So I have been flipping through KTLK the last couple of days and Lambert and Janicek have been replaced by some guy calling himself Minnesota's Mr. Conservative, and he's even more of an incompentent ass than Sean Hannity. At least Hannity has skills; this guy's just a see-through nut job.
And now this morning there was no Andrew Colton and Kelly Guest. Maybe I was up too late for them, but some other guy was on, and he was also a complete Conservative moron.
So the voice of liberalism has once again been shooed off the radio. Which leads me to wonder why democrats just can't make it on the air. And I think I came up with it.
Mainstream society doesn't care about hearing a reflection of themselves on the radio every day. Most people are moderate, intelligent people, and it's boring for them to hear someone reflecting that back to themselves. They would rather listen to music.
Ultra conservatives, however, seem to get off on listening to someone, day in and day out, tell them the world is ending and that they should be scared out of their wits. It seems to feed them to hear someone validate their anger and maliciousness. It must become like a drug for them to keep coming back day after day, hour after hour. Sean Hannity's slogan? Three hours a day, that's all we ask. Isn't that sick? That you would devote 3 hours of your time EVERY DAY to someone you don't know because your fragile world view is so fragile it must be bolstered THAT OFTEN?
Apparently there aren't enough people like me who just want to hear two somewhat educated people debate current issues.
But there seem to be legions of people who need a drug-addled hypocrite to tell them the sky is falling and to brow-beat (in absentia) the people they feel most threatened by. Wow, what a sad life that is.
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I also think there are a lot of masochistic liberals who like to listen to the extreme right just to get all fired up and indignant. Not sure why it doesn't work the other way though.
Switch to audio books. It is still listening to people talking, but it is more entertaining. I have a few hundred hours you can borrow....
And, there's Twins baseball on 'CCO (for the time being). It doesn't matter if you don't know who the players are - the announcers get it wrong half the time anyway.
MPR? Or, if you want to fight fire with ... well, maybe something that's been left in the sun for a bit ... there's always AM950, Air America MN. I can't abide it, which makes me feel like a bad liberal, but it is there.
I think All-Knowing has a point. Which I just don't understand, because the regular news is enough to do that for me.
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