For the first time today, I listened through the entire hour of The McCormack Files, John McCormack's radio program on KBTN Radio in Neosho. The guest was Rep. Marilyn Ruestman and I was hoping to hear her views on a number of issues.
I heard her say that stem cell research was going to be a controversial issue and she would study it. Other than that, McCormack and the callers really didn't ask her about much of anything important.
I waited in vain for a question about the ridiculous new requirements for people who want to renew their driver's licenses or obtain new ones. Did she agree with Governor Blunt's effusive praise of the Department of Revenue for how it has implemented these new regulations? I suppose we will never know. Not if we have to rely on John McCormack to ask the questions.
Of course, in the past there might have been some listener who posed the question, but there were only two or three callers (one person called twice).
Besides the driver's license requirements, there were no questions about education funding, no questions about the Moark expansion and how Ms. Ruestman felt about environmental issues, no questions about the trip to Hot Springs that she took, which was partially paid for by lobbyists, and no questions about her votes on any issues whatsoever.
Believe it or not, she was on the program for an entire hour.
Now that is public service programming.
Randy - YOU should have called her.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. I should have.
ReplyDeleteThat might have been the best show McCormack has ever had..... :)
ReplyDeleteAt least he didn't call up his wife when things were going slow … and they're almost always going slow.
ReplyDeleteNews is to John McCormack as modesty is to Paris Hilton.
How dare you cast aspersions at someone as sweet and demure as Paris Hilton? I am shocked.
ReplyDeletethere has been calls in the past, especially to rep Wilson; and the caller most always gets hung up on. I have stopped listening to the show, however, I wished I would have heard the one you posted about and asked at least one of the same questions you spoke of.
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