Daily Gut: CNN Perplexed By Talk Radio

So, fresh from their previous idiocy analyzing Saturday Night Live, CNN has now turned their goofy gaze toward talk radio, in a series of segments designed to examine the psychology behind a phenomenon that gives them fits. In short, they just can’t figure out why conservatives rule talk radio, and why the left is left out in the cold.

Now, only CNN could do this with a straight face. According to the network, some say talk radio is “viciously partisan,” without of course defining “some,” as “people who work at CNN.” And so the segment began, with CNN using a shrink to examine the typical listener, as though he belonged to a rare breed of lizard that dines only on feces.

Check it out, check-it-outers. 

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Tags: CNN, Fairness Doctrine, Fox News, Randi Rhoades, Rush Limbaugh
Posted Oct 20th 2009 at 2:55 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story | 249822197 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/10/20/daily-gut-cnn-perplexed-by-talk-radio/Daily+Gut%3A+CNN+Perplexed+By+Talk+Radio2009-10-20+21%3A55%3A26Greg+Gutfeld

Move Over Talk Radio – Comedy Needs the Fairness Doctrine

October 6th, 2009 –the Comedy Fairness Doctrine was conceived.  A liberal civil war was declared.  CNN versus Saturday Night Live.  The cable news network turned their heat seeking missiles of truth detection on the laser-guided precision of punchlines delivered on a variety show.  The weekend preceding this historic day, Saturday Night Live returned for a new season of shows.   Their signature opening sketch featured President Barack Obama (played by Fred Armisen) reading off a laundry list of agenda items he pledged to do, and has yet to accomplish since winning the presidency. 

The list was comically, painfully long and the audience applauded and laughed at the real-life, obvious absence of leadership the sketch had captured in President Obama.  It is key to remember this is the work of comedy writers who could not find something funny about candidate or President Obama for nearly two years.  They did all they could to mock anyone and everyone around the man as to avoid skewering the “One” bearing gifts of “hope and change.”  But we’re coming up on a year in elected office and the liberals have grown restless.   (more…)

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Tags: CNN, Comedy Fairness Doctrine, Fairness Doctrine, Saturday Night LIve, talk radio
Posted Oct 14th 2009 at 4:51 pm in Entertainment, Political Humor | 24647839 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cstigall/2009/10/14/move-over-talk-radiocomedy-needs-the-fairness-doctrine/Move+Over+Talk+Radio+%E2%80%93+Comedy+Needs+the+Fairness+Doctrine2009-10-14+23%3A51%3A17Chris+Stigall

SHOCK! Rush Limbaugh Embraces Capitalism

I do not listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show.  That is not to say that I think he of the golden microphone is not worth listening to.  On the contrary, I think that Rush might be the most important voice in America. It just happens that talk radio isn’t my personal cup of tea. 

Still, when I do take in the rare hour or two, I have always found Rush to be a profoundly insightful thinker.  Far from the partisan blowhard the left portrays him to be, Rush is, from my limited listenings, a true philosopher, perhaps a bit more crude than his toga-wearing, boy-loving predecessors, but one of them just the same.  His philosophy is American Conservatism, and he champions it far above party.  In fact, I suspect it is the soft-left members of the GOP that fear him most, since the DNC cannot by their very nature be held to the standards of limited government and natural-liberty over enforced-equality he champions in the first place.  (more…)

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Tags: Bill Mann, capitalism, EIB, free market, Huffington Post
Posted Oct 3rd 2009 at 6:37 am in Culture, Politics | 234038164 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jdboreing/2009/10/03/shock-rush-limbaugh-embraces-capitalism/SHOCK%21+Rush+Limbaugh+Embraces+Capitalism2009-10-03+13%3A37%3A20Jeremy+D.+Boreing

T’was Accountability That Led the Mainstream Media to Suicide

In recent days and weeks three major news stories have broke here online, at Fox News or the Washington Times; everywhere but the mainstream media. Worse still, as the stories unfolded, the media willfully ignored them until, much to their embarrassment, they were forced to give grudging coverage only after official action — in the form of a resignation (Van Jones), reassignment (the NEA) or dismissal (ACORN) — occurred that could no longer be ignored.

