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None. Never tune it in. I prefer BOB because BOB plays what he wants.
Quinn was a much more successful DJ than "Jeff Christie," but Rush has him by a wide margin when it comes to crackpot fear mongering.
Quinn was much more successful as a DJ than "Jeff Christie," but Rush has him beat by a wide margin as a talk radio panic monger.
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Boss Radio said:Quinn was much more successful as a DJ than "Jeff Christie," but Rush has him beat by a wide margin as a talk radio panic monger.
I thought Quinn was a really "groovey' night time jock on KQV. I loved his garlic milkshakes and the bit about ABC trying to make him cut his hair. I never heard him on B94 and I wouldn't listen now.
Glenn Beck was a Top 40 DJ too. I know he was on WPGC in the 80"s, but I never heard any air chexx. I can imagine he wasn't that bad as he has a good Top 40 voice. Too bad he didn't stay in that field.
Why? His political viewpoint is his act.
Parttimer said:Can you JUST ONCE ignore someone's politics and give them credit for their talent? I'm beggin' ya....
I hear what you're saying, but ignoring a political talk show host's politics is even harder than ignoring a music disc jockey's songs. At least a disc jockey makes no pretense of being anything more than window dressing to the music. A talk show host's political opinions are the content of the show. The only thing broadcaster close to being like a political talk show host would be a musical performer from the days when performers had their own live music shows.
Separating Quinn the political talk show host from Quinn's politics would be like separating Porky Chedwick the oldies DJ from Porky's oldies.
I understand what Part is saying.
Would Rush Limbaugh be any less entertaining than if he was liberal? Would his style- the song updates, the confidence on the air, the "I'm the show" format that seldom has guests- work if he was preaching from the left?
Couldn't Michael Savage scream doom and gloom from the left?
I've stated that locally, I like Chris Moore. I think he's engaging and friendly.
Would he be any less engaging or friendly if he was in support of more right-wing causes?
Would Rush Limbaugh be any less entertaining than if he was liberal? Would his style- the song updates, the confidence on the air, the "I'm the show" format that seldom has guests- work if he was preaching from the left?
Couldn't Michael Savage scream doom and gloom from the left?
I've stated that locally, I like Chris Moore. I think he's engaging and friendly.
Would he be any less engaging or friendly if he was in support of more right-wing causes?
Pratte4Life said:I understand what Part is saying.
Would Rush Limbaugh be any less entertaining than if he was liberal? Would his style- the song updates, the confidence on the air, the "I'm the show" format that seldom has guests- work if he was preaching from the left?
Couldn't Michael Savage scream doom and gloom from the left?
I've stated that locally, I like Chris Moore. I think he's engaging and friendly.
Would he be any less engaging or friendly if he was in support of more right-wing causes?
Would Jimi Hendrix have been any less of a guitarist if he had "chickin' picked" a telecaster? Would Willie Nelson have been as successful singing Cole Porter songs wearing a tuxedo in Las Vegas?
Just as different genres of music require a slightly different skill set, so do political positions in talk shows. Maybe the people doing right-wing talk shows could also do left-wing talk shows, but only if they were versatile enough to adjust their styles into to accommodate the different personality characteristics typical of any political genre. After all, in the world of radio political talk, left wing politics and right wing politics are as much different genres as country music and hip-hop.
Talk_Dude, as you can tell is not very experienced in what he is talking about....
Stormychuck said:Talk_Dude, as you can tell is not very experienced in what he is talking about....
How much experience is needed to recognize that there is a difference in the kind of schtick that appeals to different political talk show audiences? How much experience does it take to realize that just as a DJ has to use a different sort of persona to succeed on a country station then he'd use to succeed on a hip-hop station, it takes a different persona or a different schtick to appeal to a left wing talk audience than to appeal to a right wing talk audience?
I'm not saying that some people might not be versatile enough to handle doing more than one kind of schtick, depending on where they find a job. I'm just saying that what works in one genre usually doesn't work in another genre.
How much experience does someone need to be able to recognize that simple, basic, fundamental fact?
So are you saying that you think Quinn doesn't really believe all he's saying and he just knows how to work the conservative angle, therefore give him credit for being talented enough to do so? (It wouldn't be the first that theory's been bandied about.)
corporateradiosucks said:So are you saying that you think Quinn doesn't really believe all he's saying and he just knows how to work the conservative angle, therefore give him credit for being talented enough to do so? (It wouldn't be the first that theory's been bandied about.)
No, I'm saying that there are some posters on here that just rip every conservative host no matter what the context of the conversation.
Rush, Beck and Quinn's success is because they are more entertaining than, say Savage, or Mark Levin, or Mike Gallagher..... or Ed Schultz or Randi Rhodes...
Quinn and Rose are entertaining? When I've heard them, they've been sour alarmists who plug into and exploit people who feel they're disenfranchised.
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