Michael Medved

97.1 FM Talk is the station I like to listen to for talk radio. Most of it's conservative talk, though its afternoon rush hour host mixes up a lot of stuff. However, it used to be better.

The best conservative talk show host I've ever heard is Michael Medved. I first remember him from when he and Jeffrey Lyons reviewed movies together on some cable show back in the early to mid 80s. I and my wife used to watch it. I didn't know anything about Cisco and Ebert. When people referred to two guys reviewing movies, I thought they meant Lyons and Medved.

Medved also goes back to affecting my life in October and November 1969, because he was on the national committee that put on the Moratoriums against the war in Vietnam. By avoiding the extremes of radical outbursts and rhetoric, the Moratoriums succeeding in making being against the war a middle class option. Since then, he's become quite a conservative.

As far as entertainment value goes, he's too serious and intent to compete with Sean Hannity, which is why I suppose he's not as popular or well-known. He knows a tremendous amount about history and current politics and people in it, and has a lot of opinions about what's going on.