Will A New Les

Remembering Les Kinsolving: The 'Peck's Blab Boy' of the White House Press Corps

Reporter Lester Kinsolving is pictured in the White House Press Briefing Room before the daily press briefing in Washington, Monday, June 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Donald Trump’s White House has received more than 14,000 applications for its “new media” seat, according to press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

The new media seat — which was announced earlier this week at Leavitt’s first press briefing — aims to give independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers and content creators a chance to ask questions alongside reporters from legacy media outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Baltimore's own Les Kinsolving is a throw-back of the Washington press corps. He was unique in most every way and fun to watch. This development causes us to look back at his career and wonder if the likes of Les will return. Probably not.

By John Gizzi, Newsmax

When Les Kinsolving died on December 4 (2018)— twelve days before what would have been his 91st birthday and 65th wedding anniversary — memories and tributes were what one would have expected about the iconoclastic talk radio host and White House correspondent.

“No sacred cows went unmilked [sic] with Les,” Sean Casey, Kinsolving’s fellow talk show host on Baltimore’s WCBM-AM Radio. Former FINISH READING HERE

WATCH LES KINSOLVING VIDEOS HERE

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