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Heard on The Answer - Pittsburgh (AM1250) Monday-Friday from 5:00-6pm ET. John Steigerwald has been in Pittsburgh media for 50 years. He is an award winning TV/Radio Sports anchor/reporter, columnist and author.
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KAMALA IS IN TOWN She’s going to be in Pittsburgh preparing for the debate on Tuesday. Former Congressman Conor Lamb says Kamala coming to Pittsburgh is a sign that she cares about each and every one of us. That doesn’t mean she’ll be talking to us by doing a press conference or any interviews. Congressman Dan Meuser talks about what a bad candidat…
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KAMALA LOVES UNIONS She made it clear when she came to Pittsburgh with the Big Guy on Labor Day. But does she love union management more than she loves union workers? Tim Murtaugh, who was Communications Director for the Trump 2020 campaign, has been brought back as a Senior Advisor for the stretch run of the 2024 campaign. He hasn’t been impressed…
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IT’S ALL THEATRE - BAD THEATRE Kamala Harris needs a new director. She did a really bad job of pretending she was on the phone so she could avoid questions from the media and she produced a new cringe-worthy accent out on the stump. Maybe a Pittsburgh accent the next time she comes to tahn? Karoline Leavitt, Press Secretary for the Trump 2024 Campa…
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SHE BEAT OUT TWO STRONG CANDIDATES The AM 1250 The Answer Jerk of the Week award winner beat out Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and that’s saying something. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley reacts to the Harris/Walz interview and addresses complaints from pro-lifers in his party over what appears to be Donald Trump’s more liberal …
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IT’S A GREAT GET When a media organization lines up a highly sought after, maybe even elusive guest for an interview show it’s known as a great “get.” That’s what Kamala Harris is for CNN. Let’s see what they do with it. The Director of Strategic Communications for the Trump campaign talks about what they’re expecting from the interview and how the…
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IT MADE SENSE AT THE TIME Bush, McCain and Romney were all better than the alternative, but the news that hundreds of their staffers will be voting for Kamala Harris would seem to indicate that all three were Republicans but they weren’t really conservatives. J.D. Vance hasn’t been hiding like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. He’s been out there talking…
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GUESS WHO WANTS A WALL NOW? The Vice President of the United States, who said that the wall on the southern border was a vanity project for Donald Trump and would do no good. Add another flip flop to her scorecard. Victoria Taft of P.J. Media’s West Coast Messed Coast has the details on how illegal aliens can get up to $150,000 for a new house from…
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THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT HIM OUT Barry Bonds has Hall of Fame stats but the Pirates should not have inducted him into their Hall of Fame and not because of steroids. Because he’s a despicable human being. The co-founder of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s. Super PAC talks about why RFK Jr. left the Democrat Party and why he’ll be good for Donald Trump. NASA and…
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I TRIED... She was leader in the clubhouse at midweek for Jerk of the Week, and nobody was able to overtake the multi-multi-millionaire who said rich people are not to be trusted. The last Republican Lt. Governor of California (maybe ever) talks about why Kamala Harris couldn’t get 2% of the people in her state to support her run for President in 2…
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MAYBE YOU’RE A LITTLE TOO TESTOSTERONEY Dana Bash and Jake Tapper of CNN suggested that the Harris/Walz campaign is looking to attract men who don’t act too much like men. Jeffrey McCall, Professor of Communications at DePauw University grades the legacy media on their coverage of the Democrat convention. He’s not impressed. Democrats are outraged …
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HYPOCRISY WITH A CAPITAL 'H' Michelle Obama, in her speech at the Democrat convention, let everybody know that her parents were suspicious of rich people. She and Barack are a couple of suspicious characters. They’re worth $70 million and own four houses worth a combined $31 million. Jesse Jane Duff, a retired Marine gunnery sergeant and executive …
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THEY BUMPED JAMES TAYLOR FOR THAT James was supposed to sing “You’ve Got a Friend” at the Democrat National Convention Monday night but the minor players ran long and they had to make time for a late appearance by The Big Guy, who delivered his typical, loud, mean speech as a farewell address. The Republicans in the House chose the first day of the…
