something. DO something other than bitch about it. And one day after listening to Ed Morrissey interview Elizabeth Crum on his daily show (3pm EST) I went to RFCradio.com for the first time and applied as a partner and blogger. I was accepted. I was later asked to join the board. and even later I was offered the role of Station Manager, which I still faithfully and passionately serve as today. I think my cousin Sam Adams.

We are a ragtag crew, a fledgling organization of honest to God grassroots people busting our humps to make a difference. Trust me Speaker Botox, we do not have corporate backing. We are paying for this out of our own meager pockets while somehow finding the time between the many things that life throws at us to run a web site, produce podcasts, blogs and everything else that makes us the crazy patriotic group of activists that we are. And, if I say so myself, I think we are doing a bang up job at it. We are one of the largest online conservative podcast aggregators, we have more than two dozen show hosts and keep adding more, we are fostering partnerships with other likeminded groups, and we have this little thing called “swagger.” As the new voice of conservatism RFC Radio ain’t yer grandpa’s political movement.

This promises to be an exciting year for RFC Radio and for Americans in general. We at RFC want to help as many people as possible get educated and motivated to act in time for the mid-term elections and again in 2012. We will be at CPAC this month (look for us on Bloggers Row and around the convention doing live remotes), we will be at the SRLC in New Orleans in April and who knows where else. And we will be loud. We will be in your face. We will not take any crap from the left. After all, America is a center-right country built upon the solidly conservative values espoused and documented by our founding fathers. If you want to drag America down into the abysmal failure known as progressive policy and liberal ideology, you will have to get through me and the rest of us at RFC Radio.

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