03.06.09
Radio Capital
It’s an old observation, but one worth making again in light of the last few weeks of Rush Limbaugh’s sudden resurgence as Mr. Republican Party: the commercial success of conservative talk radio is a function of its ideological coherency and its pro-Americanism. That’s tough news to take for liberals who wish to bring back creepy statist bullshit like the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” though. Turns out that most Americans don’t like being told that their country sucks and ought to be more like what the Euro-Socialists have.
If the economic and social message of the Left were acceptable as information or as entertainment or even as pure polemic, then that end of the political spectrum would have already succeeded in radio. But working Americans turn away from that loathing and childishness. Working Americans who are busy with their hands and have their eyes on the job have radio to inform them while they work.
I’ll bet there’s more than a few of Obamachrist’s followers who are not similarly “burdened.” They probably get their information from Judge Judy or Ruth Borehole instead.
