Posted on 05/09/2006 8:44:40 AM PDT by raccoonradio
"I'm not good enough, I'm not smart enough, and doggone it, nobody likes me."
>>hugh
(sic)! This is hugh! Is he series? :)
Yes, right behind the market for the all Caribbean music channel.
If your definition of a "market" is 22 people. I love this, Rush was right again.
Translation:
A liberal radio show might work if we could find hosts people actually want to listen to.
Good luck!
Elsewhere on FR today is a long, interesting read about populism. That's what the Dems THINK they are all about, as their recent wet dream movies like Good Night and Good Luck would have them believe.
But I can't imagine anyone on Air America just flat-out saying what the real working Democrat is truly interested in. Sure, there are SOME urban Dems who care about all that wacko crap, but how often will Air Americans talk about welfare, illegal immigration, religion etc. in non-PC ways that reflect voters who otherwise consider themselves Democrats?
It was hugh and vey series.
>> Bring the fairness doctrine back, g------ it. Have stations where people get multiple views and, along with democratizing schools,
Priceless: True sign of a liberal is embracing the (un)Fairness Doctrine--if brought back it would KILL talk
radio. Stations would be forced to put on "both sides" (you can HAVE both sides--callers are free to say what they want)
but that would mean boring liberal hosts would suddenly invade your fave station--and drag down the ratings...The market drives talk radio. It's what people want, and people want an alternative to the liberal media.
This is why conservative talk radio works and is wildly
successful.
And the part about democratizing schools? What does that mean--that the liberal viewpoint ISN'T being expressed in class? Far from it! Ask David Horowitz about the Jay
Bennish-type teachers out there. Just as liberals feel the MSM isn't liberal ENOUGH, they feel schools aren't, either.
"Give them both sides (indoctrinate students) and they'll
choose the liberal". No, give them both sides and they'll
hopefully see that the liberals don't have a leg to stand on!
I suppose if your definition of work is losing vast sums of money, getting clobbered in the ratings, and having to steal from children's charities.
Liberals ideas can't win in the marketplace, so have the government force it down our throats.
One comment said that basically Republicans listen to conservative shows, and Democrats listen to liberal shows.
No, liberals listen to both--in fact I think more liberals choose conservative talk radio over liberal because "conservatalk" is MORE WELL DONE, MORE INTERESTING. Listen to Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, etc., and you'll hear liberals calling in to express their views (and their opinions are promptly shot down by the hosts).
Ingraham has guests on from both sides. My fave was the guy from Lawyers Against the War. Right out of the box, Laura
asked if it was a good thing that we got Saddam out of
power. He refused to answer a simple question. Asked a couple more times, still refused, then hung up angrily.
Laura's producer called him back to try to get him back on,
and the man referred to her with an obscene term. Go ahead,
libs, the floor is yours: express your views. just be sure and be ready to defend them!
So, people from all sides love listening to and calling conservative hosts. Liberal hosts only have the hardcore
moonbats listening. Many liberals probably tune to NPR
instead, OR, again, they'll listen to an INTERESTING
conservative show. Even if the host has opinions that make their blood boil, at least it doesn't put them to sleep
like Franken, the Ambien of talk radio!
One of the pioneers of talk radio was the late Jerry Williams, who was considered liberal in his day. Later his views moderated a bit and he started calling himself a populist and a muckraker. He'd get on air about the hacks and cronies in
Massachusetts government, and he railed against Dukakis'
1988 presidential run--pointing out to his listeners how
arrogant and ineffective the Duke's governorship was.
One caller to Jerry's show sang "Unelectable..." to the tune of "Unforgettable", referring to Dukakis.
By the late 1980s, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr--
who nicknamed Dukakis Pee Wee (as in Pee Wee Herman)--
made regular appearances on his show. Ultimately, Carr
succeeded Jerry in that time slot. Yesterday he was asking listeners when their epiphany was: when they stopped being liberal. Looking at their paycheck to see how much money was being taken out, and how it was being spent. Seeing the hacks and cronies on the public trough. Big money for
programs that didn't work.
So "liberal" Jerry Williams turned into a "populist" and then into Conservative Howie Carr...a reaction to the liberal
media out there. And a success!
I think his definition of a "market" is "if a few wealthy people are willing to fund it, or if, better yet, we can get a government grant... "
Jerry Williams and Ted Kennedy--priceless! From 1990:
http://jerrywilliams.org/audio/WRKO/wrko12.m3u
(hear above): RUDOLPH Murdoch (acc. to Ted) LOL!!
Is that photoshopped or an actual, honest to goodness, pose? I am almost afraid to know the answer.
Now wait a minute, I've listened to the Caribbean channel - but I haven't listened to airhead America
Hey, unlike Air America, at least the folks on the Caribbean channel admit they've been smoking something.
Well, exactly. The ratings did go down after the New York station switched from the Caribbean format to Airhead America. It may be the last place market, but it is a market I guess.
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