Friday, August 31, 2007
Post Secret wisdom: Are lefties under greater pressure to impress their friends?
I admit it, I think Post Secret is riveting. This is absolutely not the most interesting post card from this week's load, but it reveals something:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that no conservative listens to Rush to impress his friends. He listens because he enjoys the show.
Is this why Air America failed -- because NPR's brow is so much higher than Al Franken's that the natural audience feels as though it ought to listen to public radio?
5 Comments:
By 
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Fri Aug 31, 11:16:00 AM:
NPR has probably been the cause of more auto accidents then even alcohol...Quite honestly, the topics and stories NPR follows has redefined the term esoteric. People are crashing thier cars because hearing the monotone, and usually, hushed tones of an NPR reporter, going on about some little bug found deep in the Amazon is under extinction because another bigger bug is eating it - is not really a new story because Darwin covered it hundreds of years ago...
NPR is a perfect example of the Left's cultural bullying. Where other lefties have to say they listen to NPR in the same way they have to like movies like the Oscar Award winning movie "The Piano" or plays like "Rent." Even though most of them were bored to tears, they have to say "it was outstanding" for fear of being considered a philistine...
By , at
Fri Aug 31, 11:33:00 AM:
Spot on...I despise NPR and the cultural elitists who listen to it.
It bugs the crap out of me that my tax dollars pay for somebody else's sense of cultural superiority. It's not just the left, too...I find a lot of friends who I consider on the right feel a sense of obligation to listen to it in order to "keep up appearances".
By , at
Fri Aug 31, 11:54:00 AM:
I listen to NPR from time to time. Sometimes I snap it off in anger at the absolute malarkey that they spout, but I've done the same when listening to Rush, who I also listen to frequently. In the early '90's, NPR was the ONLY news source I knew of that covered what was happening in the Balkans with any detail, for which they should be praised.
I always preferred Gordon Liddy's radio show to Rush when it was on in my town, but then it went off the air, to be eventually replaced with Air America, which I tried to listen to occasionally, but was a real stomach turner.
Sometimes NPR IS REALLY BORING, but sometimes it is really good. But it does bug me that we have to subsidize it. Ditto PBS.
By , at
Fri Aug 31, 12:52:00 PM:
My wife was watching CNBC and a guest was reportedly an Air America broadcaster. The subject was the Senator Craig event, she was lashing the Republican hypocrisy with respect to gay lesbian issues, and lashing Craig as well. All the while sporting a butch haircut and muscular upper torso. Par.
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By , at
Fri Aug 31, 06:57:00 PM:
The NAZIS PEOPLES RADIO all you will get is LIES,LIES,LIES,LIES,LIES,LIES,LIES,LIES.
