Air America das kaput (or something like that)
It finally happened - Air America is filing for bankruptcy and firing people and all such like. is because there aren't enough liberal hippie progressives? Bah to that, I say.
More likely, it's because pinkos like to listen to, like, music and stuff when they're driving or sitting at home getting high or whatever. They don't need to listen to AM radio (for God's sake!) and have their worldview confirmed for them 24-7 like neocon knuckledraggers do.
That's the dirty little secret of AM talk radio and its domination by bellowing bilge pumps: reactionary simpletons need to be told how to think, so they flock to drug-addled crap shovelers and holier-than-though wannabe blue-collar heroes with food fetishes to get their daily programming, lest they have to go outside and process Bush's tragic reality on their own.
I'm trafficking in some broad generalizations here, I realize, but I would bet that as liberals and progressives are generally better educated and more affluent than your average knee-jerk "conservative" (most of whom wouldn't know real pragmatic conservatism if Bill Buckley slapped them upside their fattish head with it), and as they are generally more into culture - music, film, girly stuff like poetry slams - they tend to consume said culture in lieu of listening to Randi Rhodes or Mad Mike Malloy or whoever. They just don't need to have their talking points fed to them through a tube, so to speak. Or, when they do, they read them in Harper's or Rolling Stone or some other rag.
Because progressives are literate. Unlike, well, you know - Did you ever notice how the Red states always have the lowest-ranking schools and the highest teen pregnancy rates?
More likely, it's because pinkos like to listen to, like, music and stuff when they're driving or sitting at home getting high or whatever. They don't need to listen to AM radio (for God's sake!) and have their worldview confirmed for them 24-7 like neocon knuckledraggers do.
That's the dirty little secret of AM talk radio and its domination by bellowing bilge pumps: reactionary simpletons need to be told how to think, so they flock to drug-addled crap shovelers and holier-than-though wannabe blue-collar heroes with food fetishes to get their daily programming, lest they have to go outside and process Bush's tragic reality on their own.
I'm trafficking in some broad generalizations here, I realize, but I would bet that as liberals and progressives are generally better educated and more affluent than your average knee-jerk "conservative" (most of whom wouldn't know real pragmatic conservatism if Bill Buckley slapped them upside their fattish head with it), and as they are generally more into culture - music, film, girly stuff like poetry slams - they tend to consume said culture in lieu of listening to Randi Rhodes or Mad Mike Malloy or whoever. They just don't need to have their talking points fed to them through a tube, so to speak. Or, when they do, they read them in Harper's or Rolling Stone or some other rag.
Because progressives are literate. Unlike, well, you know - Did you ever notice how the Red states always have the lowest-ranking schools and the highest teen pregnancy rates?
posted by tay0 at 18:38
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