Comments (8) Best Talk Radio Host - 2007

Bernie Ward

OK, so the guy is not sexy or suave. He looks like a plump systems engineer from Middle America who'd vote Republican. But this is radio, so what do we care if KGO's Bernie Ward isn't a looker. If you can sit tight through sermon-like pauses (he used to be a priest) that last so long you end up tapping the radio to see if you lost the signal, you're in for a program where he lives up to his cheesy moniker "The Lion of the Left." On one show, he criticizes KGO's own Ronn Owens for "leading cheers and doing flip flops to get us into the war" in Iraq. In a debate on MSNBC last summer, he clobbered conservative talk show host Chris Baker over whether the government should be able to censor the press in wartime to the point that Baker disconnected his microphone and fled the set. Bernie is a dweeb, all right. But he packs a punch.