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Warning shot: Neal Boortz apologizes to Daschle for talk radio's influence
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 | Neal Boortz

Posted on 11/26/2002 11:27:28 PM PST by JohnHuang2

The media portrayed Tom Daschle's little tirade against talk radio last week as a symbol of his frustration. More than an indication of frustration, Daschle's rant was a warning shot – a statement of intent and resolve. Talk radio is dangerous to the left, and talk radio must be dealt with.

During any given month talk radio is either the first or second most popular radio format. When Shania Twain comes out with a new CD, the minds of normal men slip from politics and talk radio slips to second. When America is threatened, talk zooms to number one. What's more, talk-radio listeners are more likely than listeners to any other format to actually get out there and cast a vote when the polls open. Boiled down, this means that talk radio reaches more active voters than any other radio format.

Yes, it's true. The preponderance of the top talk show hosts in this country are decidedly conservative in their outlook. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, two of the best issues-oriented hosts, both generally follow the Republican line step for step. This Mr. Daschle views as a problem. On the other hand, the anchors for the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts and the editorial page editors of the nation's largest newspapers are steadfast Democrat supporters. The New York Times, for instance, has never in modern history endorsed a Republican candidate for president. Mr. Daschle does not view this as a problem.

No matter how much leftists would like to think so, talk radio doesn't skew to the right because of any grand corporate conspiracy. Talk radio is basically conservative because, in city after city, and in ratings period after ratings period, the people who listen to radio have shown that this is what they want to hear. Surveys show that talk-radio listeners are usually better educated and more successful than radio listeners in general. It's hard to sell these people a political philosophy based on legalized plunder and anti-individualism, so liberal hosts generally fail to bring in the listeners.

Most talk-show hosts won't admit this, so I'll go ahead and tell you: Talk-show hosts have one job, and one job only. They are there to attract listeners to a particular radio station so that the station can play commercials for them. The more people who are listening to those commercials, the more the station can charge for them. The owners of those stations, usually shareholders, want to see a nice return for their investments. There are some talk-show hosts, Tom Leykis comes to mind, who are so wildly entertaining that the audience will tune in, even if it means they have to listen to the failed ideas of the left. These hosts are exceptions, not the rule.

My very first column for World Net Daily dealt in more detail why liberals fail in talk radio. Time to bone up.

Democrats aren't interested, however, in this lesson in radio economics. If they can't dominate talk radio, they just want it to go away. If you think that freedom of expression means something to liberals, take a look at the speech codes in those bastions of liberalism, our colleges and universities. A liberal believes that you should only be free to express ideas that aren't offensive to liberals. Pointing out how liberal ideas fail almost universally seems to be very offensive to liberals. Go figure.

Liberals have two basic tactics in mind for the destruction of talk radio. One, a resurrection of the "Fairness Doctrine" requires legislative control. If Democrats were able to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, talk stations would have to hire staff who would listen to all ideas presented on those stations by conservative hosts. Then they would have to seek someone with an opposing viewpoint and give them an equal period of time to present their case. This means added expense and lost listeners. At that point, it's just easier to pull out the country CDs, That's fine with the left … mission accomplished.

Democrats, though, are experiencing a period of legislative impotence, and the nearest dose of electoral Viagra is two years away. A revival of the Fairness Doctrine, then, is not in the cards. So it's on to Plan B, that being the so-called Campaign Finance Reform Act.

Sometime before the 2004, presidential-election Democrats will go to court in an attempt to have most radio talk shows – Limbaugh included – declared to be campaign commercials for Republican candidates which the Republican Party paid for with soft money; that soft money being the money that corporate interests pay to advertise on these programs. The Democrats will ask the court to rule that talk-show hosts shall be forbidden from making statements that endorse the positions of Republican candidates or the Republican Party during the last month before an election.

Our one hope? Supreme Court Justices who actually believe in our Constitution.

Sorry, Tom. It would seem that we're going to be around for a while. Any time you want to come on the air and state your case … the door is certainly open.


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Tom Daschle Pops Off Again. 
And Again. And Again.
by JohnHuang2
November 22, 2002

My first reaction was 'uh-oh'. Poor chap. He's finally succumbed to non compos mentis, meaning he's mad as a hatter. Tommy Daschle, that is.

Tommy O'Bedlam -- meet your twin.

