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Most righty media personalities FOS?
In another post Alien Boy said:
[ QUOTE ] it's Glenn Beck. I went to high school with him, and he helped me get my first job in radio in 1982. We don't speak any more - his shift to the right is quite unsettling. [/ QUOTE ] This reinforces my (factually baseless) opinion that most of the media personalities on the "right" - Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Beck, et. al.- don't actually believe the fear & hate mongering they do on a daily basis, but rather that is (or at least was at the time they started) the easiest path to gaining ratings. Am I way off base here, or do all these people really believe the garbage they spew? |
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Re: Most righty media personalities FOS?
I think they are generally genuine. The sensationalism makes it look silly, but they believe the rational argument behind the finger pointing.
Side note: Colbert is on O'Reilly and O'Reilly is on Colbert tonight. Should be fun. |
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Re: Most righty media personalities FOS?
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Side note: Colbert is on O'Reilly and O'Reilly is on Colbert tonight. Should be fun. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sure O'Reilly despises Colbert, but I'm sure he'll play it off like he loves him. If someone had a show that was entirely about mocking me and my show, I sure would hate him. |
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Re: Most righty media personalities FOS?
Doesn't the Colbert Report air during O'Reilly? That would be kinda freaky.
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Yeah, Colbert is during the second half hour of O'Reilly. I hope Colbert is a "jackanapes".
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Re: Most righty media personalities FOS?
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In another post Alien Boy said: [ QUOTE ] it's Glenn Beck. I went to high school with him, and he helped me get my first job in radio in 1982. We don't speak any more - his shift to the right is quite unsettling. [/ QUOTE ] This reinforces my (factually baseless) opinion that most of the media personalities on the "right" - Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Beck, et. al.- don't actually believe the fear & hate mongering they do on a daily basis, but rather that is (or at least was at the time they started) the easiest path to gaining ratings. Am I way off base here, or do all these people really believe the garbage they spew? [/ QUOTE ] I'm a huge consumer of talk radio. Most are likely genuine but almost all of them are older, 40+ so a strong measure of conservatism is natural. I have my doubts about Savage but none about Rush, Hannity, Medved, Prager, Ingraham, Beck, Bennett and Hewitt. O'Reily claims to be middle of the road and I think he believes that. He's a 'classic liberal' in the Milton Freidman mold. |
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Re: Most righty media personalities FOS?
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[ QUOTE ] In another post Alien Boy said: [ QUOTE ] it's Glenn Beck. I went to high school with him, and he helped me get my first job in radio in 1982. We don't speak any more - his shift to the right is quite unsettling. [/ QUOTE ] This reinforces my (factually baseless) opinion that most of the media personalities on the "right" - Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Beck, et. al.- don't actually believe the fear & hate mongering they do on a daily basis, but rather that is (or at least was at the time they started) the easiest path to gaining ratings. Am I way off base here, or do all these people really believe the garbage they spew? [/ QUOTE ] I'm a huge consumer of talk radio. Most are likely genuine but almost all of them are older, 40+ so a strong measure of conservatism is natural. I have my doubts about Savage but none about Rush, Hannity, Medved, Prager, Ingraham, Beck, Bennett and Hewitt. O'Reily claims to be middle of the road and I think he believes that. He's a 'classic liberal' in the Milton Freidman mold. [/ QUOTE ] I have my doubts with Rush sometimes. He believes Republicans > Democrats, and makes that a justification for intellectual dishonesty. Though I don't think he's ever trumpeted a fair and balanced kind of outlook. |
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Re: Most righty media personalities FOS?
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[ QUOTE ] Side note: Colbert is on O'Reilly and O'Reilly is on Colbert tonight. Should be fun. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sure O'Reilly despises Colbert, but I'm sure he'll play it off like he loves him. If someone had a show that was entirely about mocking me and my show, I sure would hate him. [/ QUOTE ] I doubt he "dispises" him. Colberts acting is certainly convincing enough to have won O'Reily some viewers, and most of Colbert's audience is the sort that hated Pappa Bear already. Cody |
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Re: Most righty media personalities FOS?
Conjecturing that any of them actually believe what they are saying involves an unnecessary assumption, considering the going rate for a political shill these days.
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Re: Most righty media personalities FOS?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Side note: Colbert is on O'Reilly and O'Reilly is on Colbert tonight. Should be fun. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sure O'Reilly despises Colbert, but I'm sure he'll play it off like he loves him. If someone had a show that was entirely about mocking me and my show, I sure would hate him. [/ QUOTE ] I doubt he "dispises" him. Colberts acting is certainly convincing enough to have won O'Reily some viewers, and most of Colbert's audience is the sort that hated Pappa Bear already. Cody [/ QUOTE ] Dude, I can't read minds and niether can you but it be hard to imagine someone who's now incredibly popular mostly for his mocking of a person that the person being mocked wouldn't hate him. So what if it got him a few more viewers (might not be true anyway). |
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