R.I.P.: Les Kinsolving, Former WCBM Baltimore Talk Host

Les Kinsolving

Charles Lester “Les” Kinsolving, a retired WCBM 680 AM conservative talk radio personality who hosted the show “Uninhibited Radio” for 28 years, has died.

He was 90-years-of-age, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Kinsolving, whose bright red blazer and outrageous talk show earned him national renown, was a “throwback to radio yesteryear [who] tries to shock, outrage and prod the world around him with his commentary,” according to a 1998 Sun profile.

Kinsolving had a heart attack at his Virginia home and underwent triple bypass surgery at Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., in January 2005, but returned to the air until a few months ago.

Sean Casey, who hosts the conservative “Sean and Frank in the Morning” program with Frank Luber on WCBM, called Kinsolving “a fearless reporter/broadcaster who confronted the Jim Jones cult, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and covered the White House in his signature red jacket.”

On Kinsolving’s show, Casey said in a statement, “no sacred cows went unmilked.”

“It is so ironic that Les would pass the same week that [George H.W. Bush] left us, a [president] that he covered, and just days away from the annual Army-Navy game that he loved and would attend almost every year when health permitted,” Casey said in his statement. “Rest in peace, ‘my dear friend.’”