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Where Are All The Liberal Media Stars?

New York City : NY : USA | about 1 month ago  
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When you hear the names Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham & Monica Crowley, you think Conservative, Republican, High Ratings, Best Sellers & large audiences.

What I find intriguing is that those on the Left always seem to point out that Conservatives are out of touch, they have old ideas, and are a shrinking group. A mere group of old white balding narrow-minded white guys.

Despite all of the chatter from the Left of the demise of the Republican Party and Conservatism, most of the media superstars in this country are affiliated with Conservative talk radio or Cable News.

Every other New Times Best Seller is being penned by Conservatives. When it's not Bill O'Reilly's "Bold Fresh piece of Humanity", it's Mark Levin's "Liberty & Tyranny", or Glenn Beck's "Common Sense", Michelle Malkins, "Culture of Corruption", or Sarah Palin's new pre-release best seller," Going Rogue".

Sarah Palin who was the target of hateful attacks on her and her family during the 2008 Presidential campaign, has emerged as a much sought after Speaker for events all across the country and the world for that matter. It wasn't too long ago that Katie Couric tried to embarass Palin and define her intelligence on the basis of one interview.

To the surprise of only those that despise her, she has commanded a 7 figure advance for her first book, "Going Rogue" which has gone to #1 already. 1.5 million copies of her book will be released in early November instead of March of 2010 as originally planned. She has received over 1000 offers for speaking engagements all commanding 100K or more. Not bad for the ex-mayor of Wasilla.

The list of Conservative media stars is very impressive and growing. Begs to ask the question, where are all the Liberal Media Stars?

Who on the left is burning up the airwaves? Who is selling books by the millions? Anyone still watching MSNBC?

We all know that when people want to listen to, watch or read common sense, middle of the road, down to earth information they inevitably turn to these sources. It is not by coincidence that the Media Stars in this country are for the most part Conservative & Republican. It is the moral compass and straight talk that millions turn to to get the pulse of the country.

It is for this reason that before too long, the Left will begin it's assault on and Censoring of the Airwaves. It won't be too long before the Left cries foul and introduces The Fairness Doctrine as a way to level the playing field. It's been a long time since the days of Al Franken & Air America.

Until then, let the stars shine.

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Posted By amalgam80 amalgam80 | about 1 month ago
Yup with all these stars and all these ratings and all these books, I wonder why teh right continues to think that they are a minority, and that their views are not being expressed and that the overall media is liberal, and that the celebrity elites are liberals and on and on and on.

Fiction is more entertaining to watch and read and listen to than the boring old truth about, no grannies dying, no fema camps, no socailist fascist conspiracy, the American president being legitamate, not being a muslim.

Harder to sell the book that says everything is fine, than it is to sell the book that says doomsday is at hand.

And don't forget teh success of conservatives on the internet too, the shining beacon of decency and factual information.

DId you see how many books DAN BROWN sold? Even got 2 movies made out of his conspiracy theory based ficiton.

Considering one in four Americans think 9/11 was an inside job, I can see why there are high numbers of sales and high ratings for people that peddle lies and scare tactics.
Posted By amalgam80 amalgam80 | about 1 month ago
Hmmm...liberal stars...well you said Oprah was one, I think a few of the women on the View, does Ellen count? Rachel Maddow, Olbermann, Chris Matthews and just about anyone even associated with NBC right? I don't know if it was you , but I think you said CNN was liberal too, so Larry King, Anderson Cooper, Fareed Zakaria, Gupta.

I also don't remember if it was you or not but many conservatives think NPR is liberal so anyone associated with that, Ira Glass, Terri Gross, etc...


Bill Moyers on PBS?

Everyone on the New York Times roster right? Krugman, Friedman and all.

How about the folks on Comedy Central and dude on HBO?

How about Ariana Huffington?

Shoot the liberals like Franken so much they voted him into the Senate.

Is Michael Moore a liberal?

Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, but maybe we shouldn't count them.

Barack's written a couple of best sellers, should we count him?