After leading his party to humiliating Election-Day defeat, it was only a matter of time. Sooner or later, Tommy -- writhing in anguish and sorrow, flailing in embarrassment -- was bound to go bonkers. Daschle, after all, earns the dubious distinction in being the first 'Majority Leader' in U.S. history to lose control of the Senate during a President's earliest midterm election.

Ouch!

Imagine how history will record it: Daschle, the dumbest lunkhead, writes the complete Idiot's Guide To Losing An Election. I mean, you know things are really bad when Michael Jackson calls you up to offer PR advice, or Washington beauty queen Helen Thomas proffers some tips on appearance. Even Michael Dukakis thinks you're a loser and Walter Mondale won't return your calls.

Sheesh, even Castro, liberal superhero, is weighing in.

"Democrats don't have an economic message? Why the heck don't they consult me, for Gulag's sake!? I've got the perfect message!", barked the banana-dictator-for-life, a jovial Charlie Rangel (D-NY) shining his shoes.

Tommy's party, adding insult to injury, gets clobbered despite the 'this-is-the-most-miserable-economy-since-the-Ice-Age' media drumbeat, and the whip-hand the 'out-party' traditionally holds in off-year elections.

But rather than Republicans sinking into oblivion, it's the Daschlecrats who get hoisted on their own petard. In talking the economy down so much, the 'don't-just-do-something, stand-there!' Democrats get blamed for obstructionism -- and rightly so.

But, hey, I digress.

The staggering pressure, the incredible stress, the mind-bending strain was just too much, so Tommy snapped.

During his daily 'I'm-So-Disappointed-in-Shrub' trash-mouth press conferences, Tommy's head, come to think of it, did look more like a pressure cooker than the seat of thought, I'll grant you that. (Always wondered what that steam oozing from his ears was all about. Blew one-too-many rubber seals, perhaps?)

Again, I digress!

Look, I don't want to pile on, so I won't. I don't have the heart. If Tommy says his phone is ringing off the hook with 'I'm-a-Rush-Limbaugh-Fan-so-die-liberal-die!' fruitcakes (interestingly, after extensive FBI linguistic and technical analysis this week, authorities have concluded the 'threatening voice' in those calls was found to be that of James Carville!), or that Tommy's offices are being swamped with Anthrax-laced letters with return addresses like, 'This is From The E.I.B. Institute For Advance Conservative Studies, Bioweapons research division, who am I to dispute?

Do I think Tommy's nuts?

Au contraire! Indeed, Methinks he's on to something here. But in ways you'll not imagine.

Hear me out: Recall the very first reported case of Anthrax spores via envelop?

Exactly -- the American Media Inc. (A.M.I.) facilities in Boca Raton, Florida. Now, as any Clintonite will tell you, A.M.I. was crawling with mean and wascally "Clinton-haters" who published all kinds of 'mean' and 'nasty' stuff about poor Bill and Hillary.

Okay, that's one dot, now here's another: After the 'Gingrich Revolution', recall the torrent of media stories of how Republicans were threatening to poison the air, lakes, rivers and streams with tons of cyanide, get rid of the ozone, choke off free speech, shutdown every schoolhouse, starve the children, liquidate the elderly, purge the country of minorities -- all within the first week and all in the 'Contract On America'?

Ah, ha! Okay, stay with me here: Now who's to say the Anthrax attack on that "Clinton-hating" bastion A.M.I. wasn't the work of some leftie, tired of "Clinton-bashing," exacting revenge?

Ridiculous? Conspiracy non-sense, you say?

Okay, okay, what about the Anthrax attack on the New York Post, the Empire State's premier conservative newspaper? The editors and reporters there "hated" Clinton with gusto and relish, you'll recall. They got several Anthrax letters.

Still not convinced? Man, Oh man, you're one tough customer!

Okay, what about the Anthrax letters sent to New York's Republican governor, George Pataki? ummmmmmmm?

Unpersuaded, eh? Still not convinced, uh?

Well, then, you're not listening to infallible Tommy Daschle, who piously notes that "when those of us in public life" are 'attacked' "that people aren't satisfied just to listen ... they want to act because they get emotionally invested."

Was Gingrich et al in public life? You betcha. Weren't they attacked and attacked and attacked in the media? You know it.

Well????

"Preposterous!", you say?

Of course it's preposterous. But no more preposterous than Tom Daschle's idiotic attacks on Rush Limbaugh.

Nuff said.

Anyway, that's...

