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‘To hell with Shakespeare!’: KTLK’s Lewis decries Hmong rapper’s work at Woodbury school

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.20.08 | 10:01 am

Listening to conservative radio host Jason Lewis, you’d get the impression that a week of hip hop in a public school will shatter the very foundations of Western civilization. During his May 2 show, the KTLK talker…

Radio host on RNC protesters: ‘Mow ‘em down, baby!’

By Andy Birkey | 04.07.08 | 9:42 am

The Twin Cities’ newest conservative talk show host has an idea for managing the thousands of protesters coming to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September: machine guns.

Chris Baker, formerly a talk…

KTLK official: ‘I don’t see that anybody crossed the line’ in Lewis show diatribe on anti-war foe

By Steve Perry | 03.31.08 | 11:05 am

This morning I got a call back from KTLK concerning last Tuesday’s exchange between host Jason Lewis and a caller slamming Stillwater anti-war activist Karl Bremer. [previous item] The station’s program director, Steve Versnick, was joined…

Thug radio: Are Jason Lewis and KTLK now in the jihad business?

By Steve Perry | 03.28.08 | 2:45 pm

[Note: There are updates to this item here and here.]

After a scheduled appearance by the pro-war veterans’ group Vets for Freedom at Forest Lake Area High School was

Bachmann avoids mainstream media as if it were the anti-Christ

By Andy Birkey | 03.21.08 | 12:08 pm

Have Michele Bachmann’s media gaffes and extreme conservative views driven her to speak almost exclusively to conservative and Christian-right news outlets? Bachmann’s media appearances since her election create the impression of a member of Congress who…