Conservative talk radio executive Lee Habeeb sounds positively wistful as he recalls a time—long ago and far away, if it ever existed at all—when Americans of opposing political persuasions could speak to one another other without rancor or resentment.
“There used to be a day when Americans were allowed to talk to each other and have fun together,” Habeeb told The Daily Beast. “And it wore on me. It really wore on me” that such civilized discourse hardly happened anymore. “And I said, what would a show sound like if we just told stories about stuff that Americans care about and love? No griping, no anger, no wedge issues, no fighting.”
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