There was a time when liberals would have done anything to get rid of conservative talk radio....in fact they probably did try just about anything to get rid of that voice that wouldn't let America just shrivel up and die in ignorance. Well times change....and change....times did. First of all the opposition party in America can no longer be referred to as liberals. Liberals were men like Carter and Mondale......take it from Hillary who is proud to call herself a 'progressive'..... and really even the term 'progressive' doesn't do justice to the Obamas and Kerrys and Clintons of this world. Anyway...I don't think that progressives are in-tuned enough to realize it but conservative talk radio of today....the last year anyway....are helping them. Here's why...
We elected a president who has been under an ignominious assault ever since he took the oath of office. The main charge was collusion with Russia in the election. A Special Counsel was appointed to get to the bottom of it. What was supposed to be a normal investigation turned out to be.....and still is....an attempt at a coup. This is where conservative radio forgot its mission and actually made things much worse. They could have both defended President Trump and held him accountable at the same time.
Oh they do a good job with the facts on this coup....I'll certainly give them that....but they panicked. In their panic they completely relinquished their responsibilities to keep their listening audience informed on what Donald Trump himself was doing. No it's worse than that....it started out OK....President Trump would do something either terribly stupid or downright deceitful.....and conservative talk radio hosts would do what they do best.....they called him out on it.....but time passed ever so slowly and the Mueller investigation became more and more absurd....and these radio hosts.....just about all of them.....not only quit calling out the President on his backslidings.....but made excuses for him......blamed the Republicans in Congress....or downright changed their own opinions to match Donald Trump's!
President Trump has a tendency to bring every one around him down whether it's Flynn or Manafort or Spicer or Hope Hicks or Admiral Jackson......and on and on. He does this by being outrageously arrogant on that infernal tweet machine of his. He stirs up trouble just about every day. Even the media can't keep up with the nonsensical lambastes every morning. There is confusion in this administration.....which is obvious.....and which is denied by the administration.....those who are still left or in charge of the press releases anyway.
Had conservative talk radio not jumped on this band wagon to a pep rally then President Trump would have been forced to stay on the track of his campaign promises.....and the progressive agenda would be in bad shape. Instead the conservative base is no longer vibrant and vigilant....there is very little rigorous thinking....only memorizing facts on this FISA warrant or that outrageous early morning raid. The progressive agenda thus only has to deal with a man who abandoned many of the strong issues that won the day in November of 2016....rather than a conservative movement that does more than tweet and promise.
So where is this going. My opinion of course.....Donald Trump may eventually cross that line that even Rush Limbaugh cannot ignore.....well maybe that will never happen but maybe the President will cross that line that even Hannity cannot ignore. President Trump is already on the same wavelength as the establishment.....what he'll have is a brand new coalition....with many conservatives on the outside.
Folks I love conservative talk radio......I love talk radio in general and have since the 1960s. Someone my age in Pittsburgh might remember Roy Fox....a man on talk radio well ahead of his time.....but the conservative radio talk show hosts have made a mistake on this one. Their motives are simply to keep America going in the right direction. It's hard to fault them on that.....but as important as they were.....they only informed us. Apparently they don't think that we need informed anymore.....only led....because we can't be trusted by ourselves.
There are many of us who will not be patronized simply by the host telling us how smart we are and how we are show....when we most emphatically are not the show. Conservative talk radio today is Trump driven.....and establishment backed. We are not just going to sit there and laugh with you at some Democrat who was caught at something. We're not playing these games.....we don't like these games. We are not...nor were we ever....just followers of someone.....other than Jesus Christ.
We elected a president who has been under an ignominious assault ever since he took the oath of office. The main charge was collusion with Russia in the election. A Special Counsel was appointed to get to the bottom of it. What was supposed to be a normal investigation turned out to be.....and still is....an attempt at a coup. This is where conservative radio forgot its mission and actually made things much worse. They could have both defended President Trump and held him accountable at the same time.
Oh they do a good job with the facts on this coup....I'll certainly give them that....but they panicked. In their panic they completely relinquished their responsibilities to keep their listening audience informed on what Donald Trump himself was doing. No it's worse than that....it started out OK....President Trump would do something either terribly stupid or downright deceitful.....and conservative talk radio hosts would do what they do best.....they called him out on it.....but time passed ever so slowly and the Mueller investigation became more and more absurd....and these radio hosts.....just about all of them.....not only quit calling out the President on his backslidings.....but made excuses for him......blamed the Republicans in Congress....or downright changed their own opinions to match Donald Trump's!
President Trump has a tendency to bring every one around him down whether it's Flynn or Manafort or Spicer or Hope Hicks or Admiral Jackson......and on and on. He does this by being outrageously arrogant on that infernal tweet machine of his. He stirs up trouble just about every day. Even the media can't keep up with the nonsensical lambastes every morning. There is confusion in this administration.....which is obvious.....and which is denied by the administration.....those who are still left or in charge of the press releases anyway.
Had conservative talk radio not jumped on this band wagon to a pep rally then President Trump would have been forced to stay on the track of his campaign promises.....and the progressive agenda would be in bad shape. Instead the conservative base is no longer vibrant and vigilant....there is very little rigorous thinking....only memorizing facts on this FISA warrant or that outrageous early morning raid. The progressive agenda thus only has to deal with a man who abandoned many of the strong issues that won the day in November of 2016....rather than a conservative movement that does more than tweet and promise.
So where is this going. My opinion of course.....Donald Trump may eventually cross that line that even Rush Limbaugh cannot ignore.....well maybe that will never happen but maybe the President will cross that line that even Hannity cannot ignore. President Trump is already on the same wavelength as the establishment.....what he'll have is a brand new coalition....with many conservatives on the outside.
Folks I love conservative talk radio......I love talk radio in general and have since the 1960s. Someone my age in Pittsburgh might remember Roy Fox....a man on talk radio well ahead of his time.....but the conservative radio talk show hosts have made a mistake on this one. Their motives are simply to keep America going in the right direction. It's hard to fault them on that.....but as important as they were.....they only informed us. Apparently they don't think that we need informed anymore.....only led....because we can't be trusted by ourselves.
There are many of us who will not be patronized simply by the host telling us how smart we are and how we are show....when we most emphatically are not the show. Conservative talk radio today is Trump driven.....and establishment backed. We are not just going to sit there and laugh with you at some Democrat who was caught at something. We're not playing these games.....we don't like these games. We are not...nor were we ever....just followers of someone.....other than Jesus Christ.
