Why the Glut of Conservative Talk Show Hosts?

Another thing I have noticed with the Lionel show, is that they do not listen to their callers.  As you say, they have their song, and anyone not singing with them, gets called stupid moronic and the typical left tirade.

Virtually all of the Conservative Talk show hosts I have listened to, inject humor into their message.  My favorite (I have not heard Michael Reagan) is Glenn Beck.  He is conservative, but not a republican and is likely to bash them as the democrats.  But he always does it sarcastically!

All this proves is that your mind needs to be entertained at all times ... sympton of Attention Deficit Disorder. You cant
sit still long enough to "learn" anything unless that information is made "entertaining" to you.

Its pretty sad, and quite common.
Just a note: Fox News viewer numbers are declining ... Air America's listener numbers are rising.

Its nice to have CHOICES.
Oh also ... check out Mike Malloy weeknights on Air America. He gives a history lesson every day.

All this proves is that your mind needs to be entertained at all times ... sympton of Attention Deficit Disorder. You cant sit still long enough to "learn" anything unless that information is made "entertaining" to you.

You apparently did not read my response.  They do not 'teach'.  They lecture, as a nanny to a child. If you need to be lectured to, fine.  It means you are not mature enough to form your own opinions.

Its pretty sad, and quite common. Just a note: Fox News viewer numbers are declining ... Air America's listener numbers are rising.

All I have to say to this pab, is prove it!  Show us the money!

If you want to believe the cliches, conservatives have more money, thus there is a viable market there to support the shows.

Meanwhile, the few rich liberals *COUGH* Al Gore *COUGH* have to heavily subsidize their efforts. There's not enough wealth in the market to self-sustain the shows with advertising.

Consider the supposed bastions of liberalism: PBS and NPR.

What that does to the theory of a Liberal MSM, I'll leave for you to decide.

Maybe liberals are just cheap?

Maybe liberals are just cheap?

very!  Just look at their Tax donation records!

>You apparently did not read my response. They do not 'teach'. They lecture, as a nanny to a child. If you need
>to be lectured to, fine. It means you are not mature enough to form your own opinions.

you have got to be kidding me ... this point makes me laugh the hardest. I hear and read snippets of various
conservative talk show hosts lecturing their listeners on a daily basis.

and "liberals" listening to conservatives shows one thing:
"liberals" arent intellectually disconnected and are open to debating matters. of course if you are a non progressive,
who would prefer to rely on "faith", you close your mind (or whats left of it) to any other points of view.

>All I have to say to this pab, is prove it! Show us the money!

for the love of God, do some research man. I tire of this game.
1) Write Nielsen Research and request the ratings for the top 4 news/media organizations for the past 6 months
2) Google it
3) Write CNN and request their press release on this matter

Learn to do research yourself!!!

you have got to be kidding me ... this point makes me laugh the hardest. I hear and read snippets of various conservative talk show hosts lecturing their listeners on a daily basis.

Name the host and the show.  And we will see.  I doubt you can.

for the love of God, do some research man. I tire of this game. 1) Write Nielsen Research and request the ratings for the top 4 news/media organizations for the past 6 months 2) Google it 3) Write CNN and request their press release on this matter

I did.  They showed you are dead wrong.  I thought you were intelligent enought to at least use some fabricated sites!

Did Al Franken tell you to post this?

>I did. They showed you are dead wrong. I thought you were intelligent enought to at least use some fabricated sites!

Ok lets play your game!
POST your sites up ... I want to see the extent of your research ... and remember we are talking NEWS here not all the other
garbage like "desperate housewives" and "american idol"


GO ON
Post your research info ... AMUSE ME!!!

GO ON Post your research info ... AMUSE ME!!!

Why?  Are you google impaired?  Guess so.  Begone little troll.

The simple answer is conservatives are just more vocal than liberals. Liberals just don’t care if you live a conservative lifestyle until you try to force them to live the same way or try and tell them who the enemy is. Conservatives get all up in arms about anyone who colors outside of their lines even if it doesn’t affect them in any reasonable way. The only consistently vocal liberals you hear are the nut jobs. Yet when they talk it becomes the liberal agenda. Orielly had some guy on the other day talking about some nut job, that they call a liberal, who wants lighter penalties for child molesters and then saying that this is part of the liberal agenda and Orielly just nods acceptingly. That’s about as fair as saying that the white supremacies desire to have a race war is the conservative agenda. Ganeen Garofalo should have been the host of air America Orielly had her on once and she wiped the floor with him, now she’s not allowed back.

Ganeen Garofalo

I think that is Janeane Garofalo.

Dr Guy ... A part of me wants to laugh at you ... another part just feels sorrow.
seriously!!!

I leave you with this:
"the matrix is the WOOL thats been placed over your eyes ... to BLIND you from the truth"

meditate on that for a moment, no more than that ... your ADD being what it is!

Dr Guy ... A part of me wants to laugh at you ... another part just feels sorrow. seriously!!!

that is ok.  None of me wants to laugh at you.  But I do pity you.  A poor pathetic troll.

Poof and you are gone, to gnaw at the next meaty morsel.  Too anonymous to dare reveal their true self.  Just a pathetic example of a waste of human flesh.

I would guess that it is simply the type of entertainment that people of certain political persuasions prefer. Maybe most liberals would rather listen to music during drive time, and watch sitcoms or movies during primetime. Or maybe they rely on real newscasts and reporting by unbiased journalists instead of the proganda and spin of these one-sided opinion shows. Or maybe they are the ones watching John Stewart and Lewis Black make asses out of all the spinsters.

