Longtime listeners, first-time players: Dems find radio voice

[Judi Lynn]

Longtime listeners, first-time players: Dems find radio voice
Hopes of toppling right-wing talk kings lie with Fargo broadcaster


12:15 AM CST on Monday, January 5, 2004

By COLLEEN McCAIN NELSON / The Dallas Morning News

FARGO, N.D. – The caller from Fargo wants to know why Ed Schultz hates the president.

"You have selective hearing," comes the angry retort. "You are a hard right-winger with no brain. ... Obviously, I'm over your head."

Long drowned out by conservatives who ruled the radio, Democrats say they've finally found their voice – a booming one emanating from this frigid city.

In a nondescript studio on a snow-packed road, Mr. Schultz is preparing to take on the right wing of the radio world.

"They can dish it out. Let's see if they can take it," he says.
From North Dakota to New York City, the push is on by left-leaning broadcasters who aim to take back the airwaves.

Starting today, Mr. Schultz, a self-described progressive, is going national. And efforts are under way to launch a "politically progressive" radio network touting high-profile talent. (snip)

(snip) "Half the country voted for Al Gore," Mr. Schultz said. "Don't tell me they don't listen to radio."
(snip/...)

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/politics/national/stories/010504dnnatdemotalk.ac078.html
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Mr. Schultz's station is KFGO.

[gator_in_Ontario]

1. We have a voice in S Florida

www.therandirhodesshow.com
She broadcasts on the internet daily!

[cthrumatrix]

22. randi rhodes has facts that kill repugs when they call in......

they don't have an answer..no wonder why she is not on TV.

[Gman]

26. Randi reduces them to babbling then insults

because they can't refute her facts.

[Born Free]

2. Love it...

We live in a very right wing area, would love to be able to listen to a local show with someone like Mr Shultz

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. YYYYEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About bloody time

We need this to recapture the mid ground


And yes all the nay sayers tell me the ground is ripe

Oh and Raytal is great for the bay area

[Judi Lynn]

4. Hot Damn, DU'ers! He broadcasts ONLINE, too!

I just found it in google:

http://www.kfgo.com/talk/ed/ed.html

From his site:

(snip) Ed Schultz, with KFGO's "News and Views" is heard weekdays, 9-11:30am
(Statewide on KKXL in Grand Forks, KFYR in Bismarck, KLTC in Dickinson, KCJB in Minot, and KKAA in Aberdeen.)

The Ed Schultz show....

You can hear "The Ed Schultz Show" on line @

bigeddieradio.com

The first show airs Monday at 2pm central.

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That's right!

-> -> -> www.bigeddieradio.com <- <- <-

Never heard his show, but I surely will, starting today!

Did anyone see him on C-Span? He's a real character. Not a bit afraid of the lowest, nastiest, most hate-filled, rednecked, threat-spewing, retarded right-winger.

Maybe we'll have something to celebrate today. Wooo HOOOOO. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[leftchick]

11. He is a Loud Liberal!

I saw him on c-span and that was my impression. God knows we need more Loud Liberals!!! Thanks for the links Judilyn!

:bounce:

[goldilox369]

15. wes clark picture

that's a really nice picture of wes clark. He's pretty freakin' cute for a career miltary man. well actually, maybe that's what it is. i've got a weakness. *sigh*

[greenman3610]

20. where on cspan

anybody have that cspan link?

[KoKo]

24. Saw him on C-Span also, about a month ago. He's excellent and could

counter Limbaugh very effectively. He has a little of Limbaugh's bombast so viewers would enjoy him. But, he has facts to back him up.

I wonder that we want a Limbaugh of the Left, but how else are we going to capture the crowd that wants "a Strong Man" if you get my point.

[mandyky]

13. Let's introduce Ed to DU

and DUers! I plan on listening, today.

[0007]

16. Thanks Judy.

I hope this man is the answer to Rush Limbaugh. Ed Schultz does have the same characteristics in my opinion.

[damnyankee2601]

36. Interesting...

He's on Clear Channel. I guess ratings trump ideology. Let's all crank up his ratings. Send this to everybody you know.

[SoCalDem]

5. And we have Guy James every Saturday

http://pointers.audiovideoweb.com/asxfiles-live/njwinlive7534.asx

[patricia92243]

18. I love your signature -"Eat Dessert First" - good moto :)

[Flubadubya]

6. Don't foget Mike Malloy...

for Pete's sake! I've been listening to this man going on three years now and he is one of the best out there. Unfortunately, the IEAmerica radio station he works for will be going out of business soon. It has been funded by the UAW all this time, but they plan to drop it at the end of February.

Mike Malloy needs a job, and we need his voice in the mix. I certainly hope that left-radio is a growing trend and that Mike will still find a niche there.

