No Clout

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

Try O'reilly, Ingraham, Beck, and company on KFAQ 1170. I'm not sure of the strength of that lineup as far as Arbitron, but it is a good source of conservative or at least ultra-right wing thinking.

I'd listened to some of the offerings on KFAQ; not bad, not stellar. Have not heard Beck (I assume you're referring to Glen Beck?), but I must say that the Bill O'Reilly on radio seems different from the Billy O I've seen on Fox News-and much more palatable. Laura Ingraham is just tacky.

[Conan71]

Someone, might have been Huntzinger, who said Laura Ingraham sounds like an orgasm gone bad.  If it wasn't you Tim, I apologize.

I really don't mind Beck all that much, he's pretty common sense and at least doesn't seem to be reading the daily RNC teletype line for line like Hannity or Limbaugh.

My Mom has said if she's got to hear how Hannity is a "Reagan Conservative" one more time she's going to yank him through the radio and beat the **** out of him.  She says: "Hannity was still smoking pot out on Long Island when Reagan was in office, he hasn't got the brain cells to even remember who Reagan WAS!"

Yeah, go Mom!!

I caught a brief part of his radio schtick today.  Just wait, by October Hannnity will find some way to say that McCain's 65% conservative voting record is close enough in these liberal times to qualify as a Reagan Conservative.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Someone, might have been Huntzinger, who said Laura Ingraham sounds like an orgasm gone bad.  If it wasn't you Tim, I apologize.

Ingraham is out of her element doing her schtick on talk radio. She should go back to her former legal career and leave the political commentary to people who know what they're doing.

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Just wait, by October Hannnity will find some way to say that McCain's 65% conservative voting record is close enough in these liberal times to qualify as a Reagan Conservative.

Hannity is a goob.

[FOTD]

It's pretty obvious who gets their material from right wing yack a.m. radio here...yacks and hacks are so passe.

The Last DJ (T.Petty)
Well you can't turn him into a company man
You can't turn him into a whore
And the boys upstairs just don't understand anymore
Well the top brass don't like him talking so much,
And he won't play what they say to play
And he don't want to change what don't need to change

There goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say, hey hey hey...

And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
There goes the last DJ

Well some folks say they're gonna hang him so high
â'Cause you just can't do what he did
There're some things you just can't put in the minds of those kids

As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free

There goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say, hey hey hey...

And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
And there goes the last DJ

Well he got him a station down in Mexico
And sometimes it'll kind of come in
And I'll bust a move and remember how it was back then

And there goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say, hey hey hey...

And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice.
And there goes the last DJ

[mr.jaynes]

Although I'd be considered liberal on many issues, I'd have to say that if I were conservative, I could think of better sources in the conservative media to get my information from, and most of the people on right-wing talk radio ain't it!

To qualify my previous posting, Hannity does not project an opinion but rather cop an  attitude; he emotes rather than offer a well-considered analysis. I would not put him in a league with more considered conservatives such as William F. Buckley.

Rush Limbaugh (Hannity's demigod) is and has been for a long time, a common buffoon. Laura Ingraham is obviously 45 going on 14, and ought not to be pontificating on the issues of the day. As for ann coulter, someone get her a strait jacket.

The jury is still out on Mike Gallagher....



 

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

Although I'd be considered liberal on many issues, I'd have to say that if I were conservative, I could think of better sources in the conservative media to get my information from, and most of the people on right-wing talk radio ain't it!

To qualify my previous posting, Hannity does not project an opinion but rather cop an  attitude; he emotes rather than offer a well-considered analysis. I would not put him in a league with more considered conservatives such as William F. Buckley.

Rush Limbaugh (Hannity's demigod) is and has been for a long time, a common buffoon. Laura Ingraham is obviously 45 going on 14, and ought not to be pontificating on the issues of the day. As for ann coulter, someone get her a strait jacket.

The jury is still out on Mike Gallagher....



 

Very good analysis. Buckley was smart and entertaining.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

Someone get Ann Coulter a cheeseburger, that gal is anorexic.

Hannity = Blah
Rush = Blah

I'll take Gallagher, Dennis Prager, and Hugh Hewitt anyday over the above.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

Oh, and Laura Ingram. Yuck. I can't stand that crap she tries to put out.

BTW, did Laura get a facelift or something; she looks ENTIRELY different than she did a year or two ago.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaFan-inTexas

Someone get Ann Coulter a cheeseburger, that gal is anorexic.

Hannity = Blah
Rush = Blah

I'll take Gallagher, Dennis Prager, and Hugh Hewitt anyday over the above.

Coulter is obviously deranged. That's the only way I can classify her. No reasonable person could ever reach the same conclusions she does without being a little tetched. Someone more reasonable would base their commentaries in regards to politics and the nation strictly on the facts, rather than conjecture and attitude.

Hannity and Limbaugh are buffoons, pure and simple.    