I listen to and watch a fair amount of political talks shows, about equal amounts hosted by liberals and conservatives alike; and would say both sides "whine" and beat certain issues to death, both sides lie,spin, and manipulate the facts, and both sides have more than their share of intolerant hosts.

It's funny how rombios implies that liberal shows are more popular, offers no proof of it, and then demands you prove him wrong.

Rombios, I tell you that Santa Claus exists!!! I DARE you to prove me wrong...

I notice that no one appears to have mentioned the fact that the media, in all its forms, is essentially conservative owned and controlled.

I notice that no one appears to have mentioned the fact that the media, in all its forms, is essentially conservative owned and controlled.

No, it is public owned. Stocks and bonds anyone?  And if you are going to argue that CBS, Newsweek, ABC, and the NY Times are conservative rags, good luck!  I dont think there is enough ink to get there, but have fun trying.

'No, it is public owned.'
Well, that's a relief to those of us on the left who worried previously that Rupert Murdoch and his ilk wield too much power to manipulate the media. And the right accuses US of naivety!

Well, that's a relief to those of us on the left who worried previously that Rupert Murdoch and his ilk wield too much power to manipulate the media. And the right accuses US of naivety

Glad you understand.  Uh, Lawrence Tischler?  Oh, sorry for interjecting some facts into the discussion.

"NOBODY listens to Al Franken, do they?"

I do

"Conservatives, on the other hand, are more consistently interesting."

If you call lying and subverting the constitution and imposing christianity on everyone "interesting", I guess I'd have to agree with you.

"What's more, LIBERALS listen to conservative hosts, ostensibly to "know their enemy". And yet, conservatives just don't feel the pressing need to reciprocate when a leftie comes on the air. It's just not. that. important."

I guess it's not important for conservatives to want to learn about the other sides of issues, or learn about some specific truths that conservative hosts seem to just omit from their reporting of issues. It's what keeps their minds and their followers' minds slammed shut like the hypocrits they are.

"When I listen to a conservative show, I expect to be offended once in awhile."

Yeah, like Rush Limbaugh stating that you're either "for Bush or against Jesus."

All this proves is that your mind needs to be entertained at all times ... sympton of Attention Deficit Disorder. You cant sit still long enough to "learn" anything unless that information is made "entertaining" to you.

ONE: Did I SAY I never listen to liberal talk show hosts? NO. So don't assume things about me based on one blog

TWO: Yes, I DO have attention deficit "disorder", although it is in fact a different way of being wired. How about this? I'm fat, too. Now you can make snide remarks about my weight to further boost your self esteem, ok?

The point is that most people DO expect a certain degree of entertainment to the shows they watch/listen to. Both liberal and conservative talk show hosts tend to have a negative view of the world they live in, the conservatives just make it more palatable with some satirical humour. The only liberal I know who did this successfully BESIDES Moore was Dennis Miller...and even he's admitted to becoming more of a conservative.

I could be wrong, but I don't think we can get Air America here, or I would check your guy out. I'm always on the lookout for good pundits, left OR right...and when they tend to be historians, it's an extra bonus for me.

If you call lying and subverting the constitution and imposing christianity on everyone "interesting", I guess I'd have to agree with you.

I'll give you that Republicans lie and subvert the Constitution, but no more or less than Democrats. Want proof? Look no further than the courtroom battles to overturn the constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage passed OVERWHELMINGLY in virtually every state that had such an amendment on the ballot. The Democrats, who suddenly becamse "states' rights advocates" for all of the three weeks it took to kill Terri Schiavo, forget their calling as they press the Supreme Court to demand that states accept gay marriage regardless of the wishes of the majority.

Yeah, like Rush Limbaugh stating that you're either "for Bush or against Jesus."

Bingo. And VERY offensive.

If you call lying and subverting the constitution and imposing christianity on everyone "interesting", I guess I'd have to agree with you.

I take it you dont know what the hell you are talking about?  Guess so, rest of comment is not worth reading.

But keep it up!  As long as you are clueless, you will always lose.

Yeah, like Rush Limbaugh stating that you're either "for Bush or against Jesus." Bingo. And VERY offensive.

And also very wrong.

>It's funny how rombios implies that liberal shows are more popular, offers no proof of it, and
>then demands you prove him wrong.

Bakerstreet I dont take you too seriously. After all you delete posts from your blog that dont
share your point of view rather than address them. You are both a weakling and a coward.

I imagine you to be the young child who covers his ears screaming "la la lal i cant hear you",
when confronted with a PAINFUL TRUTH.

You probably shouldnt be here ... since there are OTHER viewpoints besides your own.

Now if you go back and read my statement you would realize a few things
1) I never said Liberal shows are more popular. What I said is that viewership of Fox News is
declining ... while numbers for listerners of shows like Air America is increasing. And that
CHOICE is GOOD!!!

2) Second I pointed to three sources of proofs. Google would be too easy but alas .. I cant
past URLS on this blogs ... or else I would. I assumed Dr Guy had the mental capacity to
conduct the research on his own, or at least surf to Nielsen Media Groups website for the
ratings on the last few months.

3) Zogby polls (whatever value you assign them) indicating 50% of America believed Iraq used
Weapons of Mass Destruction in the recent attack and invasion by U.S forces/allies is pretty
sad ... and can be blaimed on the so called "liberal" media which is not liberal at all, but
slants to the right of Stalin.

But I am not so sure its just the conservative media's fault ... after having had exchanges
with people like yourself. Its the mental state with your ILK!