Station owners who say they lose money on Progg radio? Liars! Conspiracy! NPR? Not progressive enough! Fairness Doctrine! Bill Press!
Insinuation! Investigative journalism?
“The president’s top man on the economy is the president,” says Larry Summers, one of the president’s top men on the economy, director of the National Economic Council.
“These days, everybody thinks they’re economists,” President Barack Obama lamented last week, in arguing that critics of his massive economic stimulus bill who call it a big-spending bill don’t get it – stimulus is spending, “that’s the point.’
Via Darleen, Fairness Queen Stabenow’s conflicts of interest.
Sarah W sends some wav files for your collection, that shouldn’t be taken out of context, but might find amusing uses.
Melanie Phillips: You done f*cked up, America
Good news: ecstasy not so bad for you.
More better news: Fannie, Freddie to channel mortgage rescue: sources
That experiment has failed. There is no free market in talk radio today, only an exclusive, tightly held, conservative media conspiracy.
Yeah, Bill, It’s a franchise of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy & Tackle Co. LLC.
That’s the epitome of unfair I think. NPR really does do a good job of spoonfeeding all the propaganda your low-information progressive voter needs I think.
Go ahead. Ask an NPR listener about the Lancet study. Chapter and verse, baby.
Let’s see, NPR, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, 95% of higher education, 100% of junior and senior high, every printed art and TV critic, all of broadway, the vast majority of daily newspapers – including reported “news” and the editorial pages, a completely controlled congress and the White House – these are all skewed so far left that I don’t know if this is still the USA or a nascent USSR. And these dumbfucks are arguing their is too much conservative talk? I mean, what the fucking-fuck??
ah, keerist, Bill Press has gotten older but he has never grown up from the whiney-assed juvenile he has always inflicted on CA citizens. This is a guy who used his radio show to call Todd Palin a “terrorist.”
Hey Bill, you lost your show because NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR IT.
A co-worker and I were discussing this stuff the other day. Our estimates are “fairness doctrine” reborn early this summer, and the “assault weapons ban” by late summer.
It is remarkable that even liberals will not volunteer to listen to liberal talk radio. Perhaps they need to see the lips moving.
NPR is not talk radio, it is prepackaged radio. Packaging is designed to sooth the listener, like HAL.
OT: The nationwide Two Minute Hate that Obama ordered for this weekend was a miserable failure. (via Insty)
The bloom is off that plastic rose for sure.
Huh? I hated him for hours and hours. He is jizzing his dirty socialist spooge all over my little country and it’s just all kinds of wrong.
Dan
Addendum to Bill Press’s whine — Press had Senator Debbie Stabenow on his show where she talked about she wants to start hearings to bring back the [un]Fairness Doctrine.
Funny thing, that, it seems Debbie’s husband has financial connections to “Progg” radio.
Nationwide, progressive talkers Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller have proven that, given a level playing field, they can more than hold their own in ratings — and make money for their stations.
Jesus that’s dumb.
here’s the “featured comment” right now at that Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper thing…
The editors there wanted to highlight that sentiment for you. It must be a newspaper thing I guess cause I don’t get it.
Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller have proven that, given plenty of money looted from the Boys and Girls Club, they can crater faster than a Rosie O’Donnell swimsuit special.
Fixed it for him.
I mean, Bill Press has got a winning formula, the Miller-Roades-Shultz triumvirate, that could surpass Limbaugh’s (worth $400 million to Limbaugh alone over the next 8 years) and Hannity and Ingraham and Beck.
Bill Press must simply be such a great, magnamous man he doesn’t care about the money and influence and success.
oh. strike “read more” … oh. Last thing. Good news. Bernie Sanders has teamed up with the Amazing Corncob Boy and now they’re running our banks.
We’re sunk. And Sanders isn’t an “independent.”
I like Bernie Sanders, he’s got a vigor and enthusiasm about him. A very good congressman is Bernie Sanders.
American fuckin’ Hero!
I have to got to work. But that’s really disheartening to hear you say that, thor. It is with a heavy heart I commence my labors today.
