FCC to kill sports blackout rule

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

You give Talk Radio far too much credit. At best, one or two out of every 100 citizens listen to Talk Radio. And most of them are already in agreement, so that talk radio hosts are mostly only preaching to the choir.

The biggest problem is voter apathy on the part of the few who do vote, and massive voter fraud on the part of dead Democrats.

Someone who has access to the surveys and other industry documents of audience behavior will have to respond to the accuracy of your one or two out of 100 comment. I don't know those facts, I don't have access to those facts.

Here is what I do know. I live in the "political petrie dish" of a community where 'Appalachia in Overalls" co-exists with "Big Shots driving Bimmers" and guys taking chickens for their last ride over to the Tyson Plant co-exist with the Olive-skinned folks who came here from nations around the world to get their education and now they work in those hi-tech places in what amounts to Georgia's version of Silicon Valley.

And as I stop somewhere to eat lunch, as I bop into McCafe for a mid-afternoon cup of coffee, as I sit and wait while the pharmacist refills my truck-load of prescription bottles, I listen to the conversation around me. I engage people in direct conversation. (One of my children famously proclaimed one day: "My Dad will carry on a conversation with a fireplug.... if he can find one that talks." Now some of these people (most of these people?) didn't listen to the radio. They picked it up from someone at their last coffee stop, some one in the truck dispatch office as they started their day, from their fishing buddy as they went bass fishing in synch with the moon about 11 P.M. last night... an amazingly large percentage of the population is sharing with me the word-for-word gospel of Limbaugh and Hannity. Little country church preachers are apparently listening to Limbaugh for enhancements for their next sermon when they ought to be in a seminar down in Atlanta getting resources from a traveling seminary professor.

People who don't even know where to tune in Talk Radio.... are quoting Talk Radio to me and lecturing me on the proper pattern for voting.

And you just did it with your comment about "massive voter fraud on the part of Democrats." Straight out of the Talk Radio playbook. How many cases of voter fraud by either party have been brought to court in the last five years in this state you and I share as a place of residence.

 

[landtuna]

'Avid Listener' is neither.

 

[Avid Listener]

Someone who has access to the surveys and other industry documents of audience behavior will have to respond to the accuracy of your one or two out of 100 comment. I don't know those facts, I don't have access to those facts.

Here is what I do know. I live in the "political petrie dish" of a community where 'Appalachia in Overalls" co-exists with "Big Shots driving Bimmers" and guys taking chickens for their last ride over to the Tyson Plant co-exist with the Olive-skinned folks who came here from nations around the world to get their education and now they work in those hi-tech places in what amounts to Georgia's version of Silicon Valley.

And as I stop somewhere to eat lunch, as I bop into McCafe for a mid-afternoon cup of coffee, as I sit and wait while the pharmacist refills my truck-load of prescription bottles, I listen to the conversation around me. I engage people in direct conversation. (One of my children famously proclaimed one day: "My Dad will carry on a conversation with a fireplug.... if he can find one that talks." Now some of these people (most of these people?) didn't listen to the radio. They picked it up from someone at their last coffee stop, some one in the truck dispatch office as they started their day, from their fishing buddy as they went bass fishing in synch with the moon about 11 P.M. last night... an amazingly large percentage of the population is sharing with me the word-for-word gospel of Limbaugh and Hannity. Little country church preachers are apparently listening to Limbaugh for enhancements for their next sermon when they ought to be in a seminar down in Atlanta getting resources from a traveling seminary professor.

People who don't even know where to tune in Talk Radio.... are quoting Talk Radio to me and lecturing me on the proper pattern for voting.

And you just did it with your comment about "massive voter fraud on the part of Democrats." Straight out of the Talk Radio playbook. How many cases of voter fraud by either party have been brought to court in the last five years in this state you and I share as a place of residence.

The truth is the truth, regardless of who says it. I never, ever listen to Rush Limbaugh, or any other conservative talk show host since I left Pittsburgh and couldn't listen to Jim Quinn any more. When you make a statement like "We can thank Talk Radio and the talking heads on Cable News/Talk channels. They have convinced the un-rich with the un-kissed hineys that all of this is good for them. What a con-job.", but that's bullshit. Those of us who believe that liberty is the best solution to society's problems, and that hard work and productivity deserve to be rewarded and encouraged believe it because we know it to be true. Some of us are in a position to attempt to persuade others, most of us aren't.

And for the record, the massive voter fraud in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago happened. The fact that some Democrat and/or liberal spin-doctors deny it doesn't make it any less of a fact. If conservative pundits repeated the truth or didn't repeat the truth, the truth would still be the truth.

Earlier today, I was driving south on I-85, and I saw a sign that said "I-285 in 5 miles". My GPS also said "I-285 in 5 miles". No one suddenly installed Spaghetti Junction five miles in front of me because the sign or my GPS reported the fact. Spaghetti Junction was there first. It is located where it is located, and would be there regardless of whether a sign or my GPS said it was there. It wasn't the sign or the GPS that made me believe I was 5 miles north of Spaghetti Junction. I knew from previous trips south on I-85 where I was, where Spaghetti Junction was. The sign and my GPS merely confirmed something I already knew to be true. Talk radio is like the sign or the GPS. They report what is so, but they don't make it so.

 

[FredLeonard]

And for the record, the massive voter fraud in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago happened. The fact that some Democrat and/or liberal spin-doctors deny it doesn't make it any less of a fact. If conservative pundits repeated the truth or didn't repeat the truth, the truth would still be the truth.

Those were old style political machines, which were crippled and made obsolete by the New Deal and reform movements from progressives. You are talking about ancient history. But if the bosses were still operating, they'd find away around voter ID laws just as they found ways against the laws in their day.

Clearly, the intent of these voter ID laws is to thwart people who (1) are likely to vote left and (2) are the "unwashed" who don't know their place. I doubt they will achieve that purpose and I don't much worry about them. But they do make it clear whose side the right and the corporate elite who back them are on.

And you tea people pay lip service to "liberty" out of one side of your mouths as you push to restrict it from the other side. The only "liberty" you really care about is property rights, no limits on making money and no limits on buying elections. I still can't figure out how helping rich people become further removed from the rest of us benefits you.

I'm sorry the Scots chickened out on secession. It's been 307 years and the flame of Scottish nationalism is still alive. Maybe the CSA will try secession again with the whole world watching this time. I hope y'all make it. The rest of us would be well rid of the South. Most of the problems this country has had in our time are because the South was forced back in.