BS: What has talk radio taught you

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:43 AM

I avoid Five Live because it's mainly sport and the constant nattering of the commentators drives me nuts. It is the only thing I prefer to watch rather listen to. I don't know why.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:02 PM

we should have more happy talk

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Wesley S
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 04:55 PM

C'mon Greg. Johns just jealous because the pundits on Air America use common sense and facts.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Greg F.
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 03:51 PM

And that's just from the folks who listen(ed) to Air America and their sarcastic, emotional compadres.

As Barney Frank has and would say, John, What planet do you spend most of your time on?

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 03:06 PM

I don't listen to talk radio but in passing I have heard snippets many times. I had a beloved brother (since died) who listened to Limbaugh every day, and he had really screwed up political views. The best thing about my brother was that he was willing to discuss it.

The main thing I have learnt about talk radio is the number of people who quote - as truth - what some anonymous idiot caller proposed/charged/bemoaned - those people accepted the caller's words as American policy/America's future/America's majority.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:35 PM

BBC Radio 4 comedy Down The Line is a hilarious take on talk radio

Extreme profanity warning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHBu4xREXRc&feature=related

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:19 PM

"What its taught me is how abysmally stupid, gullible, and idiotic a disturbingly and dangerously large segment of the U.S. population is."

And that's just from the folks who listen(ed) to Air America and their sarcastic, emotional compadres.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:08 PM

Ah. BBC talk radio is available in Canada and around the world on the Internet and as podcasts. CBC used to have lots of programs like you lot have in the UK, but then the management wanted to appeal to the youth market. Bleah.

Now I listen to Radio 4 programs on my iPod.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: DMcG
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:07 PM

Amonst the rubbish, there is a solid history of excellent talk radio in the UK, including "In Our Time", "The Moral Maze", "Thinking Allowed" and "Bookclub" - all on radio 4.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:53 AM

Talk Radio= the art of talking without really saying anything.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:48 AM

Talk radio has taught me not to listen to it.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Greg F.
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:42 AM

I've listened to 'em all.

What its taught me is how abysmally stupid, gullible, and idiotic a disturbingly and dangerously large segment of the U.S. population is.

ASnd that's a helluva lot scarier and more potentially catastrophic than Muslim terrorists.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:38 AM

The countryside town of Ambridge.
Book revues.
Film revues.
Discussions on a wide range of topics and issues.
To sit and listen to plays rather than watch tv.
The Shipping forecast.
Wild life programmes (have to use imagination).

I tune into Radio 4 regularly and find it informative and relaxing to listen to, sometimes it features world music or a particular singer so it can be varied.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:34 AM

I never noticed before but lady jean, is 100% correct. Hannity has no neck.

Last saturday the WMAL talk show was about how angry white americans are that they can not say the n word without getting fired or assaulted while n's can say it all day long with impunity.

The show was interspersed with actors pretending to be Barak and Michelle speaking the b and n words along with an ambient background that made it quite believable.

Talk radio is currently blaming the entire Tucson rampage on liberals who are insane, heartless and out only for political gain.
The repeatition of these talking points will go on for at least a couple months on a daily basis and then return prior to the election.

After the OK bombing Rush Limbaugh's rating did tumble for a time. He continues to this day to say he had no influence on the events.

The current wave of racism and religious intolerence is the primary fuel for talk radio. Health car is the topic in which even FOX TV personalities say "it is understandable why anyone who voted for Obamacare is shot." sic Gretchen Carlson FOX morning show.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:37 AM

What have I learned?
"An empty vessel makes the most noise." (Confucius, I think.)

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:28 AM

What has talk radio taught me?

That there is an FM band where somebody is playing recordings of Brahms and Mozart and Bach, and I can find that station if only I keep looking.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: open mike
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:01 AM

i avoid the local hardware store as they are always listening to such
viscoius crap.

the talk show i can listen to is the Art Bell and it's current version coast-to-coast where the talk is about spiritual topics, and other dimensions, ghosts, crop circles, UFO, and other phenomenon. they interview many creative people and discuss mysteries and anomalies.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: LadyJean
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:00 AM

I tuned into Sean Hannity by accident once. The S.O.B. was actually bragging about how much he didn't give to charity. I wanted to drive to New York and wring his neck! Happily, my car wasn't working too well and Hannity doesn't HAVE a neck.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:09 AM

I cringe too, yet if I am to understand what one half to one third of Americans are hearing, feeling and believing I must endure the ministers of propoganda. When I speak of their deliberate use of emotion for maximum hypnotic conditioning I may not have been understood by people who do not make the connection with talk radio's deep and powerful conditioning that takes place on a conscious and unconscious level. It is delivered in such a way as to change the normal functioning of the brain. I refer you to the research done on fear and the brain.

What may strike you as idiotic two faced drivel is in fact far more sophisticated or at least powerful in the delivery of psycho programming than the simplistic content. There is a reason they all tend to sound alike.
This is not to say the person delivering the hate messages is aware of the hypnotic techinques with the obvious exception of the constant repitition of certain words and phrases.

Messages of selective amnesia as well as teaching trigger words to initiate post hypnotic suggestions are a key part of the program.
There is an Achilles heel in this pscho emotional programming. There are weak links in the chain of commands. What seems obvious to you is not alwasy obvious to others. For example Stephen Colbert uses the foil of humor yet he still finds a sympathetic consevative audience for those who only hear what they want to hear.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 11:35 PM

Her name is Diane Rehm, and she's wonderful. As is Terry Gross, and several others I hear in my local market on NPR.

