Conservative Losers Get Radio Gigs

With the Obama adminimstration doing it's level best to be as transparent as possible, conservative talk-radio is in full-on offense-mode.

The new batch of right-wing prattle-heads is shaping up to the a whos-who amongst Republican Presidential losers:

It is a lively time to be behind the microphone. One television talker, Joe Scarborough, is starting a radio show. Another, Bill O’Reilly, is ending his.

Several of the supporting actors in this year’s Republican primary are showing interest in the medium, too. Fred Thompson, the “Law & Order” star turned presidential candidate, will begin hosting a two-hour show in March, as the syndicator Westwood One is expected to announce this week. Mr. Thompson’s show would take the place of Mr. O’Reilly’s.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a Republican presidential candidate, had been in negotiations with Westwood One for Mr. O’Reilly’s time slot, according to two people with knowledge of the talks who spoke on the condition of anonymity because a deal was not struck.


Mike Huckabee, the former Republican presidential candidate who now has a weekend program on the Fox News Channel, is trying radio as well, hosting short segments for ABC Radio beginning Jan. 5. While there are plenty of topics to talk about — and plenty of hosts willing to do the talking — nagging questions about the business remain. A sharp advertising downturn is limiting revenue for stations. And some hosts are worrying about the relevance of talk radio in a digital age.

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When one realizes the severely inflated value that conservatives place on those talk-radio voices that are intended to represent their own, it's easy to see that Right-Wing talk is becoming more and more irrelevant.

Giuliani can't seem to make it through one semi-coherent thought without invoking Spetember 11th at least 3 times. Thompson will probably hold a call-in contest to see who can give him the best "appalause" that he desires. And Huckabee's way too soft-spoken to be a successful right-wing talk-host.

Truthfully, neither of the three will probably have what the bulk of conservative audiences want - that red, red, meat.

This is a demographic that needs to have it's opinions spoon-fed to them. They don't want to hear about the struggles of the poor, the problems with urban educational systems. They want to hear about how great "free markets" are. They want to be told that some faceless person in Congress is trying to begin back "The Fairness Doctrine". They seem to have this deep desire to be scared.

While Giuliani seems to be the only one out of the new-school of incoming talking-heads that can accomplish such a feat - only because he loves talking about terrorists - I don't see any of these shows lasting.