While watching CNN while doing cardio, I noted yet again obvious bias of that “news” network, with Wolf Blitzer dwelling forever on a story that even the network’s own Jeffrey Toobin, obsequious legal court jester to the media elite, dismissed.
Based on one law professor who just happens to teach in McCain’s home state (a fact Wolf breathlessly reported), the network tried to resurrect the story that the presumptive Republican nominee may not be constitutionally eligible to serve (he was not born in one of the forty-eight states then admitted to the Union, but in the Panama Canal Zone, then a U.S. territory).
This has been asked and answered so many time that it seems the only reason Blitzer dwelled on this was to created doubts in people’s minds about John McCain. He’s just recycling old news for partisan advantage.
Seems it’s not just MSNBC which has become the “news” network of the Obama campaign.
And then there was Jack Cafferty wondering if Jesse Jackson’s latest outrageous statement would impact the rabble-rouser’s relevance.
C’mon, Jack, Jesse has been making outrageous comments now for a quarter-century and the media has nourished his ambitions by featuring him regularly while Democratic politicians continue to play court to the charlatan. Even your network, Jack, continues to feature the man.
The only reason he’s been “relevant” for so long is because media outlets like CNN fawn on the repeatedly-disgraced liberal activist.
He’ll only become irrelevant when new organizations stop paying attention to him and refuse to put microphones and camera in front of him whenever he demagogues some issue.
Would the media devote as much attention to a conservative preacher who repeatedly made mean-spirited comments and remarks which border on anti-Semitism? How would the media treat a conservative who headed a non-profit organization (which received money from the federal government) and used that organization’s funds to pay his mistress and support the child born of their affair?
MSNBC: The Epitome of Maturity and Professionalism.
It’s astounding how “journalists” wonder about McCain’s citizenship and run out to find a “law professor” who makes the claim that it could become a legal issue in court. It only leads one to conclude that the “law professor” hasn’t a clue about the law or is a complete shill who will say whatever fits with the article’s template.
you poor repubtards…that noose is getting so tight, eh?
to claim the msm has a liberal bias simply demonstrates how out of touch you are. the msm is owned by corporate america, which in turn owns the gop.
thank goodness the blogosphere has taken up where the media failed – in keeping politicians accountable. surely this wouldn’t have happened had the media done its job in the run-up to the immoral and illegal iraq occupation.
(For the 10,000th time because even though numbnuts will never get it, someone else might) Bias comes from the content of the news, not the ownership of the news source.
R.J. Reynolds once owned Kraft Foods. That doesn’t mean that Velveeta cheese is made out of cigarettes.
As for the blogosphere, thankfully, it helps keep the media accountable… Like when Dan Rather tried to foist off forged memos to bash Bush (obviously in defiance of CBS’s right-wing corporate parents) or when the AP tried to pass off phony photographs of “Israeli Missile attacks.” Kind of phony how whenever “corporate” media gets caught stacking the deck… it’s always to the disadvantage of conservatives and Republicans.
You wouldn’t think a Republican media would orgasm everytime a U.S. soldier dies or shills as Barack HUSSEIN Pussama’s Glavlit. Today’s media suppresses the truth and pushes the liberal party line.
You wouldn’t think a Republican media would have bastardized hurricane Katrina into the bald-faced lie that became. Nor would a Republican media piss and moan because they can’t show dead bodies on TV.
Caught this spot-on comment on another blog:
for the 10,000th time, msm is owned by corporate america. corporate america’s only goal is to maximize profits. in concert with their owners, corporate america, the msm wants to maximize its profits. the gop sold out the people a long time ago in favor of maximizing profits. thus corporate america, its subsidiaries – the msm, and the gop all play a part in this sordid tale of profiteering at all costs. the right-wing bias of the msm has never been more evident than with the iraq debacle…no hard questions asked, and if they were the gop, the msm and corporate america deemed those questioners unpatriotic.
to deny this marks complete gullibility.
get it vk? numbnut.
Don’t worry, you Repuglicans will always have Fox News, the News Station for the 4th Reich.
NAZIism is Leftist. Obama would be a good Nazi.
for the 10,000th time, msm is owned by corporate america. corporate america’s only goal is to maximize profits.
At which they are all failing. The New York Times is rapidly going broke. The “corporate-owned” network news shows appeal to a tiny audience, primarily elderly folk and are all losing money. The average age of an NPR listener is nearly 70.
