The Left and Talk Radio

www.chuckmorse.com ^ | November 17, 2002 | Chuck Morse

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Good post. Thank you.

[KeyBored]

This article could be summarized thusly:

"Liberals just don't understand"

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Liberals don't make it in talk radio because, unlike liberal internationalists, most people support the national interest when considering foreign policy issues." (Chuck Morse)

Liberals also don't make it in talk radio because most people - and virtually all in Red Nation but minorities - oppose the liberal agenda on domestic social issues: guns, immigration, abortion, quotas, etc.

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[Phantom Lord]

Rush Limbaugh and Talk Radio have been in the spotlight more in the past 48 hours than they have been in the 15 pervious years combined.

Daschle has had this blow up in his face big time and I am loving every minute of it. Did I hear Rush right that he is going to be on Meet the Depressed this Sunday? The show will have the highest ever ratings for the program.

[Tennessean4Bush]

I think it is much simpler than this.

• Liberals take themselves too seriously to be funny.
• No one wants to hear someone tell them they are not paying enough taxes to Joe Welfare and Jane Bureaucrat.
• Everyone likes to hear about being independent, successful, and free from regulations, which is what most conservative talk show hosts (the successful ones anyway) are talking about.
• Talk radio is mainly an analytical process. Words and thoughts are the tools and logic is the rulebook. People who tend to gravitate to this and are attracted to it are conservative.
• Liberals are more feeling-oriented and tend to process information visually, and thus gravitate more to TV. If they are listening to radio they are listening to music, for the most part.

Winston Churchill said it best:

"If a man is not a liberal by the time he is 20, he doesn't have a heart. And if he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he doesn't have a brain."

[secretagent]

Liberals don't make it in talk radio because, unlike liberal internationalists, most people support the national interest when considering foreign policy issues.

I can't think of a liberal syndicated host, at least that I've run into here in Tacoma. Perhaps I should count "Jim Bohannan" and the guy who hosts "Beyond the Beltway", but I haven't listened enough to them to know their slant.

[Madame Dufarge]

Daschle has had this blow up in his face big time and I am loving every minute of it.

Please don't anyone tell the esteemed Senator that you're supposed to pull out the pin and then throw it, not clutch it to your chest.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Daschle is upset that talk radio is allowing the conservatives to get their message out. He can no longer rely on the lame-stream press to suppress the conservative message.

What the liberals simply don't understand is that Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and Brit Hume are successful because they fill a void in the media. For decades conservatives had no voice in the lame-stream press. Talk radio changed that. FOX News is changing that. Newpapers like the New York Post are changing that. The Internet is changing that.

Facts, logic and common sense are the stuff of conservative talk radio. The increasingly shrill voices on the left show they have nothing to offer America.

[Phantom Lord]

Liberals fail on radio because no one wants to listen to someone whine and complain for 3 hours day. Nor do they want to hear someone badmouth and blame America for 3 hours a day. They do not want to listen to someone blame them personally for others failures because they have not failed.

The lefts message is not a positive one, and no one wants to listen to someone promoting a negative message and a doom and gloom vision of Americas future.

Conservatives on talk radio present positive, insprirational, and hopeful messages about Americas future and know what make America great... The individuals themselves who work hard, earn their money, support their families and enjoy life.

[billhilly]

Being one of many here who enjoy The Imus in the Morning show, I was rewarded this morning when Mike Barnacle was on the show. Imus brought up the Rush/Daschle dust up. Barnacle huffed, literally, and said, and I paraphrase, "There are many issues that are of concern to the american people, and the democrats can only offer abortion and gay marriage as issues.

[oldtimer]

Great post Tailgunner Joe. I am forwarding this link to a cast of many. Thanks

[PaulJ]

Talk radio is mainly an analytical process.....
Liberals are more feeling-oriented and tend to process information visually...

Well put! I like that. Did you think this one up? (I may want to use it and I like to give credit)

[aristeides]

Morse doesn't mention how radio and TV select for personality types. The passive idiots who fall for liberalism are addicted to television, which demands total attention, and tends to have moronic content. Radio doesn't demand total attention, can be listened to while working, and demands and develops a certain imagination when you listen to it. Hence, the people who listen to radio tend not to be such passive idiots, and are not suckers for the nanny state and liberalism.

[Jason Kauppinen]

I was a conservative before I was 20.

Jason Kauppinen
proud heartless bastard

[Nephi]

Yeah, I was liberal in third grade, but by junior high I had matured to conservativism.

[JSteff]

"The lefts message is not a positive one, and no one wants to listen to someone promoting a negative message and a doom and gloom vision of Americas future."

Well said and correct. Name me a memorable, uplifting speech by a liberal when the topic wasn't war. There are none. They are bankrupt morally and it comes across on radio.

Since that is boring there will never be a liberal who has the power of communication like Rush or the other conservative hosts.

[nutmeg]

bump

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[Senator_Blutarski]

"There are many issues that are of concern to the american people, and the democrats can only offer abortion and gay marriage as issues."

BH, great quote and exactly on target.