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samzhere
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Political TV/radio shows - whom do you tune in, and why?
samzhere
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Which political radio or TV shows do you tune to (or not) and why? For me, I usually listen or watch to be entertained. I already know that Obama's a problem, most Democrats are a problem, and I support the 2A. So regularly hearing the same thing all the time is just preaching to the choir and not teaching me much.
For the entertainment, however, I do enjoy some conservative shows.
Rush Limbaugh is still the king. He's always dependable and I'll usually tune him in if I'm cleaning house or just driving around. He sometimes gets onto a long economic talk and I'll tune out, but other times he's very clever and has a humorous way to describe daily events.
Bill O'Reilly on Fox is the TV equivalent. His show is usually entertaining and offers some politically-bent laughs. I like Dennis Miller and enjoy the Thursday quiz contest, both funny. O'Reilly often overtalks his guests, which can be annoying -- he gets criticized for this a lot. Otherwise his show is pleasant, he has interesting guests and other features. He's a bit full of himself, especially when on topics pertinent to Roman Catholic tenets, but most all talkshow hosts have a personal axe to grind and you have to let them do it now and then.
Keeping odd hours, I try to watch Red Eye (2am CT on Fox) which is the funniest political show on TV, and there's always their obligatory "leg shot" of the cute female guest.
Once in a while I listen to Michael Savage but he often gets too much on a rant and starts yelling. I may agree with him in principle but he's not teaching me anything new. Lately of course he's got this political thriller novel (apparently a best seller) which is fine, but I cannot stand his reading from the book. From what he's read, the book isn't all that well written -- and not because it's "conservative" but simply not that good.
I rarely tune into other TV/radio political shows, mostly because I don't have the time to be distracted and I'm already on the team, so to say. We've got a local host, Mike Berry, whom I know personally and is quite funny, but his show isn't national so I'll skip him. I did enjoy his October "White History" month.
Howzabout you?
For the entertainment, however, I do enjoy some conservative shows.
Rush Limbaugh is still the king. He's always dependable and I'll usually tune him in if I'm cleaning house or just driving around. He sometimes gets onto a long economic talk and I'll tune out, but other times he's very clever and has a humorous way to describe daily events.
Bill O'Reilly on Fox is the TV equivalent. His show is usually entertaining and offers some politically-bent laughs. I like Dennis Miller and enjoy the Thursday quiz contest, both funny. O'Reilly often overtalks his guests, which can be annoying -- he gets criticized for this a lot. Otherwise his show is pleasant, he has interesting guests and other features. He's a bit full of himself, especially when on topics pertinent to Roman Catholic tenets, but most all talkshow hosts have a personal axe to grind and you have to let them do it now and then.
Keeping odd hours, I try to watch Red Eye (2am CT on Fox) which is the funniest political show on TV, and there's always their obligatory "leg shot" of the cute female guest.
Once in a while I listen to Michael Savage but he often gets too much on a rant and starts yelling. I may agree with him in principle but he's not teaching me anything new. Lately of course he's got this political thriller novel (apparently a best seller) which is fine, but I cannot stand his reading from the book. From what he's read, the book isn't all that well written -- and not because it's "conservative" but simply not that good.
I rarely tune into other TV/radio political shows, mostly because I don't have the time to be distracted and I'm already on the team, so to say. We've got a local host, Mike Berry, whom I know personally and is quite funny, but his show isn't national so I'll skip him. I did enjoy his October "White History" month.
Howzabout you?
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Flip back and fourth between O'Reilly and Judge Napolitano on FOX Business Channel
Hannity
Greta Van Susteren
I'm a political-news junkie.
Jerry
Me too. Only in small doses can I stand any of them. Sometimes while traveling late at night, I tune in to what's his name who got banned from England. Savage??????
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I like Greta, but don't watch her very much. She at least lets her guests have their say.
To me, Hannity is the rudest, most obnoxious of the Fox News analysts. He usually stacks the deck against any liberal guests he has, and is worse than O'Reilly to talk over them.
I also like Neal Cavuto. He's supposedly a financial guy, but he covers a lot of political issues. He's one of my favorites.
I hardly ever list to talk radio any more, so I get Rush in very small doses.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
O'Reilly's next, even with his ego mania, he does cover important topics of the day, and is informative. He and Trump had fun tonight teasing each other. Hannity is OK, but he's a bit boring.
I don't listen to radio, if I did, Limbaugh would be on my list, despite his pomposity.
I don't even have satellite in my car...
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I would LOVE to listen to music instead, but in an hour commute, you get maybe 2 songs, and then a rear end load of obnoxious DJs and crappy local ads.
