{"id":170267,"date":"2018-07-10T21:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T01:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=170267"},"modified":"2025-01-13T06:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:17:22","slug":"talk-show-host-politician-barbara-carlson-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/10\/talk-show-host-politician-barbara-carlson-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk show host, politician Barbara Carlson dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS — Barbara Carlson, a former radio talk show host with a bold, unfiltered personality, has died at the age of 80 after battling lung cancer.<\/p>\n

Carlson’s daughter, Anne Carlson, said her mother died Monday surrounded by family and friends. Anne Carlson told the Star Tribune that before her mother died, she said: \u201cI wasn’t a great mother. But, damn, I was a fun mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barbara Carlson’s brother, George Duffy, confirmed her death Tuesday to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Barbara, known as \u201cBabs,\u201d divorced Arne Carlson in 1977, before he became Minnesota’s governor.<\/p>\n

She gave up her career in real estate and became a politician herself, serving on the Minneapolis City Council in the 1980s. In 1990, her life became even more public as she began her career as a bombastic talk show host on KSTP radio.<\/p>\n

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Her show was known for being outrageous, sometimes airing from her hot tub.<\/p>\n

The show was popular, partly because fans could never predict what Carlson would say.<\/p>\n

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On the air, and in her 1997 book \u201cThis Broad’s Life,\u201d Carlson shared intimate details about sex, divorce, depression, alcoholism and stabbing Arne Carlson twice during a tumultuous marriage.<\/p>\n

She retired from radio in 2002 after a series of health issues.<\/p>\n

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After Carlson learned she had stage 4 cancer, she threw a party in February, while she could still enjoy it. About 300 people showed up.<\/p>\n

Carlson was a Republican, but leaned left on social issues, like abortion. She had a high-profile falling out with the Republican Party in 1984.<\/p>\n

Anne Carlson said it was sometimes a challenge to have a mother with such a huge personality.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut she loved so much. She was quick to anger. Quick to forgive. And quick to love. And I am a better person for having known her,\u201d Anne Carlson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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