re: #64 zombie

I think what’s happening is that since there are practically no Republican politicians worth getting excited over anymore, people in desperation are turning to talk show shock jocks as substitutes. That’s why we’re seeing so much attention on people like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, etc. People crave some kind of “leader.”

Problem is, these people are entertainers, not leaders. Conservative Americans have started to get very mixed up in the head, imagining that these performers are actually the characters they portray.

Of course, there are no Democratic politicians worth a rat’s ass either, and lib celebs are if anything even more airheaded that right-wing shock-jocks. But hey, they’ve got their man in the White House now, so there’s not nearly the level of frustration.

If you want some smart, grown-up radio, hit up Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager. In three years of listening whenever I can, I have never heard (Constitutional Law Professor and Reagan staffer) Hugh Hewitt raise his voice on the air, unless it was was at the so-called “Republican Strategist”, a radio troll claiming to be a combat veteran, or laughing so hard he bit his tongue when the noted “ethno-musicologist” objected to Hugh’s use of the term “gal”. I don’t always agree with Hugh, but I always learn something.
By the way, Hugh Hewitt’s *blog* post against the Z-visa “jamdown” amnesty bill was read on the Senate (House?) floor as part of the debate which killed that misbegotten plan.
I have heard Dennis Prager raise his voice on the air, but it was really funny, reacting to some earth-first! loon taking him to task for valuing human life over animal, and Gaia, etc… It was a rant so well-delivered and so slowly, inexorably built up, that I still have it on my iPod to this day. It was magnificent.
But none of the shoutfests you hear and see all over FoxNews, and none of the tirades you get from Radio nutjobs of the right and the left.
These guys are gentlemen, and you are treated as guests when you join the listening audience.