Let’s say he’s a little more upfront about his socialism than Leahy.
Bill Press’ complete lack of reason of logic in the article are the exact reason Progressive Talk radio can’t work. They can only talk to callers who agree with them, which quickly gets boring, if they try to defend their positions against a reasonably intelligent counter argument, they quickly get handed their ass.
I can’t even imagine what kind of person could listen to Randi Rhodes on a regular basis.
But that is okay feets, the can pay the extra labor costs with all the money they are saving hiring bottom of the barrel, loser CEOs.
I don’t know, B Moe, but I hear she’s a fan of Pavement.
[…] In an interesting article in today’s Washington Post, we read that Washington, DC, has it’s only “progressive” talk radio station, WWRC-AM, or “OBAMA 1260 AM¹,” leaving the air, the station changing to a “pre-recorded financial advice programming” format. Hat tip to Dan Collins. […]
He believes that free speech and free press means not only does he get to speak, but he can force others to listen.
Nice little fascist, eh?
Mikey wrote:
Nope, that’s not the real goal at all. What our friends on the left are really hoping is that talk stations which make good money from having three hours of Rush Limbaugh and three hours of Sean Hannity will be unwilling to take the loss of having six hours of Stephanie Miller and Bill Press, and switch to another format; they are less interested in getting wider exposure for duds like Ed Schultz than they are of stifling the voices of Michael Smerconish and Michael Savage and, the greatest villain of them all, Rush Limbaugh.
The driveby’s progressive snake oil road show of intellectual revisionism, like absolute zero or a hard vacuum, is at State Zero. Apparently Press loves him a bit of zero-state bullshit. And like rust or cancer and all things dishonest, bullshit’ll never sleep as long as Press’s are around to spread it.
Nicely done, Bill. Be proud you have no scope of vision, or if you do, that you shat on it: Apparently NPR, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, 95% of higher education, 100% of junior and senior high, every print art and TV critic, virtually all of Broadway and Hollywood, the vast majority of daily newspapers — including reported “news†and the editorial pages — and a completely controlled congress and the White House just aren’t evident to the laser-like scrutiny of your brand of wholly ethical and finely balanced journalism.
Nobody said freedom would be easy or that it’d last, folks. It’s proved the former plenty of times and is right about now is looking like if Press has his little fascism, it’s ready to succumb.
You really should write, “Randi ‘Sidewalk’ Rhodes and Debbie ‘My husband paid a whore $1500 for a bj’ Stabenow. Let’s be fair.
Hey, look at that, WaPo’s gone full retard.
And I hadn’t notice Herr Doktor President Ignoramus accusing other people of not knowing about economics, that’s particularly rich.
Ushie, I thought Mr. Stabenow only paid $150 for that bj?
“Gone”…?
From SBP’s link about the Obama “House Parties”.
Nothing I’d like to do more than invite total strangers over so they can “case” my home for future economic endeavors in the really, really, private sector economy. Life on the edge.
WaPost headline should read: “Obama 1260, MSNBC, CNN Failure Wants Fairness Doctrine Reinstated”
Bill, America just is not into you.
Oh, Carin, oops. Or maybe I’m hoping you might think I was inflating the price so as to be included in the bailout Porkopulaus.
Or just oops.
Well, to be reasonablel about it- a $1500 blow job may be worth something, ifyouknowwhatImeanandIthinkthatyoudo.
$150? I mean, that just says I’m paying for something I can’t get from my wife.
Carin sez:
“$150? I mean, that just says I’m paying for something I can’t get from my wife.”
Yep, pretty much…:)
BTW, Carin, I probably missed it, but how did your test results come out? Well, I very much hope.
Likewise, Carin.
50-KW WCKY ran AA drivel for a couple of years but advertisers wouldn’t buy the crap. What drivel. What disinformation.
Try tax cuts and see if the economy recovers.
But then how would president 666 pass all those pork projects to his backers?
Carin wrote:
Think stimulus package math; what’s a mere factor of ten>