How much do you like Talk Radio?

[Rubia Warren]

How much do you guys like talk radio? Well, vote in my poll, then, what are you waiting for?!
I will confess, I LOOOOOOVE talk radio. I am an addict, I'm not kidding.
I listen to Rush, Mike Gallagher, O' Reilly, and Dr. Laura on occasion, but the shows I cannot bear to miss are Bob Enyart Live, Unraveling The New World Order, and The Jesse Lee Peterson Show (see www.inforadionet.com for more info on these shows). Oh, yeah, and once in a while, for the heck of it, I'll listen to Focus On The Family, but not much).
I have been wanting to check out Michael Savage for a while now, but it doesn't come on in my area (or at least, that I know of), and I've been meaning to check it out.
So, what are some of your favorite shows... or even the ones you hate?

[Jimmy Higgins]

Today @ 01:17 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=51126#post51126)
La Rubia:

I listen to RushI like Rush too, but I didn't know Lee, Lifeson, or Peart did talk radio. :eek:

NPR NPR NPR
Most other talk radio is angry conservative trash.

[Rubia Warren]

Angry conservative trash?! Aw, now you're just takin' all the fun out of talk radio! You forgot conspiracy theorists..... hey! Anybody know of a good show about conspiracy theories?
NPR...... hmm... I quit listening to NPR a few years ago when Alec Baldwin did that skit on SNL. You know the one, with his schweaty family recipe? LOL I cannot bring myself to ever listen to NPR again.:rofl:

[Jimmy Higgins]

Today @ 02:14 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=51159#post51159)
La Rubia:
Angry conservative trash?! Aw, now you're just takin' all the fun out of talk radio! You forgot conspiracy theorists..... hey! Anybody know of a good show about conspiracy theories?That would probably be Art Bell.

NPR...... hmm... I quit listening to NPR a few years ago when Alec Baldwin did that skit on SNL. You know the one, with his schweaty family recipe? LOL I cannot bring myself to ever listen to NPR again.:rofl: Truly a funny sketch. However, NPR presents media in the old fashion sense, no sensationalism. Its a professional style of journalism with a bit of classical music to boot. After this past Xmas, I stopped listening to Christian (royal jelly) Radio, and Rush and Glen Beck, and thank "god" we don't have Hannity out here.

Reality doesn't get good ratings. Easy going news reporting doesn't get ratings. Why do you think CNN gets clocked by Fox? It isn't because Fox is a better newscasting company. Its blowhard radio that people like. And that's why Rush and Beck and Hannity are so popular. Because they say what half of us want to hear and what the other half doesn't want to hear, but listens anyways. They are the Howard Sterns of Newscasting.

[Jin-Roh]

Talk Radio is awesome!
:thumb:

I love Michael Savage, but I do not always agree with how he handles himself on the radio. I don't listen to rush much, but there are few others. I heard this one conservative political woman filling in one night for Howard Humphry. I forget her name, but she was pretty cool too.

But despite all that, I've taken an intention break from talk radio. I'd like to push politics to a periphal part of my life right now. If I let it get to me, it kinda ruins my day and slowly morphs me into an official political "nut." I don't want to be a nut. :xmm:

[Em7add11]

Talk radio is about as interesting as watching paint dry. I even enjoy hearing about politics and world events, but the radio makes something great into something painful. The same goes for most music formats too.

[Snowball]

I like Curtis & Kuby, Rush, Shawn Hannity, Stand To Reason, and Michael Savage! I only wish I had enough time to listen to all of them every day (except STR, which is only on once per week). I listen as much as I can though -- helps to offset the leftist junk on TV.

[SynchroKnight]

Yesterday @ 07:14 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=51159#post51159)
La Rubia:
hey! Anybody know of a good show about conspiracy theories?