Katie Couric. Stephenopolus. Reich's a pretty successful columnist.
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | about 1 month ago
A,

The reason the names I mentioned do so well and have a huge following is because they share many of the values that middle America can relate to.

The NYT is going broke, Arian Huffington was a Conservative herself and is no where in the same neighborhood as any of the top female Conservative radio or TV hosts. Michael Moore complains about Capitalism and then he goes out and makes millions using the sam Capitalist system that he criticizes. Wonder ehy he has no credibility?

Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite are yesterdays news and Katie Couric's ratings are the lowest of any news person on regilar or Cable TV.

The larger point I am making is that is seems that whatever Conservatives are writing & talking about, resonates with a decidedly larger segment of the population than that of any Liberal or Democrat doing similiar work.

There really is no comparison.
Reply By amalgam80 amalgam80 | about 1 month ago
In response to the Ariana Huffington statement...what does that say about Conservatives if Ariana was one, she tried to get teh conservatives to start acting like true conservatives and not like conspiracy theorist and gave up on her own party and joined the opposition. Kind of the same thing that happened to me, but with the influence that Ariana had.

And I would double check on Ariana's popularity there too. She ends up on NBC all the time. Also shows up on CNN, and FOX NEws sometimes. there are articles about her in Newsweek, Times and other news magazines. Her internet site has a huge following.
Reply By amalgam80 amalgam80 | about 1 month ago
Well I wrote what I wrote to get just this response from you.

The most credible person up on your list of people, is O'Reilly. And what does that say?

But credibility was not one of teh things you were talking about in your article.
Reply By stillthinking stillthinking | about 1 month ago
Wait... I thought the media was a huge left wing conspiracy?
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | about 1 month ago
Still,

Almost all newspapers, magazines and the mainstream news channels lean Left. The exception being talk radio and one cable news channel. Which makes it even more impressive that they are outselling and have more viewrships than all of the other Liberla outlets combined.
Reply By winds7seas winds7seas | about 1 month ago
Good reply.
Posted By Punditty Punditty | about 1 month ago
I must be getting old. I remember when it was more important to be a good reporter than to be a media star. The reach of televised professional wrestling, it would seem, has extended farther than even Dusty "The American Dream" Rhodes could have imagined back in the late 1970s. But I'm sure he could still outshine any of the A-List "conservatives" you mentioned if someone stuck a microphone in front of his face and told him to talk.

By the way, one of my favorite "media stars" these days is Jesse Ventura.
Posted By winds7seas winds7seas | about 1 month ago
Radicalism sells. Oddness sells. By the way, what ever happened to Joe the Plumber? Here he was, an apprentice unlicensed plumber owing back taxes thinking about going into business for himself and undecided if he was going to start bringing in the proposed cut-off point of $250,000 a year in which case his tax rate would go up, and suddenly he's cast into the limelight, appears on several TV shows, and is given a job as a "war correspondent" in the Gaza Strip no doubt due to his extensive experience in plumbing. Who knows? A pipe might start leaking in the war zone and having a war correspondent that can also double as a plumber would sure come in handy.

Where'd he go? Was he killed over there? Was he captured? Where you at, Joe? Sarah needs a running mate for 2012 and you da man!
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | about 1 month ago
windseas,

To your point, "Radicalism Sells". That may have been the only reason any of Obama's books sold.

This is not about Joe the Plumber. This is about the message that Conservative radio & tv hosts are putting out. It resonates with a lot of people because they can relate to the common sense ideas and reflect a lot of their own personal values.

Liberal Talk radio has been a bust and their cable news programs are the lowest rated by a large margin. Hundreds of Liberal Newspapers are going broke and out of business. It is not by coincidence. It is a strong message about what Americans believe in and stand for. They just don't get from the Liberal Media.
Reply By winds7seas winds7seas | about 1 month ago
People are just attracted to oddities. P.T. Barnum was one of the first to take advantage of this fact. Look how popular Jerry Springer, and the spin-offs, have been for so many years. People are quite eager to embarrass themselves in public for a few bucks.

