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To: Paul Atreides
What is truly scary is the people who think that the mainstream media isn't liberal enough!

When liberals accuse the media of a conservative bias, they say so for one of two reasons. The first is a lame attempt to defeat a harmful fact by simply contradicting it with the opposite of the truth, a kindergarden-like accusation ("You hit me! No! You hit me!).

The second reason is the view that the media, as instruments of the free market, are "conservative" because they are not socialist institutions, like The People's Daily of North Korea. The profit-seeking media condemning profit-seeking is one of those bizarre disconnects conservatives have learned about liberalism. And again, it is the essence of liberalism: the inability to relate principles, personal behavior, and political views.

I remember with utter clarity, how William F Buckley -- the lonely public voice of conservatism in the 60's -- was regarded by liberals as a nut case and extremist. Any human being ought to have been able to see that Buckley was a gracious, gentle, principled, courageous man of remarkable equanimity. But liberals could not see that, so essential was their childish confusion between their politics and their principles.

Radio is personal and intimate. Radio does not tolerate phoniness and absurd artifice, as so many of the other media do. (Limbaugh and Stern ... strange bedfellows, but cultural twins.) Liberalism does not need an attitude adjustment ... it needs an attitudectomy ... but then it would not be liberalism.

46 posted on 02/17/2003 3:23:16 PM PST by Urbane_Guerilla
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To: Urbane_Guerilla
Well, it's final: Alan Colmes of the famed duo Hannity & Colmes will have a nationally syndicated radio talk show starting next week. He'll be carried here in San Diego on KFMB-AM 760 on the radio dial from 7:00pm to 11:00pm weeknights. The only problem is that was Laura Ingraham's slot. I guess they'll move her. Also KFMB will welcome Michael Savage in the near future. Ah, it's good living here in the San Diego radio market: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Rick Roberts, soon to be Michael Savage -- Paradise!
53 posted on 02/17/2003 4:20:08 PM PST by Southern California
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