[Valin]

If the Democrats got one, and broadcast it loud and clear, maybe a few years from now Al Franken and Garrison Keillor could be prevailed upon to say a few words to the incoming freshman class, too.

You will pardon me if I don't hold my breath waiting for this to happen.

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh yes, please...please....please make Al Franken the party spokesman! I'm beggin' ya' here.....

[mewzilla]

Note to Ms. Blillings: Haven't seen Donahue's ratings, have you?

[Lead]

I can't help but chuckle when I hear the words remembrance, humane eulogies, and Jumbotron in the same sentence. It am sure there is a oxymoron hiding in there somewhere.

[GreatOne]

This woman is a complete idiot, and always has-been. On a Helen Thomas-level of intelligence, if you will.

Note to Ms. Billings: every DemoRat talk show host has been a complete failure, as has been every t.v. show host (Allan Colmes the obvious exception, and for obvious reasons). Gee, let's think about why that is, shall we?

[Minnesoootan]

They just don't get it,do they?
The "public" Liberals are just not interested in the "politics",if they were,they would admit we live in a constitutional republic!
All they need to do is look at ratings of shows like Donahue to see what would happen to a Liberal/Democrat radio "personality".They just aren't ...interesting!
This guy is clueless on Hillary being booed,it wasn't a political rally,it was a memorial to the dead and she was using it for political face time,like the Wellstones did with Paul's death.And the fact that they actually had her speech edited to take out the boos,proves it!
Damn,I hate the Twin Cities papers...

[Brookhaven]

saved their money and bought up some talk radio stations. Interesting that she thinks Democrats should buy radio stations to force their way onto the air. Republicans don't OWN any radio stations.

There's no conspiricy amoung radio station owners to promote conservatives and lock out liberals. Talk radio stations are out to make money and will put on whoever will draw the most listeners (a lesson MSNBC should learn.)

Why do conservative hosts draw more listeners? I don't know. But even in so called liberal areas, conservative radio hosts seem to do better.

[Joe Bonforte]

But I wonder if they might do better if they just saved their money and bought up some talk radio stations.

Please, please, let the socialists do this. The money they spent would quickly be flushed down the toilet, since they would be unable to attract listeners and sponsers, and the value of their radio stations would plummet. If this strategy could possibly work, why is National Public Radio the only significant liberal/socialist presence on the radio airwaves?

Of course, being socialist, the author has no clue of market forces, and is therefore ignorant enough to think that this might work. And then when it failed, she would be crying foul, claiming conspiracy, anything to avoid facing the fact that her socialist philosophy is in total contradiction to the real world.

[Holofernes]

pffft... no one I know in MN liked Keillor or Franken very much, especially if they had the misfortune to meet either of these cretins in person (as I did). "Famous" people often complain about their lack of privacy, but when you treat them like anyone else (i.e. as "normal humans"), they sure throw a fit in a hurry!
So let them rave... it's all the Dems have for the next few years after bungling on such a massive scale!

[ServesURight]

Of course, Limbaugh was not so outraged a year ago, when firefighters at a concert to honor the dead of 9/11 booed New York Sen. Hilary Clinton. In fact, Limbaugh cheered along.

As different as the temperatures between Florida and Siberia.

[Slyfox]

Back when Rush Limbaugh began his nationwide program, the head honcho media types had proclaimed radio a dead medium. Now that it has been made the home of flyover conservative thought the libs think that maybe they can jump in and make a difference for their stupid party? Good luck and hey, spend a lot of money while you try again and again to 'revive' liberal thought. Buy up all the radio stations you can. There is nothing more transparent than a liberal speaking on the radio. A lie is much easier to detect when you hear it rather than see it.

But I warn ya, the genie is out of the bottle, the truth has already begun to set us free.

[amused]

Let's see in the Wellstone case, GOP senators found a good man even if they vehemently disagreed with him and wished to pay their respects to him.

In Hillary's case, she showed up for the photo-op, the firefighters knew and expressed how they felt. Not because they were all conservative but that Hillary is a self serving b*tch so craven as to use a memorial of heroes as political fodder.

[newgeezer]

Oh, as if it's not enough to own ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, Westwood One, etc.!

Garrison Keillor

Admittedly, I was able to turn a tidy profit once, thanks to Garrison Keillor...

Back in '98, after having bought a number of goodies on , I thought I'd take a turn at selling. I just wanted to experience the selling process; I really didn't care if I got a bid, let alone made any money. So, I went to my closet, and found an unused postcard. Some months ago, I'd found it in my yard, while mowing the grass. It was a terrible picture of Old Faithful geyser. On the back, it had a picture of Keillor where the stamp would go, and mentioned Prairie Home Companion was going to broadcast live from Yellowstone Nat'l Park to commemorate the park's 150th anniversary, or something like that. It had probably blown out of a neighbor's trash can, having originated as an insert in a solicitation for contributions to NPR, PBS, or something similar. Anyway, it was in perfect condition and, being a pack rat extraordinaire, I'd simply thrown it in the closet near my childhood postcard collection, rather than throw it away (again)...

To make a long story less long, it sold for $34. The guy who won the auction was elated. So was I. And, as for Garrison Keillor, I can no longer say I never had any use for him.