Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
Rachel Maddow Beats Larry King and Glenn Beck!
Last week, MSNBC debuted a new prime-time political show hosted by Rachel Maddow, a progressive radio host on Air America. The debut attracted more viewers than both Larry King and Glenn Beck’s programs, on CNN and CNN Headline News, respectively. After one week on air, Maddow’s was MSNBC’s highest-rated show on Tuesday, with Keith Olbermann’s Countdown in second place. When Olbermann announced Maddow’s new show last month on the progressive blog Daily Kos, he wrote to its readers, “Yes, you had something to do with it.” Maddow’s show is one of the few success stories of the efforts by progressives to see more progressive voices on TV. In fact, the day before Maddow’s debut, MSNBC announced it was pulling Olbermann and Chris Matthews from its election coverage — a move the New York Times said was a “direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left.” Despite Olbermann and Maddow’s rating successes, MSNBC and the other networks still don’t seem to be getting the message: Americans want to hear progressive voices on television.
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This is Your Nation on White Privilege
For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help. White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
Thoughts on Sarah Palin
I dropped by Democratic Party Headquarters the other day to pick up my new directory and see if they had Obama/Biden bumper stickers. While I was there a young black man stopped by to inquire about voter registration and I tried to calm my uneasy friends about the introduction of Sarah Palin into the race. Lots of Democrats are freaking out because they think the GOP has pulled a September surprise by picking Palin, I’m not so sure. I think Palin is peaking early , she’s raw and untested and if the media is allowed to get at her she will fall apart.