Why is conservative talk radio so popular?

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: Duwelon
Let me guess, the best source of news is the Daily Show, amirite?

CNN, BBC, Fox News, CSPAN. I've seen the Daily Show only once. Funny not found.

Your bit on the deep intellectual and scholastic brilliance of Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, et al, however, is a real howler! I especially like how you render Rush's vapid Straw Man attacks as "letting the left show themselves for what they are"! That's like citing Mahmoud Ahmadinajad's deep and honest presentations on the nature of Judaism.

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[Vic]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
In the country things crawl along except on the TV where Homo Sapiens Californicus is on every day.

You heard it here folks. Jerry Springer: bringing culture to the world.

Isn't Springer from Ohio?

Former mayor of Cincinnati, in fact.

 

[Bowfinger]

I think it's a lot like going to church for many people. It is reassuring to sit in a room full of people like you, listening to a sermon reinforcing things you already believe.

 

[Duwelon]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: Duwelon
Let me guess, the best source of news is the Daily Show, amirite?

CNN, BBC, Fox News, CSPAN. I've seen the Daily Shoe only once. Funny not found.

Your bit on the deep intellectual and scholastic brilliance of Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, et al, however, is a real howler! I especially like how you render Rush's vapid Straw Man attacks as "letting the left show themselves for what they are"! That's like citing Mahmoud Ahmadinajad's deep and honest presentations on the nature of Judaism.

And you've probably listened to talk radio only once too. Try listening sometimes, you'll see quickly how much airtime someone like Obama or Biden or Hillary gets.

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: Duwelon

Originally posted by: alchemize
Simple answer now that the diatriabe of trolls an elitists has rolled in (topped off by boyowar821 who never fails to represent).

The older you are, the more likely you are to be conservative.
The older you are, the more likely you are to listen to the radio.
Baby Boomers.

The truth is, nobody can get enough news to be fully informed about the various issues. Personally I love talk radio because a guy like Rush covers a lot of ground. He's not on the radio pretending he's objective while presenting slanted news like MSNBC or others. He's a republican, he doesn't hide the fact, and he presents both sides of every issue, mainly the republican side from his own mouth and the democratic side from their mouths. Usually he has a LOT of sound bites. It's not the daily show where they take a soundbite of Bush and turn it into a gay giraffe joke about Huckabee or something equally stupid. They let the left show themselves for what they are, and then he spends an hour using a lot of logic and reason to show why they're wrong. Yes, i said logic and reason.

Talk radio hosts in general are extremely well grounded in history. Not fantasy tales about hope and change, but cold, harsh reality of what came before. Rush, Hannity, O'reily, Ingram, you name em, like it or not, they're very wise people.

Turn on Comedy Central and most of the time, especially if it's a stand up comedian or some fake news show, you'll get an extreme liberal slant that doesn't even portray the other side properly. Any kind of sound clip is butchered beyond recognition in most cases and when it's not, the joke has nothing to do with the content of the message but the color of the guy's shirt or something like that.

That's why I like talk radio, because it covers much more ground in an intelligent way than most other media, and actually presents the listener WHAT THE HELL IT IS THE OTHER SIDE BELIEVES. You simply cannot learn what conservatives believe by watching the daily show, CNN, maybe Foxnews because they have guests from BOTH SIDES on.

Bottom line, the American people don't want to be spoon fed the batty crap of hollywood, and radio is one the only mediums the left hasn't infected yet because even they aren't creative enough to think up stupid ass jokes and taking things out of context for 3 hours a day and keep the content fresh.

omg dude that is seriously pathetic. Rush presents HIS side and then he presents what he THINKS the other side should be to support HIS side.

All radio programs are like that.

you will never believe or understand that, and for that I am genuinely sad for you.

 

[Duwelon]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger
I think it's a lot like going to church for many people. It is reassuring to sit in a room full of people like you, listening to a sermon reinforcing things you already believe.

Not even close. It's commentary on news that changes non-stop, not about a book that never changes. You don't know what you believe until you hear about what is going on and apply your prejudices to it.

