Murf76
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- Nov 11, 2008
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Actually, I think the majority of American people are very intelligent. What I do find disconcerting are the ones who listen to entertainers to get their "news" to base "their" opinions on. I find them too lazy to think for themselves and instead glom onto what the talking head says as gospel without realizing that they are doing it for money more than ideology. But funny that you claim that liberals think Americans are stupid. Many of the conservative talk radio hosts I listen to have made that claim on repeated occasions. Savage and Boortz routinely berate the American electorate. Other talkers do too. And no, I can't give you specific incidents.....they are on the radio, not in print.
Why would you think that liberals don't believe Americans are innately stupid? Don't they treat us like we're stupid? Aren't they trying to set up a nanny-state to protect us from our own stupidity? Aren't we all just "bitter clingers" hanging on to our God and our guns?
Just look at this healthcare fiasco. Clearly, people are against this legislation, but the Dems in Washington are trying to pass it anyway. Because they believe they're smarter than we are... that they know best.
You're terribly bent out of shape over what political pundits have to say... but in the grand scheme of things, isn't it more important what our leaders in Washington actually DO? Don't their actions speak louder than their words?
Your assertion that people who listen to these political "entertainers" are too "lazy" to get their own talking points, precludes the idea that they ALREADY have a similar political philosophy before they ever tune in. These radio talkers are just tapping in to a market that's already there. They aren't making a new market. If every one of them winked out of existence tomorrow, my political philosophy would still be the same, wouldn't yours?
It's not dependent upon anyone else's.
You don't like Beck. Fine. Don't listen to him. But if, as I posted earlier, you're a believer in Capitalism *AND* a guy who loves his country, you have to admit that they're not mutually exclusive concepts... and that Beck is no hypocrite for engaging in both. Would that we all could make a buck doing something we love to do.