I lived there, I listened for three years; I fled… in other words i voted with my feet, and you can’t argue against that.

All the “gentlemen” you named are bullies who use their loud mouths and control of the buttons to distort “debate” and dumb down the american public. and it’s working.

i did agree with your analogy of counterpoint. i believe they are the left wing equivalent, though without the power that the right-wing media (because the USA is, inherently, a conservative country).

finally, snce i don’t listen, which one of thoice fine dim right-wing radio hosts you admire did coin the “kool-aid drinkers” moniker. it also contributes so much to the discussion and is so original

Shot any wolves from a plane lately?

You forget the mole on your unmentionable.

The Maven is smarter than you or Gene will ever be.

Talk Radio is a market driven alternative media and represents a wide variety of shows most of which you know little or nothing about and in fact are local. The equivalent of your broad generalizations is comparing
all blogs to the rubbish spewed by the folks at Counterpunch.

The episode on this blog and the recent spate of libel tourism indicates
that in the UK you lack the freedoms Americans take for granted. It did
not matter that the information you reported was factually correct a mere bit of legal terrorism shut down this site. Do the people benefit from having books with held from the UK market due to the crazy libel
laws of the UK that you criticized.

Talk radio is an important check on the far left elite media dominance.
It allows the people of the United States to voice their opinions and in some cases let the elite in DC know the pulse of the nation. It helped derail an immigration bill that the American people were against. It also
helped spread the message about a fraud perpetuated by CBS news on the eve of an election.

I am glad Vildechaya lived in the United States and proclaims himself
some type of expert on our vast nation and media. You can read the income and educational demographics of talk radio listeners in many articles. You may not like Limbaugh, but his show has a wide audience appeal that goes beyond Conservatives.

If the market were functioning properly there would be a variety of news view points. FOX grew by positioning itself differently from other
media and Conservatives should have their own media outlets in a functional market.

I understand that you do not like American talk radio. Does anyone force you or anyone else to listen? As far as your disdain for Limbaugh
or Hannity you are entitled to your own opinion. From this side of the pond it sounds like ill informed elitist arrogance. The Hannity show in particular has far more liberal guests regularly and is more debate oriented than the other shows. Charles Rangel and all the other leftist types are given plenty of space to present their views and challenge the host.

So this -

‘He prepared to run as a Democrat for Congress in Connecticut, where paperwork for one of his campaign committees listed as one purpose “to exterminate Jew power”‘

“I am able to understand how the Holocaust took place, and with every passing day feel less and less sorry that it did.”

…has to compete with this…

‘But, he wrote of Mr. Obama, “it may well be that his concealment is meant to endanger Israel.” He added, “His Muslim religion would obviously raise serious questions in many Jewish circles’

Pity their poor heads

based on your comments here and elsewhere, no.

you think because they’re anti-semitic and you’re not that you’re “better.” You’re not because though you’re not anti-semitic, you’re anti- a whole bunch of other things — so why should you think you’re better.

my original name for you was correct: Nisht-a-maven.

and by the way, talk radio in the U.S.A., where I lived for three years, is the audio equivalent of “dumb and dumber.” your continuous “kool aid” remarks — which i suspect originate from one of those shows — indicate you listen to altogether too much of it.

gene, you’re spoddon.

Kinda telling isn’t it?

To quote someone at the corner:

“I guess I can’t blame the Times for not investigating Obama, though. I mean they are kept so busy with Andy Martin and crazy lunatics at Republican rallies that calmly voice concern about an Obama presidency. I mean they have a finite amount of investigative resources – can’t waste them on a barely known presidential candidate with criminal, racist, radical, terrorist associates. That would be sheer madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”