Lionel to Bash 9 year old girl - Bindi Irwin - in a moment

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standing by. Called the young girl the devil Incarnate.

[meegbear]

1. I've heard Lionel Jefferson bash Archie Bunker ...

but a 9 year old girl?

[NYCGirl]

2. And they say Liberals have no sense of humor... NT

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Well...

THAT'S certainly one of the burning issues of the day. :sarcasm:

[hlthe2b]

4. Yeah, great bashing a precocious child who tragically lost her

father...Then a caller, after blowing considerable fauning smoke up Lionel's ass, proceeds to echo Bindi as the "devil Incarnate," but to add Brad and Angelina to the mix. At least Brand and Angelina have tried to accomplish some positives in their lives, Brad in NOLA, Angelina with Unicef...:eyes: Don't get me wrong, overly precocious children can be annoying, but to spend the hour talking about her?

Beyond the fact that this is such silly superficial babble, this is NOT what I want representing Progressive viewpoints on AAR. :mad:

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. I have changed my mind about Lionel.

Listened to him this morning discussing Bush and was hooked for about 20 mins. by what I thought was a fresh, penetrating analysis of Bush-as-addict.

I kind of enjoy the fact that he's not as ideological as most of the rest of AAR... although make no mistake he's well to my right on virtually every issue.

He's funny and entertaining. This is more important than some of his leftist critics know. Knowing how to entertain has kept Limbaugh a red-hot radio commodity for decades now, *in spite* of his demented politics.

AAR has to mix up the format ( and yes, lighten-it up)if it's going to make it in the commercial radio industry. There are only so many people that want to listen to angry diatribe every day no matter how apt the particular analysis may be.( eg. Randi)

I recently traveled by car from NY to Indiana and back and did not encounter a single AAR station or on-air personality on the car radio... despite the fact that I was specifically scanning to find one. In fact , in one stretch between Columbus and Indianapolis there were five separate stations carrying Limbaugh's show AT ONE TIME. And not one carrying a competing POV... although there were a couple of local news stations and , fleetingly, an NPR station out of Columbus.

My point: it's an ideological near- monopoly out there. If Lionel is able to succeed commercially where traditional liberal-left radio has failed , I say go for it.

[hlthe2b]

6. Perhaps.... I have not (yet) turned my back on him...

We'll see. My impressions are extremely mixed, however.

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. Mine too. I'd like more politics. nt

[Breeze54]

8. He seems to do back handed sarcastic comments

that the first time I heard him I thought were hilarious! :rofl:

Lionel strikes me as usually saying the opposite of what he is really thinking to invoke reactions.
I think he can be very funny. :P

One day, he was talking about God and beliefs. One caller called and said that his church had brainwashed him
into believing, and Lionel was astounded :P and asked the caller if he realized what he had just said??
That he had to be brainwashed into believing about the church teachings of God. It was a f**ing riot!!! :P

But the next show was rather bland... but so are a lot of AAR shows and other progressive shows.

Some days they're good, other days? Not so much.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. He was on NYC radio briefly back in....

>>>He seems to do back handed sarcastic comments
Posted by Breeze54

that the first time I heard him I thought were hilarious!>>>

.... must have been the late eighties and I don't remember much but I do remember him calling Jesse Helms... then riding high, almost *respectable* to the rest of the media establishment... a "kuckle-dragging, goat-roping hick."

Lionel's flair for language is also something to consider. Not many people have it, at least not to that degree.

[Breeze54]

13. No. That show was a few weeks ago.

and I was crying, I was laughing so hard! Lionel was very funny!

[Smarmie Doofus]

18. Uh-oh... he must be reprising the line.

Well, it's good stuff anyway.

[Breeze54]

20. I think it started about the faith based BS groups...

and he was challenging followers and believers of * and his band of criminals.
They were calling in left and right and he kept challenging their 'beliefs'.
It was good stuff! :P

[NYCGirl]

10. Have you read Lionel's blog entry about Al Gore? It's good.

http://www.airamerica.com/lionel/node/8

[Smarmie Doofus]

21. I have now. Thanks. It's *great*. I wish we heard more...

... from this Lionel on the radio and a bit less of the celebrity/pop culture thing he does.

But I think it is possible to combine the two... and maybe even essential.

[NYCGirl]

23. From the podcasts, it seems he talks about the strictly political stuff earlier in the

show, and the pop culture stuff later.

[BikeWriter]

7. WTF? Is he stupid?

[Horse with no Name]

9. AAR was a great experiment

It doesn't work for me anymore and hasn't for a long time.
I love Rachel, I love Randi, but they continually silence truly progressive voices for "middle ground".
I'm tired of conceding. I don't support them. I don't support the middle.
This country has been pulled so far right that the middle ground is nothing but conservatism.
I am progressive and I am liberal and I am damn proud of that.
Fuck the middle. Fuck Lionel. Fuck AAR.
There will be another progressive voice in the horizon...one that doesn't consist of republican ideals. I'm content to wait.

[LSK]

14. Randi? Middle ground?????

:shrug:

[Horse with no Name]

15. With the exception of Randi and Rachel

The rest of it is milquetoast.

[LSK]

17. oh ok, I get you

I stream her from Nova M. You could at Hartmann to your list too.

[Beaverhausen]

16. Did that asshole bash Bindi? Seriously?

He isn't fit to tie her shoes. God - why does anyone listen to him?

[Breeze54]

19. Why don't you go listen to it?

He uses sarcasm and I suspect maybe he did this time too.

[Beaverhausen]

22. I have listened to him in the past and can't stand him

thank god they took him off the air here in Los Angeles. Bleech!