Local Talk Radio Host, Bill Edwards, Talks Politics and Southern Slang
He's a talker, sho'nuff… and can he say pea-can? Yes, he can.
As a radio talk show personality, Bill Edwards talks a lot.
And he listens to a lot of other people talk; people from all over the country. He knows when someone says, “Well, bless your heart,” he’s talking to someone from the South. And what that person really means to say is: “You stupid idiot!”
The insults fly on talk radio; perhaps one reason for its tremendous surge in popularity over the past two decades. According to the rating agency Arbitron, talk radio has an audience of 1.4 billion listeners across American – up from just 400 million in 1990. At WTKS, Edwards is in a lineup that includes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glen Beck, all giants in the talk show industry. For many months, he’s been in the middle of perhaps the most unconventional and unpredictable political campaigns in history – one that had a lot of folks “riled up,” as they say in the South.
Left: Laura Anderson, Right: Bill Edwards. Photos by Blake Crosby.
"I think people have been frustrated by our politicians for a long time,” says Edwards. “Finally it reached the boiling point."
Edwards doesn’t mince many words on the radio or in his WTKS blog.
“For months we here at evil talk radio here in the backwoods of Hicksville where we’re clinging to our Bibles and guns had been predicting that Donald Trump would not only be the next president but would also win in a landslide,” he wrote in a mid-December post.
Unlike the “lamestream media,” he added, “we have known for quite a while how angry the real American was getting with the liberal cretins in Washington and the RHINOs (Republicans in name only) on the Republican side who promise one thing and then compromise and do it the Democrats’ way once elected. Tried to tell them, but you can’t fix stupid.”
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