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Friday, April 22, 2005
I think the dittohead listed so many points to his argument because
his aim was really to give you so much eye fatigue that you would feel
compelled to give up and submit to his banal pile of crap.
First of all, there is not one single solitary ounce of humor in
conservative radio. Is this guy seriously suggesting that Fat Bastard
or any of his clones actually say things that a regular
middle-of-the-roader would find funny? I think not. If there is any
humor coming from Fat Bastard or his clones, it is dark sinister
humor, that only twisted person with neo-Nazi sympathies would find
funny.
I don't have the statistics. Perhaps this dittohead is right and
liberal radio does not work. But let's not forget that it doesn't have
Clear Channel and all the Korporate might behind it. It doesn't have
the so called liberal (a.k.a. "Jew") media fueling it. But forget
about the money and the advertising. The real triumph of Fat Bastard
is the triumph of the angry white Christian male. Now Angry White
finally has an outlet to have someone else vent his venom and rage.
And one other thing. Dick Morris? Wasn't Dick the other joker involved
in a sex scandal in the White House during the Clinton years? Wasn't
it conservatives who were bitching and moaning about Dick for years?
How Dick would crunch some numbers and have Bill vacationing somewhere
in the West instead of his beloved Martha's Vineyard, because it'd
gain him a quarter point in the polls or something. You used to hate
Dick. But now all the sudden you love Dick. Why can't you people ever
make up your minds? Do you love dick or do you hate dick?
Moshe Moscovitz
TalkWarrior.com
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> Subject: [RushRoom3] Why Liberals Can't Make Air America Fly
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> Awwww, ain't it a shame?
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> Matt Dedinas aka Cato Uticensis
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> Budapest 1956, Gdansk 1981, Montgomery 2003
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> Give me Liberty or Give Me Death
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> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:29:41 -0400
> From:
> Subject: Why Liberals Can't Make Air America Fly
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> Why Liberals Can't Make Air America Fly
>
> By Brian C. Anderson
> Los Angeles Times | April 21, 2005
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17774
>
> The liberal Air America Radio, just past its first birthday, has
probably
> enjoyed more free publicity than any enterprise in recent history.
But don't
> believe the hype: Air America's left-wing answer to conservative
talk radio is
> failing, just as previous efforts to find liberal Rush Limbaughs
have failed.
>
> Wait a second, you say, didn't I read that Air America has expanded
to more
> than 50 markets? That's true, but let's put things in perspective:
> Conservative pundit and former Reagan official William J. Bennett's
morning talk show,
> launched at the same time as Air America, reaches nearly 124
markets,
> including 18 of the top 20, joining the growing ranks of successful
right-of-center
> talk programs (Limbaugh is still the ratings leader, drawing more
than 15
> million listeners a week).
>
> And look at Air America's ratings: They're pitifully weak, even in
places
> where you would think they'd be strong. WLIB, its flagship in New
York City,
> has sunk to 24th in the metro area Arbitron ratings - worse than the
> all-Caribbean format it replaced, notes the Radio Blogger. In the
liberal meccas of San
> Francisco and Los Angeles, Air America is doing lousier still.
>
> So why do liberals fare so poorly on air? Some on the left say it's
because
> liberals are, well, smarter and can't convey their sophisticated
ideas to the
> rubes who listen to talk radio. Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo,
whose own
> stint as a talk-show host was a ratings disaster, gave canonical
_expression
> to this self-serving view. Conservatives "write their messages with
crayons,"
> he maintained. "We use fine-point quills."
>
> Yet even if we were to grant the premise that conservative talk
radio can
> sometimes be crudely simplistic - a tough charge to make stick
against, say,
> one-time philosophy professor Bennett or Clarence Thomas' former
law clerk
> Laura Ingraham - how can anyone plausibly believe the right has a
monopoly on
> misleading argument? Moreover, talk-show fans aren't dummies.
Industry surveys
> show that talk-radio fans vote in greater percentages than the
general public,
> tend to be college-educated and read more magazines and newspapers
than the
> average American.
>
> Successful talk radio is conservative for three reasons:
>
> . Entertainment value. The top conservative hosts put on snazzy,
frequently
> humorous shows. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the University of
> Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, observes: "The
parody, the asides,
> the self-effacing humor, the bluster are all part of the packaging
that makes
> the political message palatable." Besides, the triumph of political
> correctness on the left makes it hard for on-air liberals to
lighten things up without
> offending anyone.
>
> . Fragmentation of the potential audience. Political consultant
Dick Morris
> explains: "Large percentages of liberals are black and Hispanic,
and they
> now have their own specialized entertainment radio outlets, which
they aren't
> likely to leave for liberal talk radio." The potential audience
for Air
> America or similar ventures is thus pretty small - white liberals,
basically. And
> they've already got NPR.
>
> . Liberal bias in the old media. That's what birthed talk radio
in the
> first place. People turn to it to help right the imbalance.
Political scientist
> William Mayer, writing in the Public Interest, recently observed
that liberals
> don't need talk radio because they've got the big three networks,
most
> national and local daily newspapers and NPR.
>
> Unable to prosper in the medium, liberals have taken to denouncing
talk
> radio as a threat to democracy. Liberal political columnist Hendrik
Hertzberg,
> writing in the New Yorker, is typically venomous. Conservative talk
radio
> represents "vicious, untreated political sewage" and "niche
entertainment for the
> spiritually unattractive," Hertzberg sneers.
>
> If some liberals had their way, Congress would regulate political
talk radio
> out of existence. Their logic is that scrapping Air America would be
no loss
> if it also meant getting Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Bennett off
the air.
>
> To accomplish this, New York Democratic Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey has
proposed
> reviving the Fairness Doctrine to protect "diversity of view," and
John
> Kerry recently sent out some signals that he too thought that might
be a good
> idea.
>
> Under the old Fairness Doctrine, phased out by Ronald Reagan's FCC
in the
> late '80s, any station that broadcast a political opinion had to
give equal
> time to opposing views. A station running, say, Hannity's show,
would also have
> to broadcast a left-wing competitor, even if it had no listeners.
>
> Pre-Reagan, talk radio in today's sense simply didn't exist. What
station
> could risk it? But people listen to conservative talk because they
want to, not
> because the post-Fairness Doctrine regulatory regime forces them
to. To
> claim that "diversity of view" is lacking in the era of blogs and
cable news,
> moreover, is downright silly. Complaints about fairness are really
about driving
> out conservative viewpoints.
>
> Sure, talk radio is partisan, sometimes overheated. But it's also a
source
> of argument and information. Together with Fox News and the
blogosphere, it
> has given the right a chance to break through the liberal
monoculture and be
> heard. For that, anyone who supports spirited public debate should
be grateful.
>
> Brian C. Anderson is senior editor of City Journal and author of
"South Park
> Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias," newly
released from
> Regnery.
>
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