In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

She worked in television also and created a television show called Dilemma which is acknowledged as the prototype of the modern talk show genre. Later the Sunday program would move to Saturdays.

He championed rugged individualism love of God and country and the fundamental decency of ordinary people. "
The New York Times obituary says:
[He] "personalized the radio news with his right-wing opinions but laced them with his own trademarks: a hypnotic timbre extended pauses for effect heart-warming tales of average Americans and folksy observations that evoked the heartland family values and the old-fashioned plain talk one heard around the dinner table on Sunday. ""'Hello Americans' he barked.