Comments on: The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2007/06/22/the-right-wing-domination-of-talk-radio-and-how-to-end-it/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:05:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Mike's America http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2007/06/22/the-right-wing-domination-of-talk-radio-and-how-to-end-it/comment-page-1/#comment-63388 Mike's America Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:53:08 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2007/06/22/the-right-wing-domination-of-talk-radio-and-how-to-end-it/#comment-63388 They want to apply the fairness doctrine to talk radio? Fine by me... Just as soon as the fairness doctrine applies to left wing media. And after Rush Limbaugh gets a daily hour on PBS, let's just take the idea of ideological diversity to the next level: how about half the professors teaching in Universities that receive federal funds must be conservatives? They want to apply the fairness doctrine to talk radio?

Fine by me… Just as soon as the fairness doctrine applies to left wing media.

And after Rush Limbaugh gets a daily hour on PBS, let’s just take the idea of ideological diversity to the next level: how about half the professors teaching in Universities that receive federal funds must be conservatives?

]]> By: daveinboca http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2007/06/22/the-right-wing-domination-of-talk-radio-and-how-to-end-it/comment-page-1/#comment-63389 daveinboca Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:41:14 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2007/06/22/the-right-wing-domination-of-talk-radio-and-how-to-end-it/#comment-63389 Having worked on all three of the former big three networks, plus PBS, I can inform you that "marketplace rules" don't operate when you have a trifecta of trivia like the closed circuit that existed until FOX News came and broke the liberal daisy chain. We know you illuminati on the left believe you are sophisticated and we conservatives are hoi-polloi. But I read the Duino Elegies in German, Proust in French [as well as Layla wa Majnun in Arabic] and I still think Rush Limbaugh is the best thing to listen to while driving from Point A to Point B in the afternoon here in Boca! The fact that Liberals have to twist and contort stats and polls to get around the fact that the US population is 5/2 or 3/1 self-described as conservative [versus “liberal” which few want to stain their resume with]. Polls from Pew, Gallup, Zogby and Jeffrey Goldberg’s wonderful article on Midwest Democrats all confirm that most Americans, even if they may vote or call themselves Democrats, are people of religious faith and a “Show Me” disposition—-except for “opinion-makers” in the MSM, Hollyweird, and Academicide, where life-long slackers with an attitude congregate. I had Democratic credentials from way back until 9/11 when I underwent a rite of initiation, grew up, became an adult, began to let the scales fall from my eyes, and smelled the jasmine gardens of South Florida’s best radio person on air. [Actually, I just began late last year to listen on the advice of a PhD medical expert—who thinks Rush is great, but B O’R is primarily an entertainer.] Talk radio is the ONLY "marketplace of ideas" except for the WSJ and Fox News out there [plus Drudge]. The reason the NYT is in a tailspin approaching death spiral is that the country is hungry for honest commentary, not the patty-cake bromides that libs on the three "broadcast" networks [ex-FOX] pretend are the parameters of debate. Having worked on all three of the former big three networks, plus PBS, I can inform you that “marketplace rules” don’t operate when you have a trifecta of trivia like the closed circuit that existed until FOX News came and broke the liberal daisy chain.

We know you illuminati on the left believe you are sophisticated and we conservatives are hoi-polloi. But I read the Duino Elegies in German, Proust in French [as well as Layla wa Majnun in Arabic] and I still think Rush Limbaugh is the best thing to listen to while driving from Point A to Point B in the afternoon here in Boca!

The fact that Liberals have to twist and contort stats and polls to get around the fact that the US population is 5/2 or 3/1 self-described as conservative [versus “liberal” which few want to stain their resume with]. Polls from Pew, Gallup, Zogby and Jeffrey Goldberg’s wonderful article on Midwest Democrats all confirm that most Americans, even if they may vote or call themselves Democrats, are people of religious faith and a “Show Me” disposition—-except for “opinion-makers” in the MSM, Hollyweird, and Academicide, where life-long slackers with an attitude congregate.

I had Democratic credentials from way back until 9/11 when I underwent a rite of initiation, grew up, became an adult, began to let the scales fall from my eyes, and smelled the jasmine gardens of South Florida’s best radio person on air. [Actually, I just began late last year to listen on the advice of a PhD medical expert—who thinks Rush is great, but B O’R is primarily an entertainer.]

Talk radio is the ONLY “marketplace of ideas” except for the WSJ and Fox News out there [plus Drudge]. The reason the NYT is in a tailspin approaching death spiral is that the country is hungry for honest commentary, not the patty-cake bromides that libs on the three “broadcast” networks [ex-FOX] pretend are the parameters of debate.

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