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7 March 21, 2009 - 4:48am | tanyaozturk

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6 May 11, 2008 - 10:05pm | bostonbill

Dan's Right - To a Point

Dan's right. Oh my, how can that be? But he is. People on the right and left, at the extreme ends of the ideology spectrum need to lighten up. The fact of the matter is, those who espouse the extreme points of view of either ideology, are not, in my opinion where most Americans are. I think most are like me, right smack in the middle of the road. Niether flaming liberal or stauch conservative. I'm growing to hate those two terms when applied to entertainers or politicians. I like where I am. I get to laugh at both sides when they get carried away with themselves and their points of view.

Most talk radio hosts, like Dan, are getting paid to stir things up, provide entertainment though admittedly, some are scarier than others in their extremism. Some are just downright dummer than a box of rocks.

Sure, Dan likes to pontificate when he has a few moments of low call volume, they all do. But really, I doubt if his opinion, written or on the air, changes many people's minds. Sometimes it makes people mad, stirs them up, makes them sit down at the computer at 10 at night after reading the paper and write a comment. Its his job and he obviously hasn't done so badly that he's been thrown off the air or the editorial page of the daily news. He's doing something right, even if it is simply getting under people's skin from time to time.

5 May 11, 2008 - 4:49pm | alaskaflyer331

entertainment

I think everyone needs to remember that all talk radio hosts are generally entertainment, from Rush down to Fagan, and anyone who takes anything they say with any amount of credibility deserve to be laughed at.

4 May 11, 2008 - 8:59am | ricknro

Conservative ideas

"...trying to convince people that our conservative ideas are better than their liberal ideas?"

Conservatives have ideas, it's just that most Americans don't like those ideas. Here is a partial list of conservative "ideas" that the American people overwhelming reject: Privatize social security, the Iraq war, ivade Iran now, more deregulation for the banking industry, the unitary executive, turning government into a political advocacy group, more Tax breaks for big oil, more tax cuts for the rich and roll back clean air and clean water regulations.

Conservatives have to get Americans to believe things that aren't true in order to get their ideas accepted.

May 11, 2008 - 8:25pm | gbiegel

Question on the invasion of Iran now and others.

Who on the conservative side is advocating:

The invasion of Iran,
Deregulating the banking industry,
More tax breaks for big oil (other than for reinvestment)
More tax cuts for the rich
Rolling backup clean air and water regulations.

Also, can you please clarify the "turning government into an advocacy group" comment? I don't understand that.

What I think you mean to say is:
Conservatives will invade a nuclear capable Iran,
Conservatives are for more regulation of the banking industry, but not as much as liberals,
Conservatives are for incremental increases in the past tax regime for oil, liberals want higher taxes,
The tax cuts from Bush (that were for all Americans) - conservatives want to continue them (for all americans) and liberals don't.

There must be valid points that we should be debating. I don't see much value from the errors you offer in your post. There is a real debate here, but the one you are offering isn't it.

Regards
Glen

May 11, 2008 - 8:56pm | pjbalaska

Exactly Right

Mostly, Conservatives have to fool people to support their very much hidden agenda. Saddam is getting ready to follow up 911 with a mushroom cloud. Money for the elderly's prescription needs which really will go to the big drug companies; money for students which will really go to predatory lenders. "Free enterprise" for everyone but the rich, who receive corporate welfare and plunder the pensions of the working man. Agencies meant to guard the environment instead push for development at any cost. And they should "lighten up?" With the record that conservative misrule has brought they should disappear quietly, hiding their faces in shame.....as they are likely to do finally, thankfully, in November. It will be generation, al la Roosevelt-Truman, until another right wing schlock merchant will be able to fool the people. But we may have sunk so low.....recovery is questionable. Doubtful future generations will understand the phrase "sound as a dollar.."

3 May 11, 2008 - 8:11am | koala

All of Talk Radio Hosts...

...take themselves too seriously, left and the multitude on the right. Setting themselves up as experts, they often are little more educated on a subject than the listening and non-listening public. I'll take a scientist's view of Climate Change more seriously than a talk show host, along with an Iraq War Vet's opinion. Tap into Talk Radio for our energy crisis, with the hot air coming out the top and the methane out the rear! C'mon Dan, you can do your part.

2 May 11, 2008 - 7:38am | haroldb_99501

Is it me or have the Conservatives Ruined our Country?

...Greed
...Profit
...Selfishness

...You reap what you sow... as a nation..we are now reaping the bitter fruit of the extreme right wing agenda...

and...what a lousy fruit it is...

time to make a change and never go back to right-wing conservatives again...

1 May 11, 2008 - 5:09am | blue_gold907

I thought

Zency would be an imoprovement over that panty waist, Larry Persilly. I was wrong.

May 11, 2008 - 4:45pm | darrelh

I thought

you could spell and speak English. Guess we were wrong.

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