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WashPost Columnist Calling for a Shutdown of Conservative Talk Radio? (Michael Gerson )
newsbusters ^ | September 2, 2016 | Tim Graham

Posted on 09/03/2016 8:33:26 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt

When former Bush chief speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote a column for The Washington Post headlined “Cancel this reality show,” it sounded like just another anti-Trump column. Or is Gerson calling for a shutdown of conservative talk radio?

It's understandable that establishment Republicans would despise the dynamic of conservative radio talkers trying to yank party leaders to the right. But shutting them down? Does that sound like reasonable moderation?

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Much (not all, but much) of the new conservative establishment feeds outrage as its source of revenue and relevance. It is a model that has been good for Limbaugh and Fox News but bad for the GOP. Republicans are now caught in a complicated electoral dynamic. What their base, incited by conservative media, is demanding, the country is rejecting. A choice and a conflict are becoming unavoidable.

Trump’s angry nativism — newly restated in Arizona with a few twists — is a talk-radio shtick, correctly viewed by most of the electorate as impractical and cruel. It is less a proposal than an offensive, unhealthy form of ideological entertainment. And this show needs to close (Conservative Talk Radio).

1 posted on 09/03/2016 8:33:26 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I believe your comment is “impractical and cruel”.


2 posted on 09/03/2016 8:35:31 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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Michael Gerson is hardly a conservative Republican, much less a defender of "Free Speech" .
He should work for PBS !!
3 posted on 09/03/2016 8:35:57 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

I bet that among the contents in Michael Person’s wallet is his Democrat Party registration card. The GOP has been infiltrated for decades by the Democrats.


4 posted on 09/03/2016 8:38:40 AM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Agh the joys of being delusional


5 posted on 09/03/2016 8:39:19 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: dowcaet

Gerson. Yikes I have spell check on my phone that I forget to turn off. LOL


6 posted on 09/03/2016 8:39:53 AM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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dowcaet :" The GOP has been infiltrated for decades by the Democrats."

Exactly True !!

7 posted on 09/03/2016 8:41:17 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

You are a Putz

Apparently you do not hear us yet

Trump may be a nativist but he is not angry. He is disgusted


8 posted on 09/03/2016 8:41:21 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Still trying to convince a majority of the people that their views are “extreme”.

I think that level of propaganda is fading away, thank God.

It is akin to “Who you going to believe; me or your lying eyes?”


9 posted on 09/03/2016 8:42:32 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

It’s amazing we still have anti-Trump people here.

Oh, and your restaurants stink, lol!


10 posted on 09/03/2016 8:44:35 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The Ministry Of Propaganda has failed to convince us to give up our country without a fight.
They are really under the gun from the Cheap Labor Express to make sure Trump does not win.
There is 30 years of bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of immigration laws at risk of being overturned.
Our betters simply cannot allow the citizens to reverse that.


11 posted on 09/03/2016 8:44:56 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

It’s been months. The butt hurt should be gone by now.


12 posted on 09/03/2016 8:47:14 AM PDT by stratboy
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Why shut ‘em down when you can co-opt them?


13 posted on 09/03/2016 8:48:39 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Trump’s angry nativism — newly restated in Arizona with a few twists — is a talk-radio shtick, correctly viewed by most of the electorate as impractical and cruel. It is less a proposal than an offensive, unhealthy form of ideological entertainment. And this show needs to close (Conservative Talk Radio). “

It’s not even 9am and you’re hitting the crack pipe already??

What their base, incited by conservative media, is demanding, the country is rejecting.

Try counting the amount of People(the Base)that are Showing up at a Trump Rally BEFORE you start hitting the pipe.


14 posted on 09/03/2016 8:49:45 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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He does work for PBS. He appears on the "News" Hour.

Can't you see that a man like this has to be totally connected to voters that don't live in the coastal states ?

15 posted on 09/03/2016 8:50:07 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( "Stop smiling and smirking like it's a funny thing !")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

The base is incited because their “representatives” clearly do not represent them, or their values. Limbaugh couldn’t incite anyone to anything; he is soft and content with what he now has.


16 posted on 09/03/2016 8:50:46 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: hal ogen

Thought that post was a quote of Gerson’s article when I first read it. Now know it is.
So, it’s Gershon who’s being “impractical and cruel”-—not to mention arrogant and out of touch!


17 posted on 09/03/2016 8:56:12 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! First)
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To: Nifster
Trump may be a nativist but he is not angry. He is disgusted
18 posted on 09/03/2016 9:02:41 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Reverend Wright

Re your pic of Gerson.

He looks like a real leader in that picture, someone who has a duty to mold public opinion into the proper channels.

The look on his face reminds me of someone... another somewhat confused looking would-be leader... I’ve got it: Jeb!


19 posted on 09/03/2016 9:06:54 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Actually, Trump is going against a lot of conservative talk radio, and he is going to win the election. Your comments are very confused. The country is not rejecting Trump; liberals and RINOs are what they always are, and Trump is smoking them out.


20 posted on 09/03/2016 9:14:31 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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