posted on May 10, 2005 01:39:40 PM new
Jack,jack jack, - jack in the box. Down boy. I was calm and totally objective to what was written. I can read. YOU just dont like to face up to the facts even as they are written in front of you.
"dbl comes to this conclusion...." (bladdy blahh blah blah...) You cant even decipher the difference between a question, a statement, or a conclusion. How the hel1can you get anything else right about what I say?
posted on May 10, 2005 01:44:19 PM new
uncivil??? come on now, Linda. you obviously listen to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and the rest of the right winged blathering idiots. if you think i'm uncivil, how would you categorize these guys? Oh, I see... it's ok for them to do what they do, in fact you defend it, but then you can't take a much more mild assault from a leftie. linda, you have always been nothing but a hypocrite, and you will always be a hypocrite. quit being passive aggressive and learn to defend yourself. the issue at hand was conservative radio being shameful. i have yet to see one comment by you about this subject. instead, you have attacked Air America, have attacked liberals, and attacked the posters on here. How do you feel about your shameful talking heads spewing lies and deceiving their listeners??? You know they do it, but again, you are afraid to admit it. You are afraid to admit anything that GW does wrong, you are afraid to contradict anything that pushes you out of line from the rest of the lemmings that you associate yourself with.
posted on May 10, 2005 02:08:07 PM new
Whats with this word blathering? Are you all like fn blue bloods on this board or trying pass off like you are or some shi*?
posted on May 11, 2005 09:47:53 AM new
Such an UNCIVIL post from the neocons: " I'm beginning to think that ultra-liberals brains function the same way that all human eyes do, when you make statements like that helen.
It's like the eye reverses the image for us....your brain takes what dem posters here say and you give me/blame me for their words. I have never told anyone to leave here...I have never tried to run anyone off. But the one's YOU cheerlead for HAVE done so. Get that brain adjusted so it see's who's saying what to whom. Yours is seeing things on the right...when they're coming from the left. "
posted on May 11, 2005 09:47:54 AM new
Such an UNCIVIL post from the neocons: " I'm beginning to think that ultra-liberals brains function the same way that all human eyes do, when you make statements like that helen.
It's like the eye reverses the image for us....your brain takes what dem posters here say and you give me/blame me for their words. I have never told anyone to leave here...I have never tried to run anyone off. But the one's YOU cheerlead for HAVE done so. Get that brain adjusted so it see's who's saying what to whom. Yours is seeing things on the right...when they're coming from the left. "
posted on May 11, 2005 10:05:09 PM new
What is really shameful is that another Conservative Talk Show bites the bullet today. It was announced that Dennis Miller has been axed. No reason was given, but I would guess the top 3 reasons were, 1) Miller didn't lie enough 2) Miller wasn't controversial enough 3) Miller was boring and not as funny as he thought he was.
posted on May 12, 2005 09:01:28 AM new
Posted by Todd Webster on Mon, 02/14/2005 - 1:34pm
Newsweek Magazine profiles Democracy Radio's Ed Schultz in this week's edition.
Media: Straight Out of Fargo
A Red State radio talker tries to center the Democrats
By Jonathan Darman
Newsweek
Feb. 21 issue - Ed Schultz comes from Bush country and looks like it. At 6 feet 2 and 250 pounds, his idea of the good life is eating wings, fishing for walleye and watching football on TV. He passionately defends his right to own a gun, eat a steak and drive a Suburban. He loves his nation, his wife and his son, who plays golf for Texas Christian. He's the kind of guy the president might grab in a rope line, give a fake jab to the gut and call by his nickname, "Big Eddie," just like a friend.
But Schultz doesn't want to be George W. Bush's buddy. For three hours every day he rails against Bush on his nationally syndicated radio show from Fargo, N.D., calling the administration "government by the rich, for the rich" and Bush's policies an "axis of bankruptcy." The White House is listening. When Bush came to Fargo this month, Schultz's producer was barred from attending the event (the White House blamed local officials). "Is this what the president thinks of us folks in the heartland?" Schultz asked his listeners. "He's afraid!"
