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2004-03-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2004-03-30 8:43:31 AM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Janent Jackson's "little tittie in your face" routine really hurt this endeavor. People are getting fed up with low life crap over the airwaves. Howard Stern had great ratings because he talked toilet, stinky shit. And there is a large audience for stinky shit. But now that the airwaves are being more closely guarded with this stuff, what can this new programing offer the spodes.

They can get slick ala NPR. But that just steals NPRs audience. Nothing gained. But like I've said before. Make your Dem Radio as much about music and avant guard art and slide the propoganda in between the lines. Make phone callins against the host taped (and eddited). Bring in all the celebrities you can and goose'm with coke. It'll work.

Posted by Lucky 2004-03-30 9:32:00 AM|| 2004-03-30 9:32:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the thing that will do more to kill lib talk radio than anything else is the sheer dreariness of the liberal message: we're all miserable; everybody's cold and hungry; mean people are discriminating against us; bigoted Republican fatcat businessmen are exploiting us; society is unfair; I have a hostile working environemnt; we're all victims; life sucks; and so on and so forth.

Who the hell wants to listen to a steady diet of such depressing garbage?

Call it Radio Woe.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-03-30 9:54:01 AM|| 2004-03-30 9:54:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 dave D
If your description is correct, couldn't they just play grunge rock 'oldies' instead of actualy hiring people to talk?

Posted by mhw 2004-03-30 10:37:47 AM|| 2004-03-30 10:37:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Hmmm. You oughta suggest that. People wouldn't have to listen to Al Franken's crap, then.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-03-30 10:57:33 AM|| 2004-03-30 10:57:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Lucky don't be helping these guys.... I think your suggestions would likely be more effective for the libs.

Posted by Shipman 2004-03-30 11:44:19 AM|| 2004-03-30 11:44:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I am off on Wednesday and I plan to listen in on Air America. I am trying to go in with an open mind but I can't listen to too much hate America before I get tuned out. I want to hear how Alan Colmes does on the Airwaves. I like him as a counter to Hannity, but I don't usually agree with him. They have to know that if they play rhetoric 24/7 people will tune out (even the NPR crowd). I will let you know how it goes.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-03-30 12:10:55 PM|| 2004-03-30 12:10:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Shipman, I say bring it on. It will be brutal. There is a lot of talent in hollywood and what I said is chump change for those talented leaders of the mass, unthinking, feel gooders. But I think real meat and tasty fried potatoes will still rule.

Never the less. It will take a mighty effort to crack the daytime television crowd and FM hip, hip-hop.... from their comfy zones. Think Antiwar as a warrior for that group. Oh and muckman as their poet. Oh and Muck4, I'm a fan.

Posted by Lucky 2004-03-30 12:22:04 PM|| 2004-03-30 12:22:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lucky: I'm with Shipman. Don't be giving the libs such great ideas, okay? Right--Howard Stern is a separate category. But linking lib talk to quality music and art stuff will give the impression that EVERYONE who is at all cool thinks, or should think, like the lib left. It's the parasite principle. Hook on to something worthwhile and stay there, virtually unnoticed, then drain the life out of the host--make them too weak and sick to fight back. An example of how the libs like to bolster themselves through association with legitimate greatness: I can't even listen to Fleetwood Mac's song "Don't Stop" after the Clinton Dems "nabbed" it--those b-tards! Anyway, cleverly showcasing the droning of nonsense "talk" worked for Hitler, and works pretty well now for the Islamotwerps. Don't underestimate the power of mass media. The libs don't. I just hope their lack of originality will be their downfall. And, as others have pointed out, their (actual) message sucks.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-03-30 1:03:23 PM|| 2004-03-30 1:03:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 does anyone have a handle on the number of stations that will carry the libtalk program

Posted by mhw 2004-03-30 2:07:08 PM|| 2004-03-30 2:07:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 XM and 3 AM stations is the starting lineup

Posted by Frank G 2004-03-30 2:32:53 PM|| 2004-03-30 2:32:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "does anyone have a handle on the number of stations that will carry the libtalk program"

-I heard only 6 according to Hannity yesterday. Less then a tenth of what O'Reilly started with when he went radio.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-03-30 2:42:41 PM|| 2004-03-30 2:42:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Six stations? That's one percent of what Rush has now.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-03-30 4:23:25 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-03-30 4:23:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 NPR II?
Good God!

Posted by tu3031 2004-03-30 11:39:19 PM|| 2004-03-30 11:39:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I hope the idea succeeds for two reasons (1) It will rob NPR of ratings and maybe then NPR can go away (2) It will, hopefully, teach the liberals how to debate again because endless name calling will not lead to success.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-03-30 11:42:46 PM|| 2004-03-30 11:42:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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