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Liberal Talk Radio -- ABSURD!!!
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I suspect you've got to have a huge ego to be a talk radio host and believe deep in your bimbo heart that 3 or 4 million Americans each day will be better off for having heard your inane, one-sided, and often self serving opinions about all matters under the sun. A huge ego.
Furthermore, I haven't heard a talk radio host yet that didn't try to shoe horn everyone else's views into simplistic categories, like "liberal" or "conservative". Talk radio is all about dumbing down things.
But on the up side, listening to the bimbos can get your adrenaline going. That's almost a public service in itself.
Furthermore, I haven't heard a talk radio host yet that didn't try to shoe horn everyone else's views into simplistic categories, like "liberal" or "conservative". Talk radio is all about dumbing down things.
But on the up side, listening to the bimbos can get your adrenaline going. That's almost a public service in itself.
Ardent Listener
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Its not only the host's opinions that are heard on "good" talk radio shows. The public can call in and present their views too without being censored. Kind of like these forums.
MdmSzdWhtGuy
Well-Known Member
Neal Boortz will indulge opposing views. He often gets a caller who wants to banter with him, and he will simply sit back and tell them they have 60 seconds to say whatever they want. Very often they cannot fill an entire minute with their comments as they were intent on arguing. An interesting technique.
I personally like talk radio. I hardly ever listen to music in the car anymore. But here in DFW we are lucky enough to have an FM talk station which is comedy based and not politically based so I have some options when the political stuff gets too heavy. I like our local guy Russ Martin. Tom Licus is also a hoot. But the real king in my opinion is Neal Boortz. Died in the wool libertarian, and the only one on the air with real intellectual honesty, IMO.
B.
I personally like talk radio. I hardly ever listen to music in the car anymore. But here in DFW we are lucky enough to have an FM talk station which is comedy based and not politically based so I have some options when the political stuff gets too heavy. I like our local guy Russ Martin. Tom Licus is also a hoot. But the real king in my opinion is Neal Boortz. Died in the wool libertarian, and the only one on the air with real intellectual honesty, IMO.
B.
Talk radio can be a good source of "alternative" news. I listen to talk radio and regularly hear discussions of issues or reports of events, surveys, &c that aren't reported in regular newspapers or TV news till one or two days later -- and then in rather abbreviated form. Often they aren't reported domestically at all and I have to go online to foreign newspapers to read about them.
US news is well known, everywhere but in the US, to be narrow and rather biased. Many issues are ignored, with others only one side of the controversy is reported.
US news is well known, everywhere but in the US, to be narrow and rather biased. Many issues are ignored, with others only one side of the controversy is reported.
Darkdale
World Leader Pretend
MdmSzdWhtGuy said:
I love Neal Boortz. I listen to him, Rush and Larry Elders. (I can't stand Hannity or Savage). I listen to Air America whenever I'm near my folks house. That's all they have there. My favorite is Randi Rhodes, who is the most psychotic socialist pig on the air. If you want to listen to someone who actually fits into the most vicious democratic stereotype, listen to her. Al Franken is hysterical and he does have a lot of common sense idea. But politically speaking, he's not very knowledgeable, so you have to stomach him bumbling his way through the issues. And then there is a guy, I forget his name, but he's a big hunter, kind of like a liberal red neck. He seemed very bright and entertaining, but I've only heard him once and never again. I also listen to Paul Harvey at night, on my way home from poker. He's hysterical.
MdmSzdWhtGuy
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Ah, Darkdale,
The more I read what you write the more I like you. I also am a poker junkie, and a libertarian. We really need to get into positions to have some political power in this country. Unfortunately it is hard to get much political backing for our ideas in this country where you either have to be a liberal weenie, or a right wing whacko to get much backing.
Boortz is a very smart guy who happens to have the same educational background as myself, as well as the same political philosophy. He also plays poker, by he way.
Back on topic, I listen to Boortz regularly, and am listening to him now, by the way. I find myself listening to Rush as well, tho there is not NEARLY as much I agree with him on, and Hannity is farther down my list still. Hannity to me, is a prime example of what I don't like about the Religious Right. Very pushy, if you don't beleive the way he does, you are scum, so forth and so on. Not very appealing to me. I do like that he wants to kill terrorists and button up our borders tho.
Long live talk radio, woo hoo.
B.
The more I read what you write the more I like you. I also am a poker junkie, and a libertarian. We really need to get into positions to have some political power in this country. Unfortunately it is hard to get much political backing for our ideas in this country where you either have to be a liberal weenie, or a right wing whacko to get much backing.
Boortz is a very smart guy who happens to have the same educational background as myself, as well as the same political philosophy. He also plays poker, by he way.
Back on topic, I listen to Boortz regularly, and am listening to him now, by the way. I find myself listening to Rush as well, tho there is not NEARLY as much I agree with him on, and Hannity is farther down my list still. Hannity to me, is a prime example of what I don't like about the Religious Right. Very pushy, if you don't beleive the way he does, you are scum, so forth and so on. Not very appealing to me. I do like that he wants to kill terrorists and button up our borders tho.
Long live talk radio, woo hoo.
B.
Faminedynasty
Active Member
Oh that silly Boortz, he sure hates black people, or "aspiring rappers and NBA superstars" as he calls them.
SoyLeche
meh...
Neal Boortz it great - although I haven't been able to listen for a while
Check this out:
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20051215.asp#4
Check this out:
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20051215.asp#4
Ardent Listener
Active Member
In the part of Ohio where I live, we have a radio station call WKBN AM 5700. They carry some of the national talk shows, but their best talk programs are those of the local talk show hosts, who are both male and female. They are seldom rude and allow an honest discussion of the topics. They have to be because people will often meet them while they are out in public.
Although my political views are generally completely opposite his, conservative talk-show host Michael Medved is always respectful of opposing callers, never insults or upbraids them and always allows a dispassionate discussion of their views.
It is unfortunate that more of the liberal hosts do not follow his lead.
Insulting or dismissive responses do nothing to support a particular point-of-view. They give the impression that you have something to hide and have no facts to back-up your position.
I've never listened to this Neal Boortz, but I googled him and found a local station that carries him.
I'll check him out.
It is unfortunate that more of the liberal hosts do not follow his lead.
Insulting or dismissive responses do nothing to support a particular point-of-view. They give the impression that you have something to hide and have no facts to back-up your position.
I've never listened to this Neal Boortz, but I googled him and found a local station that carries him.
I'll check him out.
I agree, Ardent Listener. The local talk radio here in Colorado Springs seems to be more honest and all over better than the nationally syndicated programs. I suppose, like you, that is because the hosts must live in the same community with the people who call into the program.