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Which is your favorite conservative talk radio host?

Which is your favorite national conservative talk radio host?

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TurtleDude said:
LOL so who brainswashes the far left loons who go bonkers over conservative talk radio?
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No one. We just hate to see so many people get thew wool pulled over their eyes and vote against everyones best interests. Even with their millions being spent to brainwash America, democrats still win. Just think how lopsided it would be if republicans played fair.
 
Sir Loin said:
Um, how does one "outsource" their thinking? Is it expensive and can it be done in the car/truck on the way to work? I know last year when I listened to the three hour "true history of Thanksgiving" show as I drove across the state, I said to myself, I'm gonna outsource my thinking, rather than listen to some history on the radio as I'm stuck driving the next 8 hours.;)
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It depends on whether one listens to talk radio purely for its entertainment value, and not as a source of actual information on current events and issues, or if they treat it like the news. If you treat a talk radio host as a guide to current events, then you are without a doubt outsourcing your thinking.

I will say this though, I would put a paycheck on the average NPR listener being more intelligent and better educated than the average talk radio listener. Thats not to say that all NPR listeners are smart and all talk radio listeners are stupid, but on balance, the NPR listeners are better informed.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
It depends on whether one listens to talk radio purely for its entertainment value, and not as a source of actual information on current events and issues, or if they treat it like the news. If you treat a talk radio host as a guide to current events, then you are without a doubt outsourcing your thinking.

I will say this though, I would put a paycheck on the average NPR listener being more intelligent and better educated than the average talk radio listener. Thats not to say that all NPR listeners are smart and all talk radio listeners are stupid, but on balance, the NPR listeners are better informed.
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Well there are a few decades of demographic data on this very topic, and they generally show that talk radio listeners are upwardly mobile and educated. I guess I outsource my thinking as I use all kinds of "guides" to current events, from newspapers, magazine subscriptions books and even some talk radio shows. In fact I outsource my thinking every Saturday to the Leo LaPorte "The Tech Guy" talk radio program too. Have been following Leo for a couple of decades now. Odd thing about all the sources I use is that they result in me quite often being better informed than many others are on a variety of topics. Guess I'll keep outsourcing my thinking as it cost me nada!:mrgreen:
 
I half want to go take a class at Mason to have one under Walt, always fun to listen to. Love the shovel story with his wife ;)

I like Levin, but gotta agree, he has the most annoying voice out of all of them. Its grating.

Savage is a ****ing nutball but god that man has one of the greatest radio voices ever.
 
Sir Loin said:
Two of my favorite annual broadcast by Medved are his the "real" history of Thanksgiving and Christmas shows. A very very liberal friend of mine would not listen to them but I stayed on him for a year or two. Last year I supplied him with a copy of both shows I had recorded on my C-Crane and he loved them both. Which is a strong endorsement, as Medved just gave the straight up history of both. My pal was expecting a propaganda-fest on both accounts, but now listens to Medved frequently. Still disagrees with him on many issues, but really respects the show and Medved's approach and deportment. In fact he makes a point to tune into "conspiracy day" broadcast, which he calls some of the best comic material on air.

You want to hear somebody debunk the Obama birther movement? Medved is your man.;)
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Medved came out against Arizona's immigration law, also.
 
Zyphlin said:
I half want to go take a class at Mason to have one under Walt, always fun to listen to. Love the shovel story with his wife ;)
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Isn't that the truth? If he had his own show, I'd be a daily listener. He's got a way of using a few simple concepts to express his views, and although on first impression, he seems too simple to be real, he is, and he's right on the money.:)

Zyphlin said:
I like Levin, but gotta agree, he has the most annoying voice out of all of them. Its grating.
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I keep waiting to hear that he has exploded while on the air one day.:mrgreen:
 
TurtleDude said:
fear speech

like the police are going to stop hispanics on the streets of Arizona with no probable cause? That if you vote for Bush you vote for another Black colleg being burned down or another black man dragged behind a truck. If you allow people to own "assault weapons" the streets will run with blood? That the GOP will end social security and let our grandparents starve? That opposing Obama is due to "racism". That if we don't hamstring america's economy with cap and trade the polar bears are gonna drown and arizona will be beach front land?

Yeah now that is fear speech and lies

what exactly does Ms Ingraham lie about and what fear speech does she utter?
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I'm not condoning liberals lying or using fear speech either. I'm no hypocrite.

I haven't listened to Laura in a while, with good reason, so I couldn't quote you the things she says.

When I did listen, all her talking points and opinions were along the same lines as Beck, Rush and Hannity.

When they have guests, I become more interested.

When opinions on events and news articles they read are all they can offer, I'll pass. I can read and think for myself.

And I care more about having a conversation (i.e. forums) than straight listening to these people rant.
 
Jerry Doyle! Dang, it took me alsmot 24 hours to remember the guy's name:shock:. He is kind of a mix of conservative and libertarian, and his show was cancelled here a couple of years ago, and if I remember correctly, Ingraham replaced him. Shame. His show was one of the best I've listened to in quite some time. Highly recommend him.

The Official Home Page of Jerry Doyle
 
jacksbrat said:
It takes someone almost brain dead to not see the republican party behind all this "conservative" talk radio. Corporate mogals baught up all the starving AM stations across the nation and use them to pipe their propaganda across America. It's nothing but corporate intrests and the republican party using their money to brainwash America. It's as simple as that. It takes a fool to not see this.
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Liberal talk radio had plenty of backers, however, they still failed. It takes listeners to stay in business.
 
