Calling a talk show from an adversarial POV is a sucker bet. It's like accepting a challenge to a duel by the boss of a town, and he gets to provide both pistols. The pistol he gives you has a bent barrel, no sights, no hammer, and is loaded with blanks. Then he shoots you down and gloats about his amazingly quick draw and superior marksmanship.
That's the inherent lopsidedness of having the host controlling the dump button, volume controls, being able to talk over you, cut you off, use funny or degrading sound effects while you're talking etc.
No thanks. That's why I don't call talk shows, it's a waste of time for a caller who disagrees.
Tony Snow claims to be a freeper? Then let him engage, right here on an even playing-field, (if he's not just fishing for a$$-kissing on this Snow Show threads).
I'd gladly go on the show, if he:
#1: Personally guaranteed 5 minutes of debate. Thirty seconds each at a time, with a bell or signal in between turns.
#2: No talk overs, no sound effects, cutoffs--period. Clear 30 second blocks of clean air time for my turns.
A time certain to call in, no waiting around on hold for an hour, only to go on 30 seconds before a break.
If folks don't mind calling in and waiting on hold, fine for them, God bless'em. But I have better things to do than wait for an hour, and MAYBE getting on, only to be cut off, talked over, and have "funny" sound effects played while I'm trying to get out a point.
I learned a long time ago not to walk into an ambush.
As always, these useful idiots have some misconception that somehow they will benefit from the negative changes they have instigated, aided and abetted, while somehow managing to stay above the melee. Not this time.
As Squantos likes to say, doom on 'em all.
15 more bttt.
Don't forget that the radio host gets a nice warm sounding $1,500 microphone.
You get the el cheapo Ma Bell mouthpiece. ;-)
Me too. Four years of it during my late teens and early twenties was enough for me to learn that lesson for life.
And as a newspaperman who went to journalism school on the GI bill after that first season in hell, one of three veterans in a J-school class of 122, I also recall the very deserved contempt that Baltimore journalist and editor H.L. Menckin had for those of the newspaper world who were so delighted to hear their voices spread to the masses over radio, the other mass communications medium of his day: Crooners, he called 'em. And too, Clare Boothe Luce reminded us that the Democrats are the crooners of catastrophe.
But to run away from an open invitation and spam FreeRepublic with a bunch of bogus claims is cowardice. You lose. You look like an idiot. And I have no idea why someone with your background is afraid to engage without first demanding your "enemy" only fight according to your rules.
Tratior BTT
Amen brother.