I don't know what the shows are called, but they're all over shortwave radio.

edit to add:

NPR is my primary news source. :thumb:

[Captain Ochre]

I have quite a few opportunities to listen to the radio.
During football season, I mostly listen to local sports radio, with a little Papa Joe, and a bit of Jim Rome to get a taste of national opinion.
For political talk, I prefer Michael Medved over all others (and I sure miss Fawn Rainforest, the liberal guest-host on his show). I'll also listen to Bill O'Reilly's Radio Factor, Hugh Hewitt, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage (I like Savage's guest hosts better, most times), Laura Ingraham (her show is excellent!), Neil Bortz (sp?) , and Michael Reagan. Reagan's show is hard to get in my area (FL), but there's a station from Iowa whose signal just goes wild at night, so sometimes his show is available.
I'll also listen to a local guy who does his show from a liberal point of view. He's better than any of the other Libs I've heard on the radio (and I've heard a few attempts, believe me), so maybe the guy has a future since the Dems are so keyed into expanding their media empire into radio. :smile:
On the wild side, I also listen to The Bible Answer Man and Phil Hendrie.
I prefer Hank Hannegraaf's radio persona to his books.
Phil Hendrie's show is sometimes so funny that I drive off the road. Not recommended for those who dislike semi-gratuitous sexual references and general stupidity. "Semi" because the guy usually has a point.
I also find time to play CDs. :smile:

[edit to add]

I also listen to Hannity, but his show is the worst of the conservative talk shows, imo. He has good guests sometimes, but he's the most likely to twist a guests view, and the least able, imo, to argue his own view coherently.
The FOX show Hannity & Colmes is different. I love it when everybody tries to talk at the same time. That's drama. :smile: I think that Colmes is a decent voice for the left, albeit he doesn't sign onto every lefty issue enough to please every liberal (though what would I know about that?).

[Jin-Roh]

On the wild side, I also listen to The Bible Answer Man and Phil Hendrie.

I had a dream where Michael Savage quoted some scripture on the radio and The Bible Answer man called him up and corrected him.

It was pretty funny.

[Rubia Warren]

Oh, I forgot one more show I never miss : Politics and Religion, an endtime bible prophecy show. I like it when this Catholic guy calls him up and argues with him. Pretty entertaining.

[flipper]

Phil Hendrie is the ultimate troller. He just happens to be trolling the AM airwaves rather than usenet or discussion groups, and he is very, very good at it. People just assume that because it's on the radio, it must be "official" and real. His show is a great exercise in psychology.

[flipper]

Oh yeah, I forgot. It's also often very, very funny. He has a very mean sense of humor.

[PRAISE]

I don't really listen to talk radio that much since I moved up here to Madison, but when I was in Chicago, I WAS a talk radio addict! I worked the graveyard shift in an Amoco, & was constantly calling in on the morning show on at that time, WLS. The guy who was the host of the show, got to know me as Amoco Bill!

PRAISE

[Ryokan]

I listen to Rush, Hannity, and NPR. I like them. I occasionally hear Savage and Enyart to, but I think Savage is a Fascist (literally, although he likes to misuse that word, among many others, against his opponents), and Enyart is a dangerous, unAmerican(rarely do I use that word) psychopath, and I don't understand why people listen to someone so hateful and irrational at the same time. Bleh.
I also like that guy late at night who interviews UFOologists and psychics.

[Jin-Roh]

I still think the term "Islamo-fascist" is good and applicalbe.

[Ryokan]

Lets be honest, all though the methods are a little similiar some of the time, radical Islam isn't fascism, and is a loaded word that conveys emotion put not meaning. And liberals in this country could, in no way be concieved of as fascist, or commufascist, or any other stupid thing he has to call them. Savage, with his emphasis on the average joe america, (not the real one, but his vision of one, a poster one), his xenophobia, mistrust of big business and big governmentbut advocacy of far reaching, expensive security, his interest in silencing all opinions but his own, and his habit of accusing others of the above qualities, makes him closer to fascism, in my mind, then those Islamo-fascist he likes to deride.

Also, his false intellectualism is extraordinarily tiring, as is his constant ranting that he is oppressed and people want to shut him up. (Never mind the vast majority of the people in this country don't know who he is). Paranoia like this though, was a quality in many noted fascists.

