Talk radio: It's time for more than right-wing hot air

The Oregonian ^ | 02/01/04 | GARRETT EPPS

[Andy from Beaverton]

What do expect from an elitist who teaches law at a university?

[cyborg]

The left wing hosts are boring and bitter.

[marty60]

The right wing HOT AIR (facts), is far preforable to Lefie LIES

[goldstategop]

Liberals just can't get over the fact their message has few takers in the free marketplace of ideas.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Why should we settle for just RIGHT-WING HOT AIR?

The left wing listeners don't listen to radio.

That would take too much thinking.

Left wingers prefer soap operas that they can watch at home while adding to their obesity.

Right wingers are working or comuting and radio helps stimulate and relax at the same time.

[MegaSilver]

As a result of government policies, talk radio has become the GOP's Air Force.

FWEHH??

[Sgt_Schultze]

But Epps won't challenge the network news lefties decisions on who will represent the Republicans on their panel discussions. He won't challenge the decisions of Dan and Pete to assert dem talking points as fact... ("So Sen. Dole, just why do Republicans want to poison the air and water and starve children and poor folks?")

If Rush and his "clones" are only speaking to dottoheads and others in the choir, why does he care about "fairness"?

[sd-joe]

This is an early volley in a planned attack by the Demonrats. Expect to see more of it.

They are so upset that their total monopoly of the media has been breached. Poor little NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, NYT, LAT, Boston Globe, etc, etc, etc. just couldn't make it happen anymore.

[MegaSilver]

"So Sen. Dole, just why do Republicans want to poison the air and water and starve children and poor folks?"

I would assume you're hyperbolizing, but did someone actually SAY that?

[Dan from Michigan]

Don't like it. Start your own station then!!!!!

What a commie.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just make political speech illegal, professor.

That's what you actually want.

That's what "Campaign Finance Reform" is all about, which I am sure you are also a rabid proponent of.

[Lancey Howard]

Since then, whenever I hear some high-testosterone right-wing radio host thrashing a tongue-tied liberal, I wonder whether the match was fixed from the start. Did they even tell the victim what the show would be about?

Liberals need time to formulate their lies.

[Vision Thing]

When it comes to liberal talk radio, the libs are all talk, no action. I've been hearing talk of their new radio network for months, but I see no signs of it ever becoming a reality.

[lewislynn]

As I scuttled across the desert, my car radio could pull in only one station, an AM giant out of Amarillo, Texas, that broadcast Limbaugh's show not once but twice a day.

His way of saying he didn't have a choice, he had to listen to 3 hrs of "right-wing hot air"...I guess his radio "off" button didn't work.

[RAY]

"""What do expect from an elitist who teaches law at a university?"""

Andy - their agenda is to have all decisions and policies made by their elitist crowd. Most of them can not fix a leaking faucet -- but they think they know best how we "common folk" should live.

[L,TOWM]

Why don't we discuss this directly with the Author of this screed:

http://www.law.uoregon.edu/faculty/gepps/

He does'nt even seem to be aware of his hypocrisy on this subject, given his recent appearence on NPR...

[The Iguana]

Lefties do listen to the radio but not in large numbers.

Mainly they listen to NPR. Given that NPR is basically on life support, that tells you just how many are listening out there.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If this skiffy rant is even remotely true, talk radio should be ripe for a liberal talk show to step in and clean house in a huge ratings sweep. But that isn't the way it happens and the sponsors know it. Whenever a liberal attempts to venture into talk radio, they always start by going on a search for "investors" (rich liberal donors) because legitimate sponsors know it's going to be a loser.

Liberals do well on TV because it's one-way communication. The TV debate shows are a joke that involve 7 liberals giving monologues and the 1 or 2 conservatives can't get a sentence out without being shouted down. They can't survive in an environment of legitimate debate because their message and "principles" are a big fat lie.

[dead]

The free market of ideas has led to government control of the radio, so we need goverment control of the radio to ensure a return to the free market of ideas?

I wish I knew how to type the "heebedy beebedy beebedy" sound you can make while flipping your lower lip with your finger.

[joyce11111]

The libs have tried radio talk shows,.
It hasn't worked,.