Why the Democrats are voiceless...

[bbernardini]

According to a guest columnist in my local paper. Follow the link for the full article. Please feel free to make liberal (no pun intended, believe it or not) of the "Post Your Opinion" option at the bottom of the story. :)

http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10238046&BRD=1671&PAG=461&dept_id=17785&rfi=6

Why the Democrats are voiceless
CHARLES "Tex" WYNDHAM , Guest Columnist 09/29/2003

In her Sept. 22 column, "TV’s desire for volume over reason," Ellen Goodman joins the chorus of liberals wondering why her side hasn’t come up with a media personality to rival the popularity of a Rush Limbaugh. She cites a number of self-serving reasons, such as "liberals are open-minded and talk with both hands instead of accusing with one," but misses the fact that there are liberal media commentators who get plenty of exposure but who can’t build a Limbaugh-sized audience.

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The clear conclusion is that the message currently coming from the left does not resonate with the general public outside of huge, solidly Democratic cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Why not? To me, the answer has been glaringly obvious for years, but Democrats can’t admit it, being blinded by the electoral fortune of a person who won the presidency for them twice, though getting less than 50 percent of the popular vote each time.

Bill and Hillary Clinton, two people to whom honesty obviously means nothing and whose every move is a self-serving one, managed, during their tenure, to drive essentially all of the decent people out of the Democratic Party at the national level. Not at the local level, I hasten to add.

[bleedingheart]

1. More Clinton bashing

So sick of Clinton Bashing....in spite of it all Gore still held more of the popular vote after Bill's term was done.

Unfortunately a right wing fascist stole the white house.

[Mairead]

2. As long as you refuse to look at the truth behind the 'bashing'

the problem will continue to exist. The Clintons are not our friends.

[NewGuy]

5. I don't think the Clintons caused this problem.

Liberals simply do not require the kind of support structure that conservatives need to convince them that an obviously flawed philosophy is correct. If we do not need the validation, why would we listen to hours of a talk show designed to provide it.

[lancemurdoch]

3. the medium is the message

Before one asks why are there not liberals on say, NBC, one must ask - who runs NBC? What is the purpose of NBC? Is it different than say, the BBC? Did the struggle decades ago over who would control the airwaves - corporations controlled by the wealthy versus the government controlled by the public, play out differently in the US and in Europe?

Is it really a surprise that the General Electric corporation's management like Jack Welch are going to walk out of their defense contracting meeting and figure out how to get someone on the air who says that the wealthy heirs who own the majority of corporate stock are parasites living off wealth created by workers?

[bryant69]

4. Anotehr question

Why are their essentially no Conservative musicians (outside of Ted Nugent (who's career is largely over) and posibly Noel Gallagher)?

My personal theory is that I guess that's just the way things are.

Bryant
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