Why do you believe liberal political talk radio and political oriented news (?) television fail and basically suck?
I believe it's because they spend all their time snipping, whining, kissing Obama's butt, rationalizing the indefensible and generally being critical.
You probably noticed my opinion is rather bland and non-judgmental, so what do you think?...
Actually, Liberals have been banned from the media since Nixon precisely because they were so popular. That's why the extreme right has to pass moderate CON$ off as Libs.
For those of us old enough to remember, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was the top rated show, dethroning Bonanza, until Nixon forced "Liberal" CBS to cancel it and blackball Tom and Dick. The Smothers Bros crucified LBJ over the Vietnam War and he did nothing to them, but when they skewered Nixon, he got them kicked off the air.
Even local media was not safe from Nixon. A top Philadelphia radio station WMMR dared to take a stand against the war, and when Nixon won, he got the Program Director Luke O'Riley deported in a very left-handed way. Having no real grounds for deportation, He refused to renew his work visa, O'Riley was from England.
So while the CON$ pretend to be censored, it's only the Libs who have actually been censored.
freedomforum.org: When comedy offends: Revisiting the Smothers Brothers
Days before the April 6 show was to air, CBS canceled the show. CBS blamed the Smothers Brothers, saying Tom and Dick had failed to deliver the programs on time. Others speculated that CBS was caving in to political pressure and seeking to curry favor with the Nixon administration. The final, unaired show included a skit deriding congressional hearings on television content.
Given some of the passionate arguments surrounding free speech and Maher in recent weeks, you may have thought that in 1969 an influential magazine like TV Guide would have come to the defense of the brothers and their First Amendment rights. That wasnt the case.
In fact, TV Guide quickly endorsed the networks decision. Their unsigned special editorial essentially argued that good taste should trump free speech:
Where does satire end and sacrilege begin? Where does criticism end and affront begin? Where does disagreement end and national division begin? the editorial said.
TV Guide suggested that the nations most powerful medium shouldnt insult the general mores of the country. The magazine opted for a majority-rules philosophy:
The issue is: Shall entertainers using a mass medium for all the people be allowed to amuse a few by satirizing religion while offending the substantial majority?
Shall a network be required to provide time for a Joan Baez to pay tribute to her draft-evading husband while hundreds of thousands of viewers in the households of men fighting and dying in Vietnam look on in shocked resentment?
Of course, TV Guide exercised its own free-speech right to lambaste the Smothers Brothers. But the magazine also revealed a common failure among the news media. Too often, the media then and now view the First Amendment as a protector of a free press, but overlook the amendments critical role in protecting unpopular speech and expression.
I spoke with Tom Smothers earlier this year at a taping of our Speaking Freely television show. He believes that CBS canceled the show under instructions from Nixon.
When Nixon said, I want those guys off, they were off, Smothers said. If (Hubert) Humphrey [had] been elected, we would have been on.