[rfranklin]

8. How can we fund these broadcasters?

I will put up my meager funds. Don't we have another 100,000 people to do the same? What facilities are needed? Screw NPR, we need radio that tells the truth and doesn't pander to the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.

[sendero]

21. Tell it...

... brother (or sister :))

For the money many are still wasting on NPR we could put a big dent in getting some liberal voices on the air. Mike Malloy certainly has my vote, he pulls no punches.

[Poiuyt]

28. couple of places:

http://www.whiterosesociety.org/
http://radiopower.org/

Both play liberal talk shows from their sites.

[newsjunkie]

14. I am addicted to listening to Mike Malloy

He's great.
BTW dont forget ...it says on that site posted here that Hillary Clinton will be on that first show Monday...and Dean later on too!

[DennisReveni]

7. Maybe someone will pick up on this

http://www.evilgopbastards.com/
Bill Bennett
Virtue Spokesman
The nation was shocked to discover that the national scold and morality czar had lost millions at high stakes gambling.
A source claiming first-hand information now reports that Casino Bill's other vice runs to the exotic -- liasons with a very buff Las Vegas dominatrix. According to our source, national-press reporters have interviewed the "beautiful domme muse mistress," but have been reluctant to publish the story to date.

Found it at Eschaton.

[mouse7]

9. Whip me, Jesus, Beat Me Jesus, Make me bet 13 Black, Jesus.

There's got to be a country-western song in there somewhere.

[rfranklin]

10. This deserves its own thread...

Does anyone know more about the rumor that Karl Rove is running around DC acting like Gay Edgar Hoover?

[xchrom]

12. oh yeah!

news i love!

[Judi Lynn]

17. A November article about Schultz

(snip) His blunt approach makes man a talker

November 30, 2003


BY JULIE HINDS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


Is Ed Schultz the liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh?

"Don't hang that tire around my neck," says the blunt-speaking North Dakota talk radio host.

He describes himself like this: "I'm a football jock. I'm a Democrat with a gun. I'm really scaring these conservatives. My style is very aggressive. We know the conservatives can dish it out. Let's see if they can take it."

Is he done yet? Not by a long shot.

In January, Schultz will launch a national talk-radio show. Democracy Radio, the nonprofit group that's trying to bring more progressive voices to the airwaves, helped develop it.
(snip/...)

http://www.freep.com/news/politics/tside30_20031130.htm

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Remember, you can ALSO get Democratic radio on http://www.theguyjamesshow.com/
as SoCalDem mentioned, from 3:00 p.m., E.S.T., Saturdays, until 6:00 p.m.

(DU'ers listen and also call in to talk with Guy James, as well: your own message board mates!)

[greenman3610]

19. I agree, Mike Malloy is the best

Mike Malloy is the best I've heard so far, and
I hope as many folks as possible will tune in if they
have not heard him yet.
He assures us that he will survive the demise of his
network, and there's a chance Mike will
be part of the new liberal radio network...

[eablair3]

23. Peter Werbe is just as good

Mike Malloy is great. Peter Werbe is just as good.

[0007]

37. PM me his link

[loudnclear]

25. My only fear is that even this show will kill traditional "liberal" values

I am suspect of anyone who tries to re-define "liberal." "Liberal" has an historical, moral, and decent meaning. It is being killed off by people who want to cater to what they mistakenly deem to be the "mainstream" or moderate road. The biggest difference and the simplest difference between the right and the left...conservative and liberal is simply issues of racism. there is no really Democrat or Republican although most republicans are truly conservative. The issue of race is what still divides this country into political camps as proved by the Dixicrats who routinely were segregationists.

It's not about "states rights" unless it is about the right of states to segregate and discrimante. Just look at the states rights that have been erroded by the Republicans under this administration.

It's not about "welfare" unless it's about welfare for minorities as proved by the amount of corporate welfare, farm welfare, business welfare, and the huge amounts of "relocation" welfare for EU immigrants.

It's not about "government spending" or "big government" except where government devises and funds programs to help the needy and underserved in this country as proved by the huge increases in government spending under each and every Republican President since FDR.

Sadaly, we are losing our nation because of misconceptions, misinformation, and stealth facist propaganda that still has most people in this country still fighting the civil war eventhough they don't even know what that war was really about.

[kymar57]

54. My only fear is that even this show will kill traditional "liberal" values

WTF??
Were you kidding? toungue in cheek maybe? THIS IS ABOUT RACE?

[librechik]

27. I saw this guy on C-span, and he had never heard of PNAC

Randi Rhodes ran into him in Washington DC and he snubbed her cold! (as she said) I'm afraid he might be a phony or ringer of some kind. I hope he does what he claims he will do, but I have my doubts...

If he is for real:

He may be combative but he hasn't done his homework. I guess DUers could help with that.

