{"id":8484,"date":"2003-01-01T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/1969\/12\/31\/wanted-liberal-rush-limbaughs\/"},"modified":"2003-01-01T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-02T00:00:00","slug":"wanted-liberal-rush-limbaughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/01\/wanted-liberal-rush-limbaughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Liberal Rush Limbaugh's"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worried that their party has been outgunned in the
\npolitical propaganda wars by conservative radio and television personalities,
\ninfluential Democrats are scouring the nation for a liberal answer to Rush
\nLimbaugh and the many others on the deep bench of Republican friends.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

,…The efforts among influential Democrats, particularly
\nliberals, range from a grass-roots talent search for progressive radio hosts to
\nthe creation of research organizations to provide a Democratic spin for the news
\nmedia, to nascent discussions by wealthy supporters about starting a cable
\nnetwork with a liberal bent.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Hello, just what in the world is CBS\/NBC\/ABC\/PBS\/CNN\/MSNBC\/CNBC. What is the
\ncable networks with the liberal bent they want – Pravda?<\/p>\n

People working on these projects acknowledged they were
\nventuring into territory where liberals have failed and failed again, most
\nnotably with the short-lived radio programs of Mario M. Cuomo and Jim Hightower,
\nnot to mention Phil Donahue’s struggling liberal talk show on MSNBC.<\/font> <\/p>\n

…However, they said, the recent Republican gains have
\nperhaps set the backdrop for the emergence of an angry liberal who could claim
\nthe same outsider status that worked so well for Mr. Limbaugh in the early
\n1990’s. <\/font><\/p>\n

Typical lie, it couldn’t have anything to do with ideas resonating with
\npeople. How do they explain Mr. Limbaugh’s audience increase during both GOP and
\nDemocratic administrations?” Mr. Donahue’s show is not struggling it is dead and
\nis on artificial respiration, the ratings flat lined after the first week.<\/p>\n

…”If you start from the premise that the message was
\nright, which we do, then the problem was that it wasn’t getting out to the
\npeople,” said one official of the Democratic Party who spoke on condition that
\nhis name not be used.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Garbage in, garbage out. Start from a faulty premise and the results are
\ngoing to be skewed. The Dim erratic party message did get out and for the most
\npart it was rejected.<\/p>\n

…”Progressives have this problem: They sound too
\nerudite, it’s like eggheads talking at you,” Mr. Athens said. “We believe that
\nprogressive talk radio can be every bit as successful as conservative talk radio
\nif people present and format a show that people like.”
[Full Whining Story<\/a>] <\/font><\/p>\n

When I looked up erudite in the thesaurus it gave James Carville and Paul
\nBegala as antonyms. If Radio talk shows were 1 to 3 minutes long then liberal
\ntalk shows would be successful. They have always been successful in the sound
\nbite wars but substantive solutions to real problems is a weakness. The other
\nproblem is that real people can call into these shows and challenge their
\nopinions if they don’t call screen out all who might disagree with them. Neil
\nBoortz (who I can only listen to in moderation) once talked about an offer he
\nmade to two liberals talk show hosts to do his program for a week while he was
\non vacation. They would only accept the offer if they could control and screen
\nthe calls themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worried that their party has been outgunned in the political propaganda wars by conservative radio and television personalities, influential Democrats are scouring the nation for a liberal answer to Rush…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}