The Chicks on the Right

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The Chicks on the Right (COTR) is an American podcast, website, social media presence and radio talk-show, hosted by Amy Jo Clark and Miriam Weaver. The politically conservative duo, known professionally on the air as "Daisy" and "Mockarena" started their collaboration in 2009 from their home base in Indianapolis, Indiana. Following Clark's decision in early 2021 to leave the radio show but stay with the podcast, website, and social media, the radio show developed into "The Mock 'N Rob Show", airing Monday thru Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on WIBC (93.1 MHz), a commercial FM radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana. Weaver continues to co-host the show with Rob Kendall, previously the producer of the COTR radio show.

Clark and Weaver, whose tagline is "...because conservatism needs a makeover", have hosted the show on WIBC since 2013. Already established as Chicks on the Right since the launching of their politically Conservative website in early 2009 as well as the pair's social media pages, the duo was approached by WIBC and offered a Saturday afternoon radio slot. Eventually, they were moved to a weekday afternoon-drive time slot on the station, at which time they each left their corporate jobs to become full-time radio hosts. Following continued success on the air and online, they wrote a book, "Right for a Reason: Life, Liberty, and a Crapload of Common Sense".

After two years on WIBC in the afternoons, the show was moved to its current time of 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Weaver and Clark have stated they asked for the programming change so they could continue to write for their website, chicksontheright.com, still make speaking and other appearances locally and nationally, as well as spend more time with their respective families. As Chicks on the Right, the radio hosts have been featured on national media to include both Fox News and CNN.

History

Before becoming one half of the radio talk show team, Clark was a medical writer and communications consultant in the private sector for over 20 years, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Communications at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. Weaver worked in corporate human resources prior to her radio career, with a focus on recruiting and hiring. The daughter of Polish immigrants who came to the United States in 1969, she is a first generation American.

In 2013, after their "Chicks on the Right" page was threatened to be removed from Facebook, the production team at WIBC contacted Weaver and Clark following an on-air mention of the threat by Fox News Radio anchor Todd Starnes as well as coverage by Glenn Beck and The Blaze along with Breitbart. Facebook ended up apologizing, and as a result of the media coverage from the incident, Weaver and Clark were offered a Saturday afternoon radio slot at WIBC by the station's director of talk programming, David Wood. A few months later, they auditioned for and were given the afternoon drive-time weekday time slot. This led them to leave their corporate careers to work full-time in radio.

In 2013, the radio hosts were contacted by a publishing agent about writing a book. This led to New York publisher and Penguin Random House company "Sentinel" publishing Weaver and Clark's Right for a Reason: Life, Liberty and a Crapload of "Common Sense" in 2014. Following their book, they pair started writing periodic op-ed articles for the Indianapolis Star newspaper.

After two years of drive time broadcasting, the show's hosts requested a time-switch for an even balance between work and their personal lives. WIBC's producers then moved the show to it's current 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. weekday morning slot. As Chicks on the Right, Weaver and Clark also host a weekly podcast called the 'Mock and Daisy Common Sense cast'. Weekdays before their broadcast, the pair host a live-stream video at the WIBC studios that is seen daily on Facebook and YouTube as a lead-up to the radio show. The live-stream is seen daily from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., Eastern Time.

Politics, appearances, and interviews

Issues

While labeling their radio show as politically conservative, Clark and Weaver veered slightly away from what many consider to be traditional conservatism during an interview with the Indy Star newspaper in 2014. During the interview, the hosts were asked their feelings about gay marriage. According to the article, the pair was quoted as saying "We believe that gay couples should have the same legal and contractual rights to couplehood as straight couples, but we are conflicted on changing the entire definition of marriage to satisfy a small percentage of the population."

