Wow, do conservatives have to "project" on every issue?

[priller]

From Dennis Prager on Hardball, when asked why right-wingers dominate talk radio:

PRAGER: I think it is dominated because we do have better ideas. I believe that liberal thought is almost a contradiction in terms. I don’t mean to be snooty in any way, but I believe that liberalism is overwhelmingly felt, not thought through, and here’s just so much you can emote about compassion before people get bored. The thinking people tend to think in terms of the way in which we on talk radio do, and they therefore tune in more.

Once again, he's got that exactly backwards. Right-wing radio is not about thoughtful ideas, it's about mindless pandering to the audience's prejudices. It's about appealing to the base emotions such as hate and fear. It's about toeing the party line and agreeing with Bush and the right-wing on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE. It's about looking at every issue in a simple-minded black & white manner. Contrary to his assertion, the "thinking people" tend to be overwhelmingly liberal. The mindless idealogues are found in the conservative camp.

[LoneStarLiberal]

1. Money Talks, Thought Walks

Conservatives always like to hold themselves out as some reasonable patriarchy of hard-nosed intellectual thought. I've heard this time and time again when conservatives try to preach to me...right before I snap them in two and expose their true agenda: Anti-intellectual, embracing inequality, hating the poor, and wanting to redefine welfare in corporate terms instead of individual terms.

Conservatives and corporations are natural allies. In our modern context this means that Republicans and corporations are natual allies. With media consolidation it makes it that much easier for corporations to take Republican money in exchange for conservative talk radio. The Republican Party is an extraordinary fund-raising and money-funneling machine and nowhere is that better seen and heard than in the conservative media.

If liberals and the Democratic Party were as good at fund-raising and money-funneling, we wouldn't be having this discussion. The problem is that we're not as good and that compounds the fact that we and corporations are already natural opponents as much as Republicans and corporations are natural allies.

Money talks, critical thought walks.

[maggrwaggr]

2. the smart people seem to be liberal or libertarian

I honestly don't know any smart conservatives. Except for some libertarians (do we call them conservative?)

And yeah, to accuse US of using emotional arguments?!

HAA!!!!

That's the pot calling the kettle black if I've ever heard one. They simply ignore the facts and make up their own to pander to the lowest emotional base of their constituency.

They're EXACTLY like a WWF wrestler. Now there's some thinkin' for ya!

[JHB]

3. Reminds me of something Al Franken wrote some time ago...

...

"Jane, you ignorant slut!"

[proud patriot]

4. I saw the exchange

It disgusted me .

[edward]

5. "There is no racism in America today" - Dennis Prager.

On a TV show. Host asked if he was serious. "Yes."

[linazelle]

6. Without Projection and Transference--the Right could not exist...

They are masters at it--and I often remind their followers of this very issue.