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[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

And defend it as "freedom of speech" all you want, the fact is that the conservative movement has all but cornered the market on generating outrage and yelling half-truths and/or lies as an ends to a means. Conservative voices dominate the talk radio dial. And personally I'm glad that people who hold opinions closer to mine (liberals) simply aren't as good at that game.

I certainly do not agree with that premise, and would in fact proclaim the opposite when it comes to elected officials. Reid and Pelosi as the leaders of the dem majorities and excel at it.

I don't think it's an issue of not being as good at it, but I think most conservatives who listen to talk radio or other outlets are fed up with what they perceive as the liberal bias in the declared mainstream media.

I've watched Olberman and (liek O'Reilly, whio I've never had a taste for either) he just seems angry all the time.

As far as Obama injecting his voice of reason....he does whatever he thinks is politically expedient, as is common to politicians. Everything Obama says is planned (not that there's anything wrong with that), but he stays on script and when off of it I find him pretty amusing. Like when he was arguing for health care and proclaimed how (the non government companies) FedEx and UPS do well while the (government run) USPS has all the problems. When he is off script or cannot read the teleprompter, he is not so reasoned.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I've watched Olberman and (liek O'Reilly, whio I've never had a taste for either) he just seems angry all the time.

Yes, he is, which is why I think he's failing. His audience that agrees with him doesn't have the taste for the vitrol that the conservative audience does.