The New Republic's cover story this week, headlined "The coming rise of liberal talk radio," briefly discusses Ed Schultz, the North Dakota radio personality touted as the left's answer to Rush Limbaugh, as well as Tom Daschle's role in the coming rise of liberal talk radio. Excerpt:
Moreover, the desire to create viable liberal talk radio programs goes all the way up to the top of the Democratic Party. "[I]f we're going to try to break through as Democrats, we have to have the same edge that Republicans do," Tom Daschle said of the need for liberal talk radio shows shortly after the 2002 midterm elections.Which is why, last November, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu hosted a fund-raising lunch for Democracy Radio at her Capitol Hill home. Together with about 20 other Democratic senators--including Stabenow, Daschle, and Hillary Clinton--Landrieu fêted Rhodes and a North Dakota liberal talker named Ed Schultz, both of whom Democracy Radio hopes to syndicate nationally.
I like G. Gordon Liddy's response to Democratic whining about talk radio, as quoted in the LA Times last week:
Conservative hosts say their fans turn to talk radio for views they can't find in the rest of the media. "Network TV and the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times axis is totally dominated by the left," said G. Gordon Liddy, whose talk show airs on 178 stations."Now the left, never satisfied with 9/10ths of the pie, has gotten its knickers in a twist about talk radio. It's a free country. They're certainly welcome to try," Liddy said. "But I'm inclined to think … listeners will say, 'Look, we can get all that stuff already.' "
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