Posted on 02/17/2005 1:15:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Keep up the good work Sean!
If you're taking flak, you're over the target!
Bombs away!
and I wear it with pride--as a blue stater with a red heart and soul!
free dixie!
ari
I am frightened for this nation, not because of the Democrats or Republicans, but the blind are following the blind. I guess it is inevitable that we become a dictatorship. As long as the reins of power are in the right hands.
Sorry. Loyalty is near the top of my list. Sean lost mine. He won't get it back any time soon.
From the leftwing feverswamp
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This is what I wished we could have avoided--giving the DUmmies a good time.
It won't last.
free dixie,sw
Congratulations on the success of your new book, can't wait to buy it.
I couldn't agree more. I think he offers a pretty fresh perspective considering most of the news of the day has already been disected by several others. And like you say, Hannity doesn't have 15 million listeners for nothing. I imagine there are many who don't listen to Rush and the others and only listen to him, because they like his style. It's mostly a matter of preference, but I'd say it's pretty evident that the people who don't like Sean are in the minority. He shouldn't waste his time on them because he'll never please them. There's plenty who do like him a lot.
And winning new converts to conservatism is the name of the game, after all. "The choir" (politically informed) may get tired of hearing the same "sermons" over and over again, but they forget that that "milk" is not meant for them, but instead for the political infants.
As in the religion they embrace, most people's politics are NO DEEPER THAN, "If it was good enough for my daddy, it's good enough for me", or some variation of that reality. And a lot of Americans grew up in DemocRAT families.
That's why it's so difficult to "reason" with people on these two subjects. They have an emotional - not a rational - attachment to their "beliefs".
They have to be approached in a non-threatening manner.
And if anybody hasn't picked up on it yet, it is the up-beat, fun-loving, "optimistic-for-the-future-of-America" talk-show hosts that ATTRACT the biggest audiences - politically-oriented or not. Once you have them listening regularly ... it's only a matter of time for most rational people - unless they have an agenda.
The negative, on air chicken-littles (on the left and on the right - flip sides of the same coin) whose daily mantra is some variation of: "The sky is falling and we're all going to die" are only able to attract other losers like themselves on any consistent basis. They will never positively influence, or obtain large audiences like the up-beat talk-show hosts do. (Michael Savage - are you listening?)
Sean, you should read (or re-read) Kipling's poem, "If" and Teddy Roosevelt's "In the Arena" speech. You are in the arena so you are taking shots. You're a great American even if you do plug the rest of the show a tad much.
You know, when they critique one of there folks, we jump on it too. doesn't matter the side of the aisle, it happens. A current thread running is Geffen says Hillary can't be elected. Sometimes you've got to take a stand. And when you take a stand it sometimes gives fodder to the other side. It's called life. If we're strong, we can live with it.
Of course I will check what they say. Anyone on this forum is not unaware of political objectives in politicians.
Yet, as long as they promote abortion, anti-America or blame America for all world ills or are still promoting socialistic agendas they will never get my vote. Also, as long as they promote taking God out of America - none will get my vote.
You see - I look for the values that drive the political parties - not what they say they will do. We are quickly evolving into two cultures in America - the older values of God and country, decency and honor and the other - abortion, no God or moral restrictions, the populace to feed all into the government for the elitest to determine how the populace is to live.
It is very clear to me which group I fall into and I will fight for it.
Now that's the way to treat your customers. If they don't like it go somewhere else. My former employer used to do that. There's a lot of companies who now will no longer do business with them, even under new ownership because they were told to go elsewhere.
That was a good read, thank you.
LVM
You know, when they critique one of there folks, we jump on it too. doesn't matter the side of the aisle, it happens.
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True. Look how they jumped on Obama, hero of the prior week.
We are strong. We did win, after all. Thanks for the perspective.
Your opinion isn't issue-oriented, its personal - it is founded in this prejudiced premise, "I never liked Hannity". Your opinion, therefore, has no credibility with critical thinkers.
Well what about Hannity? What's he?
Will Sean shout down a liberal while making a point tonight with the talking point of the day? Yep. Hey, if liberalism is so stupid, it won't stand on it's own legs. Let the speaker talk themselves into a corner. Heck, there are times that he even shouts down those decidedly in his corner.
As I have stated, we are his customers, not the other way around. He's not wanting to listen to the Voice of the Customer. In business, that's one of the roots of Six Sigma, delivering and delighting the customer.
Change the channel is not delighting the customer. Someday the customers will take the advice and go away.
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