Q1: KLIF El Attrache / Ingram Wheels Show Opening's Partisan Snark Tilts at 100% Against Republicans
2023 February 4

Three months have passed since David El Attrache and John Ingram became the hosts-in-name-only of Wheels with Ed Wallace. As such, it seems a good time to take a measure of the partisan balance of the show opening.

In the previous partisan snark analysis (May 1, 2022 to September 3, 2022), Ed Wallace’s show opening was exposed as a nakedly partisan exercise that derided Republicans 92% of the time over those four months.

Given that heavy tilt against conservatives, one might wonder whether these new hosts had a moderating effect. Well, the following table shows all the partisan snark targets within the show’s opening for what is now announce as “Wheels with David El Attrache and John Ingram”. Omitted from the table are apolitical musings, faux self-deprecating asides, and snark targeting those without a conspicuous political association (Southwest Airlines, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes).

KLIF 570 AM Wheels Show Intro Negative Partisan Opening Jokes November 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023
Date	Target’s Party	Target of Derision
11/05/22	Republican	NJ Governor Christine Todd Whitman
11/12/22	Republican	AZ Governor Nominee Kari Lake
11/26/22	Republican	Twitter/Tesla CEO Elon Musk
12/03/22	Republican	Radio Host Alex Jones
12/10/22	Republican	GA Senate Nominee Herschel Walker
12/17/22	Republican	Twitter/Tesla CEO Elon Musk
12/17/22	Republican	“Trickle Down” Economics
12/31/22	Republican	NY Representative George Santos
01/07/23	Republican	NY Representative George Santos
01/14/23	Republican	AZ Governor Nominee Kari Lake
01/21/23	Republican	UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
01/28/23	Republican	Attorney General Bill Barr

Over the past three months, the show opening threw derision at 12 partisan targets: eleven individuals and one economic theory. And of those 12 partisan targets, all twelve were of the Republican / Conservative ideology.

Somehow, in the three months that includes Joe Biden asserting that a Chevrolet Corvette grants SCIF-level security to adjacent top-secret government documents, not a single barb was hurled toward Wallace’s fellow Democrats during the show’s opening.

Ed Wallace’s ever shrinking covey of sponsors fund his Mother Jones Magazine of the radio. Do not purchase anything from these financers of socialist propaganda. This goes double for Norm Reeves Honda of North Richland Hills, as its General Manager David El Attrache serves as a Wheels co-host.