To hear some Democrats tell it, the GOP should be afraid. Schultz is coming after them and doing it on their own turf, smack dead in the middle of Red State America. Al Franken and Air America shattered the myth that liberals won't listen to talk radio. But Schultz isn't interested in just preaching to the converted. He wants to do something even more ambitious: save souls behind conservative lines. So far, he's had tremendous success. He's been sitting behind a mike in Fargo for 20 years, but during the past 12 months he's gone national in a big way. Schultz has the fastest growing radio show since Rush Limbaugh's—81 markets and counting. He can be heard inside Republican fortresses like Waco, Texas, and Phoenix, Ariz. His syndicator, Jones Radio Networks, says he'll be on the air in 150 to 200 markets by the end of this year. (Jones also carries "NEWSWEEK On Air."
Schultz's secret is to borrow liberally from the Limbaugh playbook of exaggeration and simplification. When Democrats fretted that Bush was secretly plotting against Iran, Schultz pounded away at the White House, breathlessly telling listeners, "This is the kind of stuff that happened back in the 1930s in Germany."
Ideologically, Schultz is all Democrat—he likes universal health care and labor unions, hates Wal-Mart and corporate crooks—but he also delights in hacking away at his party's more sensitive side. When a gay listener recently called to complain about homophobia, Schultz cut him off. He believes Democrats shouldn't talk up gay rights, just like they shouldn't bash God and guns. Schultz says liberals had better get used to his brand of tough love if they want to win in the heartland. "The party thinks there aren't any Democrats between Texas and North Dakota," Schultz told NEWSWEEK, "so why bother talking to people out here?"
Democrats desperate to connect with Middle America are tuning in. Top Democrats like Joe Biden are flocking to his mike. Ted Kennedy wished Schultz a happy 51st birthday on the air. Hillary Clinton, who sounds increasingly Schultzian herself (she recently toughened her tone on abortion), is a frequent guest. "We've gotten to be pretty good friends in the last couple years," Schultz says with great satisfaction.
Schultz has become such a hit with Democratic insiders that he now spends half of every month in Washington and has an apartment on Capitol Hill. He and his wife recently dined at Cafe Milano, the city's see-and-be-seen restaurant. They craned their necks in search of celebrities and swooned when they spotted two—conservative talking heads Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter. Schultz loathes their politics but covets their fame. He may not want to get too comfortable in the capital. He has a good thing going playing the ultimate outsider, and that means keeping his show, and eating his steaks, back in Fargo, far, far away.
posted on May 12, 2005 09:17:39 AM new
Rusty, is this on radio or tv? I dont know what channel his show runs on tv but whatever it is, even that goes to show you I dont think he had a big audience on whatever cable channel he was on. It was probably all ratings related.
But the other thing is I dont think too many young people are into politcal issues/humor. I noticed when some of them do it, they (the young audience)doesnt get it unless its totally obvious about Bush or something.
posted on May 13, 2005 05:23:44 PM new
Miller is on CNBC. He bombed at stand up comedy, he bombed on HBO, he bombed on Monday Night Football, and once again, he bombed on CNBC. His show was typical of neocon fluff.
Every show he would have a 3 panel group of "experts" come on and talk about current issues. Beyond being boring, the biggest problem with his show was that he would have 1 liberal, 2 conservatives, plus his own conservative view to tackle subjects. It was never balanced. He would generally start by giving the liberal's view, then have the next two conservatives give their views, then he would chime in with his conservative agenda. I saw Ed Shultz on it one time and he did very well, but as usual... the conservative message took up 3/4 of the topic.
dbl- what would you consider young? my experience is that those who are politically active between 18 and 35 are very politically charged whether they're liberal, moderate, or conservative. Don't underestimate the power of that age group. I of course can say that because I'm nestled in Portland Oregon, what I would consider the most politically charged liberal city in America. The same city that George Bush Sr called, "Little Beirut". Something that we are very proud of!
posted on May 13, 2005 07:05:28 PM new
Good to hear(and not surprised) that Big Ed held his own! Smart as a whip and articulate...I listen even when he talks sports!
