Showing posts with label Bill Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Press. Show all posts

Monday, August 20, 2012

It seems so much nicer now.

Just like right wing talk radio, left wing talk radio has to manufacture talking points as well. Expanding and inflating stories in order to fill a daily three hour program. It’s doesn’t matter if your are Bill O’Riely or Bill Press. Both have to put a little bloviating yeast into the mix. Making it bigger than it really ought to be. Just add a little bla bla bla and it will quickly rise to the top. Most often rise over the top.

Come on, try to host a 3-hour radio program, five days a week and you quickly run out of talking points. Saying the same thing repeatedly in one program. How many times can you rant about income taxes or reversing welfare reform in one daily talk show? You begin saying the same thing three or four times in one hour. Never mind dozens of times in one day.

Think about it. What more can you say about Mit Romney or President Obama that hasn’t been said by a hundred other talk radio hosts? Therefore, you have to resort to truth expansion. Exaggeration. White lies. Black lies. Hammering and personally attacking the opposition. Calling them every name in the book. Ideologues. Morons. Demigods. Idiots. Ignoramuses. Fatheads. Knuckle draggers. Meatheads. Blowhards. And, the list is completely endless. Are you following me?

My best advice is to put your radio in the closet and read the newspaper. And pretty soon, your disposition will improve. People will begin to say you must have had light therapy or are now taken Prozac. Talking nicer and smiling more often. Oh gee! He sounds like a human being again. See there?

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

You mean it's all about money? What about the truth?

It’s all about advertising. Sponsorship. Ad sells. Big bucks. Money to be made from being insanely bazaar. The more outrageous, the better.

What is it? Why, it’s Talk Radio. Blasting, bashing, and bloviating. It’s radio’s version of reality TV. Survivor on “Speed.” Hyperbolic rhetoric. Hyperbolizing. Hysteria and Hellishness all wrapped up in one media freak show called, Talk Radio.

And to be perfectly clear, we are talking about talk radio from both sides of the partisan civil war. From the right. From the left. Yes, both Rush and Big Ed. All pontificate Dogma. Barking, biting, and besmirching the other’s conspiracy theories.

However, most listeners to either doctrinaire, actually believe the talk show hosts prattling rants. Rants certainly expanded beyond reason and rationality. Rants going over the top. Over the top only to sell advertising. But, the listener is not aware of This media trick. A trick only, and let me repeat, only to sell advertising. Sponsorship. Bla bla bla sold only for money. And again, bla bla only selling to big time national advertising accounts.

And to repeat again, advertising is key. Speaking the truth is not. Stirring the pot and poking fingers in the eyes of the opposition is the means to the end. And once again, the end is to sell baby sell. And the ONLY way to sell is to create an enormous boiling caldron of lies, exaggerations, misrepresentations, distortions, innuendos, embarrassments, black eyes, and on and on. All stewing in one big witches brew called, Talk Radio.

Now, here is the saddest fact of all. Many gullible and shallow people really believe this crap. Yes. It’s true. Many naïve ignoramuses hang on every word of the garrulous show host’s hypertensive blabbering. The unsuspecting listener believe it to the point that they cover their cars with insulting bumper stickers. Front yards awash in a sea of ranting yard signs. And wearing T-shirt exposing anybody they and the talk show host absolutely disdain. Finally Sending the radio recruit off to a battle armed with smoke and rubber bullets. Completely misguided and bound to get hurt in the process. All to defend some talk show host’s convoluted demagoguery.

In the mean time, as mentioned before, the talk show host walks away with tens of millions of dollars from advertisements. Probably snickering how stupid the listener is. Just one more day of potty talk and a walk to the bank.

So we can conclude, Disparaging the opposition with humiliating rhetoric sells ads. Being Mr. Nice Guy is the kiss of death for any talk show host. Bullying and blowing hard is key to talk showary. Sick’em Rush!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

You talk too much. You worry me to death.

It’s the weekend and time to have a few friends over for the evening. A great time to rekindle friendships. So, you have a few of your closest friends over for snacks, drinks and conversation. But when you’re having fun time slips away. It’s getting late but conversation continues. And talk is not letting up. One topic begets another and the yapping seems endless into the late evening and on into the early morn. Consequently the clock on the wall is completely ignored for the sake of fun and sometimes interesting conversation.