 

[Butterbean]

Because liberalism ruins everything it touches and regular people know it. They favor the enemy over the homeland, the criminal over the victim, the degenerate over the normal, the dysfunctional over the exceptional, the emotional arguments over the rational. Why have schools failed and dumbed-down kids? Because liberals run them. Why has the family disintegrated? Because liberals pulverized it with their own need to recover a good image of themselves. Being spiritual criminal themselves inwardly they outwardly support our enemies because they share the same nature. Of course conservatives can be corrupt as well but as a class libs are almost mutated. Rational people know gov is a problem and not a solution. Thye know high taxes and stupid over-regulation kills economy. They know homosexual marriage is a charade ( a person really needs to by hypnotized to believe that's normal ) and the same is true of global warming. Libs are like a conductor thats fallen into the orchestra and they get trapped in their own thinking and feeling - actually avoiding easy answers to stay lost chewing the mental cud of rationalizations they use to block reality out. Now we have financial collapse due in part to libs giving away mortgages to illegals and bad credit risks. Capitalist financial institutions were warped into social engineering functions and now they are broken. Libs always say they care about the "little guy" but they "help" just to see themselves in a good compensatory light. If something isn't broke they cant fix it so they ah heck things up and then rush in with another bogus solution. They like to play god basically and only end up screwing things up more after trying to fix things in all the wrong ways. When people have a choice they reject liberal media that vomits on them day in and day out. The lib media is dying from this.

 

[Duwelon]

Originally posted by: Vic
I don't watch the Daily Show (or ANY televised or radio news media), but at least Stewart doesn't lie about the fact that his show is entertainment, and not news.

That's a big difference IMO. All these entertainment-as-news shows, whether Daily Show, CNN, Fox, Rush, or the local evening news, exist purely to meet an emotional need. Basically, you're all drug addicts IMO. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as a libertarian I have always believed in ending the war on drugs. But it sure would be nice if people were more self-aware that they watch one show because they're addicted to outrage, or another because they're addicted to the adrenaline rush of fear, and so forth.

Got any sources to support the logic and reason you used to conclude the bolded statement above?

 

[Duwelon]

Originally posted by: OrByte
omg dude that is seriously pathetic. Rush presents HIS side and then he presents what he THINKS the other side should be to support HIS side.

All radio programs are like that.

you will never believe or understand that, and for that I am genuinely sad for you.

No, you've been misinformed and/or obviously don't listen to talk radio. Rush, for example, presents HIS side and then uses an audio device to let the other side speak for themselves. He also takes calls from liberals.

 

[First]

Mostly low IQ.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Duwelon

Originally posted by: Vic
I don't watch the Daily Show (or ANY televised or radio news media), but at least Stewart doesn't lie about the fact that his show is entertainment, and not news.

That's a big difference IMO. All these entertainment-as-news shows, whether Daily Show, CNN, Fox, Rush, or the local evening news, exist purely to meet an emotional need. Basically, you're all drug addicts IMO. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as a libertarian I have always believed in ending the war on drugs. But it sure would be nice if people were more self-aware that they watch one show because they're addicted to outrage, or another because they're addicted to the adrenaline rush of fear, and so forth.

Got any sources to support the logic and reason you used to conclude the bolded statement above?

Even if I did, why would I bother? You'd just attack any source I presented as 'liberal.'

That's the beauty of the talk radio cult. It's a closed logic loop.

 

[Duwelon]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Duwelon

Originally posted by: Vic
I don't watch the Daily Show (or ANY televised or radio news media), but at least Stewart doesn't lie about the fact that his show is entertainment, and not news.

That's a big difference IMO. All these entertainment-as-news shows, whether Daily Show, CNN, Fox, Rush, or the local evening news, exist purely to meet an emotional need. Basically, you're all drug addicts IMO. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as a libertarian I have always believed in ending the war on drugs. But it sure would be nice if people were more self-aware that they watch one show because they're addicted to outrage, or another because they're addicted to the adrenaline rush of fear, and so forth.

Got any sources to support the logic and reason you used to conclude the bolded statement above?

Even if I did, why would I bother? You'd just attack any source I presented as 'liberal.'

That's the beauty of the talk radio cult. It's a closed logic loop.

Kay, but if you change your mind though, post something that supports your logic... inquiring minds want to know and all that...

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: Duwelon

Originally posted by: OrByte
omg dude that is seriously pathetic. Rush presents HIS side and then he presents what he THINKS the other side should be to support HIS side.

All radio programs are like that.

you will never believe or understand that, and for that I am genuinely sad for you.

No, you've been misinformed and/or obviously don't listen to talk radio. Rush, for example, presents HIS side and then uses an audio device to let the other side speak for themselves. He also takes calls from liberals.

Ive been listening to Rush, Hannity, Savage, Hewitt (he is my favorite) Gallegher, Sullivan...hmmm who else, OH and the lady...Laura Ingram.

They all employ the same rhetorical ploys, the same logical fallacies. All of them take their "audio device" for example...Obama and sex education for Kindergarten, and state their "FACTS" that Obama supported teaching Kindergarteners about sex.

Hint: did you see what I did with the bolded there?

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Duwelon

Originally posted by: Vic
I don't watch the Daily Show (or ANY televised or radio news media), but at least Stewart doesn't lie about the fact that his show is entertainment, and not news.

