crybabies..
just who do see crying..
make it more like laughing..at the spin that was expected..
No spin here, Tootsie. What Mike Malloy said doesn't offend me. I've had death wishes on this board from a couple righwing freaks, and I laughed it off. I guess when rightwingers hear it, they need the smelling salts and fainting couch.
It's hyperbole. Let me know when Mike Malloy helps lie us into a war, or uses racist or sexist epithats or code language. Then, I'll get pissed.
LOL ....check it out. I actually do kinda dig Mike Malloy:
Buzzflash Interview w/ Mike Malloy
BuzzFlash: How do you describe your style on the radio?
Mike Malloy: Regarding the political issues, it's very confrontational. Regarding my callers, I have no patience with Republicans or right-wingers, and very little patience with people who are middle of the road. I believe in what Jim Hightower said a long time ago: "The only thing you find in the middle of the road is a yellow line and dead armadillos."
To me, the only issues that exist right now are the issues of the corruption and the utter incompetence of the Bush Administration. Regarding those issues, my style, my approach, is very confrontational. I think this republic is under direct assault by a cadre of people who want to destroy it and replace it with totalitarianism. And that pisses me off to a degree I didn't know was possible. So I scream, I yell, I pound things, and occasionally I've been known to use bad language.
BuzzFlash: We've asked the other progressive talk-show hosts we've talked to very specifically, how you do handle callers? If a caller upsets you, do you just cut them off?
Mike Malloy: It depends on the nature of the caller. Over twenty years of talk radio, but especially in the past three or four years,
I've found that most right-wing or conservative callers, or people who call who think they're going to challenge me on a specific point, are functionally illiterate. Their minds are capable of parroting only what they've heard from Rush Limbaugh, or a Free Republic, or Sean Hannity. They are incapable of carrying on a dialogue. They are eaten up with right-wing religious garbage.
I know that the majority of my audience doesn't want to hear this. They don't want to hear it because they deal with it constantly out in the real world -- at the workplace, in their churches, in their synagogues, on the bus, in the carpool, at the PTA meeting. They hear these right-wing parrots who are utterly eaten up with fear, utterly eaten up with ignorance. And these right-wingers get their strength only from repeating over and over what they've heard from right-wing radio or right-wing television. So I don't want them to call me.
I have no interest in converting them. I have no interest in hearing their point of view, because I know what their point of view is. The only thing I'm interested in doing with right-wingers or conservatives is hoping that maybe -- and I realize this is really reaching -- maybe they'll just sit back and listen to my program, and some spark will go off in their head that will make them want to do some independent research for the first time in their lives to find out how they've been lied to and led into this blind alley of right-wing idiocy.
BuzzFlash: Isn't that like expecting a reverse lobotomy to occur?
Mike Malloy: It is indeed. But hope springs eternal in the human breast, right?
If I had completely given up, I think I would just resign from talk radio.