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29-524: Townhall also provides five minute radio newscasts around the clock, detailing national and world news items. These newscasts air at the beginning of each hour on many Salem-owned radio stations and on Salem Radio Network affiliates , as well as on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125 . Townhall was founded on March 2, 1995, as one of the first conservative internet communities. In 2005, Townhall.com split off from The Heritage Foundation . In May 2006, Salem Communications acquired Townhall.com and relaunched

58-718: A banker. His family moved to Washington, D.C. , where he attended Gonzaga College High School . He graduated from Williams College in 1965, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Society , and received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in political philosophy in 1970. He also has a J.D. from Harvard Law School , graduating in 1971. Bennett was an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Boston University from 1971 to 1972 and then became an assistant professor of philosophy and an assistant to John Silber ,

87-534: A high-stakes gambler who lost millions of dollars in Las Vegas . Criticism increased in the wake of Bennett's publication, The Book of Virtues , a compilation of moral stories about courage, responsibility, friendship and other examples of virtue . Joshua Green of the Washington Monthly said that Bennett failed to denounce gambling because of his own tendency to gamble. Also, Bennett and Empower America ,

116-456: A terrible case of moral superiority and put their own vanity and taste above the interest of the country" and that "our country can survive the occasional infelicities and improprieties of Donald Trump. But it cannot survive losing the Supreme Court to liberals." In 2003, it became publicly known that Bennett - who had spent years preaching about family values and personal responsibility - was

145-1327: A top-of-the-hour newscast, though four local insertion opportunities and a station identification spot are provided. [REDACTED] = Available through terrestrial radio affiliates. [REDACTED] = Available exclusively via Sirius XM . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NBC News Wall Street Journal Politico MSNBC / CNBC / Telemundo Bloomberg Government Washington Examiner Boston Globe / Washington Blade Fox News CBS News Radio AP Radio / PBS VOA Time Yahoo News Daily Caller / EWTN CBS News Bloomberg News McClatchy NY Post / TheGrio Washington Times Salem Radio / CBN Cheddar News / Hearst TV AP NPR Foreign pool The Hill Regionals Newsmax Gray TV / Spectrum News ABC News Washington Post Agence France-Presse Fox Business / Fox News Radio CSM / Roll Call Al Jazeera Nexstar / Scripps News Reuters NY Times LA Times Univision / AURN RealClearPolitics Daily Beast / Dallas Morning News BBC / Newsweek CNN USA Today ABC News Radio Daily Mail National Journal HuffPost Financial Times / The Guardian William Bennett William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943)

174-737: Is a former senior editor of National Review . Bennett is a member of the National Security Advisory Council of the Center for Security Policy (CSP). He was co-director of Empower America and was a Distinguished Fellow in Cultural Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation . Long active in United States Republican Party politics, he is now an author and speaker. Bennett was the Washington Fellow of

203-684: Is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998 PNAC Letter sent to President Bill Clinton , which urged Clinton to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power. Bennett is a neoconservative , and was an advocate for the Iraq War . In 2016, Bennett vigorously supported Donald Trump in his presidential campaign, writing that saying that conservatives who objected to Trump "suffer from

232-518: Is an American conservative politician and political commentator who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan . He also held the post of director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W. Bush . Bennett was born July 31, 1943 to a Catholic family in Brooklyn , the son of Nancy ( née Walsh), a medical secretary, and F. Robert Bennett,

261-538: Is only transmitted by a few of these stations at times during the weekend. The company's Salem Radio Network subsidiary produces several talk radio shows and a 24-hour news service that are distributed to more than 2,000 radio affiliates around the country. William Bennett is a designated fill-in host. Bennett previously hosted Salem's morning drive-time show for a decade before retiring in March 2016. The satellite feed for Salem's general market programming can be heard on