Barbbtx said:
Liberal talk radio had plenty of backers, however, they still failed. It takes listeners to stay in business.
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I think you meant "people who outsource their thinking" and according to fiction are not upwardly mobile and educated. Pretend it is 1990 and claim only "Joe Six Pack" listens to so called talk radio.:roll:
 
Barbbtx said:
Liberal talk radio had plenty of backers, however, they still failed. It takes listeners to stay in business.
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Personally, I think this is because liberals tend to use the internet as a source for information, news, and entertainment than the radio.
 
samsmart said:
Personally, I think this is because liberals tend to use the internet as a source for information, news, and entertainment than the radio.
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I know that if a radio station isn't playing music, I change the channel. I have other things to do other than sit around, swatting flies, chewing tobacco and listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. :rofl Nor do I have any time to listen to liberal propaganda either.

I think that the reason talk-radio is mostly styled for the fringe-conservatives is because the sheeple that do sit around, with their thumb up their ass, listening to blowhard propaganda, just happen to prefer fringe-conservative types of propaganda over liberal propaganda. Liberal's do not appear to me to be as intimate with bias propaganda as the fringe right is. Regardless, even if it validates their own views, they still do not suck up to it. Liberal's tend to be more free-thinkers. (Not to say that liberal thinking is better, just because they thought of it themselves. Just saying most liberals own their own whacky thoughts instead of uploading them from FOXNews and sounding like a Dittohead.) Just an observation.

Just a thought. :confused:
 
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samsmart said:
Personally, I think this is because liberals tend to use the internet as a source for information, news, and entertainment than the radio.
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All the conservatives I know use the internet for all of those things too as well as the radio and books.
 
Sir Loin said:
I think you meant "people who outsource their thinking" and according to fiction are not upwardly mobile and educated. Pretend it is 1990 and claim only "Joe Six Pack" listens to so called talk radio.:roll:
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Yeah, those joe six packs are horrible people aren't they?

It must really be nice to be so upwardly mobile.

You sure are a great thinker.

I wish I was as smart as you.
 
Mellie said:
All the conservatives I know use the internet for all of those things too as well as the radio and books.
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I'm not saying conservatives don't use the internet for all those things. I'm saying that of the people who listen to talk radio, they're likely to be conservative, most likely because they're older and because they don't have an office job with constant internet access, whereas AM radio can be accessed easier. And liberals tend to use the internet rather than listen to the radio. This is why conservative talk is able to be marketed on radio but not liberal talk, but why liberal news websites and blogs do well along with conservative news websites.
 
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samsmart said:
I'm not saying conservatives don't use the internet for all those things. I'm saying that of the people who listen to talk radio, they're likely to be conservative, most likely because they're older and because they don't have an office job with constant internet access, whereas AM radio can be accessed easier. And liberals tend to use the internet rather than listen to the radio. This is why conservative talk is able to be marketed on radio but not liberal talk, but why liberal news websites and blogs do well along with conservative news websites.
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Talk radio was around before most people had the internet at home or at work, so that has nothing to do with it. Besides, today you can listen to talk radio on the internet...streaming audio. And there are plenty of conservative leaning internet sites. Conservative talk radio took off in the late 80s mostly when Rush's show went national in 1988 and many other radio talk shows have come about since then. It only got big because conservatives had nowhere to go back then. Liberals had NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc, etc. so there was a demand for conservative talk to be somewhere, it happened to be in the form of a radio show. For the most part, it has only been since Foxnews started with conservative opinion shows that there was a place on TV for conservative discussions.
 
I'd appreciate it if you'd keep the conversation above a 3rd grade level, please.
 
I'll occasionally flip on Rush's show when I'm making lunch, but more often than not, I'll put classical music back on.

Beck used to be funny until he went off the deep end.

Hannity is a PITA.

I used to be able to tolerate a little of O'Reilly's show, but he doesn't call himself a conservative, so I don't know if he counts in this poll.

Not a conservative, and his medium isn't radio, but I just really like Chris Matthews. He pisses me off, but I like his enthusiasm.
 
LiberalAvenger said:
Yeah, those joe six packs are horrible people aren't they?

It must really be nice to be so upwardly mobile.

You sure are a great thinker.

I wish I was as smart as you.
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Yes being able to read decades of demographic data and market research does indeed help one think about matters, as versus some of the rather vacuous stabs at so called reason we are seeing in thread. And yeah, during the early 90s when talk radio programming "blew up" lots of ignorant people tried to label anyone listening to it as Joe Six pack. Basically saying stuff like Captain America did about tobacco juice blah blah blah. Of course that was in the early 90s and since then we do in fact know better. Well some of us who bother to read do, the rest are left having to spin the facts of the matter. Thanks for playing though.;)

StandUpChuck said:
I'll occasionally flip on Rush's show when I'm making lunch, but more often than not, I'll put classical music back on.

Beck used to be funny until he went off the deep end.

Hannity is a PITA.

I used to be able to tolerate a little of O'Reilly's show, but he doesn't call himself a conservative, so I don't know if he counts in this poll.

Not a conservative, and his medium isn't radio, but I just really like Chris Matthews. He pisses me off, but I like his enthusiasm.
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Actually O'Reilly's radio show was canceled a couple of years ago.;)
 
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Sir Loin said:
Actually O'Reilly's radio show was canceled a couple of years ago.;)
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Was it because of the loofa sponge? Like I said, I used to be able to tolerate it. ;) I've never been a regular listener to any of these people.
 
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