Bob Brinker: New Show Format Features Left-Leaning Guests...

[Tom_]

Bob Brinker's new format includes interviews with distinguished economists and authors in the 3rd hour on both Saturday and Sunday. Some of the guests have been quite critical of Republicans and the current President, and some of their viewpoints are shared by the left. Although this is not a political board, does anyone have any insights as to why Brinker has:

1) reduced his number of financial advice callers in exchange for interviews...
2) now features in depth interviews with guests who in some cases have liberal viewpoints such as:

a) last Saturday, Ravi Batra, author of "Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy" Ravi is author of many other books as well, 16 on amazon.com...including one very critical of free trade...

b) today, Sunday, Robert Maxwell, one of the world's top oil analysts actually in the oil industry, who shares viewpoints with progressives such as the need for conservation and consideration of alternative energy sources.

Any insights into this new format?

Will Bob's Libertarian listeners start complaining? Indeed Bob seems to be politically the opposite of his subsitute host Lawrence Kudlow...

 

[gr8oldies]

Maybe he can pre-record the interview segments and spend less time behind the ike live? I think its a stretch to say the Brinker is now a liberal talk show host.


> Bob Brinker's new format includes interviews with
> distinguished economists and authors in the 3rd hour on both
> Saturday and Sunday. Some of the guests have been quite
> critical of Republicans and the current President, and some
> of their viewpoints are shared by the left. Although this
> is not a political board, does anyone have any insights as
> to why Brinker has:
>
> 1) reduced his number of financial advice callers in
> exchange for interviews...
> 2) now features in depth interviews with guests who in some
> cases have liberal viewpoints such as:
>
> a) last Saturday, Ravi Batra, author of "Greenspan's Fraud:
> How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global
> Economy" Ravi is author of many other books as well, 16 on
> amazon.com...including one very critical of free trade...
>
> b) today, Sunday, Robert Maxwell, one of the world's top oil
> analysts actually in the oil industry, who shares viewpoints
> with progressives such as the need for conservation and
> consideration of alternative energy sources.
>
> Any insights into this new format?
>
> Will Bob's Libertarian listeners start complaining? Indeed
> Bob seems to be politically the opposite of his subsitute
> host Lawrence Kudlow...
>
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[drtylawndre]

Batra wrote a book : "the great crash of 1998" or something like that....he might have been correct in a way with the dot com crash that came a little latter...and Brinker did predict the dot com shake out (market timing)


I think people get tired of the same tired questions...should I roll over? etc.

You can also tell many of his callers are making up how much money they have....like "I just inherted a million dollars etc." and then they didn't know what probate court was.... or the don't know what their house is worth etc.

Lou Dobbs gets good ratings with his independent spin

 

[doc9464]

> Batra wrote a book : "the great crash of 1998" or something
> like that....he might have been correct in a way with the
> dot com crash that came a little latter...and Brinker did
> predict the dot com shake out (market timing)
>
>
> I think people get tired of the same tired
> questions...should I roll over? etc.
>
> You can also tell many of his callers are making up how much
> money they have....like "I just inherted a million dollars
> etc." and then they didn't know what probate court was....
> or the don't know what their house is worth etc.
>
> Lou Dobbs gets good ratings with his independent spin


Its easy for Brinker to sit on the center while he has guests from both sides of thinking for economic policies....he may be emulating "Wall Street Week" and other shows on CNBC possibly? I also think its a stretch to make Brinker a liberal broadcaster.....he might be trying to broaden appeal at most....in my opinion...