But it’s okay, I understand. Since you lefties can point to no actual evidence of conservative bias in the news that networks put out… you have to resort to this lame, fallacious “corporate ownership” talking point. Most of the people on your side are dumb and/or deluded enough to buy it. People who can think critically and analyze evidence… not so much.
Translation:
And then there’s this steaming pile:
Well, Pinko, given that Republicans support Israel and the left doesn’t, considering that the left is rife with anti-Semites, considering that the leftist U.N. is full of anti-Semites, considering the historical love affair that liberals have had with fascist dictators in the past etc. etc. etc. Your comment doesn’t make a damn bit of sense.
Who is it that pushes political correctness? Who is it that advocates for speech zones? Who is it that paints anyone who doesn’t agree with Obama as a racist? Who is it who pushes to punish “Hate Speech”?????
Sieg Heil, baby!
BTW, I think it’s fair to say that without Fox News, a whole hell of a lot of liberals would never get on TV. Even a third grader could recognize the fact, just by watching, that more liberals get on Fox than Republicans get on any other network.
What’s more, how many of those liberal networks let as many Republicans have shows as democrats have on Fox?
And as far as free speech goes, I forgot to ask who is it that’s pushing for a new “fairness doctrine” designed to eliminate conservative radio shows?
Nobody wanted to listen to Err America, so they had to rip off the Boys/Girls Club. Nobody wants to listen to the lying piece of crap Lionel or Ed Schultz. Bernie Sanders is going away for a little while for distributing kiddie porn. It would be a big story, but nobody knows who he is and therefore don’t care.
The liberals try to compete, but nobody wants to hear “America Sucks!!!” all day long. So, they have to eleminate the successful competition by any means necessary. Given their propensity to wipe with the Constitution, they have no qualms in doing so.
Dear VK — you need an enema.
Why do I suspect thats Pinky’s preferred solution for everything?
He needs you like he needs a hole in the head.
BTW, Pinko, I believe I asked you some questions.
rightiswrong – just genuinely curious… Who do you work for? No need to give employer or place – just general line of work (government or private sector).
Most of us work for evil corporations. When they make a profit, they hire people and we get paid. And with any luck, some of that filthy lucre ends up in our retirement accounts.
I hate to generalize but, oftentimes, people who babble on about “maximizing profits” in all lowercase text work in sectors paid for by the sweat of someone else’s labors.
#8: heh heh… conservative Nazis – that’s a new one. Funny how all the liberal/progressive countries (like Canada) are the places where people are placed on trial for saying or writing the wrong things. Or there’s the UK where little kids are punished for not praying to Allah.
Friends of liberty, you lefties.
#17: robert – i work for myself. in the past i worked for fortune 500 companies in sales capacities. my last two corporate positions were “downsized” which, naturally, has jaded my opinion of corporate america. (fyi, in one position, i was at 132% of quota with one month left in the sales year; i would have earned a bonus of nearly $125,000 had i made it through the sales year. and, executive mgt found a way to relieve themselves of that expense, as well as a dozen or so other top salespersons and their related bonus expenses, all the while earning huge bucks for their bonuses based on our work. we laughed, though, when the following year, the entire executive team was axed for coming in with revenues at -25% from the previous year).
Dear That Gay conservative, Since I am married to a Jewish Man and his family are Democrats, including relatives that died in the camps, it would come as some surprise that they are Nazis or Anti-Semitic. The Repuglicans just want Israel for their own purposes because they believe that “Jay-sus” is going to come back to the third Temple and some such shit. It might blow you away to know how much the Israelis think of the Republicans and the scandal that the Bush family supported the Bund.
Then there is John McCain’s spiritual adviser John Hagee.
PS. My bubbe told me to write that you are an ignorant man and no not of which you speak.
When did John McCain name John Hagee as his ‘spiritual advisor?’
I assume you can back up that assertion, otherwise, you would be an ignorant man who knows not of that which he speaks.
Not to mention the ‘Bush-family supported Hitler’ thing is pretty much urban legend.
V The K: Here–Read This.
Bush Family Nazi Ties–Read it. and Here.
Once again a liberal Jew who doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to Christian Zionism.
I’m copy and pasting something I wrote somewhere else to clear up some misconceptions about whether or not Christians are just waiting for all the Jews to die like Pinky bear thinks.
I’m a strong Christian Zionist and I want to clear up a common misconception.
It’s often stated that our “agenda†is to expedite/hope for/create the conditions for/advocate policies leading to… the coming war that is to take place in Israel so that many Jews will be killed and the rest of them become Christians and everyone lives happily after.
