Posted on 04/18/2005 9:35:01 AM PDT by Asphalt
Medved is great, but Savage is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too angry for me. He may have some good points, but his hateful delivery is the wrong way to get the message out.
"Dean Edell is a hard left blowhard. He is a total bait and switch liar "
Just a more obnoxious version of Alan Colmes.
A real shame Bill Bennett isn't on that list. They don't know what they're missing.
Thanks for the link. I've just recently discovered Babylon 5, and enjoyed his work in that. Seems like a good guy to have on one's side in a tussle, even an ideological one.
---I think you could retract that comment or at a minimum offer it as an opinion of how you see him.
I retract nothing. However, I already said this is my "opinion of how I see him". I msot certainly could be wrong!
I would say he has no serious principles. He is a scare monger, a scandal exploiter, a loud mouth. He is little different than Michael Moore. His being at the bottom of the list of guys that are in the most markets should prove something there. His overreactionalism is why he will never beat the guys above him. In fact, I'd say he has nowhere to go but down as other hosts who are just at the beginning of large exposure eat at his ratings.
As to your point about "every talk show host" does it. To a degree you are correct, of course. But there is a difference when you can truly believe that the guy is saying what he beliees in. I can't listen to Savage anymore because everything he says is just sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism. He is an exploiter of over emotionalism. A ranter. The term lunatic fits him perfectly.
Now, I should point out that I don't think EVERYONE who listens to him is a nutcase. I only think his solid, core audience fits this description. I shouyld also say that nearly every talk show host has a core group of fans who thin the guy walks on water.
It would be interesting to see how many stations all these hosts on the list are on. A rating is one thing, but if the 7th guy on the list has just a tad lower rating than the 5 guy, yet the 7th guy is on fewer stations, that would be a big deal for the 7th guy!
I've heard Medved say his listenership is in the 2 million range.
I'm surprised that Dr Laura outpolls Michael Savage by a decent amount and Glenn Beck by a lot.
Our local network dumped an early evening Dr Laura in favor of Savage and they bumped Laura to late night.
Given these numbers, I'd go back to Laura.
I actually enjoy Beck more that Dr Laura, and Savage is a nutcase. Our local talent....McConnel & Cunningham...is better than Savage by far.
I think Hannity is far more whiney..
Medved is far more intelligent, which is why I prefer him over Hannity.
Very good.....and I would add "bully."
"Thanks for the link."
No Problemo.
"I've just recently discovered Babylon 5, and enjoyed his work in that."
The bulk of my hard classes in college hit when the second season of the show started, so I had zippo time to watch them then. A few months ago my local library got the entire set of episodes, and I plowed through them sequentially over about a month.
GOOOOD stuff!
"Seems like a good guy to have on one's side in a tussle, even an ideological one."
I do believe you're right.
"...but as sure as you're born, you're never gonna see no unicorn..."
Those who think Bush not the "ideal" candidate are too far removed from what the electorate will accept to be of much use in winning elections. Politics is the art of compromise not the ramrodding of extreme views down the throats of the electorate. My views, your views and the views of most of the FR are far too conservative to be acceptable to the majority of voters. An "ideal" conservative acceptable to you would get 25% of the vote. Look at the Keyes campaign in Illinois for an example.
Free Trade is far more conservative than any competing economic theory. If by "anti-free speech" you are referring to the CFR I suggest your concern is based on fantasy not reality since the only speech even slightly curtailed is the speech of idiots too dumb to get around this stupid law. This was what I predicted all along and the SBV campaign proved me correct.
One cannot have a Trade Deficit with a floating exchange rate but the media is too stupid to explain this to the poor dumb rubes dependent upon it for economic knowledge. A Trade deficit only is a viable concept under Fixed exchange rate regimes using gold as an international standard of account. A study of International Finance could be of use here.
It may shock you to learn that only within the last half century has there been ANY concern about illegal immigration from Mexico. For over a century Mexicans wandered in and out at will with NO concern by the authorities. The current problem is one that is a result of the great wealth disparity between the countries and not easily solved.
Rush is ok but not generally too interesting since he went off the deep end over the Schiavo disaster.
You are mischaracterizing Bush's potential action wrt illegals which involves much more than the "stroke of a pen" and I doubt your understanding of the Constitution is that great given the mistaken nature of your reasoning and substitution of and use of rhetoric rather than reasoned analysis of what is possible given the state of the American voter.
Conservative in no way means "One who ignores the Possible and holds out for the Impossible." It is also important to realize that our enemies understand very well who is or is not conservative. Thus, their insane hatred of Bush is sufficient proof that he is a Stone Conservative.
I believe GWB signed the CFR into law thinking the USSC would strike the offending parts to the first amendment. He knew and simply did not do what is right.
Tell me directly that the US has no imbalance of international trade. Please tell me and others how that is so.
So, GWB was demonstrating his conservatism by sending $15 billion to a shite hole in Africa to fight AIDS? Tell me directly that he is conservative again.
You throw around the words "idiots" and "dumb" and awful lot. Me thinks you protest too much. Keep those thoughts to yourself, Ditto head.
quick math in head--- 63.75% of audiences are considered conservative. Its a lovely day in the neighborhood :)
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