Mainstream news outlets have been caught off guard before, but they used to play catch up. Today they play “hide the ball.” For as long as I’ve been politically aware the media’s been biased, but willfully ignoring a major national news story at great cost to their credibility and relevance is a new low. So what changed?

Ironically enough, scrutiny and accountability is the cause of much of the media’s increasingly disgraceful behavior. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Bernard Goldberg, bias, mainstream media, Media research Center
Posted Sep 12th 2009 at 1:10 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 223710132 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/12/twas-accountability-that-killed-the-mainstream-media/T%27was+Accountability+That+Led+the+Mainstream+Media+to+Suicide2009-09-12+20%3A10%3A24John+Nolte

Hidden Agenda: The FCC’s Diversity Officer

Since writing Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio published in May by Simon & Schuster, I’ve been watching developments at the FCC closely. The book suggested the left had a hidden agenda to silence conservative talk radio and that they never were serious about re-instating the Fairness Doctrine because there was a better way to silence conservatives. I quoted Craig Aaron of Free Press, a liberal media watchdog group with inside connections to the FCC ,who said: “I don’t support re-instating the Fairness Doctrine not because I don’t support the goals, but because I think it’s the wrong way to go about it.”  In other words, there is a RIGHT way to go about it – to muzzle conservative talk radio. 

The right way appears to be Mark Lloyd, the FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer, a man who literally hates conservative talk.  Apparently, diversity does not include conservative talk radio.  As documented by the Media Research Center and others, Mark Lloyd thinks that if conservative broadcasters don’t present liberal points of view, they should be fined and the money given to public broadcasters.    (more…)

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Tags: Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio, Chief Diversity Officer, FCC, Glenn Beck, Mark Lloyd
Posted Sep 10th 2009 at 4:33 pm in Featured Story, Politics, Video | 21936661 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/09/10/hidden-agenda-the-fccs-diversity-officer/Hidden+Agenda%3A+The+FCC%27s+Diversity+Officer2009-09-10+23%3A33%3A00Brian+Jennings

Coming Out of the Comedy Closet

[Ed. Note: Carl's 'Grand Theft Audio' airs tonight and every Thursday night on LATalkRadio.com at 7pm PST]

It’s not easy being a conservative in comedy these days. Folks like Evan Sayet, and no doubt Drew Carey or Kelsey Grammer, can tell you that.

Add in the fact that I’m just trying to get to where they are, and not already fully entrenched in success, and a lot of people would wonder if admitting I’m a conservative (actually, libertarian but pro-life to boot) isn’t tantamount to career suicide. The fact I’m also a reporter in the ultra-liberal world of alternative-weekly newspapers, and some would say that I might as well pick out my casket.

I’ll admit that I was a virtually a card-carrying liberal for about a decade until I reached my moment of conversion last summer. Before that, I was hoping for Hillary to win it all, having grown up in Arkansas with Bill ‘n’ Hill keeping things colorful, and then watching Bill keep us out of wars and leaving us with a budget surplus while in the White House.

I bought the Kool-Aid that Bush could do nothing right and was a fervent follower of Michael Moore (I even have a photo with him where we sadly almost look like twins). But when I saw my brethren in the news media suddenly fawning blindly over the Chicago mystery man Barack Obama, giving him the easiest free pass to the White House I’d ever seen despite the fact he had less relevant job experience than it takes to manage a department store, I started to wonder if maybe my profession and its liberal slant had veered dangerously off-course. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Clinton, Brant & Carl Show, evan sayet, Grand Theft Audio: The Jake, Hillary Clinton
Posted Jul 30th 2009 at 5:53 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Political Humor, Politics | 19517874 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2009/07/30/carl-post/Coming+Out+of+the+Comedy+Closet2009-07-31+00%3A53%3A14Carl+Kozlowski

The Media: Wrong on Jackson, Wrong on Palin

I have been driving around the Midwest for the last six days with my son playing golf, watching baseball games, visiting old friends and doing a few shows. There are a lot of benefits to this well-timed vacation. The weather was perfect and I missed the entire hullabaloo known as the Michael Jackson memorial. I didn’t see a minute of the lead-up coverage, the “service,” or the postmortem, no pun intended.