[Skittles]

32. he is anti-choice, loves guns and hunting

I think he is gross

[KoKo]

35. He might be useful as a "Gross" Leftist in some quarters.....if he could

attract the crowd that's either tired of Limpballs or had a problem with his druggie admission. We need all the help we can get. :shrug:

[bushisanidiot]

29. Yeah, Baby!

i want to see lefty radio go nationwide. there's no reason in hell why boil ass, draft dodging Limbaugh should have a nationwide show and nobody from our side does.

[rawtribe]

30. Nationwide Left Radio

www.sirius.com the satellite radio provider has a left talk channel 145
they carry www.thomhartman.com and www.mikemalloy.com

and don't forget the guys at www.radioleft.com an Internet show out of Texas.

[JPace]

31. I live in Western N.C. and all we get is Limpballs...

and Limpball wannabees that pound the
democrats day and night. I wonder how
much longer we will have to wait to
get a left wing view of politics here?

This is one of my biggest gripes about
the failure of our party to plan for
their own survival. Persuasion works
big time and they need to get with it!

[papau]

33. Similiar story in Boston Globe:Liberals are working to make their voices h

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/01/05/left_in_the_air/

Left in the air?
Liberals are working to make their voices heard on talk radio
By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, 1/5/2004

<snip>
Walsh, a Harvard MBA who worked as an AOL executive and a technology adviser to the Democratic National Committee, hopes to break the conservative chokehold on talk radio with a new network of liberal talkers -- led perhaps by comedians Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo -- slated to debut in the spring (and)...plans to buy radio stations in five major American cities, including Boston, and program up to 18 hours of liberal talk a day on them. It's too soon to say whether his concept will work, but there is a growing hunger on the left to do battle on the airwaves.

"There is a very effective right-wing echo chamber," says Ralph Neas, president of the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way, citing such hosts as Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly. "It's a very effective way of getting their message out." "I know the Democrats have been stewing about this for a long time," says Ed Schultz, a Democratic talk-show host in Fargo, N.D. "The Democrats, as a party, have underestimated the power of talk radio. It's absolutely a three-hour bashing session against the liberals."<snip>


Liberals seem like an endangered species in talk radio. According to Talkers magazine, four of the five biggest audiences in radio belong to conservatives: Limbaugh, Hannity, Michael Savage, and moralizing advice guru Laura Schlessinger. (Shock jock Howard Stern is the one nonconservative interloper.) Tom Athans, who runs Democracy Radio, an organization aimed at finding and syndicating liberal talkers, says 300 of the 340 political shows he surveyed featured conservative hosts; 40 were hosted by liberals. And only two of those liberals -- Schultz and Randi Rhodes in West Palm Beach, Fla. -- are getting what he calls "killer ratings."<snip>


Walsh, the CEO of Progress Media Inc., is trying to create his own market force with a highly publicized -- if largely undisclosed -- plan to create a liberal network. Officials at his Central Air radio network are talking to Franken and Garofalo and have made several executive hires, including "Daily Show" cocreator Lizz Winstead, former CNN producer Shelly Lewis, and ex-Chicago radio executive Dave Logan. One on-air personality officially locked in is Martin Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, who will host a daily hourlong show on media issues. Published reports also indicate that comedian Barry Crimmins is coming aboard to deliver commentaries.<snip>

[BenFranklinUSA]

34. Ugh! This is weak!

Surely we can do better than this joker????
Someone simply bitchin' and moanin' isn't going to cut it.
Pathetic.

[0007]

38. What better way to stir up the shit?

[0rganism]

55. "bitchin' and moanin'"? That's all Limbaugh did for his first 5 years

In the post-Reagan wasteland, when policies of privatisation and trickle down had been shown up as so much bullshit, conservatives were bitchin' and moanin' aplenty, and the gasbag himself was at their helm. When Clinton slid past the blockade in 1992, you should have heard the whining. And it changed. Slowly but surely, Limbaugh's audience share grew and so did his ambitions.

Gingrich didn't credit Limbaugh for the 1994 operation in a vaccuum. All that bitchin' and moanin' really got things done.

[Armstead]

39. Anyone able to receive this?

I tried that link, but all I get is CNN audio.

[Poiuyt]

40. Not on my Mac :(

I have Windows Media Player, but I can't get it to stream this program.

Macintosh 10.2.8

[Judi Lynn]

41. I just got the beginning of the show.

He's a Texas guy. He's going through a period of introducing himself, and explaining what his program is.

He said Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle will be on today.

I've never heard him before. I'm used to more reserved people, but I'm really going to give him a chance, for sure.

He seems energetic, that's for sure.

On edit:

My computer is picking him up on Windows Media Player, if that helps to clarify anything.

