Radio has a unique combination of political correctness sensitivity and tea-bagger ideology.
I also notice that a small minded guy still insists nobody should be allowed to criticize Rush or any right-wing host but feels very free to take shots at hosts HE decides are unacceptable. Sig Heil!
Radio has a unique combination of political correctness sensitivity and tea-bagger ideology. Greed is good but don't say anything that will upset members of any victim/entitlement group (and hire them in the name of "affirmative action," no matter how unqualified and lacking in work ethic).
The same first amendment broadcasters trot out when it suits their interest, necessity and convenience protects anyone's right to make statements others may consider bigoted. If anyone doesn't like it, radios still have on/off buttons and tuning buttons. If enough people do that, a person hired to attract listeners for the spots in his show may find himself replaced. But people who want to organize protests and boycotts or take legal action are just as intolerant as original Nazis (or the religious right).
I also notice that a small minded guy still insists nobody should be allowed to criticize Rush or any right-wing host but feels very free to take shots at hosts HE decides are unacceptable. Sig Heil!
Do you actually know any young people personally? Creativity and quality are not attributes that most of them place high on their lists. The young people I've encountered don't listen because they have the attention spans of midge flies and find any talk about politics boring. If you think it's hard to get liberals to listen to conservatives, or vice-versa, that's easy compared to get the totally apolitical to listen to anything but second-rate music.
Call them out? I don't listen to them. I don't seek out articles to read about them. I totally ignore them. I had to look up who Ed Shultz was when I first saw his name. To me, he is no more relevant than someone doing a Polish language talk show in Warswaw.
Why is it so frequently necessary to make that highly vulgar and sexual reference in regard to the super-conservative side of the spectrum? It just makes those hurling the insult look ignorant and puerile.
I don't care what Ed Schultz says. The entire purpose of this thread was to prove you and a few others are absolute bigots and hypocrites. Thanks for proving me right.
I tried to reason with you a number of posts back, relating some personal experiences that cause me to react as I do to ANY hosts who are quick with the Hitler/nazi references. Instead of respecting that point, you chose to imagine I was using some debate technique to gain some upper hand. I literally sat here just shaking my head at how paranoid and infantile you're being.
This was an exercise to prove a point. The point was that some people here, even when presented with proof, would refuse to condemn a guy who agrees with the politically for making a statement that would get a right-leaning host with similar audience numbers fired. That's Fred. And those that did condemn him would grudgingly do it with qualifiers that "everyone" does it with "everyone" meaning "mainly conservatives". That's you.
This place has become a circle jerk of bashing conservative hosts. It's been that way for ages. This thread proved it. Maybe now if YOU are interested in doing something constructive, you can refrain from the Oxycontin conspiracy theories and other such nonsense. If you want to see someone being infantile, you really should look in the mirror. Or better yet, point the finger at the people calling others "tea baggers" and such.
Sorry if being outed as a hypocrite hurt your little feelings, but we're supposed to be adults here. Take your lumps like a man and straighten up your act and maybe it won't happen again.
Radio has a unique combination of political correctness sensitivity and tea-bagger ideology.
Guys...all of this is bad for radio. We need to be creating reasons to tune in, reasons for people to LIKE radio, not reasons to hate other people. That's the wrong business to be in.
ROTFLMAO!!!!! Yeah, great reasons for tuning in like boring talk or the same little handful of songs repeated over and over and over and over.
Talkradio has become all about hating, villifying and demonizing other people. That is the single most identifiable characteristic of many of the "top" hosts.
And some of the posters here. That is the point. You just keep doubling down on that. The personal insults are just icing on the cake.
Maybe now if YOU are interested in doing something constructive, you can refrain from the Oxycontin conspiracy theories and other such nonsense.