It’s true that I believe that a future war will take place, in Israel, and that many Jews (and others) will die, and that the ones that get through will recongize Jesus as thier Messiah , though the Jewish people maintain their nationality and special heritage.. They don’t become Gentile Christians.
It is not true that we are manipulating our relationship with Israel to cause this to happen.
If anyone wanted to “speed up†the coming of the End Time, then it requires an Israel in distress, a weak Israel, a threatened Israel. The End Time Israel is on the verge of destruction.
So… if someone wanted to get Israel in that condition , would one be in favor of israel having a strong military… israel having secure borders… Israel not under threat by Arabs within and without its borders?
These are all positions that Christians in the US advocate for Israel. There’s nothign more I want than for Israel to carpet bomb Gaza. Gaza is 1/2 half the size of the City of Chicago. It could be over in one day.
What are the policies that the “normal?†typical Leftist / Internationalist advocate for Israel? Every increasingly suicidal concessions to Jihadi Palestinians.. holding onto the fantasy that the Arabs want peace.. giving up land.. giving up the Temple Mount .. etc..
I dont know any Immiment End Time-Believing Christians who wants or is working for a weak Israel… the End Time Israel.
Frankly I’m baffled what has happend to Israel since the Gaza pullout… they seem completely demoralized.
How many times does Israel have to do these stupid things so that the world could see that it’s really the Arabs who are not peacefull. I think I remember in 2000 when the Oslo War started after the failure of the peace talks “The world sees clearly now.. Israel was ready to do anything for Peace and the arabs still attackâ€
Then i hear after the Gaza pullout “The world sees clearly now.. Israel was ready to do anything for Peace and the arabs still attackâ€
And now they’re saying it again ! Madness.
Of course my American govt is just as mad. But I rather not get into that.. I can only type so many depressing things at a time.
It’s the non-eschatological people who will cause Israel to reach the weak dispair that we find in the End Time. Not Christian Zionists.
What I find interesting is that no one ever talks about what the Arabs regarding the end of the world.
All the Lefties think the Christians are planning things.. Because Lefties are ignorant they have no clue what the Islamic religion says regarding the Islamic End Time.
The Christian End Time is entirely passive for the Christians/Jews. There’s nothing they could do to bring it about it.
The Islamic End Time is entirely active. Muslims have to do things. Namely , kill all the Jews. This is a popular Hadith:
And that’s what the Muslims are determined to do. The Muslims around the world are expecting the Mahdi to come imminently. They will never make true peace with the Jewish, and nor will they with the rest of the world.
Once they think they have a Mahdi, the proper legal authority is then in place for the calling of a worldwide offensive Jihad that all Muslims everywhere are obligated to perform.
But yeah Pinky.. worry about John Hagee.. that’s about as productive as anything else Lefties do.
Pinky the Brainless, do you really expect me to take some frothing moonbat blogs as proof? Please… and where is the proof that John Hagee was ever McCain’s spiritual advisor? Did John McCain sit in his church for 20 years? Did John McCain donate over $20,000 to John Hagee’s church? Did Hagee perform McCain’s wedding and baptize his children? Did McCain ever refer to Hagee as a spiritual advisor?
Don’t get me wrong, I despise McCain and I think Hagee is a boob. But Pinky is flat out lying, and even if I don’t support McCain, I believe people should argue honestly.
And, yeah, I know Prescott Bush worked for an investment firm that had holdings in Germany in the Hitler era. Big whoop. When the left is equally harsh on Ted Kennedy… whose father was an open supporter of Hitler… I
… meh, never mind…
I have a question about liberal Jews in the US. When I press them about Israel, I find that many think that Israel if going to be wiped out within a generation. Yet these same folk wax rhapsodic about Israel and how much they love to visit, etc.
Not being Jewish, I have never quite understood the “nobody knows the burden we bear” fatalistic persona of so many Jews.
This makes me wonder why the liberal Jews are so angry with the Republicans for solidly defending the only democratic state in the mid-east. Meanwhile, so many of these same sons and daughters of the holocaust turn a blind eye to radical Islam and the Palestinian unwillingness to engage in a positive scenario to solve the “Palestinian problem.”
In my darkest moments, I wonder if liberal Jews need persecution to validate their existence. It is Pinky Bear’s comment that makes me reflect on the whole affair. Pinky Bear claims:
This advises me that Pinky Bear is so wrapped up in his hatred of Christian fundamentalism that he believes that ultimately the US interest in Israel is to secure it for a “second coming” which will be the triumph of Christianity over Judaism.