290-697: Is transmitted full-time on most stations, but in areas where Salem has a limited number of stations it is transmitted only part-time in morning and afternoon drive times on weekdays and weekend afternoons. Where Salem only has one FM station ( WAVA-FM in Washington, D.C., and WORD-FM in Pittsburgh ), CCM is transmitted on weekends, with talk and teaching on weekdays. Most CCM stations play music full-time and do not sell blocks of time to religious organizations except sometimes on Sunday mornings. Christian Talk, comprising talk shows where listeners call in and participate in

319-659: The CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks , on CRN3. The Salem Radio Network contemporary Christian music (CCM) stations are referred to as TheFISH . The following is a list of Salem Radio Christian teaching radio programs: Salem Music Network is a division of SRN which operates three networks for the use of over-the-air stations. These feeds are mostly for stations in small and mid-size markets or HD Radio sub-channel use. The networks are distributed through both audio over IP and satellite. Unlike other major radio networks, SRN's broadcast clock does not include

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348-679: The Chicago Public Schools system "the worst in the nation." He coined the term "the blob" to describe the state education bureaucracy, a derogation which was later taken up in Britain by Michael Gove . Bennett is a staunch supporter of the War on Drugs and has been criticized by some for his views. On Larry King Live , he said that a viewer's suggestion of beheading drug dealers would be "morally plausible." He also "lamented that we still grant them [drug dealers] habeas corpus rights." Bennett

377-486: The Claremont Institute . He was also a commentator for CNN until 2013. He is an advisor to Project Lead The Way and Beanstalk Innovation. He is on the advisory board of Udacity, Inc. , Viridis Learning, Inc. and the board of directors of Vocefy, Inc. and Webtab, Inc. In 2017, Bennett launched a podcast, The Bill Bennett Show . According to internal White House records from January 6, 2021, Bennett spoke on

406-505: The Assault on American Ideals (1998). Other books: In 1967, as a graduate student in Austin, Texas, Bennett went on a single blind date with Janis Joplin . He later lamented, "That date lasted two hours, and I've spent 200 hours talking about it." Bennett married Mary Elayne Glover in 1982. They have two sons, John and Joseph. Elayne is the president and founder of Best Friends Foundation ,

435-733: The excessive gambling is over." He explained, "Since there will be people doing the micrometer on me, I just want to be clear: I do want to be able to bet the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl ." On September 28, 2005, in a discussion on Bennett's Morning in America radio show, a caller to the show proposed that "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" could preserve Social Security if abortion had not been permitted since Roe v. Wade . Bennett responded by hypothesizing, "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could—if that were

464-645: The federal government, becoming the first Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy , appointed by President George H. W. Bush . He was confirmed by the Senate in a 97–2 vote. He left that position in December 1990. In April 2004, Bennett began hosting Morning in America (radio show) , a nationally syndicated radio program produced and distributed by Dallas, Texas -based Salem Communications . The show aired live weekdays from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, and

493-652: The former President's Council of Economic Advisors and then went on to host his own show on Fox Business Network in February 2021. Townhall.com features commentary by various conservative columnists and guest commentary by politicians. Guest contributors have included Eric Trump , Donald Trump Jr ., and Lara Trump . In November 2021, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate described Townhall as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change . Facebook disputed

522-575: The host of a CNN weekly talk show, Beyond the Politics . The show did not have a long run, but Bennett remained a CNN contributor until he was fired in 2013 by then-new CNN president Jeff Zucker . Bennett has been moderating The Wise Guys , a Sunday night show on Fox News , since January 2018. Carried on Fox Nation as well, participants include Tyrus , Byron York , Ari Fleischer , Victor Davis Hanson , and others. Bennett writes for National Review Online , National Review and Commentary , and

551-492: The magazine, Townhall Magazine carries contributions from Townhall.com readers. In February 2011, Townhall.com re-launched TownhallFinance.com , a daily financial and investment site dedicated to conservative financial commentary, under the editorship of John Ransom. In 2018, Jerry Bowyer became editor of the site. It carries commentary from Ransom and Fox Business Network analyst Charles Payne , and carried CNBC 's Larry Kudlow before Kudlow went on leave to become head of

