[lbo-talk] class warfare

[Michael Dawson]

What possible impact could it have?  Unlike NPR, which is atrocious in other
ways, it isn't a news outlet.  It is what rightist talk radio is, except
even more naked and direct about it, and much less maverick: a funnel into
one of the two Parties.  AA is 100% DP propaganda.  They only take
DP-compatible guests, and the spin and limit every topic to comport with DP
policies and actions.  Randi Rhodes frequently launches into discourses on
how Bill Clinton was the ultimate president, what with his desire for small
government and all.  Franken is an unfunny sourpuss who seems to think he's
some kind of genius.  Jeanine Garafalo is their best person, and you can
hear her straining to confine her talk to DP limits.

Awful, awful stuff.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Jon Johanning
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:49 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] class warfare
> 
> On Dec 14, 2004, at 11:42 PM, snit snat wrote:
> 
> > huh. wow. i've never heard the guy. now i won't bother trying to
> > listen to aryan american on the radio!
> 
> Since I moved up to DSL, I've been listening to AirAmerica on Net radio
> now and then. I think it definitely beats NPR in liveliness, and once
> in a while I learn something. Franken is disappointing to me -- he
> seems a lot less funnier than he was when he didn't get so much time to
> do his shtick. He seems to have trouble filling up all that air time.
> But the women hosts tend to be a lot more impressive than him.
> 
> The commercials are really a trip, though!
> 
> I'd like to know what impact, if any, AA is having on the general
> public. How many people are listening (probably fewer than the NPR
> audience, even), and how do they like it?
> 
> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
> __________________________
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> systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Adams, "The Education of
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