That's a big difference IMO. All these entertainment-as-news shows, whether Daily Show, CNN, Fox, Rush, or the local evening news, exist purely to meet an emotional need. Basically, you're all drug addicts IMO. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as a libertarian I have always believed in ending the war on drugs. But it sure would be nice if people were more self-aware that they watch one show because they're addicted to outrage, or another because they're addicted to the adrenaline rush of fear, and so forth.

Got any sources to support the logic and reason you used to conclude the bolded statement above?

Even if I did, why would I bother? You'd just attack any source I presented as 'liberal.'

That's the beauty of the talk radio cult. It's a closed logic loop.

Its a system to support denial.

It is a sort of denial that one would have to employ a psychologist to figure out.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Duwelon

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Duwelon

Originally posted by: Vic
I don't watch the Daily Show (or ANY televised or radio news media), but at least Stewart doesn't lie about the fact that his show is entertainment, and not news.

That's a big difference IMO. All these entertainment-as-news shows, whether Daily Show, CNN, Fox, Rush, or the local evening news, exist purely to meet an emotional need. Basically, you're all drug addicts IMO. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as a libertarian I have always believed in ending the war on drugs. But it sure would be nice if people were more self-aware that they watch one show because they're addicted to outrage, or another because they're addicted to the adrenaline rush of fear, and so forth.

Got any sources to support the logic and reason you used to conclude the bolded statement above?

Even if I did, why would I bother? You'd just attack any source I presented as 'liberal.'

That's the beauty of the talk radio cult. It's a closed logic loop.

Kay, but if you change your mind though, post something that supports your logic... inquiring minds want to know and all that...

My logic stands on its own. Emotions are caused by chemicals in the brain. Your brain can become addicted to these chemicals, just as with any drug. Entertainment-as-news shows exist to make money (no fault in that) but they've fallen to drug dealing to do it. So you tune in to Rush to get a big pipe hit of pissed-off. Old ladies watch the evenings news to get a shot in the arm of double-check the door locks. And during the day, your hungover ass rushes out to comfort consume, making all those ad dollars money well spent.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: Duwelon
The truth is, nobody can get enough news to be fully informed about the various issues. Personally I love talk radio because a guy like Rush covers a lot of ground. He's not on the radio pretending he's objective while presenting slanted news like MSNBC or others. He's a republican, he doesn't hide the fact, and he presents both sides of every issue, mainly the republican side from his own mouth and the democratic side from their mouths. Usually he has a LOT of sound bites. It's not the daily show where they take a soundbite of Bush and turn it into a gay giraffe joke about Huckabee or something equally stupid. They let the left show themselves for what they are, and then he spends an hour using a lot of logic and reason to show why they're wrong. Yes, i said logic and reason.
Talk radio hosts in general are extremely well grounded in history. Not fantasy tales about hope and change, but cold, harsh reality of what came before. Rush, Hannity, O'reily, Ingram, you name em, like it or not, they're very wise people.
Turn on Comedy Central and most of the time, especially if it's a stand up comedian or some fake news show, you'll get an extreme liberal slant that doesn't even portray the other side properly. Any kind of sound clip is butchered beyond recognition in most cases and when it's not, the joke has nothing to do with the content of the message but the color of the guy's shirt or something like that.
That's why I like talk radio, because it covers much more ground in an intelligent way than most other media, and actually presents the listener WHAT THE HELL IT IS THE OTHER SIDE BELIEVES. You simply cannot learn what conservatives believe by watching the daily show, CNN, maybe Foxnews because they have guests from BOTH SIDES on.
Bottom line, the American people don't want to be spoon fed the batty crap of hollywood, and radio is one the only mediums the left hasn't infected yet because even they aren't creative enough to think up stupid ass jokes and taking things out of context for 3 hours a day and keep the content fresh.

Pure comedy gold! Thanks, Duwelon! I haven't laughed so hard in weeks!

This is not an appropriate response to his post. It just expresses your opinion without challenging a thing he said or showing him where he might be wrong. I would attempt to do that for you for the purpose of illustration, but I fear I myself might laugh and laugh myself to death. This has got to be one of the best examples of rubbish I've ever seen. Sorry Duwelon, you deserve better but I'm stunned.

 

[blackangst1]

Balance sure is absent in this conversation sheesh

Right = wrong
Left = Right? WTF? Even someone conservative like me appreciates the left for balance as Ive explained about my perfect scenario for the white house.

You guys are amazing. Each side as blind as the other.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
Balance sure is absent in this conversation sheesh

Right = wrong
Left = Right? WTF? Even someone conservative like me appreciates the left for balance as Ive explained about my perfect scenario for the white house.

You guys are amazing. Each side as blind as the other.

Your interpretation doesn't sound very balanced.

