On Tuesday, the conservative WVOM morning show, based in Bangor, gave fifteen minutes of airtime to a Nazi, allowing him to stump for his brand of “white identity” ideology while fielding a series of softball questions and reveling in supportive comments from the show’s hosts. I don’t use the term Nazi lightly. Tom Kawczynski, who…
In one of his last of a series of regular appearances on the WVOM radio morning show, Governor Paul LePage attacked other leading politicians in the Maine Republican Party, blaming them for widespread election losses last month. “You go back eight years ago and this state was solidly red – House, Senate, Blaine house,” prompted…
Since psychology Professor Christine Blasey Ford came forward with allegations of attempted rape by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in high school over the weekend, Maine’s right-wing radio hosts have taken to the airwaves to discredit her account, her character, and to minimize the reported attack, in some cases spreading false information and outright conspiracy…