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Shocker: NY Times not a fan of Conservative Talk Radio, Compares it to Rap Music
Patriot Room ^ | 9-20-09 | Scott Martin

Posted on 09/20/2009 4:02:45 PM PDT by Scott Martin

I suppose it's only fair. Judging by the Times' plunging stock value and rapidly shrinking readership, fans of conservative talk radio are not fans of the paper. But this is a little over-the-top, even for this discredited fishwrap.

Call It Ludacris: The Kinship Between Talk Radio and Rap

"Hour after hour, rant after rant, it is a feast of words and feverish emotion, interrupted only by regular commercials and the occasional call from the awe-struck fan.

I’d heard these voices before, but only in sound bites. When you don’t own a car and don’t tune in at home, you probably don’t run into Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin. On the highways of the Cornhusker State, they ran into me, every time I hit the scan button. After a while, it felt like a series of visits from very colorful and highly agitated relatives. Or it would if I had a lot of relatives certain that America is slouching toward a socialist abyss.... "

(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Politics
KEYWORDS: freespeech; nytimes; rapper; talkradio
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To: madison10
...and I would compare the New York Times to Al Jazeera.

Probably have stockholders in common.

21 posted on 09/20/2009 5:35:02 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (hang the Czars.)
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To: Scott Martin

The NYT is crap music. Why bother?


22 posted on 09/20/2009 5:37:28 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: Scott Martin

That’s racist.


23 posted on 09/20/2009 6:13:56 PM PDT by LiberConservative (Obama is white.)
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To: Markos33
If it's good for Maureen Dowd...

Fair or unfair - when she speaks I hear, "I'm Maureen Dowd and I'm a race-baiter". Happens every time she opens her mouth... odd.

24 posted on 09/21/2009 8:30:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (When I hear "New York Times"-fair or unfair-what I hear is "New York Times Whore House"...)
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