I am not inclined toward racism, so I become particularly confused when this type of conspiracy cabal is let loose.
For whatever reasons, liberal Jews are basically Marxists, even with their bad experiences with super socialists like Stalin and Hitler.
rightiswrong rails against capitalism as follows:
When you consider how many liberal Jews are at the head of the msm, corporations, groups of funds, Hollywood, banks, academia, etc. you can not help but wonder how liberal Jews and liberals non-Jews can be so closely wrapped together.
As Pinky Bear’s “bubbe” tells TGC:
(Pinky Bear means “know” in his comment.) I have a declining understanding of the liberal “agenda.” I understand income redistribution and socialism. What I do not comprehend is why people like Pinky Bear do not have the spine to stand up for what they actually believe.
So, what drives liberal Jews to rush headlong into yet another set of state controls? I often wonder if the Holocaust truly informed the survivors of its victims or if they just need persecution to feel worthy.
rightiswrong is participating in a classic misdirection. The left whines about wealthy corporate interests undermining democracy, and it is true… but only because wealthy socialists like George Soros are actively undermining American democracy.
lol. do some research fellas, the corporate execs of fortune 500 companies donate 4x the amount of money to the gop and repubtard candidates than they do to the dems. fact.
oh, and another thought on the msm and its love of mcsame…where’s all the outcry about his drug-addicted wife who stole drugs from her own charitable organization to feed her habit? barely a word. and why no rehashing of his role in the keating 5 s&l scandal? the media loves him, but even that won’t be enough to save him in november. obama wins easily, though not by landslide measures.
The sad thing is that I DO know what I’m talking about, but your “bubbe” turns a blind eye to the hatred of Jews that’s rampant on the liberal left. How does he reconcile the fact that many of the beloved “protesters” frequently support Palestine?
Remember that house that Cindy Sheehan’s group was using in Crawford? It was more about supporting Palestine and smearing Israel. Liberals routinely point to Israel as the guilty party and the Palestinians as the victims. Supposedly Israel is to blame for the suicide bombers killing Jews.
What’s more, the latest bastardization of the U.N.’s “Human Rights” group routinely trashes Israel and ignores real human rights violations elsewhere.
Your “bubbe” is right up there with gay liberals. He has ZERO interest in recognizing where the real hatred lies. The party of the KKK is not your friend, but they suck your cock and tell you how wonderful you are as long as they can get your cash and your votes and you’ll gladly hand both over because they make you feel good for a brief moment. Then they turn around and pass discriminatory laws against gays and take up contrary positions to what would benefit Israel.
And you’ll do it over again because they’ll suck your cock again and tell you how wonderful you are. Folks that truly care and know what’s going on aren’t buying the bullshit anymore.
BTW, where does Obama stand on Jerusalem? That’s another flip-flop of his.
Hey V! Here’s the proof that Bat Boy exists. It’s in Wikipedia, so it must be true.
Like when they spend a few minutes talking about Obama and a few seconds on McCain? Or is it when TaxCheatermann and Matthews orgasm on PMSNBC whenever Obama’s name is mentioned? Or how about when ABC admits that Phil Gramm was right, but called it a gaffe anyway?
Maybe it’s where Harry Smith is “sad” about Jackson’s comment?
How about when Matthews is “thrilled” about Obama’s “surge”?
I know, it’s the lack of interest in Obama’s lack of experience, their circling of wagons around Obama during Wright-gate and their excessive use of the “guilt by association?” defense?
How about when the media gets orgasmic when Obama has a 15 point lead and then yawns when he’s a few points behind?
How about when the SF Chronice writer gushes over supposed Obama and JFK paralells?
Oh I know! When Brokaw proposes an ad trashing McCain, that proves the media supports him, right?
Sounds like you all swallowed the Blue Pill. You people are too ridiculous for words. How sad you all are.
TGC, you forgot to mention the video of reporters gushing and moaning over Obama on his campaign plane.
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Interesting blog you have here. I came over after reading the fantastic review you got over at Sadly, No!
Unfortunately, your blog is neither gay NOR conservative enough. To remedy the situation, I recommend that you borrow a tactic from other conservative bloggers and inlude lots of graphics of tough looking people with guns. Since yours is a gay blog, as well, you should probably include photos of famous gay Republicans (talk about an embarrassment of riches!) or create a graphic that combines both homosexual activity AND guns. Maybe some sort of Ted Nugent-inspired fetish thing?