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I WON’T FAIL TO MISS IT The Big Guy gives his farewell speech tonight and you can expect the people who stabbed him in the back to be slobbering all over him. Corey Lewandowski was Donald Trump’s first campaign manager in 2016. He’s back now as a senior advisor and he’ll be telling Donald Trump to dismiss the critics and be Donald Trump. George E. …
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THEY CAN’T WIN EVERY WEEK It would be easy to give the AM 1250 The Answer Jerk of the Week Award to Kamala Harris and/or Tim Walz every week but that would be boring. So we gave it to the jerk who apologizes for them. E.J.Antoni, public policy economist from the Heritage Foundation, tears Kamala Harris’ shiny, new economic plan apart. Karoline Leav…
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I HAVE AN IDEA Kamala Harris is promising to “go after” corporations who are charging way too much money for things we need and love. How’s this for an idea: Federal Supermarkets. Charles Lipson, Political Science Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago says Kamala Harris is “the new car smell” of the 2024 campaign and he thinks she’s doing…
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KAMALA AND TIM ARE COMIMG The Harris-Walz campaign will be boarding a bus in Pittsburgh on Sunday and heading out to Chicago for the convention. Maybe someone in local media can get them to do something they haven’t done yet - answer a question. Jeffrey McCall, Professor of Communications at DePauw University and media critic at The Hill, says the …
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THE DATE IS OCTOBER 23rd It’s the Battleground Talkers Tour 2024:Democracy Under Attack. Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher and Larry Elder will be at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh International Airport Hotel. It’s Wednesday, October 23rd, 6 PM. Ok, it’s a shameless plug. We’d like to see you there. Go to TheAnswerPGH.com for tickets. Dave Seminara of the …
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SHE MADE THE COVER OF TIME That’s Time.com, but Kamala Harris is the cover girl and the story is as fawningly nauseating as you would expect. You might say it’s kind of ironic that she turned down a request to be interviewed for the story. The national debt might be a boring topic but it’s a big, big deal,because it’s a really big debt. The numbers…
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SOMEONE TAKE AWAY HER KEYS A senior citizen who’s been in Congress way too long wins the AM 1250 The Answer Jerk of the Week award with one of the stupidest statements in history about another senior citizen who's stayed too long. There is an update on the attempt by Kamala Harris, when she was Attorney General of California, to cover up the sale o…
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Centerformedicalprogress.org Be sure to go there to check out the newest videos from their undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood. Stunning comments from the ghouls in charge about removing unborn babies intact so that they can harvest good heart, lung and liver specimens to be sold. Joanna Wischer, Senior Advisor to the Trump campaign has …
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WEIRD IS THE WORD Democrats have taken to throwing the word weird around a a lot when referring to Republicans. Kind of weird for the Governor of the state that sent Dr. Rachel Levine and John Fetterman to Washington to be joining in on the fun. Lisa Demuth, minority leader of the Minnesota State House has a mind-numbing list of the insanity foiste…
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NEVER HEARD OF TIM WALZ? He never heard of you, either. He’s Kamala Harris’ running mate and he says “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” Mark him down as a socialist. Sam DeMarco, Chairman of the Allegheny County Republican Party is happy that Harris chose Walz over Pa. Governor Josh Shapiro, but he thinks the Democrat Tick…
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WHERE’S HOWARD COSELL WHEN YOU NEED HIM? The Olympics were better when they were carried by ABC. Howard Cosell would have been all over the women’s boxing idiocy. Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Quentin Van Meter explains the science involved in determining whether two people fighting for the women’s boxing Olympic Gold Medal are actually women and w…
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IT ONLY TOOK FIVE SECONDS The Governor of Minnesota beat an impressive field to win the AM 1250 The Answer Jerk of the Week Award with a five second soundbite. Jeffrey McCall, Professor of Communications at DePauw University analyzes the media love fest with Kamala Harris and grades the performance of ABC’s Rachel Scott, who ambushed Donald Trump a…
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SHE SHOULD’VE PUNCHED HIM IN THE GROIN Maybe that would’ve reminded the man she was expected to fight in the Olympic boxing tournament that he wasn’t a woman. Harrison Fields, a black man and a surrogate for the Trump 2024 campaign discusses the controversy that was created when Donald Trump was ambushed at a convention for black journalists in Chi…
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