Gallagher seems a little more reasonable and down to earth, but hey, he's only on for an hour, and not three like he is in other parts of the country: he could be completely different as the show progresses, I don't know.

Don't know Prager or Hewitt.

quote:Originally posted by TulsaFan-inTexas

Oh, and Laura Ingram. Yuck. I can't stand that crap she tries to put out.

BTW, did Laura get a facelift or something; she looks ENTIRELY different than she did a year or two ago.

I've read her books, I've heard her show, and it is in poor taste, even worse than Hannity or
Limbaugh, by my lights. Her show is sophomoric, and her lame attempts at political satire only appeals to an ideological lowest common denominator. Clearly, her arguments are not based on facts.

[rwarn17588]

This could dovetail into an interesting side discussion ...

You, Mr. Jaynes, are a self-described conservative. Have you become repelled by the rather, ahem, energetic discussions and stances by right-wing talk show radio hosts in recent years?

Have many of the popular one radio hosts jumped the shark?

And, finally, are many conservatives voting for John McCain because they feel the GOP has become way too fringe-y for its own good?

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

This could dovetail into an interesting side discussion ...

You, Mr. Jaynes, are a self-described conservative. Have you become repelled by the rather, ahem, energetic discussions and stances by right-wing talk show radio hosts in recent years?

You're almost right on the money: actually, I'm a self-described liberal, though I've nothing against conservatism- well-thought-out and fact-based conservativism.

But yes, I am indeed repelled by the current crop of right-wing talk radio. There is indeed a difference between the musings of William F. Buckley or someone equally studious, and then there's the partisan-hack rantings of Hannity or Ingraham on one extreme, or the fevered babblings of Coulter. I've also listened to Brian and the Judge, John Gibson and Michael Savage. Gibson is ok in small doses, Savage needs a valium or some other depressant, Brian Kilmeade should stick with sports.

I'm equally repelled by the misnomer of pundit when describing these people. Demagogue or propogandist seems more fitting. Judge Andrew Napolitano is about the only one out there with a good brain in his head.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

I'm with Mr. Jaynes. I get totally turned off by party hacks and have seen more and more of this, especially from the likes of Hannity and Ingram. It doesn't matter what the Republicans do, it's really all good. McCain? I'll vote for Obama before I vote for McCain, and I'm a lifelong conservative. I'd rather vote for someone that is up front than a RINO like McCain.

Besides, I like Obama more than I do any of the other candidates. Not exactly A SINGLE reason to vote for someone, but I know it will be a Democrat in office next, and I prefer Obama over Clinton or McCain.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

Although I'd be considered liberal on many issues, I'd have to say that if I were conservative, I could think of better sources in the conservative media to get my information from, and most of the people on right-wing talk radio ain't it!

To qualify my previous posting, Hannity does not project an opinion but rather cop an  attitude; he emotes rather than offer a well-considered analysis. I would not put him in a league with more considered conservatives such as William F. Buckley.

Rush Limbaugh (Hannity's demigod) is and has been for a long time, a common buffoon. Laura Ingraham is obviously 45 going on 14, and ought not to be pontificating on the issues of the day. As for ann coulter, someone get her a strait jacket.

The jury is still out on Mike Gallagher....



 

Very good analysis. Buckley was smart and entertaining.

Yes, Buckley is smart and entertaining. Just his vocabulary and phrasings set him apart from the rest of the pack. He may be a conservative, but he's an independent conservative, meaning that his opinions are just that, and not gleaned by partisan talking points.

quote:Originally posted by TulsaFan-inTexas

I'm with Mr. Jaynes. I get totally turned off by party hacks and have seen more and more of this, especially from the likes of Hannity and Ingram. It doesn't matter what the Republicans do, it's really all good.

Looking at other stars of talk radio, it becomes obvious that the message is the same, only the players are interchangeable.

I've also listened to Brian and the Judge, both here and in Biloxi on the Internet and I have to wonder who were the programming wizards that put that team together, they are so mismatched; the title alone sounds like a dumb 1980s sitcom. One one hand, you have Judge Andrew Napolitano, obviously an intelligent and educated man who puts forth his take on things in a legal context; while he's obviously conservative, he still believes in the Constitution and the System. Still, it seems like such a misappropriation of talent, relegating him to talk radio, when you just know he's capable of better things.

His partner Brian Kilmeade, on the other hand, should have stayed in the sports realm (I understand he also had a stint doing stand-up in his background, though given Kilmeade's lame attempts at humor on Fox and Friends, I've found Andrew "Dice" Clay to be more amusing, which is really saying something). If there is a fact-based analysis on his part in regard to the days' events, I've not picked up on it.

John Gibson, I'll concede, can make some good points here and there. Though very much a conservative, he does come off as reasonable and at least open to hear what everyone has to say whether they agree with him or not.