THE COMING RISE OF LIBERAL TALK RADIO.

The New Republic ^ | 02.09.04 | Jason Zengerle

[international american]

Let me know if the company is a public stock, so I can short it:)

[pardon]

Well, while Rhodes spins her wheels, going no where, we note that Schultz meanwhile has taken off on his liberal national talk show. Its been on 6 weeks.
Overall:
HIs local show has more listners than his national show.
He has very poor organizers, sales people who can communicate and thus he only has about 12 stations on, all in hopeless stations in small markets.
Not good.
Schultz is pretty sharp when it comes to contracts and money and all.
He took those Senators and their backers for a ride. He out figured Democracy Radio and right now has
a lousy show. Poor distribution.
Poor marketing. Poor web site.
Poor everything. Yet big Eddie
rides the air waves with the confidence of a king....because he got that two year contract which means a guarantee in dollars to him. He is a steady vacuum hose tapped into the 1.8 million that was coughed up as those Dems bet that he was the next Rush. Now already they know he isnt. He is
not a a entertainer He is a hustler and comes across as one.
He claims he doesnt screen his callers but what he does is bait them to come on and any right talking folds immediatley get
buried as he takes off on his own theory and gives its listners his lessons on why Bush is bad and the right is hard and mean and the left is good and smart. This turns off all listners. the more callers he puts on, the worse his show becomes.And people who know him know he is a fake as he was a strong conservative radio talk show host who back in that January Demorcrat meeting decided to jump ship and announce he will be the new liberal start of radio. But, his heart and his intelligence isnt any where near a Rush. Rush is a entertainer and is real and is very very good. Ed is a poor.
Attacks callers, manipulates them and and pisses them off. Soi they wont be back thus his audience dies not grows. So his answer is to be more like Rush, less and less callers(Rush has very few ever) and tries to do what Rush does and that is talk and talk and carry the entire 3 hour show.
Ed cant do that but thinks he can.
And thats why his show is poor and will get worse.
If he this great white radio liberal voice, why hasnt any large radio markets signed on with his after six weeks. No medium size stations. I mean he has on 3 tiny North Dakota stations on his network. But nonw in Fargo, Bismarck and Grand Forks?
None in Minnesota etc etc. Why?
Its because most radio station operators are preety sharp people and before they will sign on a Ed Schultz, they check him out behind the scenes very carefully.
They read his bio statement. THey see where i saaays he is the greatest midwest radio personality ever. THats a lie. He is a nothing. A sportscaster turned talk show host on a very powerful
radio station. Its the station not the host that gives him ratings.
The bio says he was a former pro football player. Thats a lie. He never has played pro football.
The bio says he has persoanlly received the Peabody award and the Marcoinia award. Again, a lie.He hasnt received any big awards.
It says he has 20 plus shares for 15 years. Thats a lie.
In other words, these potential clients of his, check him out and see and hear these untruths and
start asking around and find out he isnt this great liberal talk show host at all. He is hustler.
And, kaboom, they are not interested in adding his show to their station. End of story.

[weegee]

Libs hear the day's events reported from a liberal perspective 24/7 on the news (top of the hour broadcasts, nightly news, etc.) as well as it dominating the news and editorial pages of most newspapers.

What would motivate them to seek "more" information on these stories? Conservatives who dismiss Big Media's versions of the day's events turn to talk radio for other reports, rebuttal, and to vent about the media bias.

Why are we still hearing about President Bush's Vietnam service? Why was there a survey to determine if Bush was AWOL (it is a YES or NO fact, might as well poll to see if the world is flat). Records have been released and that still is not enough; the media is acting as if they have not and is slowly updating the news cycle.

[AgThorn]

Then she raged over the president's contention that it was the crew of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, not the White House, that hung the mission accomplished banner as a backdrop for his May speech aboard the ship: "Today, he even went as far as to blame the troops for putting up an off-message sign! I can't believe he does that, using the guys that really fought." As she neared the end of the show, Rhodes was still rolling: "The president is a bald-faced liar. Even about little things like a banner, he can't tell the truth."

Well, that was as far as I could read since this bimbo obviously has no interest in the truth. My son as on that ship, he spent 10 months on that assignment and they were itching to come home ... That banner WAS put up by the sailors and had nothing to do with the President's landing. And the Mission of the USS Abraham Lincoln, as well as the overly successful 'war effort' was just that ... accomplished.

I can take left and right radio talk show hosts, Alan Colmes is actually starting to grow on me a bit (although not to worry, not too much!!) but ANY talk show host, regardless of their leanings that can't stand the truth should be turned off.

[little jeremiah]

This article is so full of crap it could get taken apart sentence by sentence. But here's a jewel:

"liberal talk radio's overarching message will be angry, aggrieved, and anti-establishment--and therefore, quite possibly, successful."

They imagine that they can somehow make or find a liberal "Rush" with his talent and drive and compete. Hah. You notice the use of the words "angry, aggrieved" - Rush is anything but. He passionate about what he believes - but he uses good cheer, humor, and wit! Not anger and whining. These liberals are mentally ill.

[bayourod]

In the free market of ideas, current Democrat ideas simply aren't worth much.

No matter how good the advertising, if the dogs won't it, the dog food won't sell.

[little jeremiah]

If the dogs won't eat it..


Even liberals don't like to listen over and over to whining and pis**ng. It sets ones' teeth on edge and causes ear ache.

[Fenris6]

So...does this mean they'll stop forcing us to fund NPR?

[cousair]

Never heard of her, or can't get it on the radio. Rush always says that hate talk never goes very far because it is not based on fact. He is right of course and just about all I have read here about this person and her show is made up of hate and hate lies.

[foreverfree]

bump

[OrioleFan]

Liberal talk radio will last until they get the first caller (if they allow callers) who disagrees with them.

[denydenydeny]

It wasn't long before the money was rolling in. "I heard people yelling out dollar amounts," Rhodes remembered. "I thought it was two hundred and fifty dollars, but it wasn't. ... They were pledging two hundred and fifty thousand dollars."

Bwa-ha-haaaa!

P.T. Barnum would have loved this story.