Posted on 01/14/2015 3:20:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
This column over the years has been interested in liberalism in a special way, as a coroner is interested in a corpse in a special way. Specifically I have been interested in the pathologies that laid the patient low. What precisely has been the cause of death?
The coroner asks what made a robust fellow a corpse. Was it a remorseless cancer or a tragic accident? Was it Huntington’s disease or something else, possibly, simple alcoholism? In the case of the liberal, the cause of death was almost certainly a massive overindulgence. Simply stated, the liberals attempted too much. They even attempted to solve problems that were not conventionally understood as problems. After all, there were no plausible solutions, for instance, for the elimination of poverty, which in America amounts to relative deprivation, not destitution. How can we solve a citizen’s relative deprivation?
As a result of liberalism’s morbidity there are places in America where the liberal once thrived but now has completely vanished. Consider talk radio. I can remember back when the liberal completely dominated the medium. Back in the late 1950s, the 1960s, even in the 1970s, there were people like Jerry Williams in Boston and Irv Kupcinet in Chicago. Now they are gone.
Even when Al Gore summoned the left’s billionaires to subsidize talk radio with something called Air America the endeavor utterly failed. Talk radio is the domain of conservatives. So dominant are conservatives in radio that today talk radio has become a synonym for conservatism. “Talk radio,” the voices of the left admonish (there are no voices of liberalism remaining), “is the enemy of Obamacare, of holding hands with moderate terrorists, of the minimum wage.”
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They’re like fingers nails on a blackboard
Because they saturate the T.V.
Could it be supply and demand?
The media is already saturated with liberals.
The market is saturated by ABDNCBS.
Pray America is waking
In order to be successful in talk radio you can’t
Be a loser. Whiners don’t make it.
What ever happened to John and Ken..??
They still around?
NPR and Sports Radio
I used to drive to work very early in the morning and he was the only constant, all the other stations were worse or kept changing format to Espanol! I finally got tire of yelling at him on the radio and just tuned in to the classical station. he would always deny being a democrat, claimed to be an independent, yet always attacked Conservatives and pushed the liberal talking points.
there are plenty of leftist talk radio
Pacifica Radio, NPR and such
Mike Malloy used to be on WSB Atlanta years ago, then he moved out west somewhere. Is he still on the air?
The current lineup on WSB: Herman Cain, Rush, Hannity, and Erick Erickson.
Liberals don't want overpriced gold, identity protection and dog vitamins too?
As far as I know, but overall they are almost as bad as Handel and there is nothing more spiteful than an ex Catholic.
I remember the first attempt was Tom Likus- “Likus the liberal”
He got on there with all kind of bluster how he was going to take on Rush Limbaugh and how liberal radio would soon be the dominant radio and blah blah blah
I think he was gone in 3 months
Every caller was like ‘HOW CAN YOU BE THIS STUPID????”
Why? Because all they would do is blame Bush and call people racists.
How does this sound?
"Wealth accumulation is spooky black-magic and companies are out to VICTIMIZE the average-Joe..! Corporatism is a conspiracy against the citizenry, don't buy stuff you don't need..! But NOW, a few words from CREST, we make brushing A PLEASURE..!!"
No advertiser wants to buy time on that show.
Another reason:
A bigger and bigger part of leftism is simply, GIMME STUFF. Their supporters don't want to spend a lot of time listening and thinking about stuff.
They want the STUFF --in return for nothing.
In talk radio the bond is intimate, but it takes more time and it involves THINKING, not feeling.
Lefties don't like that.
I don’t think that makes any sense?
They don’t need them, they’ve got everything else.
Pacifica pulled out of physical radio years ago...IIRC it’s available by modem...
lol.. what is a modem?
:p
Handel is an idiot....and John and Ken...aren’t far behind.
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