Chris Plante is nothing if not modest, so when someone writes a glowing article about him, he would never ever ask his producer to post that article on our website (especially not on-air). However here we are:
This weekend a nice writer at the American Spectator named Donald Rieck wrote a piece about Chris Plante that you can now find right here. Here are some highlights:
Talk radio is a tough and crowded field and you have to have the goods to stand out amidst the competition. And boy oh boy does this guy have a full portfolio.
A talk radio host, to do his job well, has to delicately balance the role of informer and entertainer. That balance has been key to Rush’s magic and above all it has been Rush’s brazen and unabashed humor that has driven the left batty all these many years. Similarly, you cannot get through a Chris Plante segment without paroxysms of laughter. Those of you who catch him while traversing the Washington beltway, as I do, may want to consider an extra rider on your car insurance.
And those of you who like cultural and entertainment references mixed into and contextualized with your politics; Plante, with tart and acerbic glee, gives the great Dennis Miller, who often over-stretches his allusions, a run for his money.
And did we ever need humor to get through parts of this last election?
The day after a “flu suffering” Hillary staggered out of the 9/11 memorial and had to be hoisted and dragged in her van, a Chris Plante listener could hear a strange thumping noise through the Plante microphone the next morning. What could be making that noise, the listener wonders? Why, it was a bag of potatoes that Chris affectionately named “Hillary” and lugged into the studio.
And then my personal favorite Plante interjection. Days before the election, after torturing the audience with an extended screed by a paranormally shrill Hillary, Plante quipped: “My God, that’s gotta be the sound you hear when you stuff a cat into a burlap bag and feed it into a wood chipper.”
But it’s on the other side of the balance sheet that Chris’s true assets really stand out. There is simply no one in talk radio (perhaps in all media) who can spot, diagnose, and lay bare the pathologies of the corrupt nexus between liberalism, the Democrat party, and the media better than this man. His autopsies are as ruthless as unsurprising given his background
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It comes from the zeal of the converted. Plante spent 17 years at CNN, including ten years as Pentagon correspondent. So he can name names and even more importantly recognize the insidious game, from a former insider’s view, that the media play as they continue to abase themselves in fealty to the left, all the while wrapping themselves in the cloak of “Fourth Estate” sanctimony.
His sense of outrage at media corruption may also have an even more personal foundation. Chris’s stepfather was a highly respected State Department and White House Correspondent for CBS.
I sense that he sees the media’s corruption and departure from basic professional ethics as a betrayal not only of his professional standards, but those of his stepfather as well.
It’s a great article and we appreciate it.
