Who are conservatives' favorite radio entertainers?

These show business personalities exert considerable influence in deciding which issues their loyal followers should fixate upon and the positions they should espouse in regard to them in a way that no politician, actually confronting the complicated exigencies of reality, can manage.

Why do such celebrities wield such power over a particular ideological ilk? How do these nattering nabobs pull it off?

I'd suggest that freedom from the demands of actual governance licenses them to espouse uncut ideology, lethal in reality, but infinitely applicable to the ever-indulgent, permissive world of make-believe where pigs can fly.

THE GREAT ESCAPISTS:

1. Rush Limbaugh

2. Sean Hannity

3. Dave Ramsey

4. Michael Savage

5. Glenn Beck

6. Mark Levin

7. Howard Stern

8. Joe Madison

9. Thom Hartmann

10. Mike Gallagher

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/03/2...greatest-conservative-talk-radio-hosts-today/

Quite a few real politicians must envy the footloose and fancy-free status these privileged, rabble-rousing kibitzers enjoy.

Sitting behind a microphone and passing gas is so much easier than standing on principle and passing legislation - and far more profitable if you find a receptive audience, of course.

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"That's show biz, Folks!"​

 

Mine is Howard stern and podcast like hardcore history by Dan Carlin.
Get free podcast. He is amazing. Really great stuff there. Can't recommend it enough.

 

Stern? HIs politics vary...supported republicans in NY but democrats for president

 

Ben Shapiro is pretty awesome. If MSNBC picks him up, they will give Fox News a run in whatever slot he lands in.

 

I listen to a local morning radio show, Monsters in the Morning. It's kind of morning zoo, only a redneck version. I really don't understand what this thread is supposed to be about since the OP's rant didn't seem to match the thread title.

 

I can't stand the radio with 30 seconds of talk followed by 7 minutes of ads.

Pass

 

How is this entire discourse unique to the right? Sharpton, Matthews.... etc... are all shills of the left and french-kissers for Obama. Get a grip. This is a piece only to trash the right.

 

It's not. It's just that the venue favors rightists enormously as their ratings attests.

- besides which the topic cites a specific survey without musing as to alternative forms of entertainment.

 

Tim Conway Jr. is # 1.

John and Ken are entertaining.

I miss George Putnam and Ray Briem.

Now Joe Pyne was a legend in his time.

 

Dishonest thread is dishonest, just another flamebait concealed as unsubstantiated conclusion counter to the fact that it's the LW, not the RW in this country who are fascinated by entertainers spouting ideology in both fictional and non-fiction entertainment. Amusingly ironic you quote Agnew ragging on leftists also.

Who do Hollywood and the rest of media other than talk radio overwhelmingly favor? Note the only name on your list mentioned in the thread other than by YOU so far is Stern, who is not what anyone would call a RW ideologue. Telling as to the credibility of your list and the OP as a whole.

 

Stern and Chris Hardwick on Nerdist. I like a little Savage in small doses. Some local morning hosts in my area are good guys.

 

Troll. You're wasting the forum's bandwidth and our time with this sort of childish trash.

 

Of course, if you believe that there are comparable leftist versions of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dave Ramsey, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Howard Stern, Joe Madison, Thom Hartmann, Mike Gallagher spouting their ideological notions over the airwaves to their loyal followers, I shall be happy to see your list.

Yes, I find William Safire's "nattering nabobs" eminently applicable to the aforementioned - literally, power-wielding persons who talk incessantly.

It is my impression that right wing talk entertainment is a uniquely popular - and uniquely American - phenomenon, and its stars seem far more influential and enduring than do their politicians, but if you feel you can match the inventory to which I linked with a tally of comparable liberal entertainers who regale their audiences with ideological fodder, I'm sure it will be fascinating.

I'm always hearing contumely heaped upon these ubiquitous, nebulous, and demonic "liberals!".

Your identifying their ideology-driven media entertainers will be a revelation.

