Help me out here… anybody… anybody….

Shut-in?

simplesimon on October 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM

Tard? Or Communications (the shop class of college) major?

Limbaugh acts like my senator or congressman should: speak for me.

Is this woman a clueless tool or what?

Woody

Those who repeatedly state that FOX News is biased should spend five minutes thinking about this report so they know how to recognize actual bias rather than the conspiracies born of a fevered mind.

#1 This reporter expects viewers to believe that there is a mystery behind why people listen to conservative hosts. The reporter presents her “investigation” (scare quotes can be used by us as well). Using a psychiatrist to explain why it happens is the journalistic equivalent of the question “Do you still beat your wife?” The psychiatrist (no doubt fresh from her photo-op at the white house) is happy to oblige and paints conservative hosts as bullies and listeners as dupes and toadies. It appears that this psychiatrist did her residency at the DNC.

#2 The reporter accepts the explanation given by Rhodes that the only reason more people listen to conservative voices is due to access. Ignore the fact that she has serious credibility baggage AND that Rhodes just might have an axe to grind and let’s get to her business acumen. Her understanding of the talk radio business plan seems to consist of pin the tail on the donkey. My five year old might buy her explanation but the only people who think that business of talk radio is arbitrary are probably fashioning a thicker foil hat for the upcoming winter months. Companies don’t simply fill the airways with conservative voices by happenstance. The voices that succeed do so because of popularity and profit. Pretending that the deck is stacked against liberals is demonstrably false and there are enough failed business models involving Al Franken to make it clear.

Those who like to pretend that CNN and FOX are just two sides of the same coin are either ill informed or willfully mislead. FOX commentators are biased – that is their job. But from my experience they don’t do this kind of underhanded reporting. It is also unnecessary for the channel to try to balance the number of viewpoints to meet some arbitrary standard of liberal representation.

If Ailes and the powers that be figure a way to change the line-up in a way that adds more liberal voices it will be because they have a model showing that it will make more money.

He wasn’t smart enough to get into Devry that’s why he still lives in his mother’s basement.

chemman on October 20, 2009 at 5:42 PM

That whole Hope and Change thing carries special resonance when you’re all about how you really Hope you’ll find some Change in the couch for today’s Hot Pocket.

TheUnrepentantGeek on October 20, 2009 at 3:46 PM

He wasn’t smart enough to get into Devry that’s why he still lives in his mother’s basement.

In other words, the statement made by that “psychiatrist” is meaningless and not scientific or objective. It is strictly her opinion, and a clearly biased opinion.

She is not “Speaking as a psychiatrist” but as an opinionated person with a bias against Rush Limbaugh and against people who enjoy listening to Rush Limbaugh and any other conservative radio talk show hosts who are enjoyable, smart, well informed, and entertaining.

Where did that “psychiatrist” get her degree and her license”? Toys ‘R Us, or was it the vending machine from the boardwalk at Atlantic City New Jersey, or Coney Island?

The CNN reporter couldn’t even bring herself to call a strident uber-liberal a liberal.

Then they examine the psycho-pathology of conservatives.

And they wonder why so few viewers watch their liberal echo chamber of a network as it circles the drain?

People choose to listen to conservative talk radio in numbers which dwarf the audiences of liberal talk radio in even greater proportions than Fox News clobbers the viewership of CNN (which, having been surpassed by MSNBC, is down to close friends and family).

Ground work? Really? I’m not sure you’ve noticed, but they’re telling you what kind of light bulb you’re allowed to use. Anyone who doesn’t already think we’re a totalitarian nation hasn’t been watching.

runawayyyy on October 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM

There are degrees to these things. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

TheUnrepentantGeek on October 20, 2009 at 12:39 PM

Ground work? Really? I’m not sure you’ve noticed, but they’re telling you what kind of light bulb you’re allowed to use. Anyone who doesn’t already think we’re a totalitarian nation hasn’t been watching.

westerncanadian on October 20, 2009 at 12:31 AM

Oops! The why? question hit a tender spot.

I’m just one conservative that finds all talk radio kind of boring.

But I’ll say again – there are more conservative talk radio shows because that’s what the free market is producing. That is the way things are supposed to work. Randi Rhodes can’t understand that.

Can’t get a job, huh?

simplesimon on October 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM

In jobs not involving deep fryers, trusted employees are often afforded a high degree of autonomy, trusted to provide product on time without babysitting from a supervisor.

Maybe when you finally get your degree from DeVry, you’ll land a job where you get that level of independence. Dare to dream, knucklehead. Dare to dream.