[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.

[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.

[oldtimer]

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

[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.

[nutmeg]

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[Dutchgirl]

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[Cacique]

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[gop4me]

Sorry tailgunner Joe but I must take serious issue with a couple of your statements. You said: "So are most of the corporations. (owned by liberals)

The bottom line is that radio stations, unlike the massive liberal-run media combines, are still owned by and run by local mom and pop operators."

Both statements are patently false and if you are truely involved in radio you would know Westwood 1 and Clear Channel are not exactly "mom and pop operators." There are fewer and fewer small operations each day. The big boys have been on a buying binge for several years now and at the present rate small time ownership will be non-existant very soon. And as for most corporations being owned by liberals, don't make me laugh. Are you REALLY in talk radio? You AND Rush need to do a better job with fact checking. It irritates me to no end that folks on the other side see Limbaugh and his ilk as "spokesmen" for the conservative position. Limbaugh often spouts such huge lies that he is no longer credible. For instance, last week while discussing the oil tanker which sank off the coast of Spain he said "The Titanic went down with a huge store of fuel oil and it didn't hurt the environment one bit." What a fool! The Titanic ran on coal! I bristle every time a Democrat chides me about Limbaugh. He doesn't speak for me.

[wharfrat]

Talk Radio = New Generation of Thumb Suckers! The national past time of retired liberals!

[LibKill]

"In my country, we have this thing called KARMA! You do bad, it come back and bite you in the a$$!"

King of The Hill

The dims just got bit.

[Freedom4US]

"Talk Radio" is an entirely predictable result of "liberalism" since people want to be entertained, and "liberalism" in practice is so ludicrous and ridiculous there's never a shortage of material. ANYBODY with a modicum of common sense and who's actually worked for a living can fill the hours pointing out idiotic policies and the disasters they cause to our social and economic structure. The big media had controlled and defined the terms of the debate for so long that they became complacent. Oops. I do credit the Internet and more conservative news outlets with tying up a lot of loose ends that I, in my naiveity, had not thought to connect. In any case, it's about time.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good post, thanks and I have a cartoon you might enjoy!

[Lancey Howard]

Boy, did this guy ever nail it.
Good post. Keep bumping.

[Lancey Howard]

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