I was listening to evil talk radio in the car and did hear and read a number of reports on the event.  Depending on whom I was listening to, it was a freak show/circus, a fitting memorial or “not as bad as I thought it might be.”

I always thought of Mr. Jackson as a talented singer/dancer/songwriter who had poor impulse control. I thought this was due to the fact that the leeches and toadies who depended on him for money never said one simple word to him: “No!” Apparently I was very wrong! Until I heard and read reports from his memorial, I was unaware of his role in our society as everything from a civil rights pioneer to basketball coach. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pat Riley, take a break, the king of pop has got your back. I heard he was quite the philanthropist too; although there isn’t a Michael Jackson Foundation, he did at one time donate a reported $22 million to a single California family. (more…)

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Tags: Chicago Tribune, Christians, journalists, Martin Luther King, Michael Jackson
Posted Jul 13th 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Politics, Religion | 180658237 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/07/13/jackson-palin-and-the-media/The+Media%3A+Wrong+on+Jackson%2C+Wrong+on+Palin2009-07-13+12%3A03%3A16Jeffrey+Jena

Where Offensive Speech is Prohibited, Tyranny Will Follow

First it was the National Hispanic Media Coalition calling on the FCC to probe what it feels is hate speech by conservative talk radio hosts.  The group claims it isolated 334 incidents of hate speech by John & Ken of KFI, Los Angeles, Michael Savage, and Lou Dobbs in eighty minutes of tape.

Then it was minority groups petitioning the FCC to investigate the new radio ratings system called the Portable People Meter because they feel it under represents the ratings on urban radio stations and is unfair.  The meter can’t lie and registers in real time what radio stations those who wear the device are hearing.  Make sure all groups are fairly represented and all should be fine.  (more…)

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Tags: fat, FCC, little people, Mideget, Radio
Posted Jul 8th 2009 at 7:11 am in Featured Story, Politics | 178186274 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/07/08/crybabies-and-wimps/Where+Offensive+Speech+is+Prohibited%2C+Tyranny+Will+Follow2009-07-08+14%3A11%3A55Brian+Jennings

Let’s Tax Guns, Talk Radio, Ambition and Taxes

When you spend a few trillion bucks you don’t have, at some point you need to come up with a plan to pay that money back. If you don’t, you look bad and no messianic cult figure ever wants to look like he doesn’t know what’s up. If you are a working stiff you have two ways to get money to pay off your debts, earn more or spend less. If you own the printing press like the Federal Government you have another option, create inflation. For example, if you printed enough money to cause inflation to rise by a factor of ten you could pay back a trillion dollars of debt with money that is in reality only worth 100 billion. The down side of that is that milk ends up costing thirty-three dollars a gallon.

Another thing a government can do to raise revenue to pay off their debt is expand the economy. That one is tough when you have just bought GM, AIG and are getting ready to nationalize health care. Corporate types aren’t too keen to expand their businesses when Uncle Sam is looking to control them.