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The Sunday morning TV shows are important and I always try to catch Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and This Week with Christiana Amanpour (mainly for George Will’s comments). Sometimes I will watch Meet The Press, depending on topic and guests. And who is on the panel. I think the panels are the best parts of all these shows. That’s where you learn a lot and it’s entertaining to watch the sparring between left and right. Like most of the network anchors and correspondents, Amanpour and David Gregory (Meet the Press) lean to the left but I think both actually try to see that the conservative view is presented.
Sometimes I will catch Sunday Morning on CBS. It’s a great magazine show and it depends on what is on the schedule that day as to whether I watch. I’m lucky with my cable system that, with reruns, I can watch all of these shows on Sunday. Overkill, I know, but once a news junkie, always a NJ. I’m blessed with an understanding wife.
I’m may have missed it but I haven’t see any mention on this post about Fox News’ “Special Report” with Bret Baier. It’s on Monday thru Friday at 6 p.m. in the east, probably too early for those of you in other time zones. My favorite part again is the panel in the second half of the hour, especially Charles Krauthammer, who I think is one of the smartest guys in Washington.
I like Neil Cavuto’s show on Fox, Greta, and sometimes O’Reilly. As has been said on this post, he is quite full of himself and sometimes just can’t sit back and listen. Yet he can be entertaining and often has good guests.
A new show on Fox is growing on me: The Five at 5 p.m. eastern. If you haven’t seen it, watch it a few times. Clever panelists, nice legs, and it’s fun to see four conservatives gang up on poor Bob Beckel. He’s very sharp and a good sport but is, of course, usually wrong.
On radio, I occasionally listen to Rush but he has become so predictable that it’s hard to stay with him. As an ex-radio announcer/DJ myself, I do say that he is a great entertainer and carries a lot of influence. Sometimes I will listen at night to Marc Levin, one of the smartest guys on the right, and he can be very funny. If I’m traveling and ever get a chance to listen to Dennis Prager or Michael Medved, I do and must say that they too are brilliant conservative voices.
I make my own CDs (Mp3 format, so I can really load them up) and just play them on my commute when I get tired of the radio. I highly recommend it. My CD player never plays a song I don't like, and there's no 'personality' to put up with.
Don't even like commercials.
If the radio's on , it's because I want music!
And on TV I enjoy O'Reilly and especially Red Eye for the satire or humor, not precisely for political insight.
As far as CDs, yeah, of course. FM radio really doesn't play what I want to hear, so I've got a couple of CD carriers that I refill as desired from my fairly large CD collection at home. I've got maybe 30 full length opera CD albums, 200 classical otherwise, 100 classic rock, and maybe 50 jazz.
As far as making my own CDs, from what? The music I want is already on the CD in the first place.
My CD carrier might have, all mixed in, a Mozart opera, Mozart concertos, Bach, Beethoven, Stones, Dylan, Cray, Steely Dan, Marcia Ball, ZZ Top, Dire Straits, and some jazz. I sing along to the operas so it's best that I play those CDs while alone.
I guess my radio vs CD is about 50-50. But this thread is about political radio/TV so anyway.
Greg Gutfeld from Red Eye on The Five does the same on tv.
Re. Bill O'Reilly, I put him in the same general category as Limbaugh -- no I don't always agree but the show is entertaining.
Incidentally, did anyone see the lengthy interview Greta did with Rush, Wednesday I think it was? Rush wasn't pompous and he gave one of the best reports on the current political scene I've heard.
Either they're actually bringing up points and issues that make my blood boil and drive up my blood pressure, or they're ranting about something I just don't care about or proselytizing themselves, and I find it horribly annoying.
Luis
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George Carlin
It ought to! Sensible commentary minus the omnipresent personality factor!
I think that the point I was making for myself at least is that I don't really get much in the way of genuinely helpful political commentary out of the radio/TV shows -- I mean, I've been a conservative Republcan all my life (my first presidential vote was for Goldwater) and no show is going to either 1-change my mind, or 2-provide me with more info that I'm dying to have.
So why I tune in is mostly for the entertainment value. And that gets old quickly. But I do listen to Limbaugh about once a week because he's clever and makes me smile. Not all the time, just enough for me to tune in while driving or in the shower or whatever. Same goes for Michael Savage unless he's deep into a rant.
O'Reilly also. Not for him, actually, but for the variety of guests, especially Dennis Miller on Wednesdays and the funny News Quiz on Thursdays. And yeah, I know O'Reilly's pushy and talks over his guests but he's still clever.
And Red Eye is usually a hoot, if I'm up that late.
So for me it's not the politics but for the politically-slanted entertainment that I listen or watch.
That pretty well sums it up for me too Sam, Thanks!