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13. Yep...I used to listen to her show back before it went national

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 08:48 AM

Jan 2015

Her show and Derrick McGinty's on WAMU in the '90s were the best shows.

I was a loyal supporter of WAMU back then, but I started noticing a change in the late '90s and stopped listening altogether during the Florida recount fiasco in 2000. The rah-rah coverage All Things Considered and Morning Edition gave Bush turned my stomach and caused me to turn the dial.

The only other time I got annoyed with WAMU before that was whenever Steve Roberts (Cokie's husband) would guest host Diane's show while she was away. If it wasn't his self-satisfied ruminations on his oh-so charmed life, it was his pushing the inside-the-beltway worldview that made my blood boil.

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