[Guillermo]

Someone call the whaaaaaaambulance for Senator Durbin!! LOL!

[sauropod]

My heart bleeds for the lost dominance of the lamestream media.

I have never had a high opinion of Durban and now it's sunk even lower. HRP

[Clovis_Skeptic]

. I think the progressive community has to face the reality, especially about talk radio and talk TV, and perhaps put together our own TV shows."

What a laugh! As if liberals haven't dominated the airwaves, and print media for decades.

Thank God for choice! The right to chose an alternative.

Thanks to....
Rush Limbaugh
Free Republic
Sean Hannity
Fox News Channel
Local Talk Radio (KMJ Fresno,CA)
The Internet (thanks Al Gore..lol)

[arielb]

"You add up all those niches and it reaches a lot of people. I think the progressive community has to face the reality, especially about talk radio and talk TV, and perhaps put together our own TV shows."

yeah like Donahue. They have shows-just that the ratings suck

[MotleyGirl70]

Sean Hannity is on FOX now. He's a dark haired cutie. Easy on the eyes.

[Tacis]

The old media, inc. CNN, is hindered by unfair rules and regulations. Jennings wasn't able to say anything about the Torricelli double shuffle in NJ. The old media can't talk about black on white crimes, fairy on normal crimes, most dem theft and dishonesty especially if it is a black dem, union corruption, or the use of a weapon to save a life. At the same time, they are required to praise everything a Clinotn, Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Corrie King family member says or does, cover extensively the scream of every environmental/feminist/minority/fairy group responding to an action of a Republican governmental agency, AND carry/praise the stupid opinions of great thinkers like Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, Susan Sarandon, and misc. rock personages.

Once the left wing extremist media is freed of these competitive burdens, they will be able to compete with the free and uncensored folks who are not part of the old left wing, neo-communist conspiracy.

[backhoe]

So we're an "echo chamber" now, huh?

They never miss an opportunity to get in a cheap shot. Still, it may be an improvement over "just entertainment."

[TruthWillWin]

"Why do people go to niches? It's because there's so much news and information out there and the news consumer wants somebody who will give him or her a unique take on the world so they don't have to drink from the fire hose."

This writer doesn't quite get it.

People go to the "niches" because they are tired of the mainstream media's Liberal slant on the news.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I have no television. Mainstream media is dominated by the left. I don't want to hear it. I get my news on the internet, I get my music on the internet. I am not interested in what Jennings, CNN, Brokaw have to say. Nor am I interested in what Greta on Fox has to say.

[FITZ]

How can liberals complain? They virtually own most of television, it's ideal for non-working people who have to have something to fill up their days. They can get their own radio shows if they feel like it ----they can hire Bill Clinton or Al Gore to host a talk show if they want. If they can't find and audience then whose fault is it?

[Paul Atreides]

The Clinton Party mascot should be changed from a donkey to a crying baby.

[nicmarlo]

"In a sense, it may be that Democrats are still rooted in a kind of populist culture, and they haven't realized everyone is going over to niches."

"niches?" I guess "truth" to Rats is a niche, something they'll never grasp or be able to speak, in any media. Consequently, their ability to "grasp" the American public will continue to dwindle.

[SamAdams76]

Conservative talk radio has even penetrated into liberal strongholds. Here in Massachusetts, Republican Mitt Romney solidly defeated Socialist Shannon O'Brien due in large part to local talk show hosts such as Howie Carr and Jay Severin pounding away at O'Brien every day for weeks.

Consider that only 13% of the electorate here are registered Republicans and yet the Republican won with almost 55% of the vote. That is a staggering achievement, especially when considering how entrenched the Socialists are here. Shannon O'Brien had the backing of the entire Socialist machine including the unions and the teachers, etc. Without talk radio, I am convinced that Shannon O'Brien would have won in a landslide.

Now if only the local talk show hosts could concentrate on the state legislatures. But they never talk about politics at the state level beyond governor very much - even Howie Carr, who built his career on exposing the corruption in local Bay State politics.

BTW, for those who are confused with my exchanging of the word Socialist for Democrat, I made a vow several weeks ago that so long as avowed Socialist Nancy Pelosi is the elected leader of the Democrat party nationally, that anybody claiming to be a Democrat is in fact a Socialist and against America.

[driftless]

There is absolutely nothing stopping liberals from supporting their own commercial talk show hosts. Why don't they? Well one reason is that they have the monopoly on public radio talk show hosts. If they are not as overt as people like Limbaugh etal, the constant stream of left-wing guests makes it obvious where their political sympathies lie.

[Cultural Jihad]

I think the progressive community has to face the reality,...

Cancer and dementia are said to be 'progressive' at times.

[cgbg]

The time has come for newspapers like "The Plain Dealer" and the hundreds of left-leaning newspapers to do it the British way. Tell us the truth--you are socialist newspapers.

You see when you tell people the truth then even when they disagree with you they respect you. If you try to hide behind claims of "objectivity" and "fairness" you are soon recognized for the frauds you are.

Now the TV networks have a different problem because if they revealed their socialist bias they would be de-licensed by the FCC as not being in the public interest. So I guess until the Pubbies get some cojones and order the FCC to pull all of network television's broadcast licenses then the networks news anchors will get up there and lie lie lie as they have for the past fifty years.

[sweetliberty]

"and perhaps put together our own TV shows."

Oh yeah; that'll work. Does it never cross their one-track minds that they don't have successful shows because nobody listens to them? Who wants to listen to endless blathering about non-substantial "issues" by moronic, self-agrandising powermongers?

[cgbg]

The time has come for newspapers like "The Plain Dealer" and the hundreds of left-leaning newspapers to do it the British way. Tell us the truth--you are socialist newspapers.

You see when you tell people the truth then even when they disagree with you they respect you. If you try to hide behind claims of "objectivity" and "fairness" you are soon recognized for the frauds you are.

Now the TV networks have a different problem because if they revealed their socialist bias they would be de-licensed by the FCC as not being in the public interest. So I guess until the Pubbies get some cojones and order the FCC to pull all of network television's broadcast licenses then the networks news anchors will get up there and lie lie lie as they have for the past fifty years.

[jackbill]

Daschle did not provide specific examples of violence, except to say that when Limbaugh called him an "obstructionist" he and his family had worried.

And only Fox News has had the guts to mention that when Daschle was saying this he had a poster behind him that was titled "Republican Obstructionism"!

Such a damned hypocrite.

[VRWC For Truth]

Hillary Clinton blamed her husband's problems on a "vast right-wing conspiracy.

Klintons problems are now the 'Rats problems.