580-705: The organization he co-founded and headed at the time, opposed an extension of casino gambling in the United States. Bennett said that his habit had not jeopardized himself or his family financially. After Bennett's gambling problem became public, he said he did not believe his habit set a good example, that he had "done too much gambling" over the years, and his "gambling days are over". "We are financially solvent," his wife Elayne told USA Today . "All our bills are paid." She added that his gambling days are over. "He's never going again," she said. Several months later, Bennett qualified his position, saying, "So, in this case,

609-516: The phone with then-President Donald Trump just before Trump went to the "Save America" rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol. Bennett tends to take a conservative position on affirmative action , school vouchers , curriculum reform, and religion in education. As education secretary, he asked colleges for stronger enforcement of drug laws and supported a classical education . He frequently criticized schools for low standards. In 1987 he called

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638-537: The position, but due to Bradford's pro-Confederate views, Bennett was appointed. This event was later marked as the watershed in the divergence between paleoconservatives , who backed Bradford, and neoconservatives , led by Irving Kristol , who supported Bennett. While at NEH, Bennett published "To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Humanities in Higher Education" , a 63-page report. It was based on an assessment of

667-635: The president of the college, from 1972 to 1976. In May 1979, Bennett became the director of the National Humanities Center , an independent institute in North Carolina , after the death of its founder Charles Frankel . In 1981 President Reagan appointed Bennett to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), where he served until Reagan appointed him Secretary of Education in 1985. Reagan initially nominated Mel Bradford to

696-877: The show, is transmitted during weekdays in some areas, and only in drive times in others. The rest of the day is filled with blocks of time ranging from a few minutes to an hour sold to churches and Christian organizations. Conservative Talk (branded in most markets as "The Answer" since 2014) transmits full-time on a commercial basis. These stations only sell advertisement time, not blocks of time like Christian Talk counterparts (though brokered programming may be offered on weekends as secular stations often do). Some of these stations have religious programs on Sunday mornings. The teaching format relies on selling blocks of time to organizations full-time. These stations offer diverse religious features such as church services, political and religious interview features, Christian family life programs, and children's shows. Music (exclusively Christian)

725-496: The site with the addition of podcasts of Salem's network and local talk shows, blogs run by Salem talk show hosts and the ability for any user to set up a blog on the Townhall.com network. The website provides an extensive selection of opinion columns and news items presented from a conservative viewpoint. In January 2008, Townhall.com launched Townhall Magazine , a monthly conservative news magazine. In addition to exclusive content for

754-604: The sole purpose—you could abort every black baby in this country and the crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down." Bennett responded to critics of his statement by saying, in part: Bennett's best-known written work may be The Book of Virtues : A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (1993), which he edited; he has also authored and edited eleven other books, including The Children's Book of Virtues (which inspired an animated television series ) and The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and

783-725: The study's methodology. Salem Radio Network Salem Radio Network is a United States–based radio network that specializes in syndicated Christian political talk, music, and conservative secular news/talk programming. It is a division of the Salem Media Group . Salem Radio Network was launched in 2009, and operates on mostly four radio formats : Christian talk and teaching (transmitted on AM in some areas and on FM in others), Contemporary Christian music (transmitted mostly on FM stations), conservative News/Talk format (transmitted on AM stations), and Christian Teaching (transmitted on AM stations). Contemporary Christian Music

812-545: The teaching and learning of the humanities at the baccalaureate level, conducted by a blue-ribbon study group of 31 nationally prominent authorities on higher education convened by NEH. In May 1986, Bennett switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party . In September 1988, Bennett resigned as Sectetary of Education, to join the Washington law firm of Dunnels, Duvall, Bennett, and Porter. In March 1989, he returned to

841-502: Was one of the only syndicated conservative talk shows in the morning drive time slot. However, its clearances were limited due to a preference for local shows in this slot, and the show got most of its clearances on Salem-owned outlets. Morning in America was also carried on Sirius Satellite Radio, on Channel 144, also known as the Patriot Channel . Bennett retired from full-time radio on March 31, 2016. In 2008, Bennett became

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