Let's put this spectrum in perspective:

Reality:
Left------------------------MSM------------------Talk radio

The way Rush tells it:
MSM---------------------here be commies------------------------------------------------Don't forget to tune in daily

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
Balance sure is absent in this conversation sheesh

Right = wrong
Left = Right? WTF? Even someone conservative like me appreciates the left for balance as Ive explained about my perfect scenario for the white house.

You guys are amazing. Each side as blind as the other.

hmmm. I think you need to be more specific to help out your argument here.

Who is saying that the "Right" is wrong and the "Left" is right?

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: Tab
At my job, I have the supposed luxury of helping out various rural farmers with their IT equipment. After several months on the job one thing has stuck out in particular - Rush/Hannity/etc playing on the office radio and requests to make FoxNews the homepage.

Now, my town (Fargo, ND) has a new conservative radio station - The Flag AM 1100. I don't know if it's true or not but it's apparently quite successful.

Why?

I listened for a few minutes in the car about how Obama is so far left he isn't even mainstream left. How coal power isn't bad and the "libs" are trying to hold back - followed by some Coal Companies advertisement. Then it continued to a host and a caller discussing how the Republican Party has left Bush in the dust and isn't defending him - I turned it off a this point.

There's obliviously some kind of fundamental difference between liberal and conservative but I don't understand why "Joe Schmoe" on the radio is trusted and a several-page article in NYT by an scholarly figure isn't believed. How rumors of Obama being a Muslim are spread and believed from a simple e-mail from a co-worker.

No wonder the rest of the world think we're idiots...

It's just a feedback loop, conservative radio regurgitates what their listeners want to hear.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Howard Stern affect

people who disliked Howard Stern were polled as listening to him twice as long as those who liked him

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: alchemize
Simple answer now that the diatriabe of trolls an elitists has rolled in (topped off by boyowar821 who never fails to represent).

The older you are, the more likely you are to be conservative.
The older you are, the more likely you are to listen to the radio.
Baby Boomers.

The older you are, the more likely you are to be live and let live.
The older you are, the more likely to value other's opinions.
Some grow wiser as they grow older, some just grow a shell.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: Butterbean
Because liberalism ruins everything it touches and regular people know it. They favor the enemy over the homeland, the criminal over the victim, the degenerate over the normal, the dysfunctional over the exceptional, the emotional arguments over the rational. Why have schools failed and dumbed-down kids? Because liberals run them. Why has the family disintegrated? Because liberals pulverized it with their own need to recover a good image of themselves. Being spiritual criminal themselves inwardly they outwardly support our enemies because they share the same nature. Of course conservatives can be corrupt as well but as a class libs are almost mutated. Rational people know gov is a problem and not a solution. Thye know high taxes and stupid over-regulation kills economy. They know homosexual marriage is a charade ( a person really needs to by hypnotized to believe that's normal ) and the same is true of global warming. Libs are like a conductor thats fallen into the orchestra and they get trapped in their own thinking and feeling - actually avoiding easy answers to stay lost chewing the mental cud of rationalizations they use to block reality out. Now we have financial collapse due in part to libs giving away mortgages to illegals and bad credit risks. Capitalist financial institutions were warped into social engineering functions and now they are broken. Libs always say they care about the "little guy" but they "help" just to see themselves in a good compensatory light. If something isn't broke they cant fix it so they ah heck things up and then rush in with another bogus solution. They like to play god basically and only end up screwing things up more after trying to fix things in all the wrong ways. When people have a choice they reject liberal media that vomits on them day in and day out. The lib media is dying from this.

Thank you for the fine example of the Fascist Creed. Just what was your source material??

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
Balance sure is absent in this conversation sheesh

Right = wrong
Left = Right? WTF? Even someone conservative like me appreciates the left for balance as Ive explained about my perfect scenario for the white house.

You guys are amazing. Each side as blind as the other.

Your "perfect scenario" just sounds like deadlock. Let's try some middle ground where interests overlap'

 

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: WHAMPOM

Originally posted by: alchemize
Simple answer now that the diatriabe of trolls an elitists has rolled in (topped off by boyowar821 who never fails to represent).

The older you are, the more likely you are to be conservative.
The older you are, the more likely you are to listen to the radio.
Baby Boomers.

The older you are, the more likely you are to be live and let live.
The older you are, the more likely to value other's opinions.
Some grow wiser as they grow older, some just grow a shell.

An interesting side note about this. While you are more likely to be conservative when you are older, it's not because you have become more conservative than you were when you were younger. The world is almost always becoming more liberal as things change, the thing is that people don't change as much as the world around them does. So yes, they appear more conservative as they are older... but it's only because they haven't kept up. They've still become more liberal themselves.

Source.