Oh sorry we’re not acting in stereotypical lockstep with one another.. maybe you should go to the one of the Leftwing hate sites.
read this word for word and weep.. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza …this election is over.
Dear That Gay conservative, Since I am married to a Jewish Man and his family are Democrats, including relatives that died in the camps, it would come as some surprise that they are Nazis or Anti-Semitic.
Let’s see….there’s Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson, or Al Sharpton and his racist phrases, and then, the best of all….Obama supporter and proud Obama endorser Louis Farrakhan.
Add to that Nancy Pelosi’s support of Hizbollah and Hamas, both of whom don’t even recognize the right of Jews to exist and insist that killing Jews is a sacred duty, and the point is nicely made.
#39
Long article short: “skeet! skeet! skeet!!!!”. One big Obamagasm from one of those “Republican magazines”, eh?
You’re too damn funny, Markie. If the election’s over, then a fork has been stuck in Obama and he is done. I get the impression that you didn’t read the article word for word as you advised.
One of the main things that stands out is that he joined Rev. Racist Bastard Wright’s church as a political move. Classic liberal douchebag. That would be worse than Clinton using a Bible as a prop.
BTW, Schlitze, did you see the cover of that issue? Orgasma camp calls it offensive.
hey, markie, read this word for word:
It’s a Cartoon (Laugh) Riot
ABE GREENWALD – 07.14.2008 – 10:02 AM
The cover of the upcoming issue of the New Yorker (by Barry Blitt) shows Barack and Michelle Obama done up as Osama bin Laden and Angela Davis respectively, celebrating their seizure of the White House with an American flag burning in the fireplace above which hangs a portrait of the actual bin Laden. The joke (I think?) is supposed to be at the expense of the paranoid Right. But in the end all the wrong targets get slimed. That’s what happens with lazily conceived art.
Those on the non-paranoid Right should be thankful. We should be thankful that someone gives shape to the cartoonish imaginings of the unimaginative Left. How valuable to see the full inventory of the opposition’s shortcomings. For example, on May 10, 2004, the cover of the New Yorker bared an illustration of an oil derrick spurting not oil but blood over Middle Eastern sands. We knew then that the Left’s best argument against the Iraq War was as hysterical and unlettered as its worst. And after President Bush introduced the troop surge, the New Yorker ran an April 9, 2007 cover illustration showing 1040 tax forms folded into paper tanks and fighter plans. We could then confirm that the intelligent Left was not serious about the War.That the New Yorker crowd thinks the main issue of Barack Obama’s candidacy is one of racist rightwing demonization is, for a GOP strategist, a heartening revelation. It means the Left is blind to Obama’s non-cartoonish problems: his inexperience, his gaffe-based policies, his abysmal judgment, and the motivation behind his flip-flops, to name a few. The most salient Obama issue is not that the Right suspects him of militant Islamism, but rather that the entire electorate is beginning to wonder what he’s made of. In assuming that the serious Right seeks to burlesque Obama as the embodiment of our anti-American nightmares, the New Yorker burlesques itself. They are broadcasting a lack of understanding of both their opposition and their own candidate. Just as they were proved wrong in casting the Iraq War as a blood-soaked oil grab and proved wrong about the troop surge being a waste.
Pinky Bear and rightswrong are at least good for a lot of laughs.
rightswrong is very much out of touch with reality if he believes that because media outlets are owned by corporations they automatically favor the GOP. While there are notable exceptions here and there, most of the corporations that own the major media outlets have CEOs who tend to support leftist causes and candidates.
And that doesn’t just apply to corporations that own the media. In my personal experiences interacting with other corporation CEOs I have found that those who are liberal or moderate far outnumber those who are conservative. I just returned from a retreat for about 50 CEOs of large corporations. (Contrary to popular belief, tax cuts don’t dominate our discussions or our priorities.) A little less than half of those at the retreat weren’t sure about the presidential election. Among those who had decided who to support, Senator Obama had a narrow lead over Senator McCain.
rightswrong may have had a bad experience with the corporation that once employed him but he is very wrong when he tries to paint corporate America with too broad of a brush.
So, can any of the people who claim the corporate-owned media are mouthpieces for the Republicans and the right name a single movie that came out that supported the Iraq War? Can you name a single Hollywood-produced movie that questions Global Warming? Can you name a single movie or television show that makes the case against same-sex marriage?