 

http://ltradio.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_personalities

 

Currently
1. John Batchelor
2. George Norry
3. Dennis Miller
4. Mark Levin

All-time
1. Paul Harvey
2. Rush

No longer listen to or rarely listen to: Rush, Hannity, Savage

 

Uh, yes it is.

There is no network of left wing disc jockeys on the radio. If you want to gripe about Matthews and Sharpton, just remember that Fox Noise had been doing vitriolic ranting for a decade before MSNBC decided to adopt their business model.

 

to repeat.... http://ltradio.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_personalities

 

Oprah Winfrey, Rosie ODonnell, Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Barbra Streisand, Joy Behar, Whoopie Goldberg, Martin Sheen, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews, Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Ben Afleck, Bill Maher, Janeane Garofalo, George Clooney, Melissa Harris Perry, Keith Olberman, Martin Bashir, Emma Watson, Sharon Stone, Jody Foster, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, Clarence Page, Garrison Keillor, Bob Herbert, Nat Hentoff, Ellen Goodman, Leonard Pitts Jr., EJ Dionne, Eugene Robinson, Richard Cohen, Jessica Valenti, Eric Alterman, Adam Moss, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Matthew Yglasias, Christiane Amanpour, Jane Hamsher, Franklin Foer, Ezra Klein, Thom Hartmann, Joshua Micah Marshall, Jonathan Chait, David Leonhardt, Frank Rich, Markos Moulitsas, Fred Hiatt, David Shipley, Arianna Huffington, Bill Moyers, Juan Williams, Alan Colmes, Kirsten Powers, Jim Carrey, Anderson Cooper.

Stopped there. Could add dozens more from Hollywood, and didn't even get into the depths of leftist bloggers with significant audience from huffpuff, Nation, Mother Jones, Politico, Politicusa, Rawstory, Slate, Salon, etc., and big newspapers, magazines generally. Nor did I get into soft left media personalities in the Big Three. Nor did I get into LW ideological content and messaging in fictional TV shows. Could easily add a hundred more names, most with far more influence and audience than many of the names on your talk radio list. In fact most of these names were off the top of my head, whereas I hadn't heard of most of the names on your OP list.

But to the actual topic. Your thread is a fallacious effort to paint the RW with some special attraction to ideological entertainers above and beyond that displayed by the left merely due to RW dominance of one media outlet, talk radio, puerile and transparently inaccurate. That premise is absolute horsesht, and trying to typify US ideological media as "talk radio" alone is the height of dishonesty. Anyone reading this forum, comparing the number of times RW or libertarian posters here reference anyone in your list (or any other entertainers, ideologically biased columnists) as a source for a thread or post VERSUS the number of times the LW references LW AND RW entertainer/ideological media sources (RW always in derision as this thread demonstrates) will know this. Just count up how many times certain of our LW posters base whole threads on Huffpuff, Rawstory BLOG POSTS every day to know this without a doubt.

It's the LW here on PF who is obsessed with ideological entertainment as their, -YOUR- posts prove day in and day out, with this thread as the latest evidence. Have hardly ever seen Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity referenced as a source of anything from the RW here, yet NUMEROUS LW threads and posts trying to do what your dumb thread here is attempting and failing.

The left is always gnashing its teeth at opposing viewpoints merely due to their being opposing viewpoints, veiling its censorious instincts under the cover of painting its political opposition as extremist loons. Telling.

 

A person really doesn't enjoy a host unless they relate and agree with the ideology. So these shows are just reflecting an ideology and worldview that exist.

And a host must be likeable for people to "hang out' with them for three hours. Rush is that---he's informative, funny and likable.

Hannity irritates me---yes I agree with his ideology but man, I can only listen for so long before I go to music.

When Neal Boortz was on the air---I loved most of his show but had to turn the sound down when he started demeaning my faith--he didn't have much respect for fundamental Christians. I'd tweak the sound up to see if his offensive rants were done....and if he was on another subject I'd continue to listion.