[laidbackkid]

42. Ed Schultz

Claims he is liberal but pro-gun and pro-life?

We can do better, I hope!

[mandyky]

43. Not me

Said overload or maintenance - probably over load

Is Howard Dean still gonna be on?

[Judi Lynn]

44. I kept trying over and over and over

I finally got rehitched.

He has been talking with Tom Daschle. I missed almost all of it. I think the interview went fine, but didn't hear it.

It could be his station has some bugs to iron out of their internet broadcast, too.

[mandyky]

47. Thanks!

I'll keep trying :)

[tokenlib]

45. Same here--server too busy.

But I'll add to bookmarks. It's great to have more options.

[0007]

46. WTF' keeps dropping off line for me too!

.....and my computer has a lot of balls, no reason for this!!!

I sent an e-mail to Ed. But I really don't think he gives a damn, what a disappointment.

[Judi Lynn]

48. I heard some of his interview with Byron Dorgan

Something is wrong at the station, however. The sound keeps cutting out. It's been out a lot.

Ed needs a LOT more experience with managing time alottments, however. He seems to be having a hard time of it today.

He said that the station has been flooded with internet response. I think they may have more than they can handle.

This is his first day with the Jones network, from what I can understand. Surely it'll get smoother.

Someone from D.U. had called, and only got a couple of minutes. Ed asked him for more details, and he was starting to address the "tax cuts" for the middle class, and Ed ran completely out of time and had to bail out. Now THAT was disappointing. You could tell the D.U.'er knows his stuff, too.

Don't give up, DU'er from the East Coast. When Ed gets things under control, you'll have a better time of getting heard, NO DOUBT.

Later edit:

After having heard more of the guy, I'm really not too sure what he's up to. A college kid called and mentioned the Florida recount debacle, and Ed said the best things Democrats can do is simply "move on" and get onto the next business.

I REALLY hope the Republicans haven't sent in a ringer, a guy pretending to be the "voice" the Democrats lack, who wills start misrepresenting Democrats altogether. God knows we've already seen enough of that right here on this message board.

[Judi Lynn]

49. Hillary Clinton just told Ed Schultz something I'd never heard

There are fewer American military men in Afghanistan than there were law enforcement officers at the last Winter Olympics in the U.S.

Interesting. It makes an image that sticks in the mind more vividly.

She is scheduled to go back on this show after the State of the Union address.

[Judi Lynn]

50. Concerning the history of the Bush-worshipping media

Hillary said that if you knew her, you'd recognize she believed the media could definitely go overboard pursuing people, but in Bush's case the media is MISSING IN ACTION.

It's great to hear that pointed out.

She mentioned that if her husband had members of his staff withholding information from the Justice Department, as in the case of refusing to disclose who informed on Valerie Plame, there would be a total uproar from the Republicans DEMANDING that the President should get this information available.

That's true, too.

Don't give up on this guy permanently. He, at least, can get some great guests we don't get to hear from the right-wing media often.

Howard Dean's plane has just landed in "the frozen tundra" in North Dakota, if he doesn't make the show today, he'll make it tomorrow.

On edit:

Howard Dean just checked in.

[hellbound-liberal]

51. Let's not forget WPFW -FM 89.3 in Washington D.C.

also available on the web at www.wpfw.org. Ambrose I.Lane Sr. is fantastic and he just did an entire show on the connections between Bush and the Nazis. I suggest you check him out Mon. and Fri.at 10:00 a.m. We also carry Democracy Now! twice a day and several other very good public affairs programs in the morning.

[Judi Lynn]

52. Thanks, irkthesmirk!

I've just written the info. you shared down, going to listen Friday.

Definitely need to try it out, and the other interesting shows, too.

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For any people who tried to listen to the Ed Schultz show, the engineers are screwing around with the equipment right now, and don't know they are broadcasting. They are evidently checking out their entire set-up.

Looks as if they had a TON of technical problems today, so whatever it was which screwed things up, it should be corrected, at some point.

Judi

[Manix]

53. Mike Webb KIRO Seattle is top notch !!

Live Mon-Fri 10PM-1AM PST

Online http://www.mikewebb.org

[0rganism]

56. KBOO community radio, 90.7 FM in Portland, Oregon

Ultra-progressive call-in talkshows from 7:30 to 9:00 AM, every weekday.

NO ADVERTISING. ZILCH. ZERO. Completely listener-funded.

Listen online: http://www.kboo.fm/listen.php

Joe Uris, my personal favorite, airs on Tuesday mornings. Do yourself a favor and tune in.

[symbolman]

57. Take Back the Media has been doing radio for months

not just the top of the hour news for IEAMERICA but also our own show on the site - got lots of fans, why not check it out..

we kick some conservo butt.. new show out..

http://www.takebackthemedia.com