Talk Radio

“I'm rich. I'm rich, I'm rich !!!! MoooooHaaaaHaaaa!!!!
Give me your money!!!

BTW:
You're giving it to me anyway. I live in Montana and we get back $4 for every dollar from the Feds for every $ we pay in Fed taxes!”

“So no one remembers the guys name!!!!

%&&$!!!!!!!!

ARGGGGGGG!!!!!!

80”

“CMB - it might be the guy on "Says You". It's from Wisconsin and we have it on Sat a.m.

There's also "Rewind" with Bill Radke.

I think you can just go to NPR.org”

“Mike don't listen to the voices.”

“CMB, are you talking about Garrison Keillor, he did the Prairie Home Companion”

“Ewker is he from Wisconsin????

8)”

“No, Tom T., I mean torture. They have to run of steep hills and stuff. (Hehehe, tell 'em Aero.)”

“No, Garrison Keilor is from Minnesota, but does his show on the road a lot.

Does Lake Wobegone ring a bell?”

“Minn. I think

the story he told might have been about Wisc”

“Oh yeah, I'm like a drill sargeant when it comes to running! The women are way tougher than the guys too. I made them run 10 miles up a steep hill and on trails every Sunday morning at 8:00am all Fall. The guys whined...”

“I never liked his stories growing up but I do now. Just hard to catch on the radio. We were lsitening to it oneday and my daughter who is in college was laughing at every word he said. She likes to listen to him now.”

“I agree with others...imo, NPR is biased and spreads one-sided propaganda. It IS very informative, but I only take it at face value.”

“I think CMB is probably talking about Prairie Home Companion too.”

“I sent WBEZ in Chicago a email.

No this guy did his show from his house and he used his voice to ask questions and answer them.Used all kinds of cool voice effects to do this show and I need to know the name of it so I can get some of his tapes.

8)”

“I like Sean Hannity, because he is preaching to the quoir, and I don't want to hear the left slant. Altho he has many famouse liberals on his radio and TV shows all the time.

O'Reily is generaly non-bias. I think he is a republican, but he does have left belifes. He does interview the left and the right, and will cut people off when they talk to long and start slanting. He only lets facts on his show.

Rush....is a republican, no dought. See sean hannity...”

“OK this is makeing me every more nutter then what I am most of the time.

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“Savage Rocks!”

“"I like Sean Hannity, because he is preaching to the quoir


what the heck is a quoir, is that some new Republican word...lol

I bet you meant choir.

Hey Tea how did the track meet turn out and is it a private school you go to.”

“Ewker ole Ice prolly meant "queer", yankow him. I'm right with newgirl, NPR, PBS, BBC. I likes the Spin Factor also.”

“I think strat and I should do one of those radio shows with a Hannity & Colmes type format. It'd be a gas!”

“Remember when public radio used to play MUSIC????”

“For sure, a lot of hot air :)”

“I love Talk Radio. Imus, O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, Michael Medved. But I could feel my blood pressure going up. The Imus changed stations, can't pick it up in my office. Moved my antenna and messed up the station that O'Reilly and Hannity are on, and Imus had a whine in the background. I've gone back to KBAC, Radio Free Santa Fe (music) and my mental state has improved, even if I am less informed.”

“Yeah I tried that Path, but I noticed that with some caca filtering, I'd rather be informed.”

“ok, well here's what i do know. npr would sink without gubment money. not one of you tree huggers has refuted that yet. put another way, if it was a business, it would be OUT of business. and it's liberal. no big deal. i want to hear both sides of things. i'm not as shallow as ya'll assume i am. furthermore, if it was receiving federal subsidizing and had a conservative, ya'll would all be hollerin 'seperation of church and state'. so there....


that being said, i'm sure nobody noticed that i said i listen to it quite a bit. i love classical music and they have great blues & jazz shows on the weekends and i like the clackett brothers too and that comedy show on the weekends where they use people from the audience. and here's a shocker, i have even comtributed to it before. i kind of get tired of fresh air...the cheesy way they do ALL their stories, where they play sound effects of whoever they are interviewing for the human interest story of the day. it's a style i just don't really care for. it's often imformative but if that's all you listen to your being indoctrinated. they do now have some shows where they present both sides in a fair way, but that only because of the sucess of FOX and o'reilly and all the rest. at least limbaugh and the others tell you where they are coming from. they don't 'pretend' to be completely objective like NPR and the other big media does. it leads me to wonder why liberals deny being liberal & listening to liberals & and admitting the liberals they are listening to are actually liberal.....thats what makes it indoctrination... sublminal... coordinated. . . propaganda



i'm sorry, but that's the way i feel....now get outta here...”

“Stat, I think you're insane. Just sayin'.”

“Hey I am too......

It feels so good to be crazy!

8)”

“I know Mike. You are insane in a different way though. LOL!”

“I listen to Stern in the morning.

Artex . . .did you catch the porn star lesbian mom this morning??

ANd I listen to NPR the rest of the time.

And I read the Wall Str Journal every morning.



I am pschizophrenic and so are we.




RE: Prairie Home Companion.

This Saturday is the live annual JOKE show. . . just rapid fire stupid jokes.

