Why?

Listen to Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. 98% of his show is
–bashing the Liberals
–making up lies and false stories about Obama/Pelosi/Clinton/the Dem du jour
–screaming about how he’s right and the libs are wrong
–interviewing dittoheads who slober over his every utterance.
This makes for exciting radio, like listening to a 3-ring circus.

Liberals, on the other hand, would rather talk about solutions, policies, and ways to compromise and move forward. This, unfortunately, makes for very boring radio.

Broadcasters looking for ratings would rather have the 3 ring circus (led by the drug-fueled ringmaster) than a sedate, sane discussion of solutions to our country’s problems. Who can blame the broadcasters?

Yes, there’s a lot of good stuff on NPR, I’ll grant you. And I agree that there are plenty of conservative guests on it as well. The conservative views are always rebutted by the hosts. A high percentage of NPR stories have three segments: liberal thesis, conservative antithesis, liberal recapitulation. It’s a form of liturgy, really. You can tell when the third segment begins, because there’s always that wise sounding “but” from the NPR person. Sound familiar?

Over and over again surveys of NPR programming has shown their guests have been predominantly conservative. This is probably because most of those whining is done by the conservatives. The conservative perspective gets plenty of opportunity to air out you might say. You can’t blame the network because the conservative balloons fall to the ground instead of floating off into never ever forever land like they do on the A M dial.

On second thought, it might be about the thinner air above C level that causes passed gas to sink instead of soar.

Or maybe it’s the chorus line. You ever notice how the top forty and conservative talk always have to a have chorus line repeated after one or less statements? That might also explain why conservatives have such a problem with hip hop.

Seriously, aren’t you glad your daughter has Click and Clack to ask the questions she’d never ask her father?

Admit it, the cowboy skits done by Garrison and company make you smile. And really when Guy describes that doll, doesn’t your mouth water, just a little?

And have you ever, I mean forever ever, ever heard a funnier song than Forty Acres and a Fool? http://www.amazon.com/40-Acres-and-a-Fool/dp/B001BW5KZ6

I heard it on NPR.

Liberals working…

I like the term progressive but it doesn’t have the punch that liberal carries. Liberal like the N word gets it’s power from the attitude of those who use it as a weapon.

I wish bro Jack the best but I personally don’t believe liberal talk radio will succeed.

Yeah, I know Oberman and MNBC are a kick in the butt and they are handing Fox it’s head. But that has a lot less to do with liberal perspectives than it does with conservatives running for the bathrooms seeking relief from compassionate conservatism.

Liberal talk might catch a conservative crash bump. But long term it will fail. That’s because the nature of liberals versus the nature of conservatives.

Conservatives who listen to conservative media are the Jewish mothers of the political spectrum. They’re whiners. And they get their feel goods over the feel bad. It’s all about them and theirs. And how things are changing and it isn’t for the better.

Liberals on the other hand are the stereotypical glass half full sort. They see inate good where the conservative only sees inate bad. They’re not whiners and they’re not into talking about how bad things are going because times are a changing.

So initially the liberal talk audience will consist mostly of conservative talk radio types wanting ammunition for attacking liberals. Or they’ll get the whiners wanting to eat their own for making conservativism a reality and it sucking so bad. They’ll tire of the different beat of the drum and go back to whining for the sake of whining because whining is what I want to do.

The liberals whom the station targeted won’t ever visit for more than a minute. That’s because they have information radio, NPR. They have kickass interviewers asking the questions you would ask if you had the opportunity to ask the questions.

If you’ve ever listened to Dianne Rhems, Terry Gross, or our very own super wonderful Krys Boyd you know what I’m talking about. They don’t whine or jump up and down on a political point like conservative talk does. They find interesting people with intelligent perspectives and they ask them fantastic questions.

Most of the liberals don’t listen to talk radio period. That’s because they’re living and not whining. They have music, ideas, work, family, the fun of the present and the hope of the future. And they don’t abide whining. It sucks.