Recently in Talk Radio Category

I listened to a fascinating podcast with the best interviewer in the English language, Chicago's WGN's Milt Rosenberg, interviewing a very smart and cogent Ron Rosenbaum with his latest book, _How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III_.

To find out how precarious nuclear strike can theoretically be and how, in fact, there have been near-misses, besides the Cuban Missile Crisis, makes me almost ill.

One story is a training program was mistakenly inserted in the Soviet computers. It appeared as though the USSR were launching 221 ballistic missiles. Leonid Brezhnev got the call in the middle of the night.

Knowing the US President would be in the dark for another four or five minutes if this were the case, Brezhnev didn't even wake his wife sleeping beside him. He thought the end was coming.

But he got a second call from his aide that it was a false alarm.

I heard Martin Gross, our present-day Jeremiah, on Michael Medved's show on this podcast. Five stars. Today I heard him on this G. Gordon Liddy podcast. Simply marvelous--you really have to listen to it. I mean I might even transcribe it; Mr. Gross goes on such tremendous riffs. Taped on December 4 and lasting 21:53, the podcast reveals what I've always thought but have been too timid to say: Obama is not only uninformed, not being a disciplined book reader, he's unintelligent.

Mr. Gross, a preeminent number cruncher and a old-time Democrat like Ronald Reagan, calls the current President "a master of deception [who] lies all the time." I know most politicians are liars, but this guy is on a Mt. Olympus-level of deceit. He also says, "The Democratic party has become the party of treason....The Democratic party has left us, and has left the United States in its loyalties, not consciously...[here he gets cut off at the end by a hard break]" Strong stuff, but increasingly an appropriate tonic, in light of how Democrats are treating the War on Terror with civilian trials, ridiculous mini-buildups lasting a year, not using the word victory at West Point (The cadets must have been groaning in their seats listening to the Community Organizer.), and not even calling the truth of Islamic terror by its true name, Islamic terror. I mean the Democratic primary was a joke on the whole topic, never once using the words "Islamic terror" in all their televised debates.

Gross, whose 1992 book received beaucoups media attention, is relegated now almost exclusively to the conservative and Christian talk radio circuit--my how times have changed!-- with an even more important book in 2009--National Suicide. (He says Christians, because of their belief in personal responsibility, have been marvelously receptive to his message.) His take on the vastly different levels of media exposure is that the media has changed. Boy, have they ever. All pretense of being disinterested purveyors of news and views has long gone by the wayside.

The Shallow Stream Media is not to be trusted, but Martin Gross is. What he has to say is jarring. Sometimes that's the way the truth is.