In a March 2020 interview with the entertainment and Hollywood-focused web-journal, Hollywood In Toto ("HIT"), Weaver and Clark spoke on what conservatives refer to as "Cancel culture": "We can only hope that pendulum is going to center itself. The resignation of Chris Matthews was a surprise...it seems pretty clear that he was “canceled” not because of his sleaziness towards women over the past few decades, but because he was speaking the truth about how dangerous of a candidate Bernie Sanders is on a channel that exists almost purely to promote Sanders-style socialist policies...Unfortunately, we see it getting worse on platforms like Twitter, where you can no longer safely suggest there are two sexes without violating "community guidelines." What’s most frightening is that we feel that this is a microcosm for our culture at large – one that’s gone completely insane for political correctness."

Media and Personal Speaking Appearances

In addition to their weekday radio show, podcast, and live stream commitments, the show's hosts also appear at local and national speaking events, and have been featured as guests on TV programs as Fox and Friends, Varney & Company with Stuart Varney, Happening Now, Fox Business, CNN Tonight with host Don Lemon, CNN Newsroom, Huckabee, and Anderson Cooper 360°. Along with appearing as guests on various syndicated radio programs, Time Magazine published a piece from the Chicks on the Right in the periodical's October 30, 2014 issue. The radio hosts also make appearances as event speakers that have included the 2019 Pink Elephant Gala fundraiser in Texas held by The Lubbock Area Republican Women, the Republican Women of Greater North Texas, and the Bush Legacy Republican Women of Weatherford, also in Texas.

On-Air Interviews

The Chicks on the Right show has featured interviews by Clark and Weaver with politically conservative figures such as Charlie Kirk, Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, former Wisconsin governor and GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker, and former South Carolina governor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.

In October 2018, while the Chicks on the Right Show was on the air, an unexpected phone call from Eric Trump was received by the hosts, where they conducted an interview with the president's son talking about politics, his upcoming visit to Indianapolis, and Trump Administration policies.

On September 9, 2020, the Chicks on the Right radio program featured a live, on the air interview with current Special Presidential Envoy Richard Grenell. Grenell, who was previously the United States Director of National Intelligence and United States Ambassador to Germany was interviewed by Weaver and Clark for nearly 30 minutes on personal and political issues as well as the Serbia and Kosovo Peace Negotiations. Grenell was deeply involved in the negotiations that concluded successfully on September 7, 2020.

Criticism and accolades

The Chicks on the Right show and website have received negative criticism and scrutiny as well as positive mentions in media. In February 2017, USA Today columnist Dave Berg mentioned Clark and Weaver poking fun at Liberal media in an op-ed column. In the opinion piece, Berg mentioned the radio hosts as examples of political Conservatives "bother[ed]" by Liberals that "sanctimoniously preach the virtues of tolerance but don’t take their own advice." Berg then described a meme published at the Chicks on the Right website and their social media accounts showing "a scowling woman pointing an elongated index finger with this caption: “I’m a tolerant liberal! Agree with me or else you’re a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, redneck, gun toting, America-loving bigot."

Bust Magazine's Melanie Mignucci gave a mixed review of Clark and Weaver as well as the Chicks on the Right's program and blog over their beliefs about feminism. In the article, Mignucci said, "while it’s admirable that these women are attempting to make feminism palatable to the notoriously anti-women right-wing, the truth is that conservatism needs more than a makeover – it needs a total attitude adjustment...So to answer the question of who is the “real” feminist, I would say it’s sure as hell not these chicks on the right: a real feminist won’t stereotype, or mock, or oppress, and she absolutely, 100% would not say that one type of woman is better than any other." The radio talk show pair was also tagged by Cut Magazine's Kat Stoeffel in 2013 regarding their take on feminism, stating "Conservative Women Reclaim ‘Feminism’ for the Self-Reliant". Taking a quote from their blog, "They can’t have it both ways. They either need to own up to needing a Sugar Daddy (whether he is in the form of a mate or a taxpayer) or woman-up and take care of themselves", Stoeffel charged them with the following: "Woman up, women! But how? By feeling guilty about your abortion? Abstaining from sex until you have a job with benefits and a 401(k)? Penning a super-lucrative politics blog and newspaper column?".

External links

• Chicks on the Right website and blog
• Chicks on the Right at 93.1 FM WIBC, Indianapolis

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