Dave Ramsey mainly talks about commonsense financial practices....very educational and I don't remember him getting into politics. The fact that you have him on the list---says something about how clueless you are on these guys.

No body is cookiecutter out there---but people who don't take the time to listen are basing their own rants on ignorance.

 

Right wing talk radio is unique. The few liberal talkers have tiny audiences in comparison.

I found it both interesting and revealing that so many participants on this thread equated them with shock jocks like Howard Stern.

I was a fan of that genre when I was sixteen. By the time I was in college, I had long since become bored with shock jocks and their high school locker room lowbrow humor.

Its not surprising that people like Limbaugh and Levin get compared to them. Some of the folks making the comparison seem to be unconsious of the irony.

Certainly AM right wing talk radio IS patterned off shock jock radio.

Both have fundamental things in common. Both entertain their audiences by validation, never straying too far from the audience's comfort zone.

But more importantly, both are focused on getting a rise out of the audience, either with humor or manufactured outrage.

The problem with "did-he-really-just-say-that-on-the-air" radio, is the yesterday's shock is tommorrow's commonplace.

And the audience gets bored with commonplace very quickly.

So, in both cases, it's a constant race to the bottom.

Of course, there's a danger in the power of political disc jockeys, and the GOP has always had a love hate relationship with them.

Limbaugh may have addressed the incoming GOP freshman Congressional class in 1994, but he angered the party when he got in front of the wave to get rid of Rumsfeld. You don't see him at CPAC anymore either.

The problem with the GOP is that while these voices, like Fox, can be powerful engines to rally the base, the party and the political operatives who work the conservative universe have little control over them.

They also have different objectives.

The GOP wants to win elections.

Rush Limbaugh wants ratings. And he doesn't care if what he say angers the GOP as long as he gets the rise he wants out of his audience. The same is true of Fox.

You would have thought that the GOP would have considered the perils of show business types as political spokesmen when the decided on a Vice Presidential candidate primarily on her looks and her ability to sound like a shock jock in a skirt.

But they didn't, and now shock jock spokesmen have been joined by tabloid celebrity candidates.

Neither group is really intrested in governing or real politics. They just want to play at it on radio and television.

The problem for conservatives, is that the audience doesn't seem to know the difference.

 

Repeat it all day if you like. This list is a decade old, and none of these people ever had a fraction of the audience that Limpballs and Hammity and Levin have. That's partly because of lack of access to distribution,

But it's mainly because liberals don't go in for the sort of empty vitriol that permeates right wing talk radio.

 

It looks like the one who is being dishonest here is you.

This thread is about talk radio, and the fact that it is dominated by right wing vitriol peddlers.

Ordinarilly, this would bring out a bunch of right wing chest thumping equating ratings with content and quality, as usually happens when Fox comes up. In the past, this was a standard right wing meme. Right wing talk radio has a better message because people listen to it, that's been the theme.

Oddly, not so much now!

Your first two paragraphs are a non sequiter.

We are talking about talk radio here, not bloggers, actors, magazine editors, television personalities or publications.

Your attempt to try and justify the level of vitriol on right wing talk radio by equating it to other media, most of which is nowhere near as lowbrow or vitriolic is the real dishonesty.

It only happens two or three times a week here.

 

Great catch. I didn't bother googling the names on OP's list I hadn't heard of, but yeah, Ramsey is a financial planner what little I've heard of him. That OP puts Howard Stern on his list is funny as well. Some of the others I have no clue, and not going to bother googling. Essentially OP and ilk don't like Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck and Levin, and instead of simply stating that, craft some mountain of BS about how those entertainers somehow dominate the US nonleft. They don't, and this forum, THIS THREAD ITSELF, is proof.

 

Your list seems to include a gaggle of Hollywood future has-beens. This thread asks conservative radio personalities.
In fact your list almost made me throw up in my mouth.

 

I used to listen to Schnitt. However, he became a braggart about his Corvettes, BMWs, SCUBA and the likes. So now I am listening to Hannity.