Posted on 12/02/2020 6:17:47 PM PST by Pelham
Boxer didn’t release the strip club story. It was Bob Mulholland, the DNC slimeball. I have always suspected that Bruce was set up by his friend and radio colleague Ken Minyard who if memory serves was the one who invited Bruce to meet him there.
I was a lowly volunteer on his Senate runs. The first campaign was a real shoestring operation, a very small group of pros and volunteers pulling the oars. Gave me the chance to see the campaign from the inside and to meet a lot of people whose names that we all know. Those who harbor illusions that GOP insiders are an honorable bunch need to hang around campaigns and learn. Bruce was a good guy, but the establishment who run the party aren’t all that different from Democrats. There’s a good reason that you don’t seem to get what you think you are voting for.
“Actually the story was by the Los Angeles Times. I think it was entrapment at the time by a local radio personality who Bruce thought was a “friend”. I think it was a set up.”
IMO it was Ken Minyard.
A really considerate, decent, good, thoughtful man.
He believed in the need for an expanded conservative media base.
Never was in Southern CA, so don’t know him. When was he on the air?
“True Bru” has passed away. He and Walter Williams (RIP) and Thomas Sowell as well as few others have been great “influencers” and kind of historical, economic and moral “mentors” that helped formed my opinions and philosphy throughout young formative years.
You didn’t know me but I knew, respected and revered you. RIP, Big Brother.
“Political commentator for Los Angeles KABC-TV radio and TV stations, 1978–1991”
“I remember listening to George Putnam on radio...He passed away many years ago...Putnam talked about meeting Bruce’s parents in Minnesota...”
Only SoCal got to enjoy George. He was a pal of Ronald Reagan and a lot of old Hollywood. Some great stories there.
I had the ability to listen to his show daily. George used his show to let us to hear a wide variety of activists and conservative writers at a time when they had little media access. The era before today’s Celebrity Conservatives who talk much but usually accomplish little.
By contrast George’s little program played a role in passing Prop 13 and Prop 187 and jump starting the immigration control movement a decade before our big name broadcasters would lift a finger. The late great Terry Anderson first got involved as a phone caller to George’s program. And George used to feature phone reports from a young reporter in the Inland Empire, one Sara Carter.
I wonder if he was any influence on Rush, back when he was making his start in Southern California in the early ‘80s.
Rush was up in Sacramento, NorCal, he wouldn’t have been able to hear Putnam. I’ve never had the impression that Rush was familiar with him.
George broadcast on a little family owned station that at the time was known as KIEV, and his show was basically the best program on it. After maybe a decade the station was purchased by Salem Radio, the Bush GOP bootlicker outfit featuring Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and a host of other future Never Trumpers. They changed the name to KRLA, and demonstrating their lack of appreciation for Putnam’s populist audience they immediately booted him off of the station.
I’d have to agree with that.
I liked Putnam and Ray Briem, the two guys who weren’t afraid
to out Clinton back in the early 80s.
Putnam used to give airtime to the entire Arkansas crowd who had dirt on both Clintons. We knew every rumor there ever was, from from Vince Foster’s mysterious death to Chelsea being Webb Hubbell’s kid. It was better than a soap opera.
Compared with the current batch of communists and criminals in charge of the Democratic Party, the Clintons look almost tame by comparison.
Ray Briem was about the only other conservative voice on LA radio. Poor guy hated the red eye shift but he was great for us night owls. I found two C-Span recordings featuring Ray but haven’t had a chance to hear them yet:
https://www.c-span.org/person/?raybriem
I’ve met Ray a few times. His bumper music was big band
from the 1920s n 30s. He was a good guy.
I met George also, and attended one of his birthday luncheons
due to a friend who was connected.
I miss these guys.
They both had a manner and civility that’s missing today. You’d never have heard them yelling like Levin or interrupting like Hannity. We live in generation goofball. There’s no one quite like them on the air anymore. Well maybe John Batchelor I suppose.
See if this rings a bell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUEl8WYDDus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SS-5u8CMB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj4RvhB_L70
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