What happened to the RX Neocon clique?

[Risk44]

Since you refuse to answer the question, I will help you.


Why Does Liberal Talk Radio Fail?


On HBList Joseph Kellard asked, "why does liberal talk radio consistently fail (when not funded by government), while free-market conservative talk radio prevails?"
It's a good question. Recent studies have showed, as I recall, that 90% of talk radio is conservative. Liberals such as Mario Cuomo and Jim Hightower failed at talk radio. Air America has financial troubles. The predominance of right-wing talk radio has some liberals wanting to bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
It has been said that conservative talk radio just mirrors America. The people are conservative, therefore talk radio is. If this were true, then why do elections indicate we are nearly a 50-50 nation? Why does right-wing radio prevail even in places such as New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles, where Democrat politicians succeed and conservatives are nowhere to be seen?
It has been said that the MSM is predominately liberal, thus talk radio is a reaction to it. People tune in to hear politically incorrect statements that one would never see in newspapers and television. This might explain some of right-wing talk radio's success, but not all of it. Again, elections would indicate that much more of the country agrees with the liberal MSM than is reflected in radio -- so why can't this point of view find a place in talk radio?
Here is my answer. Talk radio is a forum for opinion, which means rational, logical argumentation meant to persuade. In order to argue well, one must subscribe to and have confidence in reason. One must believe that rational argumentation is not a waste of time. Liberals, succumbing to two centuries of nihilistic modern philosophy, no longer believe in reason.
The Old Left had associated reason with socialism. By the 1960's socialism was discredited and the irrationalist New Left arose to replace the Old Left. By the time socialism received its final death blow in the late '80s-early '90s, the left had concluded from its failure that reason doesn't work.
In the meantime, the 1972 landslide defeat of McGovern by Nixon was a turning point for the Democrat Party. As New Leftists they realized that they could not campaign proudly and openly as who they are and win the Presidency. Since then the only two Democrat Presidents have been Southern governors who campaigned as moderates.
The left's philosophic loss of confidence in reason and the Democrats' bitter experiences with the American electorate have made them cynical about argumentation. To them it is about manipulating the prejudices and irrationality of the American people. They believe that when the right talks about God, guns and gays it stirs up emotions in Americans that overwhelm their capacity to think rationally. Same thing with patriotism. Al Gore's new book argues that right-wing talk is an "assault on reason."
When a faction no longer believes in the efficacy of reason -- despite the title of Gore's book -- what fills the void? Lies, smears and character assassination. Since the advent of Borking, we have seen the left rely more and more on ad hominem argumentation. It has become a regular Democrat tactic to release smears about Republicans late in October before elections. This recent post by James Wolcott, in which he smears Republican presidential candidates as animal abusers, is typical.
In recent years it has been bewilderingly difficult to understand exactly what the Democrats in Congress are fighting for. They attack Republicans, but they don't crusade for anything. I believe the roots lie in that traumatic 1972 election, in which they learned that openly fighting for big government is not the path to success.
After the 1972 election the Democrats did manage to defeat Nixon anyway by using the liberal media to mire him the Watergate scandal. This is another lesson that leftist baby boomers have not forgotten. Since then they have put enormous resources not into fighting Republican ideas, but into catching them in scandal. They had no answer to Reagan's conservative ideology, but they made the most of the Iran-Contra Scandal. Since day one of George W. Bush's Presidency they have struggled overtime to mire him in scandal. The best they've done is the ginned-up Scooter Libby trial. I take such meager results as evidence that Bush is the most honest, least corrupt President of my lifetime. (Bush's problem, in both domestic and foreign affairs, is that he follows his Christian morality too devoutly.)
There is another related reason the left does not thrive in a medium of opinion. Collectivism and statism are at war with reality. Setting morality aside (which the left has learned never to do, as the prevailing morality of our culture, altruism, is on their side), big government is not practical. The conservatives, as altruists, cannot make a moral argument against the welfare state, but they can argue its impracticality all day long, and this fills a lot of air time on talk radio. Liberals are crushed when the debate is about practical results. (Al Gore's crusade to destroy the economy in order to prevent global warming is currently being demolished by rational scientists. The left's best hope is to intimidate their opponents into silence by announcing that they have a consensus and anyone who disagrees is a wacko. When a scientist's career depends on government money, such a tactic is powerful.)
So liberals cannot be honest about who they are and cannot argue that their programs are practically better than their opponents'. They look at the American people with contempt and believe reason is useless with them. Is it any wonder they fail before radio microphones?
All liberals can argue for is the morality of altruism, because 2,000 years of Christianity have made the west equate altruism with morality. Unfortunately for the left and the right, arguing for self-sacrifice makes boring radio. It is about as interesting as a Sunday sermon or a pious lecture in political correctness. No ratings there. For the left that leaves ad hominem attacks and scandal mongering, which might entertain for a few minutes.

Hey thats great and all but just like all of your AM RADIO stuff. its purely Commentary.. and Opinion... What did you think before Other people started thinking for you?

 

[GasMan]

Zit..I know you are fighting the fight my friend and you are spot on with your knowledge. Unfortunately, your dual-mates are not.

I have gotten to the point with some folks to almost say that maybe the best thing that could happen would to be let them get their wish and get Obama the Savior in office.

Let the taxes skyrocket, economy totally bottom out and become the whipping boy in the international world...and maybe then the libs will understand what the "RICH" of the world are talking about.

Heres a clue, why do you think the "RICH" who DESERVE to be tax are rich? Might have something to do with their education, work ethic and morality.

