Know your right-wing nuts: Vicki McKenna

[Sabien]

As quoted in the local rag:

"I worked hard, I was poor once, I got a job, I managed to pay my bills, I screwed up my credit, I fixed it all by myself - without a government handout...I went to college, I got student loans, I paid them off, all by myself - all without a government handout."

>> ahem, Ms. McKenna - the federal student financial aid program is, in fact, a government program, and your student loans were subsidized by me, you, and everybody reading this. :crazy:

"I started out as someone who called myself a Marxist...I drank espresso. I smoked dark, cold cigarettes. I was fully steeped in the whole sort of whole idiot college, Che Guevara revolution communist sort of way of thinking - and then I got a job."

She was also interviewed about how she started in radio...

"At first, McKenna was a morning show at an FM station but tired of the early hours and moved into an advertising position. 'Three months into it I was missing it so bad I called my boss and he said, 'You know, we don't have anything for you but there happens to be this talk show - would you be interested in doing this talk show, but we're looking for a conservative.' He thought I was a liberal...it landed in my lap, it literally landed in my lap.'"

[mark414]

1. the federally funded university system?

did she get to school by driving on the roads and highway that were built by a government program? or maybe she took a government-funded bus system?

good thing that government created, controlled, and maintained broadcast system is giving her a job, so she can tell all of us how awful the government is and encourage us to bend over and stretch a little more so we can reach those bootstraps...(though generally when your ass is sticking out that far the government comes along and we get FUCKED)

[B3Nut]

2. She's a big reason why

I avoid WIBA 1310 like the plague. She's on after Flush Limpballs. Mitch Henck isn't bad, but once Limpballs comes on it's all downhill. I just keep it on 92.1, doesn't spike my BP as much. ;)

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[Jimbo S]

3. Now she's on in Milwaukee (late morning)

Interesting to see how long she will last in this market given she lives in another market. Will she be familar with local issues?

[fishnfla]

4. what the heck is a dark cold cigarette?

[ewagner]

5. cold, dark, cigarette?

is that some sort of republican "dog whistle"? :shrug: