I used to be a real conservative talk radio junkie. I’d go from one to the other and sometimes felt conflicted because two favorites were on different channel.
Now I can’t listen to Rush, Levin, Medved, Bennet, or even the normally kindly and avuncular Dennis Prager. They all bash Trump full time and try to figure out what’s wrong with people who support him. It’s insulting, and that would be ok but I’m not learning anything from them anymore. They seem to have “dumbed down” in order to shill for Ted Cruz. They feign interest and curiosity about the Trump phenomenon but when callers or guests try to explain it, they dismiss, block, interrupt, twist or talk over them, like the monkeys stubbornly covering their eyes and ears.
I still like Laura Ingraham and Hannity is fair, but that’s about it. It all started when Trump came on the scene. Before that, we all agreed the enemy was the left (sometimes GOPe left).
Wait, I’m wrong. It started with Medved before that. For a while now, he has used the term Losertarian in the place of libertarian, and spoken with utter contempt about Ron or Rand Paul. The problem with that is there was always part of Paul’s postions that I liked - sound money, audit the federal reserve, etc. in fact I am very close to being a libertarian other than the foriegn policy isolationism.
I wouldn’t mind a fair discussion, but the contempt puzzled me coming from Medved. I think it was a precursor to the current contempt they all have for Trump and Trump supporters.
It’s a big surprise and dissappointment. These guys were my heros. Unlike liberals, they used critical thinking and history’s lessons to arrive at the truth instead of spreading lies and obfuscation to advance an agenda.
To see them sink to this level of character assasination and stubbornness makes me sad. I miss the old talk radio.
“I wouldn’t mind a fair discussion, but the contempt puzzled me coming from Medved”
Medved is a neocon who hates anyone who sounds remotely “isolationist”, whether that’s Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan or Donald Trump.
Once Medved gave up dodging the draft and helping America’s Communist enemies during the Vietnam war he apparently decided that other Americans should go around the world invading countries that neocons don’t like. Wars are a lot more interesting to old ‘60s war protestors when none of their kids are doing any of the fighting. Then it’s more fun than a game of Risk with them getting to pretend that they are Trotsky.