But I still wonder what ever happened to Joe the Plumber! Is he a news correspondent in Afghanistan now, or did he go back to the plumbing business?
Posted By ahol888 ahol888 | about 1 month ago
Keith Olbermann is the only star for the liberal media worth watching. Please tell msnbc to stop having Arianna Huffington on. I am supposed to be listening to political debate instead of watching 'Green Acres.'
Posted By amalgam80 amalgam80 | about 1 month ago
Just thinking out loud here but let's say that the conservatives are right, and ther is a media bias that overall leans to the left. If all the netwrks are liberal and NPR is liberal and the newspapers are liberal, and the only place for conservative view points are at FOx News and conservative talk radio, then doesn't it make sense that they are the ones with the higher ratings?

The liberals have so many choices and the poor Republicans only have the old medium of radio and one channel devoted to their hysteria.
Reply By Write4Life Write4Life | about 1 month ago
whereas you have sooooooooooooooo many devoted to your hysteria.
Reply By amalgam80 amalgam80 | about 1 month ago
That's right.

If it is the pure number of books, ratings, sales that determines credibility and facts then yes, the left has more, much more credible news outlets and much more public policies that the AMerican people agree with.

If the logic expressed in Red's article is correct, then the left is correct, the left is what the AMerican people actually support. The right is the minority, the right is not the popular ones at all. There is far more support for the left.

That is if ratings and sales is what determines public option, oops opinion. And the sheer number of outlets.

So that is correct, the liberal(assuming that is what you meant by "you") hysteria is more popular than conservative hysteria. Both in capital and opinon.
Posted By CaliforniaMike CaliforniaMike | about 1 month ago
Sorry to burst a bubble here, but my guess is that a good 80 percent of the country isn't paying attention to any of these folks, left or right. They have better things to do.

Consider these numbers:

1. Sarah Palin's 1.5 million book printing. That's 1/2 of 1 percent of the people in the country.

2. Fox New's claim of somewhere between 3-4 million viewers for its top shows. That's somewhere between 1 and 1 1/3 percent of the country.

3. Even Rush Limbaugh's overinflated claim of 15-20 million listeners. That's between 5 and 6 2/3 percent of the country, and Rush's numbers are helped by the fact that he has a somewhat captive audience (people in their cars have to do something).

True, these are larger audiences than any liberals get, although I do think the Oprah reference is germane.

But the fact is, arguing over audiences that are this insignificant a part of the population is like trying to decide who is the tallest midget in the circus.

(With apologies to little people)
Reply By winds7seas winds7seas | about 1 month ago
I'll bet (I betcha) Sarah Palin sells a lot of books, but not because she's popular but because she's controversial. She got shoved into the limelight and now she's taking advantage of it. Making a few bucks that she never would've had a chance of making just over a year ago.

America! The land of opportunity!
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | about 1 month ago
WInd,

Sounds like the same path Obama used to sell some books himself.
People will buy Palins book because she represents middle American values. Everyone conveniently discounts that she was a Mayor, Governor and fought corruption in her own party.

That's why people arae attracted to her. She is tough, she stands for our Constititional Rights and she connects witha lot of people.
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | about 1 month ago
C,

I don't think anyone sets out to sell 300 million copies of their books and reach out to every household. But the fact that Sarah Palin's Book will sell over 5 million copies when it's all said and done is indicative of her appeal.
I am sure that if you ask Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow if they would be happy with any othe ratings that Limbaugh or Hannity get, they would be ecstatic.
Posted By CaliforniaMike CaliforniaMike | about 1 month ago
Sorry to burst a bubble here, but my guess is that a good 80 percent of the country isn't paying attention to any of these folks, left or right. They have better things to do.

Consider these numbers:

1. Sarah Palin's 1.5 million book printing. That's 1/2 of 1 percent of the people in the country.

2. Fox New's claim of somewhere between 3-4 million viewers for its top shows. That's somewhere between 1 and 1 1/3 percent of the country.

