The Bad News is…we lost the election…many times over.
Amid all the pressures on the radio industry, news-talk stations see an opportunity — and his name is Barack Obama.
After eight years of playing defense for President Bush, the conservatives who dominate talk radio are back on offense.
Hours after Mr. Obama’s election, the country’s most popular radio host, Rush Limbaugh, was talking about the “rebirth of principled opposition.”
Sean Hannity, the second highest-rated host, quickly cast his afternoon show as the home of “conservatism in exile.”
Premiere Radio, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, is projecting a consistent audience from 2008 to 2009 as it signs on advertisers. “There’s more to talk about than there has been in a hundred years,”
The good news is we may be on the verge of a Golden Age of Talk Radio and Political Blogs.
Sean Hannity, the second highest-rated host, quickly cast his afternoon show as the home of “conservatism in exile.”
Contrast that with Hugh Hewlitt’s program, which can be best characterized as “GOP in exile.” Sean and Rush, for all their faults, are conservatives first.
It is always easier to be the challenger than the champion, as your wing of the political spectrum proved so ably over the past 8 years.
I don’t mind Conservative Radio – even with it’s fact-void, pay no attention to duplicity/hypocrisy approach. Good criticism is valuable.
Most likely conservative talk radio will see a resurgance, since it is now out of power and will return to what it does best, bitch and blame.
Hewitt’s insane but at least he’s willing to have a discussion – conversely Hannity and Limbaugh win arguments only by shouting down any opposing voice, or better yet, preventing them from speaking in the first place.
“Hours after Mr. Obama’s election, the country’s most popular radio host, Rush Limbaugh, was talking about the “rebirth of principled opposition.”
Is Rush going off the air?
Are you going off the pills?
Hewitt’s insane but at least he’s willing to have a discussion
Pot, kettle, fingers pointing back at you, etc.
Are you going off the pills?
You’d have a hard time proving he was ever on them. A tenuous relationship with reality, but that’s our peeve.
Him… conservative talk radio succeeds (wildly) in the opposition years, then we get Air America in their opposition years with the two-term Bush presidency, and they fail… and Peev thinks opposition broadcasting from conservative talk radio with follow suit with Air American.
Hmmmm.
The Peever spewed…
“Hewitt’s insane”
but just last week the Peever wrote …
“Mitch, your baseless allegation that ANY rightwinger in print would be dubbed “the craziest” blah blah blah crapolla.”
Which is it?
MON,
I gave you a list of people I consider to be pretty sane… to bad you had to falsify/misrepresent my commentary to be about Hewitt.
I’ve said before:
“Is Hewitt local, or just insane” – you might want to actually look back to see what I think of the turdball before putting your foot squarely down your throat.
JR – your reply was funny :).
Badda – why I bother with you.. perhaps its to try to help you with your OCD focus on my commments.
Opposition is what you conservatives do well – you help keep a too large federal state in check – opposition radio, bitch and blame as it ought to be called, doesn’t fly as well with moderates and liberals because..and yeah I actually do believe this, most of those others, they actually want discussion that considers both sides, Air America followed rightie talk, it was ONLY polemic – albeit more on facts than on personal attack. Consequently, it didn’t satisfy its audience. So either, both talk radio formats talked about issues (do you seriously think that’s true). Or both didn’t (which I think -and most agree I’d guess) – but yet one, conservative radio does BETTER in highly polemic environments, and the other failed. Who exactly did that indict now? Air America failed for being TOO polemic, Limbaugh fails when he isn’t… laughing out loud at you at this point Badda, ROFL.
Make your own judgement little man, but it says a LOT about rightie logic – you’ve indicted yourself. I don’t think I said Air America would succeed in an oppositional position at any point. Try thinking just a lil bit more before you type.
Hey Nerd, I had to go off the meds to be able to degrade to the point you righties could keep up. I’m glad I’ve finally gotten down to your level.. btw, may I borrow your binkie or are you still in your midday nappie time?
May you wingnuts have many more decades of such “opportunity.”
OCD focus on my commments.
“Penigma” has made 562 comments on this site.
As opposed to maybe six posts on his own blog.
OCD. Yep.
Two years is all we’ll need.
Peev,
The point being that it must be something other than the polemic style. Though, to be fair, I don’t think you actually listen to conservative talk radio so you wouldn’t know one way or the other which hosts do more issues and stories. You’re punting because it fits your worldview of conservative talk radio.
Out of curiosity, where is it that Limaugh has failed in the medium?
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You just can’t help yourself with these little comments, can you? It’s like you’ve got Tourettes.
From Peev:
…your OCD focus…
…bitch and blame…
…laughing out loud at you at this point Badda, ROFL.
…little man…
…Try thinking just a lil bit more before you type.
(See what I did there? I actually QUOTED you… and I didn’t even need to leave this thread.)
By the way, anyone find Peev’s first comment in this section to be just slightly amusing?
From Peev:
“It is always easier to be the challenger than the champion…”
Perhaps he’s speaking with authoritative experience.