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Originally Posted by Jacobo1
I listen to sports talk radio out of Chicago. the main show (afternoons) consisted of a bleading heart Jewish guy and BLM type black guy, you know the type that sees racism everywhere. They would babble on about their SJW nonsense and berate anyone who didn't agree 100% with them (typical right?). They actually had a guest on a couple weeks ago who hung on on them because he dared to disagree with them and the two idiots just couldn't accept a different viewpoint. Well, just last week they got pulled from the show because their ratings had tanked because people got sick of listening to their crap. One reassigned, one basically fired.
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I turned on the black dude who was on one of the local channels - he's not a heavy Black Panther type...but, frankly, he comes across as somewhat uninformed so I don't listen.
We'd have to do some study to see if what I suspect is true. People tend to listen to those whose intelligence (not only their POV) at least measures up. I want to listen to someone who can put the various facts together and at least say "this happened back in the 1700's, this in the 1800's and now this today (with some degree of accuracy)...
Way back when, no one could have predicted stuff like Rushbo spending hours dumping on druggies and then being exposed for one himself. His show should be titled "King Hypocrite" or at least "The Rushbo Comedy Show"...
My thinking is that if Rush wasn't blessed with a deep voice and a great ability to lie, he wouldn't have made it. I wonder what his fans would have thought if he were "outed" as a druggie, impotent, gay and a shut-in way back at the beginning. I think those listening to his show heard what they perceived as a "real" man.
I'd say that, at minimum, these dudes and women should live the same lives they preach.
In the Philly are it all started with a guy named Irv Homer. This was on a station named WWDB.
A guy like Irv has real life experience:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irv_Homer
"He flew 15 bombing missions as a pilot. For several years after the war, he was a member of the Reserves. He spent much of his adult life in a variety of careers, including bartending (he owned two taverns) and selling equipment for a pizza company."
Bartending is the perfect forerunner to talk radio...a bunch of depressed dudes spilling out their complaints (long ago, bars were 99% for guys).
When Irv spoke, there was no rallying against one pol party or the other. There was rallying against parts of the system, etc.
"His show was the top talk show for most of that time. During his time at WWDB, Homer became a vocal and notable public presence in the resurgent anti-tax movement. This ultimately led to him being labeled by the IRS as a V.T.P., or Violent Tax Protestor, a title he referred to as a dubious honor, given that his "violence" was simply free speech under the 1st Amendment."
This is why I listen to Julie Mason and occasionally Smerconish. Both were old school Republicans, but in today's world would be called left.
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