Letters to the Editor
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Right Wing, You Say?!
Imus, Right Wing? Ahem. I read the article looking for the humor, but did not find it. I actually thought it was another pithy satire on the evils that the left wing media were perpetrating on the helpless right. Imagine my surprise.
Well, Don may have leaned to the right in general tone, but I though one thing was certain: his open ridicule of the current Administration of this country. I was pretty certain about that. Here is an editorial from elsewhere (by Sorcha Faal) that casts a different light.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/13-04-2007/89728-Don_Imus-0
"...to the US War Leaders, Don Imus represented the most serious threat, to date, of the growing assault against them by America's media personalities threatening to expose the truths behind the events of September 11, 2001 and the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars...."
Granted, this is Pravda, but read it anyway, if just for ideas. As for me, I think Sorcha makes more sense than Alex!
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This one caught my attention
I have not read all of the responses to this article (which I often find far more informative and entertaing than the articles themselves), but this one caught my eye - It also got a red star:
"Like all fads/hot trends/pop trivialities, right-wing talk radio has peaked."
How can any person of a liberal mindset say this with a straight face? I mean left-wing talk radio peaked with Air America for goodness' sakes. How embarrasing it must be for those that think that the current versions of liberal talk radio will ever be able to compete with conservative talk radio.
Considering that Air America was staffed by bonafide celebrities, and failed miserably while conservative "commentators" have become celebrities via their talk radio efforts, the left would be best served figuring out where they are going wrong rather than trying to claim how lousy the other guys are.
For the record, I can't stand Sean Hannity, but I used to enjoy Limbaugh more than I do now that he regularly and openly declares himself a republican.
My favorite talk radio entertainment is Michael Savage. Here is a true contrarian. Funny, unhinged, and at times, quite accurate. Why he is included in any political category is a mystery to me. If you consider him republican, it is proof positive that you never listen. Remember, he lives in San Francisco, he earned a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and preaches holistic, herbal medicine. He started out liberal, and got sick of the hypocrisy.
It's time for liberals to stop whining about right wing talk radio, and begin countering it by cultivating an intelligent witty, intersting, charismatic host (it only takes one, by the way - RW shows are all solo acts). It must never repeat the error of Air America by promoting a silly clown like Al Franken, or a witless idiot (genuinely so) like Janeane Garofalo, just because they identify with the left.
Poco
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If only we could get them
Watching "Conservatives" (actually, far right radical revolutionaries - these bozos are about as "conservative" as another far right radical revolutionary movement that called itself "conservative" in a certain Central European country 70-odd years ago) paint themselves as a "persecuted minority" only makes them more pathetically hypocritical than they normally are.
Oh, if only it was true that we only hve 21 months till we can open the re-education camps and unleash the black helicopters. Though in the case of the American Right, looking at their "work," it would have to be "education camps" since it is so glaringly obvious that the home-indoctrination has been such a disastrous failure.
And when oh when will we get to hear that Dick Morris was found in his car with a .22 blood alcohol, wrapped around a lamp post?
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Wishing death on people
Is this a liberal attribute?
"And when oh when will we get to hear that Dick Morris was found in his car with a .22 blood alcohol, wrapped around a lamp post?"
It would not be the first time I have seen this kind of sentiment from a liberal minded person. Is this a pattern? Loving, tolerant, open-minded, homicidal? Makes me wonder... If TCinLA had a button that could cause Dick Morris (or anyone else for that matter) to "wrap his car around a lamp post", would he press it? What are you teaching your children, TC?
Right wing wackos indeed.
Poco
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Wow, Poco
I didn't get that TC was wishing death upon Dick Morris at all.
To me, the point seemed to be that as far as sweeping generalizations go, the right has a longer and more pointed recent history of hypocrisies revealed than the left.
Anti-gay preachers being gay, "family values" politicians leaving their sick wives or having affairs, fiscal conservatives approprating funds to their friends, etc.
Some people believe that the entire Iraq War is foiuunded in right-wing hypocrisies.
Dick Morris likened Dick Cheney's hunting acccident to Chappaquidick, and implied that Cheney had made an egregious drunken mistake that he was covering up.
If Mr. Morris goes on to make an egregious drunken mistake, there would be enough precedent on "the right" to render such an event less than shocking.
That said, I'm sure we all hope his family will get to enjoy him 'til a ripe old age.
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What a bizarre and specious argument
So let me see if I have this straight: because community activtists got bent out of shape about a lame yet incendiary comment and set in motion the free market machinery that led a large right-leaning corporation to fire a controversial windbag, leftists in government are planning on reviving a primitive form of the Equal Time rule?
This makes no sense. It's not as if people were requiring Imus to call the Yale crew team a bunch of "Koppel-coiffed crackers". They were protesting the perceived inflamatory language. The Fairness Doctrine primarily requires a balance in the views presented; a mandated point-counterpoint format.
Besides, Imus is not a conservative pundit. He's a shock jock with an ersatz Libertarian streak.
Furthermore those who are identified as being on "the left" should be flattered by these lunatics' faith in the vast conspiratorial powers of Democrats and activists, and right-wingers should be embarrassed that these theories are coming out of some of their most prominent "think" tanks