This is a big story!
Having been in the radio business for over 25 years, about ten in political talk radio, I know a little about the inside workings of our corporate media.
What we thought we knew is all wrong.
The old ratings system depended on listeners filling out diaries according to their loyalties and memory. Maybe even a little lying. But with the new people metering system in place, actual listening habits have revealed something even more shocking; our favorite conservative talk show hosts aren't as popular as we thought they were.
MSNBC's Cenk Uygur and talk radio consultant Holland Cooke blow the lid off what might bring about a major shift in radio programming and a few less conservative talkers. Conservative talk radio now dominates 92 percent of the talk radio dial based on opinion based survey diaries. But the new people meters are tamper/opinion proof.
Showing posts with label Conservative Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservative Party. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann: Founding Fathers ended Slavery!! Tea Party backs the revisionist history of our now "infallible" founding fathers.
Tea party Strategist Sal Russo found himself defending Michele Bachmann's twisted re-write of slavery, where she claims slavery ended with the help of the founding fathers. Russo tried multiple times to change the subject with Chris Matthews. He wouldn't have it. By the way, this is not an unusual view considering what other constitutional conservatives have said in the past.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tea Party Loses to Socialism, and Liberal-ish Americans Prefer the Word Conservative When Asked Political Affiliation.
Tea party politics is starting to hit the wall, and many are taking notice. It doesn't mean the worst is over, it just means that people MAY be smarter than originally assumed, by yours truly. Go socialism? BradBlog:
"Blue Texan" at Firedoglake notes an interesting statistic following the release of a new WaPo/ABC News poll:
· Favorability for the "Tea Party": 35%
· Favorability for "Socialism": 36%
Go figure. That, despite the absolutely, positively, indisputable fact that the US is a "center Right nation". We know that, of course, because --- despite years of accumulated and well-documented evidence demonstrating the exact opposite [PDF] --- those who listen uncritically to Rightwingers in the media continually parrot the claim (even as they remain unable to offer a shred of evidence to support it.)
Think the country made a hard right turn in the midterms? It looks like a liberal by any other name is still a...liberal.
The US is a center Left nation [PDF], a new study [PDF] out today, shows, according to Alternet, that "only a quarter of self-identified 'conservatives' may actually be true conservatives on the issues" and "many aren't conservative at all."
As it turns out, very few of those who self-identify as "conservative" don't even seem to understand what conservatism actually means, as "they also like government spending on a variety of programs and generally approve of government interventions in the marketplace, hardly making them true conservatives." All of these data sync up with the general thrust of the original study I linked to.
The new study seems to conclude that many, if not most, of those who self-identify as "conservative", just seem to prefer the name over "liberal" or "moderate".
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The Debt Ceiling Disaster in the Wings, Republican Rep. Mulvaney not sure what would happen!!!
Here Keith Olbermann gets the details on what would happen if the Republican congress failed to raise the debt ceiling , from Ezra Klein.Here's Republican Rep. Mick Mulvaney admitting cluelessness about the ramifications of not raising the debt ceiling.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Repeat this Lie: Racism has Nothing to do with Tea Party or Conservative Politics.
See if you can see the "subtle" racism in each of the video clips below. Be careful, you might miss it....
Racism, example one:
Funny how this kind of stuff is coming from the conservative side of the aisle.
Racism, example two:
Racism, example one:
Funny how this kind of stuff is coming from the conservative side of the aisle.
Racism, example two:
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