As you guys can see, I have a very very low opinion of Michael Savage.:eww:

[Sozo]

I don't

[Rubia Warren]

yes you do.

[Jin-Roh]

04-04-2003 @ 11:59 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=#post)
Ryokan:

As you guys can see, I have a very very low opinion of Michael Savage.:eww:


I like Michael Savage, but I like I said, I don't always agree with how he handles himself. I actually haven't been listening to him or any talk radio recently.

And I still think "Islamo-fascist" works, not matter what you say :tongue:

[Ryokan]

Well, you have a right to your opinion, however ill formed and wrong headed it may be.:brow:

[efta777]

I was forced to listen to NPR at work for a few months last year because my boss was into it... It made every 9 hour day feel like months; everyone's voices are SO boring and they pick the stupidest topics to talk about... but hey, if you're into that... Oh, and I have a VERY hard time (Rather, an impossible time) believing that NPR is not biased, because it is without a doubt.

Now that I'm gladly NPR free, I listen to some local shows like the Kirby Wilbur show and the John Carlson show along with Hannity, the occasional Rush (When I'm in the mood to be able to handle his arrogance) and Larry Elders.

[Ryokan]

so you onoly like to listen to your bias? I try to balance it out.

[Bill the Cat]

I love Savage. He berates the sound clips the same way I do the TV. Can they hear us? no, but we yell anyway. He is us on the air.

[Ryokan]

If savage is America, I am moving, even to France.

[Captain Ochre]

Today @ 12:44 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=70760#post70760)
Ryokan:

If savage is America, I am moving, even to France.

Would you stay if Howard Stern is America?
How about Art Bell?

:huh:

[Ryokan]

if howard stern represented America, I'd move to France and and invest in American strip clubs.:teeth:

I don't know who art bell is, so I don't know.

If Sean Hannity represented America, or maybe even the skinny verion of Rush, I'd stay.

Fortunately or unfortunately, talk radio doesn't really represent the US as a whole.

[Joe Corleone]

The worst of the worst is Rush Limbutt. He has to be the most braindead ninny in the entire universe. It's all kneejerk base emotional appeal with little or no real substance. No exchange of ideas because he and his cronies have already decided the issue long before he goes on the air. He's as predictable as a junior high school lunch menu. Attack someone on a personal level. Call them names. Everything and everybody he doesn't agree with is some kind of pinko commie tax and spend liberal immoral moron so and so. He wraps himself and his so-called causes in flag waving conservativism, but...he got a deferment and got out of going to Vietnam because he had boils on his big fat hiney! Evidently these moved to his brain later on and festered.

Talk shows like his are for people who have already decided that the issues can be defined totally by the use of one track dead on tunnel vision non-solutions, and so they listen to intellectually impaired nincompoops like Rush to reinforce and imprint these narrow buzzword solutions into the surface of their brains. I knew a guy who went out to his car everyday at noon and ate his lunch alone so he could snicker and giggle at Rush's ignorant rantings. Poor fool, and he had a masters degree, but evidently he never learned to make up his own mind. He never had to I suppose since there was always someone around to do it for him.

[Rubia Warren]

:lol:
*Rubia rubs eyes*
Joe? Is that you?? Long time, no see! Where have YOU been hiding out?

[djnoz]

Anyone heard of the rather excellent BBC's Chris Moyles? Someone should get him to do a talk show - at the moment he is one of the Radio1 DJs. He has these call-ins where he winds people up until they are really angry, and then cuts them off the line before they can say anything. :teeth:

[Dee Dee Warren]

Joe!!! You have no idea how much I miss you. No one calls me Peach Flip. :bawl: JOEEEE!!!! You must come back and roast me mercilessly...... I MISSSSS YOOOOUUUUUUUUU :bawl:


No on the subject of the thread... I like talk radio and used to guest host a talk radio show from time to time when I was a bleeding heart pro-abort liberal, but I rarely get the time to listen any more.