When I read this, I thought the author sounded a lot like John Derbyshire. Well, it is: http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/feb/23/00006/. Smart boy, John, an expat Englishmen now happy to be in the states. It's a thoughtful piece and he lays out the current state of ideals as they exist or don't for the R's and also, the D's, especially as they relate to TV and radio pundits.
I don't enjoy listening to talk radio very much. I find it largely preaches to the choir or it too often goes overboard and I loathe listening to "Hal from Muncie" or some twit when he calls in to hear himself talk. I sometimes listen to the Bob Edwards show on XM when I'm making early morning drives to another city--he sometimes has on some interesting guests, but I become many times annoyed at the politics he wears on his sleeve--the guy is utterly tone deaf. It's also tough to find anything decent on sports talk radio, too. Lots of shouting over each other by co-hosts followed by suffering through endless commercial breaks for get rich quick or get out of debt schemes along with the growing plethora of dick enhancement remedies. If you think about it, the commercials reflect the demographic listening to the show: guys overly concerned with the size of their credit card debt and their peckers who also want to be rich, RICH overnight. When you think about it, maybe just listening to rock and roll isn't so bad for you after all. The lovely English lass, Danielle Lloyd would no doubt agree.
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Removed all sports/political talk show station from my radio "speed dial" buttons about 5 or 6 years ago. Sure, the childish banter on most "rock" stations is beyond assinine, but they do play the occasional good song. CDs and classical music fill the rest of the dead air.
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