Radio talk show host quits non-conservative program

Star Tribune ^ | December 9, 2003 | Eric Black

[Diddle E. Squat]

Politically, he's been a maverick with Democrat leanings. Gerbino said that in the past eight presidential elections he has voted for four Democrats, two Republicans and two independents (John Anderson and Ross Perot).

Hmmm, why wouldn the paper name the independents, but not also at least give us the names of the two Republicans he voted for(and then we could figure out the rest)?

[Conservative4Ever]

A little sick and twisted...but funny. I laughed.

Red

[Aeronaut]

That's funny!

[Broadside Joe]

I can't figure out how they are even allowed to own that station in the first place.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Its all taxpayer money. He wouldn't have his MPR sidelines without MPR.

[gcruse]

Dems might be good at a few things, but running a business is not one of them.

Care to rephrase?

[blackdog]

I was trying to be nice.

[blackdog]

I get my "To Go" espresso from these two ladies who opened up one of those coffee shacks. The two women had lives prior to joining the small business community which featured them as a school psychologist and a guidance counselor. These two ladies were dyed in the wool liberal attack dogs with warm fuzzies and a lack of reality. After six months of payroll taxes, employee headaches, sales tax, quaterley's, and such, these are two ladies questioning everything they had held sacred. They had to rethink the world.

[gcruse]

What I mean is, democrats show no less an aptitude for running businesses as republicans. The fifty-fifty split between red and blue isn't just at the voting booth, although it sure doesn't apply to academe. ;)

[johnb838]

I'd like to see Alfranken as a talk show host because everyone would be calling trying to get him to fly off the handle. Bet it wouldn't be too hard. OTOH, that's what the left did to Savage on MSNBC, wasn't that difficult apparently.

[johnb838]

Oppose the Fairness Doctrine. Sheesh what a contradiction in terms.

[johnb838]

I like little coffee shacks but their day is gone. Let one become successful and a Starbucks will open across the street.

[blackdog]

Once they become business owners, they are no longer liberals and in many cases, no longer democrats. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.

[blackdog]

Starbucks leaves us rural folks alone. Bigger fish and all....

[Snowy]

That's too bad. I wanted to make fun of them first....

[Tall_Texan]

I'll bet that would be McGovern, Carter, Anderson, Mondale, Bush I, Perot, Clinton, Bush II. The Bushes had crossover appeal because they weren't thought to be like "those" conservatives (harumph!) but I'm guessing he was for McCain in the primaries.

Ever notice how many talk show hosts are more libertarian than they are Republican or Democrat? It's an easy call because in our two-party system, being a libertarian is like being neutral. They can side with the liberals on all their hedonism and social do-goodism yet side with the conservatives against all the big-government socialism and bureaucracy. Since they play to both sides, they're considered "fair and non-partisan". They're also typically the kids who got beat up in school for being smartasses and didn't generally have many friends. You can't be good in talk radio without being an arrogant wise-ass.

[Ohioan]

The Left--and for that matter, many on our side--simply do not understand the reasons why so many Conservative radio talk shows succeed in comparison with "non-Conservative" talk shows. It really is not very difficult to understand; nor does it say anything extraordinary about the talents of Conservatives on radio.

The fact is that anyone who is at all consistently Conservative will sound more creditable, and more appealing, simply because a far greater percentage of his talk will accord with common sense perceptions of reality--something that many Americans feel completely starved of, by the denial of reality in much of the media, academia and Government. The Left, for a variety of reasons starting with a compulsion for uniformity, is and has long been in the business of denying reality. It is this denial of reality, more than any other attribute, which characterizes their writing, discourse and program.

So let the wealthy neurotics spend their money trying to justify their compulsions. They are never--no matter how skillfully spun--going to be able to compete with a simple, heartfelt human reaction to their ongoing denial of things which are plain and obvious to most observers.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Howlin]

I am literally LOL at this thread!

[friendly]

DFL = the name for the rat party in Minnesota.

I find it uproarious that the host quit because liberal talk radio will take DIRECT marching orders from the Democrat National Committee. This HAS to be that psychopathic control freak Hillary's doing.

So-called right wing hosts are never lockstep on anything. They are fiercely independent thinkers, many with totally unexpected opinions.

The rat network is nothing less than evil, vicious infomercials, presented with a robot like dead hand.

This is PATHETIC and will have NO LISTENERS (outside of the Kool Ade drinkers).

[Drango]

WMNN is owned by the parent company of Minnesota Public Radio

Why am I not surprised that liberal talk radio would first find a home on tax funded Minnesota Public Radio? Of course they are seperate (wink, wink).