However as talk continues, you and your guests get to the point where you are mindlessly repeating yourselves. Saying things you had covered earlier but might have forgotten. But to make conversation a bit more interesting, you slip in a little hyperbole or a half truth. Then conversation gets to the point you and your gests are saying things all of you have no idea what being said. Basically making things up. Just for the sake of continuing the conversation. Mostly silly nonsensical talk. Just Bla bla bla. Indicating it’s past time to send your guests home and you go to bed.

Now, here is my point. The very same thing happens with talk hosts on talk radio and late night talk TV. They get to the point where all available topics have been covered many times . Consequently the conversation must continue. Continue with hyperbole and half truths. Remember our conversation above? The same happens with talk radio and TV. In order to talk two or three hours a day, five days a week much of the conversation is packaged in processed baloney. Exaggerations, untruths, rumors, and manufactured dialogue.

And this is true with both conservative and liberal talk. You can only say so much without saying something contrived. Contrived for the sake of filling all the blank spaces. Filler words to prop up the conversation. Again, filler otherwise known as baloney. BS, horse shooie, and word crap. Stuff finally resulting in basic misinformation and “Tabloidism.”

And the bottom line in “Talk Radio” is to create controversy in order to sell advertising. Selling and making money is what Talk Radio is all about. Nothing else. It’s a business and no one cares how the money is made. Just bring it on. Say something stupid and make a buck. It’s as simple as that.

Talk Radio is worthless senseless ooze from the horses rear end. Never ever believe what you hear on Talk Radio. Radio the way it was not meant to be. Today’s talk radio has spiraled down into a black hole of empty rhetoric and hyperbole. Just basic cow splat on your living room floor.

Where’s Fibber McGee and Molly when we need them? We need basic entertainment. Not horse feathers. In the meantime, turn off the radio and TV. Talk radio is for hollow headed bimbos. Go get your newspaper and read.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

You guys! It's time to turn the page.

Okay, it’s time to stop milking this cow. And I’m talking about all the liberal talkers and their fixation on Rush. Enough is enough. Let’s move on to real issues.

Without a doubt I am no fan of Rush Limbaugh. I think he is a babbling jerk and deserves to go off the air but, it’s time for all liberal media types to find other fish to fry. Public safety, education, health care, ugly oily polluting pipelines, environment, alternative energy, air and water pollution, etc. Find a worthy subject and go with it.

Now you guys, go back to issues you ably champion. None the less, it is still amusing to me and many others how the Republicans can’t seem to come up with a viable Presidential candidate. It’s like almost everything blows up in their collective faces. If the Republicans would just back off their narrow demagogic demands, then perhaps a worthy candidate might come forward. And contrary to their beliefs, a moderate with his or her own set of conservative beliefs would pose more of a threat to Obama in November. More so than the current Nut Cases running. Now this is a worthy subject for most liberal talkers. Just pick it up and go on.

It is oh so obvious, very few Republicans identify and like the current foursome of whacky-doodle candidates. They are like the three stooges plus one. Everything they say is a media junky’s dream. Loaded and filled with classic “Sound bites.” Enough to fill every late night comedians monologue. But, who’s listen to me. Me, the voice of rational thinking. The voice of the Red Dirt Planes. Oh sure. Your are welcome.

Monday, February 6, 2012

If you can't beat them, then out spend them.

I just now realize why Republicans raise so much campaign money. Since they have no constructive platform to stand on and nothing positive to bring to the voters, they then just attack any other ideology. Therefore they must raise tons of money to compensate for their void of creative constructive thinking.

They have no interest in health care. They resist a clean environment. They resist bringing jobs back to America. Republicans have no motivation to bring on more police, fire, and emergency workers. They hate teachers, nurses, and any public workers. Bottom line they have nothing constructive or positive to offer as campaign issues to the voters. They lack good ideas to help the American people.

So, they have to resort to raising money from secret and dubious sources and just attack-attack-attack. It’s all they know. Negative ads are their best campaign tool. So, if they can’t say something good about themselves, then they’ll blast away at the opposition instead. And just think, some of these uninspired partisans are our neighbors. How sick.