Didn’t think so.
trace: i’m not out of touch, in total:
GE owns NBC:
Other notables include GE (nyse: GE) boss Jeffrey Immelt, who spread $11,500 evenly between five candidates (McCain, Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Chris Dodd and Mitt Romney), only snubbing Barack Obama among major candidates.
oh, and trace: here’s a link of top biz execs and who they’ve donated to: obvious GOP trend. there’s another area of media folks and their donations, and it’s a bit more balanced, maybe even left-leaning (tho I wonder if Roger Ailes knows that Greta Van Sustern’s only donated to a democratic candidate). interesting stuff
http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/
so to state i’m out of touch simply doesn’t jive with these reports…
rightswrong: Jeffrey Immelt has refused to end GE’s business relationships with Iran (not exactly a conservative) and his NBC network boss Zucker (?) is probably the most leftwing of the network chieftains.
Don’t forget the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, the St. Petersburg paper, St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Denver paper, Atlanta Constitution, etc., etc., Newsweek, Time, etc., etc.
Corporate ownership is a red herring. The proof of bias is in the product. Examples provided in response to my comment #45: 0
I just thought of another example of how the liberals put the people above profit.
Algore’s Airport/Airline security scheme. Back in the late 90s, Algore chaired a commission that he was going to take measures to improve airport/airline security. Recommendations were made and then suddenly, Algore gave up on the whole thing. Amazingly, the next day, over half a million dollars ($627,000) was donated to the DNC by TWA, Northwest Airlines, American, Delta, United etc. led by (as I understand) Mrs. Tom Daschle.
Then we got 9/11.
OOOPSIE!!!
Mid 90s, sorry.
12: The reason why Air America doesn’t succeed the way conservative talk radio does is very simple: Conservative Talk radio exists simply for the structured opinion of the moderator’s own personal view on the topic at hand. Essentially, the “topic of the day” is set by the moderator and pretty much the only people who are allowed to call in are those who agree ad-nauseam with the commentator’s point of view. At times when people get on the air who disagree with the moderator’s point of view, they are often harassed by the the moderator and always seem to end up getting cut off.
I’ll listen to people like Rush Limbaugh every so often this is pretty much the norm for his delivery. I remember very vividly the day after Hillary Clinton announced back in ’04 that she wasn’t going to run for president that year….it was on a Sunday and the next day Rush simply couldn’t stop talking (ranting) about how he thought she was lying and she would indeed run in ’04. Needless to say, the callers agreed with him. I also found it very interesting that he clearly seemed to have a lack of callers on the subject. He spent a lot of time vamping, saying more and more outrageous things in what clearly an attempt to get people to call and agree with him. Perhaps he should have accused Hillary of having Parkinsons or something.
Also, I find it interesting that people like Rush are broadcast live during mid-day hours. Not a high time for people who actually work for a living (and no, the majority of people in this country can’t keep blogger’s hours) to listen to the radio and spend time calling in to a talk show.
Like it or not, it’s a structure that works for the medium. It doesn’t lend itself to thoughtful discussion or (God forbid!) dissenting points of view. The medium doesn’t seem really ready for listener’s who think for themselves and have their own opinions.
We used to have the Lionel Show on here in Lakeland. He NEVER let anybody who disagreed with him complete a sentence. Then there was one day, I forget what he said, but he smeared a caller here in Florida as an ignorant country hick and then said that Floridians were all ignorant country hicks. Shortly thereafter, his show was not carried around here.
We now have the Ed Schultz Show. He tends to interrupt those that don’t agree, and then when they interrupt him, he gives them grief for interrupting him and gives them the lecture about how only one person can speak at a time. The other night, he did the same thing. The guy didn’t say a word after his lecture, Ed hung up on him and called him a PIECE OF CRAP along with some other adjective, I forget which. Then he ranted about how Republicans ALWAYS interrupt supposedly because we’re not interested in opposing viewpoints.
Clearly, you don’t listen to Rush all that much, if more than once several years ago. What’s more, you seem to only believe what MediaMorons tell you he said. Plus, he never accused anybody of having Parkinson’s. I listen to Rush almost every day, 9 out of 10 times it’s the Podcast. He doesn’t “cut off” people unless he has a commercial break. I can’t think of a day that has gone by without somebody having an opposing view and he always lets them speak.
The reason Err America is a colossal failure is that nobody wants to listen to anger and “America Sucks!” on a regular basis. That’s why liberal radio doesn’t survive. There’s been many hosts and many time slots and many approaches. It doesn’t work because nobody listens. Nobody wants to hear about shooting Bush or blaming Republicans for drunken stupors.