Troubletown: Liberal Talk Radio Would Need to be Entertaining!

[Kolesar]

http://www.troubletown.com/cartoons/04.html

[hiphopnation]

1. Hilarous!

[qb]

2. Whichever liberal show gets sued first will be an instant success

The more outrageous the better. Get Limbaugh & the rest of the Nazis shrieking in protest!

[western mass]

3. right here, baby...

The Mike Malloy show. Say no more.

archives:
http://www.whiterosesociety.org/

[pretzel4gore]

4. Talked to Death, the life and murder of Alan Berg

the book by Steven Singular recounts how the enormously popular Alan Berg, who Denver-ians got to listen to back in the early part of Reagan years, was 'an irrepressible loud mouth who would argue with anyone about anything at anytime. A rude socio-political comic genius operating in a new medium- TALK RADIO- he was the West's Last Angry Man, with the highest ratings ever given to a talk show host in his market.
Berg's humour was always political, and he was never interested in being polite. He was merciless with right wing christians or KKK members who called his show, but he could be just as merciless with knee jerk liberals or self righteous members of minority groups...'

So the nazis murdered him, and hollyweird made a petty goofy chump movie that never even touched on the important issue that Alan's murder represented, mainly that in the new atmosphere of Georgebushamerica, only right wing racists were free to expound their 'humour' and commentary.
pray god this changes soon, cuz hate radio is boring, and no one, not even Alan's bitterest critic, ever accused him of THAT!

[Nay]

5. Jim Hightower could rip a new asshole or two and have fun doing it.

[caledesi]

6. Al Franken and the great Janene Garafolo would too!

Maybe they could all take turns...make it really fresh and exciting.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. I believe that the notion that

liberal talk show hosts aren't "entertaining" is one of those right-wing talking points, another example of, as Bill Maher so aptly said of Ann Coulter, "just making shit up."

I listened to Jim Hightower when he was on ABC, and he was quite entertaining, and remarkably good at gently getting working class right wingers to see how they were voting against their own interests. That, along with his criticism of Disney, was why he was thrown off ABC. It wasn't because of his ratings, which were equal to or better the other talk show hosts on ABC.

In Portland, there is an excellent left-wing talk show host on KBOO, the community radio station. His name is Joe Uris, and he's good at engaging callers, especially when he gets on one of his whimsical kicks. Another good host on that station is Barbara Bernstein, who is not particularly humorous, but holds your attention.

Michael Moore is entertaining, Al Franken is entertaining, Molly Ivins is entertaining, Ann Richards is entertaining, Barney Frank is entertaining, Studs Terkel is entertaining,...

But still the myth persists that left-winger aren't "entertaining" and right-wingers are.

Rush Limbaugh is entertaining only if you're at the same emotional age as the three playground bullies on The Simpsons.