A third option is to raise taxes. When President Obama was still candidate Obama he promised not to raise taxes on the middle class. At least I think that’s what he said, or did he say income taxes? Then too, there was a little vacillation on what was meant by middle class. Was it earners over $250,000 or $150,000? (more…)

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Tags: AIG, economics, GM, national health, NPR
Posted Jun 11th 2009 at 4:14 pm in Politics | 155070No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/06/11/new-progressive-tax-proposals/Let%27s+Tax+Guns%2C+Talk+Radio%2C+Ambition+and+Taxes2009-06-11+23%3A14%3A24Jeffrey+Jena

FCC: America’s New Speech Police

I find it incredible in America that a regulatory agency thinks it has jurisdiction to probe an independent business.  Oh, but I forget about Chrysler, GM, and our banking system.  Foolish me.  What the Federal Communications Commission is doing is outlandish and smacks of tyranny in the making.  We should brace ourselves because the implications for free speech in America are grave.  Your right to hear what you want to hear when you want to hear it is something our government doesn’t give a damn about.  The free marketplace of ideas is something that is evil to them.

The FCC has announced it will probe Arbitron’s new audience measurement system for radio stations – it’s called the Portable People Meter.  Arbitron is an independent company and the FCC has no jurisdiction over it.  But, acting FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and his fellow Democrat Jonathan Adelstein disagree.  Adelstein has been quoted as stating the commission has “clear authority” over broadcast signals, and “legitimate questions” to ask about Arbitron’s system, which relies on these signals, and operates as a currency for the industry.  (more…)

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Tags: arbitron, Chrysler, FCC, GM, Jonathan Adelstein
Posted Jun 1st 2009 at 2:38 pm in News, Politics | 145750One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/06/01/americas-new-speech-police-the-fcc/FCC%3A+America%27s+New+Speech+Police2009-06-01+21%3A38%3A00Brian+Jennings

Obama’s Latest Assault on Conservative Talk

There is no question the Obama administration and most Democrats thinks conservative talk radio is something that should be eliminated from the “new” American culture.  We documented that in the book Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio.  Now, the administration is stepping up its subtle attack on conservative talk radio stations. 

In 2008, Arbitron, which measures radio audiences nationwide, began rolling out its latest measurement technology called the “Portable People Meter,” or PPM.  It’s a pager-device that automatically registers what someone is listening to at any moment.  It’s the measurement of real time listening as opposed to the “old” system that required a listener to recall and write down once a week the stations they could remember they heard.  Most radio executives feel this system is the future for radio audience measurement.  When the New York ratings came out last fall, it showed conservative talk radio was even stronger than previously noted under the old audience measurement system and that minority radio stations were not as popular.  Well, you know the rest of the story. (more…)

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Tags: arbitron, Brian Jennings, Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio, Fairness Doctrine, FCC
Posted May 26th 2009 at 4:11 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 14385411 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/05/26/obamas-latest-assault-on-conservative-talk/Obama%27s+Latest+Assault+on+Conservative+Talk2009-05-26+23%3A11%3A01Brian+Jennings

Dennis Miller: Capitalist Hero

Dennis Miller started out on the political left and, as he matured (helped along considerably by the shock of 9/11), he migrated to the political right.

In this wayward sojourn, he is in fine intellectual company: To name but a few, David Horowitz (former campus radical), Irving Kristol (one time Trotskyite), and Ronald Reagan (early FDR-New Dealer).  And as is usually the case with someone who has viewed the world through both left and right prisms, Miller possesses exceptional insight into the relative strengths and weaknesses of both ideologies.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Alexis de Tocquevile, Ayn Rand, capitalism, David Horowitz
Posted May 19th 2009 at 11:11 am in Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics, Reviews | 135230One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2009/05/19/dennis-miller-capitalist-hero/Dennis+Miller%3A+Capitalist+Hero2009-05-19+18%3A11%3A24Matt+Patterson

Redistributing the Media

During his campaign Mr. Obama stated numerous times his desire to increase diversity of ownership of media.  Minions on the FCC such as Commissioners Copps and Adelstein have also stated their desire to redistribute the media.  The first step toward that goal has been announced.  And, it threatens conservative talk in America.

Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps has set May 7th as the date for a meeting of the commission’s Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age. Copps has been stating loudly that he wants to increase diversity in media ownership and that it will be a priority of the FCC.  National hearings on the topic were held in 2007 and the FCC commissioners turned up their criticism of large media companies like Clear Channel and others.  This will get the ball rolling on diversity before new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is confirmed by the Senate and seated at the FCC.  They are deadly serious.  (more…)

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Tags: Censorship, FCC, Michael Copps, Obama, talk radio
Posted Apr 24th 2009 at 3:22 pm in News, Politics | 1143102 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/04/24/redistributing-the-media/Redistributing+the+Media2009-04-24+22%3A22%3A41Brian+Jennings

We Should All Be a Little Cranky

Recently, I was called cranky in an article posted at the Huffington Post.  The good news is that it’s one of the few times that anything approaching the truth has been posted there.  The part I resented, though, was having my crankiness attributed to age.  The fact is I was a precocious curmudgeon.  But the question that springs to mind is why more people aren’t cranky these days when there is so much to be cranky about.

For instance, it used to irk me that Carl Bernstein, a rather minor footnote in America’s history, who only came to prominence because an anonymous snitch chose to pass along secrets to him and Bob Woodward, was depicted in two major motion pictures, “All the President’s Men” (Dustin Hoffman) and “Heartburn” (Jack Nicholson), when so many more deserving people haven’t been featured in any.  But that pales when compared to the number of movies that have glorified Che Guevara, a blood-thirsty villain.  In addition to numerous TV productions, he has shown up in “Che!” (Omar Sharif), “Evita” (Antonio Banderas), “Motorcycle Diaries” (Eduardo Noriega Gael Garcia Bernal) and “Che: Parts One and Two” (Benecio Del Toro). (more…)

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Tags: Antonio Banderas, benecio del toro, Bill Clinton, Capitalsim, Carl Bernstein
Posted Apr 18th 2009 at 1:33 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 1067102 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/04/18/survey-this/We+Should+All+Be+a+Little+Cranky2009-04-18+20%3A33%3A34Burt+Prelutsky

The Free Speech Attack Machine

I appeared on Mike Pintek’s show on America’s first radio station, KDKA in Pittsburgh, the other night talking about speech regulations the FCC has proposed for radio and television.  These regulations would erase more than twenty years of speech governed by the free marketplace rather than by government edict.  It’s a sad story when we are talking about regulating speech in America.  But, we are in 2009.

Shortly after the KDKA appearance one liberal blogger wrote the following: (more…)

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Tags: Advisory boards, Brian Jenings, Censorship:The Threat to Silence Talk Radio, FCC, Rush Limbaugh
Posted Apr 12th 2009 at 1:21 pm in News, Politics | 102670One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/04/12/the-free-speech-attack-machine/The+Free+Speech+Attack+Machine2009-04-12+20%3A21%3A14Brian+Jennings

Conservative Talk Ratings Skyrocket

Shortly after last fall’s election, some pundits declared that conservative talk radio was dying.  After all, we lost the election and had no impact on voters.  In November, an op-ed written by Steve Elman and Alan Tolz for the Boston Globe said, “overall use of their medium is in decline.”  The authors also stated, “Alternatives to broadcast radio have proliferated – satellite, net-casts, downloads, blogalogue, iPod entertainment, cellphone updates.  As a result, younger listeners largely ignore talk radio, and its existing audience is calcifying.”

Not a rosy picture for conservative talk, right?  Let’s check the facts.  For decades my job was to produce ratings as a National Talk Radio programmer.  We check those ratings constantly.  Apparently, the authors of this Boston Globe commentary don’t keep the same scorecard radio keeps.  While it is true there are many sources of information today, talk radio listening has increased dramatically during the past year.  The 2008 election provided us with daily drama that translated into ratings.  In keeping my scorecard which included ratings for over 40 radio stations nationwide, we registered one of the highest fall ratings reports ever.  KKOH in Reno, which has always been the market leader, registered the highest ratings in 14 years.  KKOB in Albuquerque, which has been the market leader for over eight years, increased its ratings stranglehold on that market.  In almost every market, conservative talk radio increased its ratings.  And, it hasn’t slowed down.  (more…)

