Smerconish Leaving For Satellite Radio

[ProducerGuy]

Getting back to Smerconish, this makes sense for him.

Absolutely. Cash in before the hammer comes down.

And the "non-partisan" stuff is an act. Either that or the Rush clone he played for years before doing (as I saw someone refer to it) the "reverse Dennis Miller" was an act. Either way, he's disingenuous at best.

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

And the "non-partisan" stuff is an act. Either that or the Rush clone he played for years before doing (as I saw someone refer to it) the "reverse Dennis Miller" was an act. Either way, he's disingenuous at best.
 

That is an interesting selection of words.

Is it possible for a talk radio person or a commentator  (radio,tv or print) to be "ingenuous"?

Is in disingenuous on our part to have an expectation that they be ingenuous?

I expect my minister to be ingenuous.  I expect my spouse to be ingenuous... at least in her relationship and connection to me.

Talk radio folks and all sorts of commentators are in the business of "herding cats" otherwise known as 'the political animals' that have chosen to be part of the process we call self government.

If you are going to be a talk radio person, a political columnist, at TV talking head...   and you are going to try to make sense of the "un-herdable cats" who make up the political process of begging and pleading with VOTERS to let them play their games,  how can ANYONE in this daisy-chain of information be ingenuous when apparently THE VOTERS,  the CITIZENS are demonstrating via the ballot box and the straw polls and the primary process that VOTERS ARE DISINGENUOUS?

[ProducerGuy]

Good point. It's POSSIBLE for a host to be ingenuous. Unfortunately it's not common. It's obvious which ones are "true believers" and which are putting on an act. A better way to describe Smerconish is that he switched his "act" midstream.

[MC]

on the person with the long commute...boy with the cost of housing in urban areas, or gas and transportation... it is getting really cut throat out there.  If you want a radio job, get a dodge van out in the parking lot and a gym membership to take a shower... no kidding...  I cannot believe what people are up against.  Smerconish  should  do well if he taps into the struggling middle class issues.

[wadio]

None of us can get into Smerconish's head.  Personally I don't think it's an act.  People do change their views over time.  Rush and Sean may well have changed their views over the past couple of decades but for them it's too risky to change the format.   

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

None of us can get into Smerconish's head.  Personally I don't think it's an act.  People do change their views over time.  Rush and Sean may well have changed their views over the past couple of decades but for them it's too risky to change the format.   

When I read the last sentence you wrote,  I come away with the idea that maybe you suspect that down deep Rush and Sean have changed their views in the direction that maybe Smerconish has changed.

Let me offer this possibility:  Rush and Sean started out a bit more centrist but quickly learned how to put on the "rigidly Right" ACT because it seemed to play well with the audience.  Is is possible that if Rush and Sean have changed their views,  their "internal Clock" or internal compass if you please, has indeed changed.... farther and farther and farther to the right.

Who is the REAL Rush?  Who is the REAL Sean?  Does it even matter?

Who is the real Smerconish?  Does it even matter?

Which brings us to the question of the day as framed by so much of Talk Radio:

Who is the REAL Thomas Jefferson?  Does it matter?

Who is the REAL James Monroe?  Does it matter?

Who is the REAL Ben Franklin?  Does it matter?

We will probably never know the answer to any of my questions by listening to the radio.

[ProducerGuy]

on the person with the long commute...boy with the cost of housing in urban areas, or gas and transportation... it is getting really cut throat out there.  If you want a radio job, get a dodge van out in the parking lot and a gym membership to take a shower... no kidding...  I cannot believe what people are up against.  Smerconish  should  do well if he taps into the struggling middle class issues.

Radio isn't going to solve those problems. Smerconish (or anyone else) would be better off doing a show that takes the listener away from those problems for a few hours. We have enough blowhards trying to solve the world's problems over the air as it is. None of them will make a bit of difference in the end.

[wadio]

Smerconish  should  do well if he taps into the struggling middle class issues.

The struggling middle class could struggle a bit less by not spending the extra $15/month on entertainment.   Personally I'll settle with what's left of ad-supported media in order to save a few bucks. 

Smerconish will vanish into Satellite's black hole as others have -- unfortunately. 

[MC]

KCSB or something like that, the UC Santa Barbara campus radio station archives some of Hannity's early shows.  He has a guest on that talks about gay people or something.  I think Hannity avoids "social issues" and sticks with foreign policy, the budget, size of government, repub good, dem bad, etc.  the gay, abortion, stuff seems to be downplayed.   He did go to the Bunny Ranch however.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x307547

[umfan]

Smerconish will vanish into Satellite's black hole as others have

He's not very noteworthy now, making me wonder why this thread attracts so much interest.