Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Are Liberal Talkers Staging "Scandals?"


Photo of Ed Schultz from source, Radio Equalizer

I only pose this question because of the right wing site I stumbled upon (below). I personally don't think that Randi Rhodes' scandal was staged. If it was, it was a huge roll of the dice. Her fans are pissed. Her detractors are jubilant. And her absence from Air America Radio belies any gains that would have been made by the story.

Ed Schultz, on the other hand could have been deliberately inflammatory to sort of ride the wave Randi caused with her cannonball. But I still think probably not. A deliberate "scandal" would have been far more calculated than calling John McCain a "warmonger." I mean for heaven's sake, worse is said about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton daily on the right-wing radio froth-fests.

Others disagree. . .

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'BIG F-ING' SCAMS?

Are both fans and detractors of liberal talk radio being taken for a ride?

With two "progressive" talkers enjoying an unprecedented wave of publicity in recent days, fishy signs of stunt-dom have begun to emerge. How did we not see this days earlier? . . .

Read more at: Radio Equalizer

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