LIBERAL MONEY DONORS DESIRE TALKRADIO NETWORK; UPSTART MAY FEATURE AL FRANKEN... DEVELOPING...

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[Orbiter]

Maybe the Libs can issue programs to their listeners. Then when it's time for the all important emotional tug, the talk show host could begin each programming segment (shows, ads, etc.) with something along the lines of, "Before we begin today's discussion of hand gun control, please turn to page M2 in your program, where you'll find pre-selected illustrations intended to both disengage your brain and invoke purely emotional sentiment altogether devoid of distracting reality. Just sit back and we'll tell you what to think. Oh, and don't forget your fuzzy slippers or that soothing glass of warm milk..."

[GOPJ]

Democrats know they're doing a sham radio show.

If they don't get one listener it'll be OK with them because they're going after the illusion. The illusion can be used for many purposes.

[A CA Guy]

Al Frankin is a big hate speech guy and I hope he has full creative control over such a network.

I'm sure such a new network would be as successful as his last movie...What ever it's name was!

I would almost donate to get that network started, because it would create a whole bunch of new Conservatives in a hurry.
Just think about it, actual topics discussed that Democrats have been only willing to whisper about in closets for years as their real agenda.

This network will OUT the true intent of Democrats and therefore act as the catalyst to unseat quite a few in future elections.

Plus once the extreme left try and gain control, it's completely over for the current version of the Democrat Party!!!

[Calvin Locke]

He had a tv show? (not that I keep up with what tries to be considered "pop culture".)

[Slyfox]

Maybe the Libs can issue programs to their listeners.

LOL. Yeah, that would be one heck of a fax bill now wouldn't it?

[doug from upland]

Since Rush lost weight, it is pretty obvious that Al Franken is the Big Fat Idiot.

[Wormwood]

Liberals need talk radio to spread their message because their ideological stranglehold on cinema, stage, television and music just aren't enough.

Now that's big picture thinking.

[DennisR]

I am so happy that the libbies are going to get their own talk radio shows. First, they will waste millions of their own dollars on a failing enterprise. This will be good so they will have less money to spend on electing the Dimocrats. Then--because they are actually going to have to talk to real people (assuming they allow call-ins)--they will be fully exposed for their Socialist/Communist/Utopians ideologies because they will not be able to hide behind the skirts of "news reporters." It will be the same old diatribe--America is bad and wrong; government owes you a living; anyone who hurts your feelings should and can be sued; the rich need to be punished; ad infinitum ad nauseum. People will get sick of these guys real fast because they have no substance and no one will want to be damaged by the mental disorder known as liberalism. Go for it, Al baby!

[mafree]

Well at least they ain't asking the goobermint to pay for it. On second thought, the goobermint is already paying for liberal radio- NPR.

[DennisR]

You might be thinking of Mark Russell. However, Franken does spout infantile stuff.

[GOPJ]

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[goldstategop]

Al Franken??? Yeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhhh right... he once called Rush a fat idiot? Never heard from him again. I hope the liberals flush their millions down the loo for there is no free market for a liberal radio network. If there was, it wouldn't be necessary for them to cater to a non-existent demand for liberal bilge that isn't and will never be there.

[gaijin]

Some forms of media require that you shut down your mind, and other forms require active participation on the part of the target audience. Bill Gates talked about this openly, once. Some forms of media require that you shut down your mind, and other forms require active participation on the part of the target audience. Bill Gates talked about this openly, once.

TV works best if your mind is more or less shut down. A cathartic release comes from this mind OFF process, which partly explains why tired people flock to TV. Watching TV also puts the audience into a state of mind in which messages enter their mind without being scrutinized, which is the whole premise for TV advertising. It also explains why Dan Rather and Geraldo Rivera somehow remain employed.

The TV format is very, very quick. Very few viewers will stick around for the time necessary to really build the foundation required to present an effective ARGUMENT. Images, yes --TV can do that. Somebody slipping on a banana peel, yes. A buxom woman jumping on a trampoline, yes. LAPD is evil because here you see a baton strike Rodney Kind, yes.

But a whole different time line is required to convince a person about the rightness of some new course of action.

Radio listeners have that kind of patience. They must more or less listen to the beginning of a sentence, the middle, and the end. And they must listen for at least 15 minutes to get anything out of the experience at all.

Leftishly-inclined propaganda only works on people who can't think, on people who can but chose not to, or on people who for whatever reason don't bother to really pay attention to the message for any real length of time. As long as the audience doesn't pay attention to liberal agitprop, it WORKS.

So you see, the liberal message WILL NOT work on a 3-hour talk-radio format, in which the REAL PERSONALITY AND ASSUMPTIONS of the host invariably leak out.

An important part of liberal idealogy is that people can't take care of themselves.

Who wants to hear THAT? But still, I relish the day the left squanders its resources on trying to get into the Talk Show format.

When your lead-footed enemy announces he thinks he'll go for a dip, just smile, grope about for your camera, and hand him his swimming-trunks...