The Vig

I missed the memo that Matt Drudge had ditched his radio gig.  I used to enjoy listening to his show.  He very sloppily walked the line between old man shaking his fist at the sea and new media sage.  He simultaneously champions the new media and begs the powers-that-be to leave the Internet alone while at the same time he relishes scaring bluehairs with words like MySpace and porn.  It was an interesting show.

His replacement is a guy out of Cincinnati named Bill Cunningham.  As you can tell, Bill isn’t exactly down with the Internet.  Nor is he down with liberals.  Not like Drudge was.  Drudge, for all his faults, loves Hillary because she makes him money.  She also makes Rush and Hannity money too.  None of those three wants her to go away.  And I don’t think Cunningham wants her to either.  That said, Cunningham’s show is much more ideological than Drudge’s ever was.

Case in point, tonight he had Dinesh D’Souza on for a little intellectual stimulation.  Together they bemoaned the withering of Christianity in Europe.  D’Souza declared the reason for Christianity’s demise in Europe was because religion had become too close to the Crown.  It was a fascinating assessment, I thought.  Especially since our current administration is completely intertwined with religion and that has caused an electoral backlash against both.  Of course D’Souza didn’t see it that way.  He completely ignored his thesis and went on to declare America would be lucky to have a man of the cloth such as Huckabee as president.  He continued that bringing more religion into government would restore the greatness of both.  Right.  Good luck with that.