Dennis Preager versus Ed Shultz: Voices of the Left and the Right

Dennis Preager Show

[Sentinel507]

Dennis Prager puts Ed Shultz in a headlock and gives him a nuggy...

[Sentinel507]

If anyone was not living in a cave for the last two weeks, one might have heard the mainstream media declaring that talkshow host, Bill Bennett made 'racist' comments on his program. Another talkshow host, Dennis Prager, has taken up the defense of Bill Bennett's comments, basing his arguments on the illegitimacy of the Left declaring that Bennett's comments were indeed racist. During his discussion, Dennis Prager played sound bites from an Air America talkshow host by the name of Ed Shultz. Shultz's comments were, to be mild, highly inflamatory and catagorically offensive to any christian, republican, or conservative. So, being a good talkshow host, Dennis Prager invited this man on for a debate. Ed Shultz not only refused, but then claimed that he didn't trust any right-wing radio host blasting Dennis Prager on the air, so instead Shultz challenged Prager to a live debate. Prager accepted, even offering to fly Ed Shultz down to Southern California at Prager's expense. Cowardly, Shultz refused in an e-mail! I urge people to go to the Ed Shultz web site and tell Ed Shultz to debate Dennis Prager.

This is something that is very important for people to recognize. The Salem Radio Network has a series of talkshow hosts, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, and Hugh Hewitt; all of these hosts give considerable amounts of time to the Left-wing of any issue. The hosts on Air America almost never give air time for the right-wing of issues. Where is the freedom of speech the Left is always screaming about? Why isn't it present in its bastion of progressive talk, Air America?

This is becoming a systemic problem for the American Left, they're right because they say so, and they don't want to talk about it. Take for example the Homosexual Marriage Bill that the Democrats in California tried to slip in while: Hurricane Katrina was pounding the Gulf Coast, inside of the very guts of a bill that mostly contained items on Environmental Protection Laws, and was shoved through the California Legislature at ten-thirty p.m. with a two vote majority!

Having open debate is an important part of our great society. That's why the new media, blogs, talkradio, and the Free Republic are becoming so influential. Now, finally, any American can get together with many other Americans and have our free and open debate.

So, Mr. Shultz, debate Dennis Prager, otherwise I'll call you a coward and cluck at you like a chicken until you do. Cluck cluck cluck...

[theDentist]

...Dennis Prager...

Who? Never heard of him.

[ken5050]

Welcome to FR...nice essay.....FYI, I think it's "noogie"..(g)

[clamper1797]

Who? Never heard of him

If you haven't heard of him ... you need to tune into his show

[clamper1797]

Ed Shultz is a blow hard and a coward ... typical liberal

[RoadTest]

".Dennis Prager...

Who? Never heard of him."

He and Michael Medvad and Larry Elder all talk on our local station in Detroit on 1400, WDTK, and all do a great job. They are extremely knowledgeable, articulate, and reasonable (not exploding or screaming at callers or insulting them) but always make their points.

[RoadTest]

Correction: Michael Medved, not Medvad.

[Sans-Culotte]

If you cannot find Dennis Prager's radio show, you can read his archived excellent columns @ www.townhall.com. He's a great conservative, and well worth reading.

[mad puppy]

Dennis Prager is one of the smartest, more insightful people I've ever heard on the radio. He can be a little obsessive, but the guy is something else. Bit of an acquired taste kind of guy. I believe he was recently vote one the 100 most interest minds in America (or something like that)

He would absolutely chew Ed up and spit him out. Ed would end up yelling and screaming before the half way point because he's just barely smart enough to realize he's getting his a$$ handed to him.

http://www.dennisprager.com/

[MarkeyD]

Hear him on KSKY.

I listen to him every day.

[paradoxical]

'Flame suit on'

Whilst driving in Reno today I was in a spot only am radio worked. I could listen to abc news on the Rush station but
instead I turned on this other guy Shultz.
He claims 1)His show is not on Air America. (I think its the same station but I dont know) 2) He claims that Prager could not produce an email or phone message, and 3)he calls all conservatives liars.

'Flame suit off'

The guy took Bennett out of context from the get go

[Republicus2001]

since leonard pekoff is off the air, Dennis Praegger is the ONLY talk show host that can spend 3 hours on philosophy

[cricket]

'Left' radio is pathetic. . .as is Ed Shultz.

Without exception; these radio Lefties cannot get through a program without talking up a malestrom against Rush; misquoting. . .ridicule. . .He brings their hate alive. . .(I love it; that Rush refuses to even speak their name on his show)

Bottom line, 'hate' is really, their only game. . .they have no identity without it.

There is ONE love affair these people share and that is hearing the sound of their own voice; they wax well on their animosity and arrogance.

[ajolympian2004]

Welcome to FR...nice essay.....FYI, I think it's "noogie"..(g)

One of the most fanous series of noogies of all time:

In the bottom of the fifth inning of a game at Texas' old Arlington Stadium, then-White Sox third baseman Ventura was plunked with a 90-plus mile-per-hour fastball from baseball's all-time leader in both strikeouts and no-hitters, and decided to charge the mound- despite the fact that Ryan was then 46 years old and in his 25th major league season. It could've been really ugly, but as soon as Ventura reached the mound Ryan grabbed him in a headlock and proceded to give him a noogie; eventually, once both benches emptied, order was restored; it took nearly a decade and multiple postseason heroics for Ventura to finally live it down that he'd gotten his ass kicked by a 46-year-old man.

[ajolympian2004]

http://www.dennisprager.com/

[adam_az]

"Hugh Hewitt seems like a much more reasonable guy."

Hewitt lost me for 2 main reasons

1) He is for gun control - he thinks it's 'reasonable.' He thinks the GOP should drop the issue.

2) He also thought that Specter was a 'reasonable' choice for head of the Judiciary Committee.

ok, 3

He is more interested in "republican" than "conservative."

What good is Republican if we become the same as Dems?

[tophat9000]

Err America's Ed Shultz....

"I know nothing!"

[Sentinel507]

Thanks to all for reading the essay. I have been appreciating Free Republic from a distance for a while now and I thought it was finally time to leap into the foray.

This, along with other elements of the New Media, is an important forum for discussion. Rarely does one find a stand up place where people can freely express opinion with out fists clenched and jaw tightened, ready for the first punch to fly. You can't get this freedom in the schools, or universities, the brainwashed kids and the wacko Profs will shout you down. As a Vet, I attended college in California for a year and during that year I actually got into physical confrontations with other students and professors in class when they found out I was a military Vet who respected what other military Vets had done and are doing. That might be the subject of my next essay: Vets in College, Fighting the Honor Fight at Home.

Sentinel 507

[Sans-Culotte]

Without exception; these radio Lefties cannot get through a program without talking up a malestrom against Rush; misquoting. . .ridicule. . .He brings their hate alive. . .(I love it; that Rush refuses to even speak their name on his show) LOL, You could also be describing Michael Savage! His Bush-bashing and Rush envy and general nuttiness would fit right in on Err America.

I do rather prefer to read Prager than listen to his show. It's not the action-packed few hours that Rush's is when he's on. I particularly like how Prager illustrates that we are in a culture war, and that our side (the Judeo-Christian side) must win, and is the basis for morality as we know it.

Prager is Jewish, and I find it interesting that he encourages Christians to say "Merry Christmas" at Christmastime. Dennis knows Christmas is the most important holiday in Christendom, and that is is wrong to secularize it. Definitely one of my favorite conservatives. (Compare that with Medved, who think Kwanzaa is a gret idea...)