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October 22, 2014 12:35 PM UTC

Has Right-Wing Media - And a Special Booking Agency - Killed Beauprez's Chances?

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  • by: Jason Salzman

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The vast collection of bizarre online media programs and bunker-crazy talk-radio hosts has probably cost Bob Beauprez the governor's office.

Beauprez can't shake off the digital archive of underground thought that he articulated on these shows beginning after his last gubernatorial loss in 2006 and continuing into this very year. It's defined him.

Calling Obama "a different kind of American than any I know" on the "Talk to Solomon Show," saying, on the Talkback with Chuck Wilder Show, that there's a “growing sentiment” that America might be on the “verge of something very, very bad,” and “folks realize they may need to protect themselves against the government that was supposed to be instituted to protect us," warning, on the Internet show “Christian Today,” that "I hope and pray we don’t see another civil war but this administration is pushing the boundaries like none I think we’ve ever, ever seen," expressing his love for the "Tea Party movement," on KLZ 560-AM's Wake Up with Randy Corporon, as "the healthiest thing we have seen in very long time in America," and accusing Americans of being like "sheep" who’d blindly allow the government to implant microchips in their bodies.

It goes on and on, and you can read more here and here. And if you bottom feed on the Internet for a while, you can probably find something new and shocking yourself.

How did Beauprez get there? How did he find all these weird shows?

It's a good bet that many of them came from Beauprez's apparent booking agency, called "SpecialGuests.com."

This outfit's special guests are truly special, but in the depressing sense, and include a collection of pundits plucked from the right-wing underground. Stars include Gun Owners of America Director Larry Pratt and Phyllis Schlafly, to give you an idea of what's available today.

On SpecialGuests.com, Beauprez's description references his right-wing blog, A Line of Sight, which would have certainly attracted the shadowy shows he frequented:

ABOUT YOUR GUEST, BOB BEAUPREZ:

…Since 2007, Bob has published a monthly e-magazine called A Line of Sight (http://www.alineofsight.com/), a public policy and opinion resource on current political issues. Then, in 2009, he authored his first book: A Return to Values: A Conservative Look at His Party…

Bob continues to stay politically active, guest hosting on various radio talk shows, doing numerous media interviews nationally, and maintains a busy public speaking schedule.

Beauprez's "numerous media interviews," and the conspiracy-tinged questions he was asked as a "special guest," are now a special part of his downfall.

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8 thoughts on “Has Right-Wing Media – And a Special Booking Agency – Killed Beauprez’s Chances?

  1. I'm actually starting to think that Both Ways may really believe some of the shit he's spewing.  Here I always chalked him up to being a shameless opportunist who will say anything to anyone regardless of what he really believes.  But I'm beginning to think he's the real thing.

     

  2. I still think they would have been smarter running Gessler.  I guess this is the one and only time Moddy and I would find ourselves in agreement.

    1. Gessler's fresh-in-the-minds-of-voters record of phantom voter fraud and budget mismanagement, plus an overall disagreeable demeanor would have been easy pickings for negative ads.  I don't think even the Denver Post liked Gessler.

      BWB "looks" harmless, and the whitewash was on from the establishment wing of the GOP of which the Post mostly kowtows to.

    1. Oh, give them a moment, and the trolls will show up spitting the talking points like bullets.  Some of them are paid to do that, and others are dumb enough to volunteer.  

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