The John Steigerwald Show

Dec 11 2024 1489 ep. 48 mins 20
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Heard on The Answer - Pittsburgh (AM1250) Monday-Friday from 5:00-6pm ET. John Steigerwald has been in Pittsburgh media for 50 years. He is an award winning TV/Radio Sports anchor/reporter, columnist and author.

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The John Steigerwald Show – Wednesday December 11, 2024

Dec 11 2024 37 mins  
LUIGI IS HANDSOME  The man being charged with murdering a Health Insurance CEO is getting attention, praise and even a pass from liberal women, including some in the media. Would it be different if he had murdered a major executive at Planned Parenthood?  Professor of Communications Jeff McCall on the media’s coverage of Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny and the

The John Steigerwald Show – Tuesday December 10, 2024

Dec 10 2024 39 mins  
HOW ABOUT SOME ZAPATOS? That would be shoes in Spanish. There are thousands of kids running around in the Dominican Republic who have never owned a pair of shoes. Someone should tell Juan Soto, who just signed a guaranteed contract worth over $275 million, to change that.  Black Lives Matter and the NAACP had the usual knee jerk response  to the not guilty verdict fo

The John Steigerwald Show – Monday December 9, 2024

Dec 09 2024 37 mins  
IT’S ABOUT TIME Dave Parker was finally elected to the Hall of Fame. It was long overdue but there was a good reason for the delay. A Congressional Committee has released a 520 page report that basically says that every conspiracy theory was right. Masks were useless. Lockdowns and the vaccine mandates caused more harm than good. College football is less about college every day.

The John Steigerwald Show – Friday December 6, 2024

Dec 06 2024 38 mins  
WHO ELSE? The final AM 1250 The Answer Jerk of the Week (The Jerk of All Jerks) award could only go to the guy who gave us four years of gibberish, lies and incompetence. Local defense attorney Bill Diffenderfer weighs in on the Daniel Penny case in New York City. He says it never should have gone to trial. What may have motivated Nancy Pelosi to use January 6th, 2021 as a distract

The John Steigerwald Show – Thursday December 5, 2024

Dec 05 2024 38 mins  
THEY’RE STATION WAGONS Sports cars and convertibles are apparently no longer considered cool. They’re for old people. Now it’s all about SUVs. They’re four-wheel drive station wagons. How did this happen? A PR expert says Pete Hegseth’s trajectory is not good. He has some advice. Phil Kerpen of American Commitment has a list of things for Donald Trump to do on taxes and r

The John Steigerwald Show – Wednesday December 4, 2024

Dec 04 2024 37 mins  
IT’S THE INVASION OF THE PRETZEL PEOPLE The Demediacrats keep twisting themselves into pretzels trying to justify and rationalize Joe Biden pardoning his son. Caryn Wilson aka Whoopi Goldberg set a new standard in her discussion with a guy who expects to be referred to as Charlemagne tha God. The Supreme Court heard testimony today in a case involving the state of Tennessee and p

The John Steigerwald Show – Tuesday December 3, 2024

Dec 03 2024 38 mins  
ARE YOU READY FOR A GOLDEN BATTER? Only a league that thinks it’s dying would consider a rule that the Idiots Who Run Baseball are considering. How would you like to be in charge of convincing people that Joe Biden isn’t a liar? That's what Karin Jean-Pierre does everyday and not very well. Joe Biden pardoning his son wasn’t about his son. It was about himself. See omnystudi

The John Steigerwald Show – Monday December 2, 2024

Dec 02 2024 39 mins  
PARDON ME Joe “No one’s above the law” Biden pardoned his slimy son Hunter. Who didn’t see this coming? Cully Stimson, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, explains just how bad this pardon is and why he believes Hunter won’t be the last Biden family member to get one. Jeffrey McCall, Professor of Communications at DePauw University on how the legacy media cont

The John Steigerwald Show - Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Nov 27 2024 38 mins  
JAY HAS A NEW JOB JAY Bhattacharya said on this show back in March of 2020 that the government’s response to Covid 19 was a case of literal overkill and he was denounced as a heretic. He turned out to be right. Since Jay was named to head the National Institutes of Heath by Donald Trump on Tuesday, the segment from March 6, 2020 will play in its entirety. May Mailman, law exp

The John Steigerwald Show – Tuesday November 26, 2024

Nov 26 2024 38 mins  
LET’S SEE WHAT THE LADIES ARE MADE OF A federal judge threw out a lawsuit meant to prevent female volleyball players in the Mountain West Conference from playing against the San Jose State team that includes a man masquerading as a woman. Now’s the time for everybody to forfeit. Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center For Military Readiness says Pete Hegseth is right. Women s