[bigaln2]

This is the story that was featured on "Washington Journal" this morning.

[Eric Esot]

Why the Right Rules the Radio Waves

It’s not about conservative or liberal – it’s about the message and how successfully debated the message can be in it’s chosen media outlet.

As an example - If one where to say that it is more important to save the hump back whale than it is to protect the American people from terror; on television or in print, that message would go unchallenged; but on radio, where the public has access, that message would be challenged and commonsense would beat out the rhetoric.

[Anticommie]

As Mr. Clinton said in a speech last week, referring to a range of conservative media: "They have a destruction machine. We don't have a destruction machine."

You ARE (IS) a destruction machine, also you are a PERSONAL DESTRUCTION machine.

[Dan Day]

The answers may inhere in the nature of liberalism, said Robert Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University. Where radio conservatives have thrived by drawing hard distinctions between right and wrong, he said, "the liberal tradition as we understand it acknowledges a diversity of people and values."

I see... Has this guy actually ever *listened* to liberals?

"A vote against impeachment is not a vote for Bill Clinton. It is a vote against bigotry. It's a vote against fundamentalism. It's a vote against anti-environmentalism. It's a vote against the right-to-life movement. It's a vote against the radical right. This is truly the first battle in a great culture war. And if this president is impeached, it will be a great victory for the forces of evil, evil! Genuine evil. People like Congressman Barr, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Jesse Helms, who support white supremacist organizations, will claim victory over decency and decent people. And I hope that moderates out there realize, even if they don't like Bill Clinton, to vote for impeachment is to vote to give their party over to the mad dogs of radicalism."
-- Alan Dershowitz, on "Rivera Live", December 1998

[Dan Day]

New or newly syndicated programs featuring the conservative television talk show hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity made their debut on 200 to 300 stations in the last year. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, G. Gordon Liddy and other conservative hosts are still going strong.

Why do these stories usually leave out Laura Ingraham?

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

They always forget the much loved and heralded Michael Savage. He's as conservative and straight forward as one can get.

[Publius6961]

Meanwhile, one of the few longrunning liberal hosts, Gloria Allred, was sacrificed to poor ratings in October after 14 years in Los Angeles, joining Jim Hightower, Mario M. Cuomo and Alan M. Dershowitz.

Forgot "Jabba the Hutt" Bernie Ward...

His "nationwide" radio show lasted 2 weeks!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Name calling and making stuff up gets old really fast...

[TransOxus]

You can't fool the people in a live talk radio session especially with lies because talk radio and also the Internet makes you think. There are also no visual smoke and mirrors to distract or prevent thinking. RAT rhetoric is pure lying and that is why it fails in Talk Radio. There is no conditioned Yellow Dog Pavlovian reflex in Talk Radio and also the Internet because you can counter lies with the truth immediately (call or shut it off).RATs have fooled their followers especially in the their plantations by demagogery and crying wolf. After some time, no one came to hear yellow dogs howling in the air.

[aruanan]

Why the Right Rules the Radio Waves

Because the Left forgot that there are a LOT of people who can think without the benefit of their pretty pictures and short propagandistic sound bites.

[Revolting cat!]

No, no, no! You are all wrong and I am right. (Incidentally, I don't and have never listened to talk radio and wouldn't recognize Rush Limbo if he came up to me and handed me a check for one million Swiss Franks. But I know.)

Liberals, the Leftists are not successful in talk radio or any medium that requires an exchange because theirs is an ideology of preaching. They talk atcha, not withya, it's as simple as that. Note the tendency of all Leftist leaders al the way up to Krintong to make speeches that last for hours and must be trated as the final word on, well, on everything under the sun.

There is simply no meaningful debate on the Left.

[GOPJ]

Liberals draw hard bright lines of right and wrong when the issue is smoking or wearing fur. Or the artist right to produce shock art at the expense of all taxpayers. Liberals have opinions and strong "feelings". That's not the problem. The problem is that no one cares about their issues beyond the elite's small self-centered click.

"The answers may inhere in the nature of liberalism, said Robert Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University. Where radio conservatives have thrived by drawing hard distinctions between right and wrong..."

[dirtboy]

The answers may inhere in the nature of liberalism, said Robert Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University.

It is, but not for the reasons cited. Liberalism is about a top-down attitude, that there are elites that know what is best for all of us, and those below them should just march in lockstep. On a radio show with interactive callers, this attitude has about as much appeal as a root canal - the callers are folks who wish to state their own opinions and take on the host in debate. Conservative positions are more grass-roots, individual oriented, and such folks are more inclined to facts over emotions, and reason over sentiment, and are inclined to defend their positions - hence the appeal of conserative hosts to conservative listeners. And even honest liberals can tune into talk radio and learn something - the radical concept of thinking for yourself...