Lightbulb
Ole and lena
Man walks into a bar
Knock knock

etc etc
ITs great fun


But you have to listen closely . .he flies along.”

“I love the joke show!

What did the elephant say to the naked man?











It's cute, but can you pick up a peanut with it?”

“newgirl....my inner gilligan says i'm perfectly normal in every way .....

8P”

“I have gotten to the point where I can't stomach talk radio anymore. The pomposity of the so-called political experts is enough to make one sick (whether they come from the left or the right). Even Stern (whom I had listened to religiously from the time he was a relative unknown in D.C.) has grown old. The same old stuff just doesn't do it for me anymore. I did have something I wanted to ask here though. I used to work for an NPR station in Tampa (WUSF). I am familiar with all the programming that you folks mentioned before. I wanted to know if anyone remembers an NPR show called 'Word Jazz", done by Ken Nordine. It was a really cool show. Anyone recall?”

“sorry tree...draim bammage...”

“me or you, strat?”

“or both?”

“lmao...well me...maybe you too, lol. depends on how your birfday party went”

“Lee - I missed that. I only listen to Stern for about 20-30 minutes during my commute to work. I only got to hear about 5 minutes of "Stump the Boo-ey" this morning, because one of those loooooong commercial breaks was taking place during most of my drive time. Ugh.”

“stern bores me...anyone can be crude and disgusting...look at violin”

“what are you getting each other for Valentine's Day, strat and Violin?

:-)”

“pistols at 30 paces”

“lmao! i love violin. i think we'd have a great time hikin. it's prolly not his fault he's so misguided.

besides, i'm not a 'violin't person...”

“LOl you all are crazy!!”

“I wonder if http://www.takebackthemedia.com/index.shtml " target="_blank">some people have radios that only get one station.”

“Good one, violin!”

“How strange that a group that supposedly wants freedom of the air waves wants to accomplish it by taking away the freedom of the airwaves.

Anyway, thanks for the list of companies that I need to support.”

“For once I agree with Savage.

I can't stand the filth and lies that Limbaugh spews. That's why I don't listen. Seems too simple.”

“Ok, my radio is tuned into the Neal Boortz, O'Reilly, Hannity Lineup. When I start grinding my teeth I'll switch to KUNM of jazz or freestyle radio, KBAC-Radio Free Santa Fe or put on a CD. 8D”

“Excerpted from Chicago Tribune Article.


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…Radio talkers cater to the audience's social resentments. It's niche marketing.

The niche is disappointed people, mostly men. Andrew Kohut, the highly regarded pollster for Times-Mirror, has described "the typical Limbaugh listener" as a "white male, suburbanite, conservative [with a] better-than-average job but not really a great job. Frustrated with the system, with the way the world of Washington works. Frustrated by cultural change. Maybe threatened by women."

Somebody, in short, who is not as rich, powerful or famous as he thinks he should be, and who wants to blame outside forces. The talk-show hosts help. They blame cultural (but rarely economic) elites and the government for the world's ills and regularly reinforce the listener's sense of being scorned and ridiculed.

On Feb. 18, for instance, Limbaugh criticized New York's two senators, who, he said, complained that New Yorkers paid more in federal taxes than they "got back." So do you, Limbaugh told his listeners, adding: "But more importantly than that, have you ever stopped to wonder what would happen to you if you dared to express it? Boy, would you be tarred and feathered."

Among the privileged classes who have kept the talk-show listeners from their rightful status are immigrants ("You open the door to them, and the next thing you know, they are defecating on your country and breeding out of control," Savage once said), homosexuals, women and racial minorities, which explains the racial and sexual innuendo rarely far from the surface of talk radio.

Where we belong

Most people are not rich, powerful or famous, but this does not make most people potential right-wing talk-radio fans. Most of us have figured out that we probably ended up pretty much where we belong. Our modest talents, limited ambitions and flawed characters explain why we are not president of the company or head of the division--not affirmative action or meddling bureaucrats.

But some find it hard to accept this reality, for which there is a reason: liberalism.

It was liberals who first glorified self-esteem and self-assertion, who first asserted the primacy of the oh-so-sensitive individual vis-a-vis the community, minimally less objectionable than the talk-show host assertion of the primacy of the determinedly insensitive individual vis-a-vis the community.

It was the education establishment, represented by the faithfully liberal National Education Association, that decided years ago that it was no more important for students to memorize the periodic table of the elements or the date of the Battle of Hastings than it was to feel good about themselves.

It was liberalism, in short, that established the mind-set, permeating from the schools and through the generations, which deluded many into thinking that their failures could not be their fault. As society became more materialistic, failure was redefined as not getting rich.

Self-assertion, a psychological measure for liberals, was transformed into an economic measure for conservatives. As such, it followed the course of the scraggly beard, which once proclaimed that no government could compel its wearer to go to war, and now proclaims that no force can prevent him from chopping down every tree in Idaho. Somewhere along the way, self-esteem morphed into self-pity and created a market.

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“That link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0303010270mar02,1,4219566.story" target="_blank">Chicago Tribune Article”

“No one can compel my beard to go to war!!”