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I would like to get the posters thoughts on the President Obama interview that took place today with WPHT's Michael Smerconish.
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Gutsy call on the President's behalf. Smerconish could do better that be angry about the "conservative talk show host" tag. What did he expect the media that didn't get an exclusive one on one with the President to say? "Oh, President Obama is taking calls from you from Michael Smerconish, from the Big Talker, WPHT, 12-10, Home of the World Champion Phightins"?
Conservative is easier to say.
I think the Prez did a good job, but it went in one ear and out the other. The GOP callers still think that the President will come out and tearfully say, "Hey, y'all ... I was wrong. It's about pulling the plug on grandma and that Sassy Sarah Palin was right ... I'm sending in the death panels to your town within a week. I am, like, (takes puff on cigarette) soooooooooo bummed. And please, leave the cracks about my wife showing too much leg at the Grand Canyon to yourself. Philly, hello ..."
Conservative is easier to say.
I think the Prez did a good job, but it went in one ear and out the other. The GOP callers still think that the President will come out and tearfully say, "Hey, y'all ... I was wrong. It's about pulling the plug on grandma and that Sassy Sarah Palin was right ... I'm sending in the death panels to your town within a week. I am, like, (takes puff on cigarette) soooooooooo bummed. And please, leave the cracks about my wife showing too much leg at the Grand Canyon to yourself. Philly, hello ..."
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ccuphl
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"Mr. President, can you cut a liner for me?"
Like Smerconish or not, like President Obama or not, for any talk show host to get to interview the President of the United States is a cool thing. Can't hurt Smerconish's career.
As far as clearing up the healthcare issue, that won't happen until the actual bill is proposed and the media, both liberal and conservative, get to see the entire bill where they can show the public what actually is in the bill. The conservatives citizens aren't going to trust Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Frank, etc to tell the truth anymore than the lib citizens would trust Bush, Chaney, Rummy, etc to tell the turth so that's where both sides of the media come in. Conservatives will trust the news on the Fox News Channel and the libs have all the other networks to choose from for info they trust. What would be great if all networks simply reported what is actually in the bill minus the spin that all networks add, some conservative spin and others liberal spin.
As far as clearing up the healthcare issue, that won't happen until the actual bill is proposed and the media, both liberal and conservative, get to see the entire bill where they can show the public what actually is in the bill. The conservatives citizens aren't going to trust Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Frank, etc to tell the truth anymore than the lib citizens would trust Bush, Chaney, Rummy, etc to tell the turth so that's where both sides of the media come in. Conservatives will trust the news on the Fox News Channel and the libs have all the other networks to choose from for info they trust. What would be great if all networks simply reported what is actually in the bill minus the spin that all networks add, some conservative spin and others liberal spin.
The irony is, the point that Smerconish was trying to hammer home yesterday on his show before the interview (and afterward on "Hardball" on MSNBC) is that he doesn't consider himself a flat-out conservative, since he shares some liberal views. Yet in virtually every single media that Michael and even myself has seen it being reported, the host is portrayed mostly as a "conservative." I recall seeing a banner ad for his show on the now-defunct R&R website when he just started syndicating his shows. The pitch was that his lean was "from just right of center." So by virtue of that, does that make him a default conservative?
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malawichild
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DToTheJ said:
Smerconish is a liberal from the word go. He fools no one with his talk of being a "conservative".
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imhomerjay
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How about he thinks for himself? You know, as opposed to following the RNC's or DNC's talking points in lockstep. I don't even enjoy talk radio of any stripe that much any more, but I respect someone who can make decisions based on the individual circumstance, not some arbitrary dogma from on high.
Some people have a problem with someone who doesn't fit the mold of either a right wing conservative or a left wing liberal. Rush doesn't like "moderates", he claims they're afraid to not take a stand. That is so far from the truth as I consider my self to be a moderate (meaning conservative on some things liberal on others- granted I lean more conservative than liberal, so I'm a centrist who leans right). I've considered my point of view very carefully, unlike some who may simply follow their party's party line.
Same with Smerconish.
Same with Smerconish.
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imhomerjay
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I'm similar, just centrist leaning left, so I understand. Contratry to Rush's nonsense, there are more than just two far ends of the spectrum. What takes courage is to stake your ground issue by issue.
It is one of the sad things about both talk radio (Limbaugh, etc, on the right and Bill Press, etc on the left) and talk on cable (MSNBC's Oberman, Maddox, etc on the left, and FOX News Channel's Hannity, Susstrin, etc on the right) there is no room for the person who is a centrist, seeing some good on the right and some good on the left as well as some crap on the right and some crap on the left. Oberman bashes the right and is as one sided as Hannity who bashes the left and is one sided. Neither had any credibility, in my opinion, because they are so one sided. Both are politicaloges, preaching their message of "salvation" through either the Democrat party or the Republican party. Sorry, that's not where real salvation is found.
Anything that is entirely one sided is structurally unsound. The only place these guys can exist as they claim themselves to be is in the mirror. I believe the person they most wish to convince of thier theories is themselves.Too bad they get the chance to spread it across the airwaves.
MikefromDelaware said:
Hey, how about Campbell "No Bias, No Bull" Brown on CNN? How's that working out for her?
Ugh... okay, bad example, but hey, how about another CNN host, Lou Dobbs - you know, "Mr. Independent"?
Okay, nevrmind...
As far as Greta Van Susteren is concerned, despite being on the right-leaning Fox, she actually has a little liberal in her, believe it or not... Read the end of this article: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26336
I guess one thought with Susteren's move from CNN to Fox, is she really a conservative or liberal, or simply a broadcaster going and saying what she has to say to advance her career? Same with Paula Zahn.
Which begs an even larger question. If our major media giants, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR were right leaning organizations rather than left leaning, would Fox News have been created to lean left, would Hannity, etc, taken left wing views rather than the right wing views they now expose? Or would there have been different folks on Fox? Same with Limbaugh and most of talk radio. If the media landscape had been prodominately conservative rather than liberal would elRushbo have launched a liberal talk format in 1980( instead of his conservative show) and have saved AM radio with liberal talk rather than conservative talk as did happen? Rush saw a vacuum and filled it. So if the vacuum had been the opposite would he have filled it or would have AM radio died and the talk radio world, as we know it today never had been created? Or would have some Liberal dj in radio would have decided to try doing talk and been what Rush became?
Which begs an even larger question. If our major media giants, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR were right leaning organizations rather than left leaning, would Fox News have been created to lean left, would Hannity, etc, taken left wing views rather than the right wing views they now expose? Or would there have been different folks on Fox? Same with Limbaugh and most of talk radio. If the media landscape had been prodominately conservative rather than liberal would elRushbo have launched a liberal talk format in 1980( instead of his conservative show) and have saved AM radio with liberal talk rather than conservative talk as did happen? Rush saw a vacuum and filled it. So if the vacuum had been the opposite would he have filled it or would have AM radio died and the talk radio world, as we know it today never had been created? Or would have some Liberal dj in radio would have decided to try doing talk and been what Rush became?
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