Terry Meiners on lazy Lou-uh-vul elocution and Team Trump pushing back against liberal public media

Terry Meiners on lazy Lou-uh-vul elocution and Team Trump pushing back against liberal public media

Author: NewsRadio 840 WHAS (WHAS-AM) March 27, 2025 Duration: 9:53
Terry discusses local officials touting the expansion of Waterfront Park into WEST LOU-UH-VUL, a name we stole from a town in western Kentucky. (If you say WAH-FAH instead of WiFi, then Loo-uh-vul fits right into your Jethro laden elocution skeelz!).

In Washington, members of Congress went on the attack against left-leaning NPR. Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer tried to derail NPR CEO Katherine Maher. She's like, "who me? I drive down the center lane on the highway."

Opinion is part of the media universe, albeit separate from general news gathering. That's what the AP stylebook would have us all believe.

But news consumers like to hear their own biases reflected back toward them. MSNBC viewers are convinced that they're hearing unbiased news reporting and sensible commentary. The exact opposite sentiment is embraced by conservatives consuming Fox News.

Today's issue: the Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives don't want to fund liberal NPR and PBS opinions but are fine with conservative views on various media platforms.

Conservatives control all three branches of government right now so expect this battle over funding public media to remain active for now. 

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

50 years of Terry Meiners radio bits
Podcast Episodes
The Beasman hates March when U uh Kay ain't no good [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:09
Our buddy The Beasman has nothing nice to say about Mark Pope, his precious Kentucky Wildcats, or those filthy U of Smell Cardinal birds. It's a sorry world when the Cats ain't got no chance to cut down them there champi…
Beasman loves Pat Kelsey's rat poison label for U of Smell fans [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:24
The Beasman loves Mark Pope and UK's recent resurgence while Louisville's shorty short, peanut sized, little league loser Pat Kelsey is calling Cardinal fans rat poison.With another huge S.E.C. victory over Vandy and two…
Shirley Q wants Terry to carry her home [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:52
Shirley Q LIquor works at the Fingernail Hut down the street from WHAS studios. She often "lets herself in" to Terry's car where she thumps B-96 Radio and smokes clove cigarettes while talking to friends on a burner phon…
Simon Meiners recites amazing Kentucky history faster than A.I. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:48
Simon T Meiners, communications and research specialist at Louisville's Frazier History Museum, chats it up with his dad Terry Meiners on WHAS Radio.Simon's freeform delivery of Kentucky historical facts is incredible. R…
Terry Meiners & WQMF leaders both lied to Louisville Times in 1985 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:57
When Terry Meiners quit his job at WQMF in 1985, he had already worked a deal with WHAS Radio. His bosses at WQMF new right away what was up. One of the WQMF owners called Terry just as he arrived home after resigning. F…