[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[BossLady]

"it is going to be a long, long, long time before liberal talk radio develops any real following"

Just what FReepers have been saying all along.....

[Patrick1]

Is Err America still on?

[wingman1]

bump

[stands2reason]

LOL at Franken. Boy I'm glad he's a liberal ---I wouldn't want him on our side....

[isthisnickcool]

OK. OK. OK. Here is my Al Franken radio broadcast impersonation:

"Uh, Uh, Uh, uh, Uh...."

Pretty good, huh? OK, here is the same impression of Franken on most local radio stations across the country:

( insert lots and lots of static here )

[observer5]

Problem is they forgot to put a brain in Al Frankenstein when they assembled him in lib-lab and released him into the wild.

[68skylark]

Their problem isn't lack of talent. Liberals have plenty of talent and aptitude for entertainment.

The problem is that liberalism doesn't go over well in a straight non-fiction format like talk radio. It works better when it's indirect -- when it's woven into movies, TV shows, news stories, etc as an unstated subtext. That's the sort of thing that drive conservatives (like me) batty.

As soon as they step out of the realm of fiction, the message loses all its appeal, and no one has enough talent to change that.

[rudypoot]

Man, I tried to listen to Jenean Gerbuffalo's show the other night and all it was was conspiracy theories in between horrible attempts at humor. She tries to hard to be funny and it shows.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

If you have any confidence in your own views you don't attack the moderator.

:-)

[BigSkyFreeper]

Another reason why Liberal radio will fail is Err America wants only Liberal voices heard on their phones. Limbaugh of course wants Liberal voices on his phones first, just to make him look good by setting them straight with the truth of the matter and the facts.

[Billthedrill]

As Goldberg reminds us, "Conservative talk radio is the alternative media. It became popular because conservatives lost the battle for the political culture, not because they won it."

Well, they lost the battle for the control of the conventional broadcast and print media, to be sure, but the struggle for the actual political culture itself simply found another arena, one in which the stifling level of groupthink present in, say, the network newsrooms, was not present. What is revealing in all of this is the level to which the liberal control of the conventional media is dependent on this groupthink. Bernard Goldberg documents this in some detail in Bias.

[gitmo]

Are liberals exempted from check-fraud laws?

[TheLion]

Most people can get their fill of liberals and the left just by watching ABCNNBCBS.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

according to Multicultural radio owner Arthur Liu, they bounced a million dollar check after just two weeks

According to news reports here in Chicago, Liu sold the air time to AA, realized that they were not ready to go, and sold it again to someone else...

[sweetliberty]

"Franken wants to be both, which often makes him fail at both because he's too serious to be one and not funny enough to the other."

LOL! That's good.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

As I pointed out on another thread last week,
Air America appears to be nothing but a lo-o-o-o-o-ng PAID POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

[raccoonradio]

Someone emailed me after I did a messageboard post about AA, saying that "if you DO want to hear AA, be quick;
they won't be around too long". Yup. Here was my response to him:

hi--yeah, in some ways I wish I could hear it so I could see just how bad it is! You're right, it won't be up for long. If Franken and his pals want to get on radio after AA
folds, I'm sure the folks at NPR will oblige. (Heard a couple clips on Laura Ingraham's show of NPR's Fresh Air: host Terry Gross fawning over Al, then Gross showing her
liberal bias when Bill O'Reilly was on. O'Reilly fought back and she was like, humina, humina, humina... :) )

And they have to spend money to get on, yes...for what is basically a "get GWB out of the White House" operation. I'm no radio expert but maybe what they should have done was get ONE show going, hopefully with a better host, and try to syndicate it.
This should have been done years ago --"Rush wasn't built in a day"--and maybe now they'd at least have one successful show. But when you have liberals basically
talking to themselves, would it be successful? (Heard Sean Hannity play his "AlGore Does Howard Dean" bit, where the former veep screams out about the
Pres.? : "HE BETRAYED THIS COUNTRY! HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!!!!"
Sure, there's nothing wrong with showing your emotions, Mr. "I Lost My Home State in 2002"...but show some REASON with it, too...