ELMHURST, IL – Shaun Thompson, owner of a downtown Elmhurst shop that banned supporters of President Joe Biden three years ago, has a megaphone – a regular radio talk show.
Eight years ago, he began hosting shows on Chicago’s AM 560 “The Answer,” which is a conservative talk radio station. He now hosts a three-hour show named after him.
Thompson, who now lives in Florida, is closing the Elmhurst Cigar House because the city started assessing fines over an air quality issue. He told Patch last week that he suspected the city’s action was linked to his politics.
In an interview, Thompson said he did not want people who espouse an anti-business philosophy in the shop.
Thompson’s show is 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. It is also a podcast that displays a photo of Thompson smoking a cigar.
At the beginning of Thompson’s daily show, a recorded announcement says, “From the streets of Melrose Park to the trading floor of the Merc, he’s fought for every dollar he’s ever earned. Now with personal liberty and our system of capitalism under assault in America, he’s here to seize back our rights from the government with a cigar in one hand and a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the other.”
Another announcement declares his show is “where Democrats are always wrong, Republicans are seldom right and politicians are never, ever to be trusted.”
His show opposes Democrats at every turn, including when he interviews like-minded guests. He repeatedly calls Democrats fascists and Marxists.
On his show Friday, Thompson played a CNN reporter’s recitation of facts that Biden got wrong during Thursday’s debate with Donald Trump. But the host edited out the part where the reporter listed Trump’s factual errors.
However, Thompson does take shots at Republicans. For instance, he had nothing good to say about GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson.
“That’s the coward that has been funding Joe Biden. That’s the idiot who six months ago had a meeting with Joe Biden and said it was very productive,” the radio show host said.
Thompson told the station’s audience his ideological foes don’t own businesses.
“They don’t do anything. They don’t participate,” Thompson said. “If they get money, it’s from taking other people’s money. They like that system of Soviet society – taking from the makers.”
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