On Friday I asked IMAO Fans for advice on some tough decisions I had to make regarding if I should break the promise I made to myself about not seeing the next Star Wars movie (even if it was free) and the radio talk show I was producing/co-hosting on Saturday. The lineup of expert panelists I’d found (mostly from organization in and around Seattle, near the show’s studios) to discuss the “Big Tent of Ideas” on Republican Radio were all upper income, old, white Protestant males.
As per the advice of IMAO Fans, I’m going to see Episode III, but the Republican Radio outcome was very controversial…

Maybe some Republican stalwarts could listen to two hours of WASPs blah-blah-blah-ing about the need for conservatives to run in the upcoming city council races and bemoaning the liberal media, but last night I had to be the only Republican at a dinner party in Seattle with a dozen high-paid, lily-white, Audi-driving, anti-religious lefty elitists who were constantly complaining about “BushCo” and the “Red State Bible-Thumpers” who were ruining their country.
I was furious about the close-minded insults of the elite Left hurled at conservatives at the dinner party last night but couldn’t do much about it. Then, in the middle of the first segment of the live Republican Radio talk show this morning, I realized that all of the guests on the show were exactly the kind of WASP-ish Republican stereotypes the left-wing elitists I had to deal with at last night’s party think comprise the entire conservative movement in America!
I don’t have audio of me losing it on air (yet), but I told all of the guests to go home, gave the show’s call screener my mobile phone with address book, and told the screener they had until the end of the commercial break to give me diversity on the show. Thanks to my contact list, I was able to get a Black conservative female columnist, a gay conservative blogger, and a Los Angeles-based Muslim who is a radical Republican (you can hear Ali Hasan’s first segment here).
Hey lefty! Look me in the eye and tell me that that isn’t a diverse lineup! The only person I couldn’t get on the show was a Latino business owner who once told me “I don’t support amnesty for illegals; I’m for shooting them as they come across the Rio Grande.”
It certainly made for interesting radio. I doubt the Republican Radio full-timers will ever have me produce another show but I thought it went well… I’ll try to have a podcast link of the whole show soon