Conservative talk radio -- dumb and dumber

In the debate over why conservative talk radio outdraws liberal talk radio, I've found the answer and it's incredibly simple.
Conservative talk radio is very simplistic and dumbed down. Dumb and dumber. It's easier to instill fear in your listeners by saying things shouldn't change or they should revert back using old prejudices than to promote intelligent solutions.
They don't call liberals progressives for nothing. Conservatives aren't.
Conservative radio is a mental comfort zone. It's easier for people to lay back and not move forward in their thinking. That, of course, is the weakness of conservatives as a whole.
Look at the debate over immigration and how talk show host have used the logic of prejudice to make their point.
Look at the whole recent "Redacted" controversy manufactured by Bill O'Reilly, who isn't a true conservative talk show host, but more like a sideshow clown. O'Reilly did a cheerleading act to get his audiences to hate "Redacted" before it was released and before even he saw it. Don't bother suggesting your audience judge for themselves. Just tell them it's bad. Easy way out. No work on their part. Dumb and dumber.
Liberal radio, on the other hand, isn't dumbed down. Actually, if there's one thing liberals probably do too much of on the radio is they intellectualize. You don't see a lot of conservative show hosts do that. Their audiences would turn them off in a millisecond.
Conservatives follow the old axiom Keep It Simple, Stupid. Keep 'em entertained. Conservatives wisely keep their ideas in basic terms even a child could understand. Most liberal talk show hosts don't. Conservative ideas generally don't challenge. They rely on existing ideas and prejudices. That's why it's so easy to listen to conservative talk radio. It doesn't take any brainpower.
Most of all, conservatives want to dictate everyone's values. Don't criticize the president. Fund the war and shut up. Marriage is reserved for heterosexuals only. And the most outlandish of all: I got mine, so the hell with everyone else. All too simple answers to complex questions. Conservatives have no compassion, no soul and no values -- unless it benefits them.
Liberals, however, will ultimately triumph in the end. Conservatives may apply the brakes, but liberals supply the propellers. You can't move forward without them.

I say Obama, they say ...

Leave it to the Republicans to start the 2008 presidential campaign off on a low end. They've done everything but blame 9/11 on Barack Obama already. And that doesn't include all the nice things they've been saying all along about Hillary Clinton.
Now that they've both begun preliminaries for the presidential race (Clinton just announced today, a reactive strike to Obama's announcement earlier in the week), the flame-throwing will really begin.
Just remember, Republicans, while you're digging up all that nasty stuff about Clinton and Obama and spewing how they don't espouse core American values, read this stuff I grabbed from Wikipedia about your guy Rudy Giuliani:

Rudy Giuliani's first marriage to Regina Peruggi was annulled after fourteen years because he discovered he and his wife were second cousins. In May of 2000, the New York Daily News broke news of his relationship to his now-third wife, and Giuliani then called a press conference to announce that he intended to separate from Donna Hanover. Hanover, however, had apparently not been told about his plans before his press conference.

When you live in glass houses ...

That silly Fox ...

I love when people get all hot and bothered over Fox News Channel and its supposed right-wing bias.

C'mon? Fox News Channel is hardly political. You ever look at its website? The biggest news the last two weeks has been Rosie O'Donnell vs. Donald Trump? Big Mouth vs. Big Hair! Trump, of course, is dying for publicity for "The Apprentice" so he'll do anything to get it, even "debate" Rosie O'Donnell. Big deal.

And I love some of the headlines on the site. Here's a few I just pulled. And yes, they're real:

- Israeli Woman Inseminated by Dead Soldier
- Empire State Building Parachuter Off the Hook
- "Half-Animal" woman found in Cambodia
- Man serves meatballs cooked in own fat

Jeez, this stuff is better than the National Enquirer and Weekly World News! No wonder Fox pulls in such big numbers. Hell, I'd watch those stories.

So keep it going, Fox News. Who needs loudmouth Bill O'Reilly and conservative pretty boy Sean Hannity when you have meatballs cooked in their own fat.