My two cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Copyright Enrique N. ©200

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1 posted on 11/26/2002 11:27:28 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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2 posted on 11/26/2002 11:31:29 PM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: Bob J
radio ping
3 posted on 11/26/2002 11:33:57 PM PST by agitator
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To: Grampa Dave
LOL!
4 posted on 11/26/2002 11:37:30 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
You've been very busy tonight!

Tom Daschle can complain all he wants. I suspect that a great many conservative talk show hosts would defy any court order demanding that they give "equal time." But at this point, the left isn't operating from a position of strength. I would be surprised if they actually tried to "Hush Rush."

Imagine a Christian radio station having to stop all Christian programming in the middle of the day. Such an order was actually given, briefly, during the Clinton/Gore Administration. The order, which never took effect, was quietly rescinded after several Congressmen and the National Religious Broadcasters announced opposition. The vast majority of Christians never knew what happened. But the left is capable of just about anything in pursuit of the agenda.
5 posted on 11/26/2002 11:41:02 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: JohnHuang2
A JH2 wonderfully written article BUMP!!(Happy Thanksgiving!!)
6 posted on 11/26/2002 11:41:37 PM PST by musicman
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To: JohnHuang2
Bob Lang's cartoon nails both the Da$$hole and the Goron and their whining about conservative talk radio ie the first amendment being used by conservative talk show hosts.
7 posted on 11/26/2002 11:42:07 PM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
That toon hits the nail on the head, Grampa
8 posted on 11/26/2002 11:44:08 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: musicman
Thanks -- and Happy Thanksgiving backatya, friend.
9 posted on 11/26/2002 11:44:38 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: Zack Nguyen
Re: #5 -- great point, friend.
10 posted on 11/26/2002 11:47:18 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Another great one, Your Excellency! I particularly liked this line .....

(interestingly, after extensive FBI linguistic and technical analysis this week, authorities have concluded the 'threatening voice' in those calls was found to be that of James Carville!)

Oh, how I wish that one day something like that would turn out to be true!

11 posted on 11/26/2002 11:47:57 PM PST by kayak
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Thanks, my friend *Smiles*

Oh, how I wish that one day something like that would turn out to be true!

hehehe ;^)

12 posted on 11/26/2002 11:49:33 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: agitator
Anyone seen Al?


13 posted on 11/26/2002 11:52:36 PM PST by autoresponder
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To: JohnHuang2
When Will Rogers was in his heyday, I doubt he was so viciously attacked by the RATS as Rush etal are now. The big difference? The RATS have gone commie on us.
14 posted on 11/27/2002 12:27:17 AM PST by Waco
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To: JohnHuang2
I look for the Fairness Doctrine to be part of Al Gore's campaign plank come 2004. Of course you've already seen his attacks on Fox News, Rush, the Wash Times:

Gore’s TV War: He Lobs Salvo At Fox News

I would imagine other items we'll see him harping on are Electoral Reform (meaning ending the Electoral College), Adopting Kyoto, Social Medicine (renamed with the cute and cuddly sounding "Single Payer Health Care")and a "Fairer method of income redistribution".

If Al really wants to get the votes of the "poor and disenfranchised", he ought to take the most logical route- just come out and say what he's about. He should get on television and tell the masses "If you vote for me, I'll take all of Bill Gates' money and give it to you... Two chickens in every pot... Three cars in every garage... Free health care for all..." It would work. He'd have people lined up down the block waiting to vote for him.

15 posted on 11/27/2002 1:06:56 AM PST by Prodigal Son
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a resurrection of the "Fairness Doctrine

AKA "Ministry of Truth

16 posted on 11/27/2002 2:03:09 AM PST by Podkayne
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To: Prodigal Son
The Fairness Doctrine would be great for our side on TV. Even with Fox News, the libs would still owe us several years of equal time on all other networks.
17 posted on 11/27/2002 2:37:22 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: JohnHuang2
Its time for the Gorebatross to apologize to the country for throwing a temper tantrum.
18 posted on 11/27/2002 3:10:33 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: Zack Nguyen
Do you have details on that order? Thanks!

Carolyn

19 posted on 11/27/2002 3:25:38 AM PST by CDHart
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To: Grampa Dave
Welcome to democRAT Siberia

BABY ITS COLD UP HERE!!!!!!

20 posted on 11/27/2002 4:20:55 AM PST by BOBTHENAILER
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