[GreatOne]

This is pretty funny stuff - they just don't get it. Liberal talk radio has (and will) fail because its ideas can't stand up to logical scrutiny. That's also why conservative talk radio has actually converted liberals to conservatism - the logic of our positions cannot be escaped when it is presented well, as Rush and others have.

I remember when here in the Twin Cities they had liberal Katherine Lamphire (sp?), who is being touted as co-host with Al Franken, on the conservative talk stationAM 1500. She couldn't alienate the show's base, so she had to take conservative callers, who just obliterated her attempt at liberal "logic", and was gone within a few months. The only way these guys can hope to succeed is to preach to the choir and not allow conserative callers on to challenge them.

The author is also a dickweed for taking the potshot at Rush: that he says what he does because of the entertainment value, not because of his own personal convictions. Does this guy not know about Rush's upbringing? Does he really think Rush (or anyone) could fake his personal beliefs for this long? Would Rush be this popular and influential with Republican politicians if he was faking it? What a loser.

And finally, the segment on the black urban radio station was depressing. When we wonder why urban blacks feel the way they do, it's not hard to understand when the talk radio they listen to repeatedly emphasizes how "whitey" is out to get them. I wish that there would/could be a conservative who could reach the black population. I don't know if it's because the right person hasn't come along, or the odds of cracking through the liberal morass is overwhelming. But there's no way they should be voting 80-90% DemoRat every election.

[Semper Paratus]

Liberal talk radio will last as long as Dean's Internet revolution in campaigning.

[martin_fierro]

Rhodes even tried trolling here to drum up interest in her show.

[Always Right]

The one misconception from the article is the country is split 50-50. That may be true of GOP vs. Dem, but it is not true of Liberal vs. Conservative. Most Dems outside of the northeast, run on conservative principles.

[Paradox]

Rhodes is terrible, its really embarrassing for the liberals to have someone like her on. Every show someone more conservative than her calls up and makes her look really stupid.

Thats in the south florida market where I hear her. A much better radio liberal was the late Jack Cole. Although liberal, he hated Clinton, thats when I started listening to him. And even though his other opinions went against my own, I still listened to him because he at least tried to maintain a semblence of rationality.

[GSWarrior]

I'd love to hear a liberal talk radio host explain just exactly how Bush stole the election.

[CSXT]

What a surprise- the studio is in the People's Republic of West Palm Beach.

[CIBvet]

I drove around Chicagoland last summer for a week, and caught the Black Eagle a couple of times.

I was truly shocked by the outright racism, hate-whitey rhetoric he pumps out constantly.

[Calvin Locke]

Rhodes has more Palm Beach listeners than even Rush Limbaugh...

And Palm Beach voters don't vote with care and vigilence, either, according to the same liberal "media".

How can one expect them to exercise greater thought when pressing a button in the car or home?

[Axenolith]

It's nice to see them burn financial resources though. A little more effective than filling the PETA postage paid begging envelope with shreddings and sending it back.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Rhodes has more Palm Beach listeners than even Rush Limbaugh

OK, but how many listeners does she have nationally?

[WOSG]

But, in the past year, as efforts like Democracy Radio and Progress Media have gathered steam, the question of why liberals have been unable to match conservative talkers' success has become more serious, more focused--and more urgent. After all, if liberals can't figure out the cause of the talk radio imbalance, how can they ever hope to correct it?

The cause of the 'imbalance' is the complete and utter extreme LIBERAL BIAS in all other forms of media - ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/WashPost/NYTimes. The only way to have less imbalance in talk radio is to less imbalance elsewhere. More conservative views = higher ratings, because CONSERVAITVES ARE UNDERSERVED.

[dr_who_2]

Now I know why I haven't bothered to read anyting out of New Republic in years.

[Swordmaker]

The conservative dominance of talk radio, according to the Limbaugh theory, is a supply-side-driven phenomenon. "The country ideologically is pretty much split fifty-fifty," says Democracy Radio's Athans. "It's just an issue of supplying good and entertaining personalities who happen to be liberal."

While it may be true that the country is split 50-50, the Liberal listeners are busy feeling on the music stations, listening to canned emotions and prepackaged sexual innuendo. Conservatives, on the other hand, want to think and prefer listening to something with a little meat on its bones, ideas that challenge, facts that confirm or deny, and opinion that can spur their own thoughts.

Until the feeling liberals awaken to this audience dichotomy they will never understand why they will never have the "talk radio" presence that the thinking conservatives have.

[AgThorn]

Then she raged over the president's contention that it was the crew of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, not the White House, that hung the mission accomplished banner as a backdrop for his May speech aboard the ship: "Today, he even went as far as to blame the troops for putting up an off-message sign! I can't believe he does that, using the guys that really fought." As she neared the end of the show, Rhodes was still rolling: "The president is a bald-faced liar. Even about little things like a banner, he can't tell the truth."

Well, that was as far as I could read since this bimbo obviously has no interest in the truth. My son as on that ship, he spent 10 months on that assignment and they were itching to come home ... That banner WAS put up by the sailors and had nothing to do with the President's landing. And the Mission of the USS Abraham Lincoln, as well as the overly successful 'war effort' was just that ... accomplished.

I can take left and right radio talk show hosts, Alan Colmes is actually starting to grow on me a bit (although not to worry, not too much!!) but ANY talk show host, regardless of their leanings that can't stand the truth should be turned off.

[little jeremiah]

This article is so full of crap it could get taken apart sentence by sentence. But here's a jewel:

"liberal talk radio's overarching message will be angry, aggrieved, and anti-establishment--and therefore, quite possibly, successful."

They imagine that they can somehow make or find a liberal "Rush" with his talent and drive and compete. Hah. You notice the use of the words "angry, aggrieved" - Rush is anything but. He passionate about what he believes - but he uses good cheer, humor, and wit! Not anger and whining. These liberals are mentally ill.

[OrioleFan]

Liberal talk radio will last until they get the first caller (if they allow callers) who disagrees with them.

[denydenydeny]

It wasn't long before the money was rolling in. "I heard people yelling out dollar amounts," Rhodes remembered. "I thought it was two hundred and fifty dollars, but it wasn't. ... They were pledging two hundred and fifty thousand dollars."

Bwa-ha-haaaa!

P.T. Barnum would have loved this story.