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Originally posted by wolf
I wonder if this means that MS-NBC will go crawling back to Alan Keyes (who maintained good ratings on his Alan Keyes is Making Sense Panel/Talk program.)
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I doubt it. Jesse Ventura's new show is supposed to debut in March, so I'm sensing it will move into that spot.
I didn't mind Keyes's show...the only thing that really irritates me about him (other than being Republican) is that he sounds like Kermit the Frog.
I watched Donahue the first two months he was on. I admire his passion and actually enjoyed the show...but he was going up against heavyweights.
My rationale for talk radio/television being more popular among conservatives is as follows: From what I understand, Republicans/conservatives tend to be better educated than Dems/liberals. And it seems like they are willing to talk more about the issues (even if they're slanting the shit out of them) on a serious level. And if you're more educated, you tend to make more money, so you'll watch the cable shows, listen to the radio, and buy the book and the neat merchandise on their websites.
The closest thing the liberals have to someone like O'Reilly or Limbaugh is Al Franken.
O&A, Stern, etc...Infinity is trying to cash in on their brashness. O&A paid the price for their stupidity (again), though they did have some gems in there. I dunno...I realize that there is a market for those kinds of folks, but I guess I'm not part of that market. I find them funny sometimes, but not a lot.
I love Hardball, though I wish they would have kept it at 7pm. I love watching Chris Matthews pick apart folks on both sides of the aisle.