[Cincinatus' Wife]

This may have already been posted under another headline.

[Russell Scott]

Bring back Phil Donahue! Oops, I guess we already tried that.

[byteback]

What an admission. They admit that Conservatives are more passionate.

[lewislynn]

The obvious answer to their liberal talk show host problem is Ellen Ratner.

I don't know how long she would last, but she would probably outlast any other liberal talk show host they could find.

[#3Fan]

...to nascent discussions by wealthy supporters about starting a cable network with a liberal bent.

CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Hollywood, and network primetime isn't enough?

[jporcus]

Can't you see it coming? Bubba.

[per loin]

I suggest that O.J.Simpson would be the best, and certainly the most believable, candidate for liberal talk show host.

[putupjob]

Isn't it nice to know that we have them on the run in the real content media- radio talk shows and internet web sites.

The media that the liberals control is NOT interactive. It is the drool from a bunch of brainwashing broadcasters with no feedback, challenge or debate. Liberal media is all about transmitting information one way in a propaganda campaign.

The liberals have discovered that the interactive media of talk radio is politically devastating since it has an informed devout following who are debating all the contradictions in all issues. They now feel a need to end that debate.

Look for the liberals to brand talk radio as "hate speech" as they push for legislation to curtail "hate speech". They don't won't the debate, they just want the mindless transmitters, the way it was back in the 60's, 70's and 80's with the media practicing mind control.

[Balata]

But if history is any guide, the soil may not be fertile. Liberal radio programs have not worked very well in the past. Liberals and conservatives said they believed this was in part because the most prominent liberal hosts have tended to present policy issues in all of their dry complexity while refraining from baring fangs against their conservative opponents.

LOL! The liberals still don't get it. One of the liberal reporters on FOX's Media Watch pretty much said the same thing today. They think they are smarter that conservatives. BAWHAHAHA!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

But if history is any guide, the soil may not be fertile. Liberal radio programs have not worked very well in the past. Liberals and conservatives said they believed this was in part because the most prominent liberal hosts have tended to present policy issues in all of their dry complexity while refraining from baring fangs against their conservative opponents.

The truth is that journalism--a format in which the "informed" speak or write to the "uninformed"--is perfectly suited to the transmission of elitism, a.k.a. "liberalism." In journalism, it's never necessary to face up to mistakes; just talk about something else. Journalists are hardly shy about "baring fangs"; journalistic slighting of Republican presidential candidates as "stupid" are a quadrenial staple.

[lavaroise]

After inviting radical feminists, antisemitic black activists, pedophile gay groups, Clintonites rapist of liberal youngins, all to defecating on the more reasonable liberals and taking their jobs, now Demonrats are coming back with farded faces and pleading them to come back and write some good well written articles. And the world goes round.

[bushfamfan]

The funniest thing is that Limbaugh really is so devastating to those scums because he gives you the dirty little information about HOW and WHAT the liberals lie about. It shows their hypocrisies, their politics in everything, he gives you the information the "mainstream", justifiably called "LIBERAL MEDIA" intentionally leaves out or fails to report as to always paint the Republicans bad. You can just see how the media is anti-Bush constantly. Limbaugh exposes it and it's always amusing when they like to label him a "liar", but the most telling is when they refuse to answer what exactly he is "lying" about. They will have problems because they have no respect for the truth and their policies, when discussed truthfully, are a bunch of lies too. And it all comes down to the truth because when people want to know it or be informed and actually think about it, the Demonrats are in trouble and that's what is doing their party in because politics is personal and they are failures in decency and truth.

[pt17]

Here we go again, another arms race. This time, it's mouths instead of missles and the enemy is within. It would seem that they're looking to build a stockpile of intracontinental ballistic mouths to nuke conservative talk radio. Propelled by the hot air of mental flatulance, such weaponry could fly well in the vacuum of liberal space. With so many presidential wannabees, maybe there'll be a battle for the launch controls. Better yet, maybe they'll try to nuke each other.

[William Terrell]

A liberal voice is like a bowel movement. Regardless of how strong it is you still end up with a pile of shit.

[dawn53]

angry liberal

Go for it Dems!

But wait, don't you already have Begala and Carville. Who could be more angry than they?

Or what about Daschle's rants, they really took him a long way toward maintaining the Democratic majority in the Senate.

I think if you look at Rush, Bill O'Reilly or any of the conservative hosts that have achieved popularity, you'll find more humor, or at least sarcasm, in their approach than anger.

The American people don't want anger, they want truth and straightforward answers.

[mewzilla]

A "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" bump.

[The Raven]

Maybe one of the bald folks?

[The Raven]

They need a propagandist. When the ideology is flawed - one needs to lie a lot.

"Any system which allows some people to exercise unbridled power over other people is an open invitation to abuse." - T Sowell

[par4]

"The efforts among influential Democrats, particularly liberals"

Talk about misleading...I'd like the author to name 3 influential Democrats who are not liberal. I'll just wait here......... (Insert theme music from Jeopardy)

One of the reasons that liberals fail at talk radio is that they are incapable of having a discussion without injecting their philosophy into it, and giving an example of how one of their icons reacted to the matter under discussion. Whenever a debate appears to be turning away from their "touchy-feeley" answers, they invoke either Clinton, FDR or JFK and what they either did or proposed.

[BufordP]

The reason liberal talk shows will never take off is conservative callers. They steal their lunch every time.

Bwaa-ha-ha-ha!

[IronJack]

strong liberal voices for media

What, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings aren't enough?? Not to mention Cocoa Roberts, Nina Totebag, Katie Colonic, Bowel Moyers, et. al.?

I can nominate any number of very STRIDENT liberal voices for their consideration. But I can't think of many who are STRONG. It may have something to do with the moral paucity and intellectual weakness of their message.