Because it doesn’t fulfill your preconceptions?
So long as they can’t produce their own lysine, its pretty safe. Death will find a way.
Here are four of my favorite blue to the core left wing talking heads. Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Judith Regan, and Michelangelo Signorile. I listen to them all the time and catch myself realizing that they are anti-Limbaugh. Their rhetoric is just blue.
For those interested: List of most-listened-to radio programs - Wikipedia
Rush brings in almost 15 million listeners. None of the guys D-bear mentioned were able to crack the list, which bottoms out at 2 million.
What makes you think that the demise of the Republican party would leave us with a single party system?
I don’t think our friend Ms. Simba means “blue” as in “liberal”, but rather “blue” as in “ribald comedy”. Hence the references to Howard Stern and Larry Flynt, although I was unaware that he’s also a radio host. If he is, I’d love to hear his show.
Either way, there is still a dearth of liberal radio on the airwaves.
“It’s arithmetic.”
Eliminate the all but one of the two dominant parties and you are left with one, one that would be able to set up whatever gerrymandering they want to assure their continued dominance, to make the long shot of one of the wannabe parties becoming a contender is even more impossible.
But again people seem to be confusing the cart for the horse.
There is the popularity of Rush because there is a market for what he is selling, a large market. Outside of the cities many many people think that way and want to hear a version of reality that confirms their already held beliefs. The mainstream attempts to present something that approximates reality and we all know that reality has a liberal bias. Uncomfortable if you really want to believe in Creation of a Young Earth and other myths, like trickle-down. Most who are voting Democratic are not as extreme Left as the GOP base is extreme Left and those relatively fewer with extreme views have splintered positions many of them who would rather listen to music more often than not: they don’t make up a big enough radio listening demographic.
Rush is a follower not a leader. They apologize to “him” only because they know he place holds for many people in non-urban America.
And because he says what many of the powerful want to hear, and want their subordinates to hear. It’s Rush who gets put on the PA system in various businesses and on the military networks, regardless of whether the people in question want to listen to him (or actively want him to go away; I understand a lot of female soldiers are seriously unhappy at having to listen to him); not some “blue shock jock”. He’s a propagandist, not just an entertainer. More of a poor man’s Goebbels.
Currently, the Republicans have a lock on gerrymandering throughout most of the country. That doesn’t prevent the Democratic party from being a major party. The fact is that our winner-take-all system practically guarantees a two-party system. There’s no reason to believe that the collapse or breakup of the Republican coalition would either leave the Democrats unchallenged, or, indeed, leave the Democratic coalition intact for more than a couple of election cycles.
Oh, I dunno. There sure are a lot of farangs (Westerners), especially in Pattaya, who fall in love with bargirls, get wronged, and then do what’s known locally as the “farang dive” off a 10th-floor balcony. 
So maybe there’s a balcony out there somewhere with Rush’s name on it.
I agree with what you’re saying, and I believe that Rush’s audience consists of two main groups: far-right conservatives who believe every word that comes out of his mouth and lefties who contact the companies who advertise on his show to let them know that their ad dollars are supporting his show. But not having liberal talk radio is like having only radio stations that only play Justin Bieber and Ke$ha. I don’t care for their music and would prefer something that is a little more to my taste.
That being said, it looks like the best opportunity to break his power is to do so economically, which is happening. At their peak, Rush and his ilk were supporting AM talk radio because that’s all you heard. Now that there is a pressure campaign to get advertisers to support everyone else but Rush, these same stations and networks are in trouble. (In fact, I know a guy who has contacted local companies and encouraged them to throw their financial support to public radio instead, and I think he’s had some success.)
I’ve heard of two of those guys, but one was because his plane crashed into Ozzy’s bus a few decades back.
You mean like the single-party system we’ve had since the Era Of Good Feelings in the 1820s?
Oh, wait…
Monroe apparently wanted to be rid of the concept of party completely; not one party but no party. No, more like the many single party systems that exist (and have existed) across the world, such as the Communist Party, and a list of others.
But sure, one outcome could be that the Democratic Party would eventually splinter … of course one might just become that which the GOP might someday become.
I’d just as soon dream of the GOP sticking around but as a permanent minority opposition.
Last time I checked, I didn’t live on an island like Tom Hanks, Oliver Queen and Brooke Shields. I don’t really listen to radio anymore, but I do know there are many popular shock jocks out there.
I never said Flynt was a radio host. When did I say that? Howard and Stern are very un PC like Rush. Howard is a very popular radio host like Rush. I’ve been using the phrases “blue” and “red” for a little while now.
What does ‘un PC’ mean?
You know what it means.
You guysssss, she doesn’t like, even listen to the radio she just totally knows there is an equally bad person on the other side of the aisle because they all do it!!!1!11