The exact reason why the "RICH" are so fearful of a goatherding spindoctor like Obama or Kerry or Clinton getting in office.

Keep on keepin on my friend..you are making a difference.

 

[Risk44]

Zit..I know you are fighting the fight my friend and you are spot on with your knowledge. Unfortunately, your dual-mates are not.

I have gotten to the point with some folks to almost say that maybe the best thing that could happen would to be let them get their wish and get Obama the Savior in office.

Let the taxes skyrocket, economy totally bottom out and become the whipping boy in the international world...and maybe then the libs will understand what the "RICH" of the world are talking about.

Heres a clue, why do you think the "RICH" who DESERVE to be tax are rich? Might have something to do with their education, work ethic and morality.

The exact reason why the "RICH" are so fearful of a goatherding spindoctor like Obama or Kerry or Clinton getting in office.

Keep on keepin on my friend..you are making a difference.

? the taxes skyrocket? - not for the middle class

economy totally bottom out? - do you keep up on current events??

Whipping boy for the rest of the world? China owns us....

?????????????????????????

Save your GOP propoganda talking points for the other uninformed neocons... but I think i accomplished my mission...

:sadbb::sadbb:

and what's this??? Something about being educated etc?

? but I can't quite make it out to understand it? Can you please rephrase what you are trying to say in a sentence that makes sense?

Heres a clue, why do you think the "RICH" who DESERVE to be tax are rich?

 

[GasMan]

? the taxes skyrocket? - not for the middle class

economy totally bottom out? - do you keep up on current events??

Whipping boy for the rest of the world? China owns us....

?????????????????????????

Save your GOP propoganda talking points for the other uninformed neocons... but I think i accomplished my mission...

:sadbb::sadbb:

and what's this??? Something about being educated etc?

? but I can't quite make it out to understand it? Can you please rephrase what you are trying to say in a sentence that makes sense?

Heres a clue, why do you think the "RICH" who DESERVE to be tax are rich?

Wow Sweet Lou..did not know you were a part of the spelling and grammer police here at the rx. Do you get paid to do this? Will your taxes go up because of your high paying job? How the fuck did you qualify to be able to critique someones typo in a Political thread, in a GAMBLING forum?

I can only dream of becoming as successful as you. Note: please add the letter "ed" to the end of the word tax. Thank you.

World events? Oh, you mean the bump in the stock market? LMAO. I just bought 15k worth of shares in GE, Bank of America and Citigroup. Got them at about half of what I would have last week...gonna clean up about 3k on that deal, and that is just from the stock rebound. Cant wait for the dividends to start kicking in, gonna be a good year for me again.

Let me guess..I should have to give 37% of that to your fuckin sorry ass or some welfare government program recipient? Dont FUCKIN think so.

China owns us? Do you have any idea what is going on in Russia right now? China is the least of our worries, unless we cease in the ability to make high quality steel, titanium or copper. Maybe moving to China would be a good idea to know what communism/extreme socialism is about.

Next time you wish to pick a battle, make sure to do it with someone who doesnt give a fuck about their future, because mine and my kids rest in the hands of your uneducated droves of sheep that only hear:

"Vote for Obama, get free money. Vote for Obama, tax the rich. Vote for Obama, and you will have a better job (that is the most ironic statement ever).

Thanks for playing.:nohead:

 

[GasMan]

Wow Sweet Lou..did not know you were a part of the spelling and grammer police here at the rx. Do you get paid to do this? Will your taxes go up because of your high paying job? How the fuck did you qualify to be able to critique someones typo in a Political thread, in a GAMBLING forum?

I can only dream of becoming as successful as you. Note: please add the letter "ed" to the end of the word tax. Thank you.

World events? Oh, you mean the bump in the stock market? LMAO. I just bought 15k worth of shares in GE, Bank of America and Citigroup. Got them at about half of what I would have last week...gonna clean up about 3k on that deal, and that is just from the stock rebound. Cant wait for the dividends to start kicking in, gonna be a good year for me again.

Let me guess..I should have to give 37% of that to your fuckin sorry ass or some welfare government program recipient? Dont FUCKIN think so.

China owns us? Do you have any idea what is going on in Russia right now? China is the least of our worries, unless we cease in the ability to make high quality steel, titanium or copper. Maybe moving to China would be a good idea to know what communism/extreme socialism is about.

Next time you wish to pick a battle, make sure to do it with someone who doesnt give a fuck about their future, because mine and my kids rest in the hands of your uneducated droves of sheep that only hear:

"Vote for Obama, get free money. Vote for Obama, tax the rich. Vote for Obama, and you will have a better job (that is the most ironic statement ever).

Thanks for playing.:nohead:

:shocked:

Oh, my bad..I forgot to enclose my quotation (") after my last sentence. Sorry, please don't get on me again.

 

[Risk44]

I could care less about your grammar or punctuation, but when you use the word educated in a sentence that makes no sense it just shows who and what im dealing with...

No you should take that 37% and give it back to the banks for their government welfare program... THATS OK RIGHT?

Lol China is the least of our worries.. Guess youve already been programmed to think that by the Bush Regime...

"Turning Conservatives into Crybabies everyday."

 

[Willie99]

2 of 3 in detention

scott may be there too

granted as your implying they all may be the same persona but i know both joe and MJs handles are on detention currently

and I'm still standing

BTW: considering who seems to be getting banned, and who isn't, and considering the remarks Wil made in his thread, I think it's safe to assume we know who the crybabies are.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Liberals are Borg.