3. Even Rush Limbaugh's overinflated claim of 15-20 million listeners. That's between 5 and 6 2/3 percent of the country, and Rush's numbers are helped by the fact that he has a somewhat captive audience (people in their cars have to do something).

True, these are larger audiences than any liberals get, although I do think the Oprah reference is germane.

But the fact is, arguing over audiences that are this insignificant a part of the population is like trying to decide who is the tallest midget in the circus.

(With apologies to little people)
Posted By amalgam80 amalgam80 | about 1 month ago
facts aren't determined by how many people believe in them, facts are just facts, they should not be able to sway through public opinion.

At the risk of sounding inflammatory (but I think this is the best example that everyone is capable of understanding):

The Jews in Nazi Germany were .5%(not sure if that is the exact percentage, this is from memory not reseach, could be 5%)of the German population. A bigger percentage of the population believed that the Jews were the cause of a lot of their economic woes. It was widely believed, but it wasn't true.

I wrote above, 1 in 4 American thinks 9/11 was an inside job, nice little chunk of the population, much more than the numbers of books Palin will sell, does it make their views a fact? Are their views credible? Are their views thought out? Or do their views attract sales?
Posted By Punditty Punditty | about 1 month ago
amalgam80 wrote:

I wrote above, 1 in 4 American thinks 9/11 was an inside job, nice little chunk of the population, much more than the numbers of books Palin will sell, does it make their views a fact? Are their views credible? Are their views thought out? Or do their views attract sales?


I mentioned Jesse Ventura earlier in this thread. He's among the 33 percent (as of 8-1-06, see poll: http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll )
who think the government is covering up something important re: 9/11.

Here's a clip from 2008 of Jesse calling it as he sees it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV04eDoKRRU
Reply By Redhanded101 Redhanded101 | about 1 month ago
Pun,

That poll you reference is skewed. 92% of the 33% of respondents were Liberals & Democrats.

I have not met one Conservative or Republican that feels that way. If you know of any, please reference the information.
Posted By mllovric mllovric | about 1 month ago
Whatever's happened in honesty of the politicians, For The People, With The People, By The People? I don't think they understand the meaning of it
anymore. Or those words may have been forgotten because of selfishness.
3/10/2009.
Reply By Punditty Punditty | about 1 month ago
Redhanded,

I don't know where you got the 92 percent figure, but I would be interested in seeing it.

Former Reagan official Paul Craig Roberts comes to mind as a Republican who believes we haven't been told the full story about 9/11. I could find you more, but maybe you should do a little research on your own if you are really interested in exposing yourself to other perspectives. I personally have talked to several Republicans (at least five come to mind without thinking too hard) who believe we don't know the full story about 9/11, but none of them are willing to say so publicly. They live in Missouri, Illinois and California, and they are not elected officials, just people who have always voted Republican.

I want to make it clear that I personally do NOT think BushCo. was "behind" the attacks, but I do wonder about some of the forensic evidence and how that jibes (or doesn't) with the official story. It also troubles me that Bush stonewalled for more than a year before consenting to an investigation.

I was also troubled when a pilot who had piloted two of the actual planes used in the 9/11 attacks expressed his doubts as to the official story.

See:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3606159506368831731#

I've also always been curious about the alleged hijackers who were found alive after 9/11. See:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1559151.stm

Just as I am open to hearing more information as to why some think Obama was born in Kenya, I am also open to hearing more information on 9/11. So far, I would say the body of evidence I have seen indicates Obama was born in Hawaii. As for 9/11, (and I am not trivializing it in the least with this comparison) it's kind of like a football ref making a call and then having that call reviewed by the booth. The official story still stands because a "review" hasn't been conclusive enough to overturn it. However, I am not sure that the folks in the booth have looked at all the evidence, or that they even want to.

What troubles me most is that the American media, rather than look into these kinds of stories, instead just labels anyone with serious questions a "kook." It's one thing to automatically blame Bush or Israel, it's quite another to simply ask questions that haven't been satisfactorily answered. That's why I like Jesse Ventura.
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