I don't listen to the shock jocks. They're too stupid and two-faced for words. They lie, openly and with impunity. I don't find it entertaining, I cringe every time another lie goes into the ears of someone who went through the American education system and came out without critical thinking skills, without an understanding of civics, of government, and of human dynamics.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 10:46 PM

What talk radio taught me
By Dan "Maybach" Hertz


Starting with today Glen Beck taught me to restore America by standing up and taking my country back and then have the courage to cowboy up and change the CONSTITUTION.

My history with talk radio was only spotty with hearing Rush Limbaugh a few times before the Iraq invasion. But by the time we started shock and awe I was glued to WMAL and learned that Iraq had less than 2% of the world's oil and that nerve gas and nuclear weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein was insane.

I began to depend on talk radio which was now going by the name of shock radio. By listening religiously I got the translations of what George Bush really meant and understood the great changes in America in which 9-11 became like the year 0 in which everything has changed.

I learned about the need for torture, the patriot act, domestic spying, tip lines to report my neighbors and that a person can choose to be a true patriot or a traitor, there is no middle ground. Other countries are either with us or against us. France was against us but it was the Muslim world that was at war with us. They hated us for our FREEDOM.

I heard a more ragged edge on talk radio leading up to McCain's election that was even louder than during the war. To put it politely there was a black man running for President who was neither American nor Christian. Still talk radio seemed more consumed with Hillary and her loony lefty feminazis wanting to tear down everything George Bush and Dick Cheney had built.

About this time I learned about cheap mortgages borrowing on my home, flipping houses and buying gold coins. When suddenly Wall St. tanked and the lost jobs began in earnest I think talk radio dropped the ball and as a result Barak Hussein Obama somehow got elected.
Since then all hell has broken loose, liberals are not just looney anymore they are insane. They are frothing at the mouth. They are trying to kill us. They are not just totally wrong about everything they are evil incarnate. People are starting to stand up. I have learned the office and home addresses of democrats and liberals who need their windows kicked in as well as their teeth since they never shut the hell up. Obama lovers think our bible and guns are our plan B. They are our plan A foundation.

Talk radio has taught me that election fraud by ACORN, Ohio and Illinois is why we have a foreign black man in the White House. Now he has already set up death panels, cut and run from Iraq and is bringing back the National Socialist Party and have begun building concentration camps. We have to stand up America, we have to be armed and dangerous, we can't let a tyrant like Obama brain wash our children in school and take away our guns at home.

Today Obama has taken away all the jobs, bailed out the banks and bought GM and other companies for their own socialist party. Fifteen minutes after the Tucson rampage by the pot smoking lefty, the insane liberals began exploiting the tragedy for their political gains. They want our guns, they want to end free speech for talk radio. Everything is coming to pass that Rush, Hannity, Levin, Beck and O'Reilly have prophesized. We have to fight back. Remember like G. Gordon Liddy says, "shoot for the head, jack booted thugs wear body armor".   

And Buy Gold!

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 10:32 PM

I did cartoons of Savage and yet I totally forgot about him.
He is wo whack I can;t find him on the radio around here.

Indeed he was the worst. I remember he had a TV show for about 8 days.

He also had the worst teeth ever seen on TV.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 07:48 PM

Micheal Savage is the worst. On his show just before Obamas election he said that Obama could be expected to kill at least 5 million people by now. He would start with moderate democrats so that no one would stand in his way when he started killing conservatives.

I'm still alive. So far.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Amos
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 07:43 PM

Mostly not to listen to talk radio--the same thing I learned from daytime television and advertisements in movie theaters. You remember those, don't you?

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 07:21 PM

Back in my college days I had a part time job doing drafting for an engineering company and the guy I worked for listened to this stuff all day long... I mean, I was a long haired radical (with drafting skills) and he was a flat-topped redneck... We never spoke other than for him to give me drawings that needed to be done but I had to sit in his office and listen to that crap...

And since then I have had no urge to listen to so much as one minute's worth of it...

What did I learn??? That is a good question... What I learned is the one heck of alot of conservatives have one heck opf alot of time on their hands to be callin' into these radio shows while the lefties were out trying to make a living... That was a valuable lesson...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 07:12 PM

I have a relative in SC who listens to talk radio and believes it all. At his wedding dinner he warned me that since I'm friends with Obama, "don't come callin. And don't forget I have a shot gun and a brother who is a better shot than me"

I shit you not.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 07:03 PM

It's nauseating.And it's sad that so many people actually believe what ever drivel they come up with Some shock jock recently( ?Limbaugh...Beck?..who knows, they all run together in one projectile of meanness.....)had a new take on the conquest of native peoples in the U.S. -instead of the U.S. paying them reparations, he wanted the Native Americans (Indians, in his words of course) to pay US for hooking so many people on tobacco. You could almost hear him cackle with joy of lobbing this one.

I rarely listen, but every time I pass one of these misanthropic nincompoops on the dial; I am appalled.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 07:02 PM

The Beck talk show got canceled in the NYC area.
because some people did turn it off.

I have neighbors who never miss Rush or Levin.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: michaelr
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 06:56 PM

It's taught me to turn it off.

Subject: RE: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 06:55 PM

It taught me, years ago because I no longer listen to it, that there is a lot of ignorance out there. It could be cured by a little study, but that takes work and thinking.

Subject: BS: What has talk radio taught you
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 06:50 PM

I'm not talking about Diane Rheems show, I'm talking about shock raidio on the AM dial.



Have you ever heard Hannity, Levin, Beck, Limbaugh and your local jocks?

How does it make you feel?


What has it taught you?