Jon Ralston
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jan
Jon Ralston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I knew how close Jim Rogers was to Harry Reid.
Well, I appreciate your saying that.
I have to tell you, I figured that he was whispering not such sweet nothings in Jim Rogers's ear about me.
But what's really ironic, and Rogers actually, and this is not, I don't believe I put this in the book, Rogers actually succumbed to his entreaties and took me off the air.
And when I heard that he was going to take the show off the air, I went in and I persuaded Rogers not to do it.
And I went on again that night.
Ironically enough, after Rogers passed away and Sinclair Broadcasting bought the station, what I did not know until I found these documents and these emails in the archives was that – I should have assumed this, but that Reed had –
that Reed and his chief of staff at the time, David Crone, essentially went to the head of Sinclair and said, get this guy off the air.
And it's documented.
It's right there, and they celebrated it when it happened.
And Sinclair, in fact, took you off the air.
They took me off the air, and the head of Sinclair emailed
David Crone to tell him and then Crone forwarded that to Reed and they both celebrated that I had been taken off the air.
Yeah, it's just crazy.
It was kind of stunning to read, even though I shouldn't have been that surprised that Reed would have done something like that.
But I did save it for the acknowledgments, because I thought I should put in perspective.
Harry Reed and I had a roller coaster of a relationship.
But I think there was a mutual respect there.
And I think that the main reason he was mad at me was because I wrote columns
that he said attacked his family, but were more about how he used his influence to try to help his sons at various times, including getting into public sector jobs.
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