What a bunch of CRAP. You're all wrong. I mean, let's get down to brass taxes, shall we?

Conservative radio works and will always work so long as there's an audience who can call in to vent their fears about someone challenging their GREED. That's all there is to it. Pure, plain & simple.

Don't think so? Try listening for just two minutes to any of these blow-hard neocons without having $$ come into it in one way shape or form.

Liberals, on the other hand, they indulge in quite a bit of social issues. Their compassion level seems to trump anything and everything. Even $$. Which is stupid cause like 'most' everyone else understands, a high percentage of their policies requires raising my taxes in order to attain their goals.

Money or social issues. . . What's more important when U live in a society that claims to be capitalistic yet practices Imperial Fascism? (Did I just coin a term?)

Seeing that both sides love that partisanship game, I guess we'll always be stuck with the lesser of two evils. At least in my lifetime we will be.

Liberal talk radio doesn't work as a genre because liberals do not rely on some well-modulated voice telling them what they should think. We tend to make up our own minds about stuff and don't need to hear our opinions parroted back to us by radio morons like Rush or Hannity.

Now, argue with that if you will, and then we'll discuss my background in radio station programming and the reasons why certain formats work with certain demographic groups and not with others.

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--President-elect Barack Obama
November 5, 2008

No one wants to listen to liberal radio because no one wants to listen to a bunch of left wing crazies whining, yelling and screeching about the rich all day. Or how oil companies are ripping them off. Or whatever news du jour that moveon.org, democraticunderground, or salon.com shoves down their open mouths.

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All you need to know about the energy crisis:
ANWR Exploration Republicans: 91% Supported. Democrats: 86% Opposed.
Coal-to-liquid R's: 90% YES. D's: 78% NO.
Oil Shale Exploration R's: 90% YES. D's: 86% NO.
Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

Yeah. That's why.

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--President-elect Barack Obama
November 5, 2008

Right Wing talk radio is very silly indeed. It's just what Conservatives want to hear and doesn't think to have a balanced argument, instead just slanted biased views that are very Orwellian and nature. Might as well be the Ministry of Truth. My parents listen to it a lot and while I understand what they are saying, the bang on and on about the same issues. Liberal radio doesn't work because like the Jovial one said, Liberals don't need to be told what to think.

Me being a moderate I would prefer Liberal crazies on the radio to here their thoughts, but I can't have everything

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1. There are about twice as many self-identified "conservatives" than "liberals" in the US.
2. Only the far-left think regular media is conservative-biased. Regular liberals believe "liberal bias" is way overstated and acknowledge certain market-related biases, but do not see a need for liberal media. NPR is the closest thing to "liberal media" that liberals want.
3. Liberalism despises "common sense" and "conventional wisdom". Soundbites and opinionated blowhards annoy us. Most of us have a bizarre need to softly defend groups we can't stand when they are unfairly attacked. "Well, that's not quite fair..." and "Well, that's painting with a broad brush." We like long, wordy, explanative stuff better than entertaining stuff that reaffirms our preconceived notions. We're kind of snobby. I have no problem acknowledging that. Better to be a snobby elitist than a control-freak elitist.
4. Liberals want information to interpret according to their values, not constant babbling and regurgitation of what their values are.
5. The younger liberals who are more prone to like to hear a sounding board of similar-minded blowhards... don't listen to the radio!

I'd say when you combine all this, it's a no-brainer.

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And I do not need to know.

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And yeah, your analysis was spot on.

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All you need to know about the energy crisis:
ANWR Exploration Republicans: 91% Supported. Democrats: 86% Opposed.
Coal-to-liquid R's: 90% YES. D's: 78% NO.
Oil Shale Exploration R's: 90% YES. D's: 86% NO.
Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

That would explain the success of moveon.org, Michael Moore, and other left wing people/organizations who feed the left its talking points. Oh wait, it wouldn't. Liberal radio doesn't work because liberals have the mainstream media as well as Hollywood and the internet to feed them their opinions while conservatives migrate almost exclusively to the radio.

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All you need to know about the energy crisis:
ANWR Exploration Republicans: 91% Supported. Democrats: 86% Opposed.
Coal-to-liquid R's: 90% YES. D's: 78% NO.
Oil Shale Exploration R's: 90% YES. D's: 86% NO.
Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

Yes. That's the same liberal mainstream media that played the "wright" you tube tape over and over and over and over again. The main liberal mainstream media that played the "bitter" comments over and over and over and over and over again. The same liberal mainstream media that rides on the bus with McCain and sniffs up his every fart and declares it ambrosia, and then -- to maintain this level of access -- fails to report on his flip-flops or his funny, funny rape jokes, or calling his wife the "c-word", or mixing up Shi'ite and Sunni, or consistently talking about Czechoslovakia, as if that country didn't disappear 15 years ago, or any of the 61 and counting reversals on policy he's made since running for president.

Dog GONE it, but you just gotta HATE that "mainstream libruhl media", don't you JUST???

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--President-elect Barack Obama
November 5, 2008

Liberal talk shows are serious because what is going on in this country is serious business. There is also the concern for credibility, which the Right obviously does not care about. Further, to comrehend a complex idea, you have to listen, critically, rather than just laugh at slippery slope slander...But I don't think that is why they aren't successful.

What makes a show a success? Audience. All day, everyday.


Which demographic doesn't need their brains while working, thus can listen to a radio show? Which demographic is more educated and tend to have intellectual jobs, thus can't be bothered with radio during work hours? Which demographic has been trained to research, thus will research a topic themselves and form an opinion, rather than have it fed to them by radio, or other mass media sources?


That's why they don't work. Liberals are busy solving the world's problems without a radio, while the right is busy paving my street and being brainwashed into thinking that liberals are preventing them from achieving the American dream.

LOL at this whole discussion

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