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Tags: conservative, Conservative talk radio, major markets, Obama, ratings
Posted Mar 30th 2009 at 7:21 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 913262 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/03/30/conservative-talk-ratings-skyrocket/Conservative+Talk+Ratings+Skyrocket2009-03-30+14%3A21%3A37Brian+Jennings

Why Air America Sucks

As a talk radio pro who defends and cherishes free speech, it’s time for me to weigh in on why Air America sucks.  It’s not that I want them to fail – they already have once.  As a free speech advocate, I cheer for their success – unlike what many liberals hope for conservative talk which I helped establish in America.  But, since its inception, Air America has been a failure.  After its first financial disaster, it is attempting to make a comeback and has new and credible leadership in industry veterans Bennett Zier and Bill Hess.  But, it’s a long climb out of a deep hole.

Air America’s newest ace is none other than former TV huckster Montel Williams.  He follows Jerry Springer who followed none other than…..Al Franken.  Now, there is some name value in all three, but the first two failed in radio.  Franken was an absolute disaster.  As I wrote in my upcoming book “Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio,” Franken didn’t know he had to have something between the ears to do a three-hour radio talk show each day.  And, that’s what so many of these non-radio personalities don’t get.  Doing a three-hour radio talk show takes hours of prep time.  Most hosts spend about three hours of prep time for each hour of on-air time.  These guys just walked into the studio and thought it would happen automatically.  Listeners would flock to them….they were superstars…NOT!  There are no teleprompters in radio! (more…)

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Tags: Air America, Al Franken, Bennet Zier, Bill Hess, Ed Schultz
Posted Mar 27th 2009 at 2:04 pm in Media Criticism | 90358No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/03/27/why-air-head-america-sucks/Why+Air+America+Sucks2009-03-27+21%3A04%3A20Brian+Jennings

Talk Radio = Hate Speech?

I have been accused of promoting hate speech more than once as a talk radio programmer.  In fact, I’ve been accused of it for over 25 years.  Who defines hate speech?  Many who accuse talk radio of promoting hate want the FCC to regulate it.  To suggest regulation suggests censorship.  As Voltaire said:  “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” 

In researching my book “Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio,” to be published May 5th by Simon & Schuster, I used excerpts of what some groups claim is hate speech.  So, I throw this out for discussion.  Is the following excerpt taken from the “Michael Savage Show” hateful?  In the general context of on-going terrorism, beheadings, car-bombings, and other atrocities by radical Islamists, Savage exploded on October 29, 2007.  In challenging Muslims to demonstrate their religion is one of peace, Savage issued these words: (more…)

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Tags: "America Alone", Fairness Doctrine, Free Speech, Lou Dobbs, Mark Steyn
Posted Mar 21st 2009 at 7:04 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 84882179 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/03/21/talk-radio-hate-speech/Talk+Radio+%3D+Hate+Speech%3F2009-03-21+14%3A04%3A03Brian+Jennings

Fool’s Gold

There’s a new gold rush on but you don’t have to head to the hills of California to be part of it.  All you have to do is tune in to talk radio and jot down an “800″ number where a few of the big syndicated shows pimp for the gold merchants.  The ads for these companies are all over radio and television.

I have no problem with a host or show taking advertising from any product.  If Rush wants to run a few Obama ads, no problem. If Dr. Savage can sell ads to the ACLU, I say he should give his sales staff a bonus. I’m a capitalist all for making a nickel who believes in the old saying, caveat emptor – buyer beware.  Yet, it’s different when the host reads the commercial live.  This signifies a level of approval beyond “we let this guy buy ads on our show.” (more…)

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Tags: ACLU, Alaska, California, CNBC, DNC
Posted Feb 26th 2009 at 5:43 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 6586258 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/02/26/gold-pimps/Fool%27s+Gold2009-02-27+01%3A43%3A24Jeffrey+Jena