Huntsville Radio: WVNN Talker Calls Out Dan Bongino

Conservative talk radio host Dale Jackson set aside his usual targets to go after fellow right-wing Cumulus Media host Dan Bongino, whom he accused of “virtue signaling” over the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, reports al.com.  

Dale Jackson

In a feud that started on social media, Jackson criticized Bongino for saying he wouldn’t work for a company with a vaccine mandate in place despite Bongino still being employed by Cumulus, which required employees to be vaccinated by the end of September, in time for the company’s return to work date of Oct. 11.

“The reason why I called it virtue signaling is very simple: the mandate went into place a week after he said he wouldn’t work for a company that had a vaccine mandate,” Jackson said last week on his eponymous radio show on WVNN 770 AM / 92.5 FM.

Bongino, who was Jackson’s guest last Wednesday, said Jackson didn’t have all the facts.

“Not only you’re wrong, you sound delirious,” Bongino, whose Cumulus show is aired on 300 stations across the country, told Jackson. “I don’t know what was in your oatmeal this morning.”

Dan Bongino

Bongino said he “tried to save people’s jobs before Sept. 27″ -- the date the mandate took effect -- behind closed doors, referring to Cumulus’ firing of hosts Doc Washburn and Tron Simpson, who defied the company policy.

“I can be a prick to you because you don’t seem to know what you’re talking about, you seem to have a really big mouth, that’s kind of weird,” he told Jackson.

“You have no idea what I was doing behind the scenes before the implementation .. but you’re certain that I’m virtue signaling because I hadn’t done anything before Doc Washburn and [host] Tron [Simpson] were fired,” Bongino said.

“So you formulated an opinion about me being a virtue signaler, despite having none of the facts, having never reached out to me for a comment, having never asked me for an interview, and yet you went on your show .. and you formulated an opinion that I was virtue signaling?” he continued.