NoTV: Chicago Rightwing Talk Hosts Pay for Mocking Walz's Son
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Mark Jeffries
Aug 28, 2024, 7:05:28 PM8/28/24
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Last Thursday on Salem-owned rightwing talk WIND in Chicago, "The Morning Answer" ("The Answer" is Salem's branding for their rightwing talkers) hosts Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson were just having a good old time mocking Gus Walz's "That's my dad!" response to his dad Tim's speech at the Democratic National Convention, Proft comparing Gus to Chris Farley's impersonation of Rudy Giuliani's son on "SNL" and Jacobson laughing and imitating Gus--I guess they thought it was typical rightwing talk radio behavior, but Proft has supposedly been taken off the board of Envision International, an organization providing assistance to people with intellectual, developmental and psychiatric disabilities and Jacobson has stepped down from her other gig as volleyball coach at a Chicago high school with several students on the spectrum after parents complained about her actions (if you get a box on the link, X it out--you'll still be able to read the article):
Proft, who originates his end of the show from Florida (since Chicago is obviously a crime-ridden liberal hellhole), was involved in PACs that unsuccessfully tried to beat Illinois Governor Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Johnson in recent elections, while Jacobson already had infamy in her stint as a TV reporter at NBC's WMAQ, where she got fired for wearing a bikini in the home of a man she was doing a report on. The thing is that we don't really know what sort of audience they get, since Salem does not subscribe to the Nielsen ratings for WIND (once a great radio station when Westinghouse owned it from the 50s to the 80s) and sister AM station "Christian teaching" WYLL (how in the hell do they get advertisers, then?).
Oh yes, here's the "SNL" Giuliani sketch, in case you forgot:
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