gbaji wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
Ah, I guess you lost me with "I guess it's only unfair when the other guy does it?" given that the 'other guy' has spent decades literally doing the exact same thing he's doing and yet he wasn't actually complaining about that.
Um... You do get that the outrage over this isn't about election reform or free speech, right? It's about the typical liberal "rich people are evil (and Republican)" screed.
Well, I wasn't listening to him so I have no idea what his "outrage" was about aside from what you said.
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Of course it's freaking irrational as hell. Have you ever listened to liberal talk? Watched Rachel Maddow just once? Ever? It's not about talking about the ramifications of the issue at hand, but about putting as many key/loaded words and phrases in front of the audience as possible to scare them.
I don't watch Maddow (don't know if I ever have; not intentionally but maybe in passing) or listen to liberal talk. In my limited experience, liberal talk radio has always been exceptionally poor listening in regards to host talent. I don't know why that is but, again, maybe you have more listenable hosts in your neck of the woods. That said, conservative talk is pretty much the same as you describe.
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But because he's a liberal, I'm assuming that most of his audience just assumes that he's funded by a million individual hard working volunteers handing over a few bucks each in some sort of socialist utopian co-op or something
Really? You said you were listening to the radio and I immediately assumed he was owned by Clear Channel, Cumulus, Citadel or one of the other massive media conglomerates. Why on earth would I assume anyone (aside from perhaps a small local public station) is funded by small donations? Radio doesn't work that way. But, again, I can't speak for his listening audience -- maybe they are all indeed fooled into thinking he's supported by nickles and dimes.
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It was on Sirius. So not a local progressive station. Kinda nationwide, in fact.
I don't listen to satellite radio so, again, I couldn't tell ya. I'd assume his primary purpose is to make his station profitable and any "influencing votes" is a happy secondary result of that.
Edited, Apr 2nd 2014 7:52pm by Jophiel