"Birth of a Blowhard"

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Greg Hladky of the Advocate newspapers ponders the question, “Did Glenn Beck hatch his plan to become a right-wing radio megastar right here on Connecticut airways?”

When Beck arrived at Hamden-based KC101 in early 1992, he was a semi-failed, drug-and-alcohol addicted, Top-40s radio jock desperately looking for a route to stardom. By the time he left seven years later, Beck had figured out that talk radio was the future and the conservative shtick pioneered by Rush Limbaugh and others — including a now-obscure Connecticut guy — could be revamped to serve as his escalator to fame and fortune.