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| MSNBC's Schultz: Conservative Own 90% of Media; TEA Partiers Are 'Low Information' Drones |
| 2010-04-18 |
| "Ninety percent of the electronic media in this country is owned, operated, programmed and controlled by conservatives," MSNBC's Ed Schultz told the audience of a recent National Action Network panel discussion. And just how did this happen? According to Schultz, conservatives, "made a concerted effort during and before the Reagan years that they were going to get the microphone." The Fairness Doctrine-supporting liberal talker went on to argue that conservative talk radio and Fox News are successful not because they appeal to what a broad swath of America is already thinking, but because it programs the thinking of the right from the top-down. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 It amazes me each time I run across evidence that MSNBC is still on the air. But then I'm just another mindless Beckbot. Ha! |
| Posted by: Jefferson 2010-04-18 14:41 |
| #14 Otherwise we would not be sitting here wondering how much longer Pelosi et al is going to be in explaining what was in the bill now that it has passed. Explain the bill,hell. Release Pelosi's passenger manifest. I'd be happy with that! |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-04-18 14:14 |
| #13 The mental exercise of the American liberal is about 10% auto-erotic..I don't mean that in the "I'm gonna make love to this bar of soap" but the self reinforced romantic image of themself as the hero in their own movie. Goal Projection or something like that - see yourself there. (What they don't understand is that if they were to be in a liberal movie the two decades of stingy controlled lifestyle will be a 2 minute interlude between drunken off comments at the bar/weed shop/grocery store parking lot etc insert defining moment location) 60% would be what I call dedicated to unrealism, where useful and common symbols are used to deconstruct the environment to find the simple, the lowest common denomenator, and reality can be bent around themes. In its good form think satire or stand up Not saying these mental gymnastics are not usefule in situations but when 70% of one's mental output is into dilusion of reality then the proportion is way out of whack. So with that mindset, Shultz may be right. 90% of the media out there is probably more conservative than Schultz's writer's and editors agree with (thats right Schultz I think you just read the stuff...barely). But the reality suspension is more the ignoring that likely 90% of the money spent for media projects is liberal in nature. Otherwise we would not be sitting here wondering how much longer Pelosi et al is going to be in explaining what was in the bill now that it has passed. Otherwise there would be smart questions like Speaker Pelosi, do you know how a refrigerator works or when it breaks down how to fix one? Calling Joe cannot be an answer. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-04-18 11:58 |
| #12 My mother's older plasma TV has burn-in showing...FOX NEWS LOL. Of course, evil conservatives held a gun to her head and made her watch. |
| Posted by: Gomez Threter7450 2010-04-18 11:26 |
| #11 They own everything but the can't even get Shephard Smith and Geraldo canned from Fox. What sort of ownership/control are they talking about here? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-04-18 10:57 |
| #10 Guys like Limbaugh used to own nothing, but practiced conservative principles and now own a whole lot - whether of the media or anything else 90%? - not so sure, but a lot. Liberals - not so much. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-04-18 10:32 |
| #9 Fairness-Doctrine supporter. Heh "How am I gonna get viewers if you let them have a choice?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-04-18 10:29 |
| #8 Projection is a core symptom of Leftist insanity. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-04-18 09:59 |
| #7 According to Schultz, conservatives, "made a concerted effort during and before the Reagan years that they were going to get the microphone." Oh yeah, there's that vast right-wing conservative thing again! Except for MSNBC,CBS, ABC, NYTs, yada yada yada and all the other MSM trumpeteers for Obama. Liberal talk radio has been a failure because it does not reflect the interests of many people--and it has been an utterly boring failure. The socialists have never quite grasped the free-market concept where things are demand-driven. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-18 08:53 |
| #6 MSNBC's Schultz: Conservative Own 90% of Media; It's a matter of perspective. If you are that far left of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, then most everyone looks 'conservative'. This pretty much self identifies the individual on that spectrum. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-04-18 08:29 |
| #5 MSNBC's Schultz: Conservative Own 90% of Media; ....and many attend the same Temple! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-18 08:17 |
| #4 Nice to see someone else who understands the brittle need of the postmodern left to maintain their narrative perfectly intact to prevent it from falling apart utterly. Thanks, Abu. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2010-04-18 07:33 |
| #3 wishful thinking or willful self delusion? the liberal worldview collapses if they don not believe this. if fox etc are successful because they appeal to the majority of people then they would have to accept they are outside the mainstream, and like the twit from new york who 'didnt know a single person who had voted for Reagan' the pain of reality is not something they could bear. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-04-18 00:48 |
| #2 Die Deutsche Wochenshau... nothing more. More meaningless blah blah blah. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2010-04-18 00:43 |
| #1 I'm going to have to wait for Rush to say something about this before I decide if I'm upset or not. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-18 00:20 |