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By: Michale

Michale — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:59:51 +0000

The cable entertainment/political relationship is symbiotic, and for the networks, it's all about making a profit from niche targeted ad slots. Profit goes away, so do the shows, but the politicians remain.

So, why is it that Republican/Conservative radio is more profitable than Democrat/Liberal radio??

Because more people listen to, WANT to listen to, conservative radio...

And WHY do more people listen to, WANT to listen to conservative radio??

Because liberal radio is all about telling Americans how bad they are and how bad their country is..

Who wants to listen to that??

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:48:46 +0000

By that logic, there are legions megalomaniacs under every little white steeple in town. Obama is in very good company.

You would be right..

Except for that little thingy that the Left is always hysterical about called "Separation Of Church And State"...

Having said that, I completely agree with you..

Obama IS in the same company as those other megalomaniacs who seem to think they know what god (if there is a god) wants...

I couldn't have said it better myself.. :D

Although I would not characterize it as "good" company.. :D

Michale

By: TheStig

TheStig — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:34:20 +0000

M-(16)

By that logic, there are legions megalomaniacs under every little white steeple in town. Obama is in very good company.

By: TheStig

TheStig — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:28:38 +0000

CW - (12) Nice work!

M-(13) You miss the larger point. The cable entertainment business is all about making money from a broadcast market fragmented into hundreds of niches. Mistaking MSNBC or Fox News for genuine politics is like mistaking Spanish moss for the host Oak Tree. The cable entertainment/political relationship is symbiotic, and for the networks, it's all about making a profit from niche targeted ad slots. Profit goes away, so do the shows, but the politicians remain.

By: Michale

Michale — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:35:05 +0000

Hay TS,

Obama is quoted as saying that those who support him and further his agenda are "doing god's work"...

What do you think??

Just a little hint of megalomania, eh??

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:46:56 +0000

For the money. Selling advertising slots to corporations looking to reach older Democrats. There is still money to be milked from dying media.

So, with Democrats, it's all about the money..

Color me shocked!! :D

Michale

By: Chris Weigant

Chris Weigant — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:14:36 +0000

Looks like I scooped the AP. Similar story just out:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/republican-senate_n_4856060.html

Nice to get confirmation...

:-)

-CW

By: TheStig

TheStig — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 04:57:24 +0000

M - "Why does the Left try and emulate them if it's a dying medium??"

For the money. Selling advertising slots to corporations looking to reach older Democrats. There is still money to be milked from dying media.

By: Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:38:44 +0000

Anything worth saying is worth repeating, even in the wrong commentary. :)

By: Michale

Michale — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:20:05 +0000

Woops.... Wrong commentary...

My bust...

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:19:20 +0000

Having said all of the afore, I accept your opinion that things in California are, as my lovely wife would say, "Peachy Keen Wonderful"... :D

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:04:35 +0000

I was referring to the here and now.. MoveOn/CodePink should have gave that away.. :D

I am sure if we went back a hundred years, you could make a case as well... :D

Michale

By: TheStig

TheStig — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:43:14 +0000

M - (4)

Eugene McCarthy antiwar wing circa '68.

By: Michale

Michale — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:10:02 +0000

To put it another way. Republicans reign supreme in the cavalry branch. Huzzah!

Not just the cavalry...

Hoooooaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! :D

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:00:51 +0000

Dems have had their own versions of the Tea Party,

Yea?? Name one..

Name one Dem group that has had the kind of political influence that the Tea Party has had..

Sure, the Left has MoveOn, CodePink and a host of other groups..

But NONE of them (COMBINED) have never come CLOSE to the kind of influence the TP has had..

Have you ever heard of a MoveOn candidate in a national election?? A CodePink candidate??

Me neither...

Republicans tend to be older than Democrats and they still listen to AM radio.

What's that old saying??

When a person is young and du.... idealistic, they are Democrats. When they grow up, they become Republicans... :D

Limbaugh's audience is tiny in absolute terms, about the size of NPR. Media has moved on.

One would never know that based on the amount of fanaticism and boycotts and general hysteria over the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly...

And how many times the Left has tried to emulate them and fallen flat on their faces..

WHY do you think that is??? Why does the Left try and emulate them if it's a dying medium??

Michale

By: TheStig

TheStig — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:22:59 +0000

- M

To put it another way. Republicans reign supreme in the cavalry branch. Huzzah!

By: TheStig

TheStig — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:16:15 +0000

M-

You are confounding Left/Right with Democrat/Republican. Dems have had their own versions of the Tea Party, and Republicans prospered from them.

Republican radio personalities prosper because radio is an old, declining medium. Republicans tend to be older than Democrats and they still listen to AM radio. Limbaugh's audience is tiny in absolute terms, about the size of NPR. Media has moved on.

By: Michale

Michale — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:44:37 +0000

This obsession with the Tea Party simply can't be healthy.. :D

I know the Left would LOVE to have their own "Tea Party" movement. I know the Left was really hoping for the OWSers (rhymes with 'lusers') would be the Tea Party of the Left..

But, it didn't happen. Get over it.. That's one of the problems with the Left. Rather than work HARDER to make their groups successful, their radio personalities successful, their media personalities successful, the Left seems to think the easier way to go is to simply tear down the opposing groups..

OK.. Got that out of my system..

Moving on..

I have a feeling that making a statement this time around will be much less important than actually accomplishing the goal..

Which is, of course, to take full control of Congress..

While their might be an internal squabble here or there, it won't be ANYTHING like the Dem Eat Dem primary of 2008...

Time will tell...

Michale