Garafalo still rules!

This here is more interesting than the Top 10 Garafalo Lines. Sorry Dean if I'm trying to take over this thread. :)

http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm

I read that. I find it amusing that most of their "reality" had no sources. No source = no truth.

Sigh, so the Leftists have just become a bunch of mindless zealots now. I'm receiving anti-Bush spam in my inbox every day, people are randomly spamming Dean's World threads with invalid anti-Bush arguments (which have nothing to do with the friggin' thread).

How much worse is this going to get before November? This is sickening.

Don't any of you start feeling too down at mouth about all this. Remember, the more the leftists turn this election into an outright cultural war, the more badly they'll be smashed in November.

Their only serious hope would have been to start making inroads into some of the coalitions of the right. For example, the gun owners. As NRA-ILA election volunteer coordinator (EVC) for our congressional district in Wisconsin, I can tell you there's little of that. Instead, they're simply laagering their wagons around their own extreme positions, hoping and maybe praying that Bush will self-destruct before the independents learn how truly phony Kerry really is.

Their big season with the Democrat presidential primaries are ended now, and our team is getting its innings, where incumbency and Bush's natural sense of humor beats Janeane Garafalo's nastiness any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb

More on this.

I've been thinking about Al Franken, who is supposed to be the left's answer to Rush Limbaugh on their new talk radio setup.

But I think you'll find that the appeal of this crowd will be limited mostly to the kind of folks who tune into National Public Radio affiliates, whose idea of humor is the fake rural Minnesota Like Wobegon bullshit of Garrison Keillor.

Franken won't have anywhere near the national audience on radio that Rush Limbaugh developed. His persona is limited to that of the archtypical New York Jew of the type whose humor comprises little else but a loud mouth continually opening and shutting. (And as American Jews get more in tune with Bush's support of Israel, the leftist line of shit doesn't play too well with their crowd anymore.)

In any case, that stuff sells in the radio markets of only a few large cities on both coasts. And that's no longer where the electoral votes are concentrated. Also, Franken's basically a clown; which means his shtick worked better on TV than it will on talk radio.

If the Dems were smart, they would hire James Carville to do all their talking, delta gumbo accent and all. Besides, he's got a good looking lady, which is much of his appeal on TV.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

And finally,

A Democrat national presidential campaign led by a Massachusetts liberal senator with a rich wife, with a short, chubby New York mouthpiece, in horn rimmed glasses yet, lacks the one ingredient that helped them win in the past century. Whenever they did win.

That ingredient was an authentic southern candidate, or the backing of a whole bunch of them for whatever the dried-up states of the northeast or the rust-belt tried to send to Washington. That's why John Edwards of North Carolina would have been a far more effective Democrat presidential candidate than John Kerry.

But the leftists have truly taken over the Democrat party; the Clinton coalition that led them to victory for eight years is broken; most of the few remaining southern Democrats in power are retiring and will not be replaced, as Nixon's southern strategy has fully matured; the Democrats have been a minority party leading a coalition of minorities; and the rest of the country is turning rightward in one of the most unique cultural struggles in this country's history.

Listening to Al Franken wisecrack against the Republicans on NPR-Lite? Hell, most of you know as well as I do that more Americans are now tuned in to Nashville TN and Branson MO than to that kind of stuff. And those who don't listen to radio get their news and opinions from the Web, where most of the political blogsites are centrist or rightist.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Carville's lady is good looking and a match for him any day in the brains department.

1. On Point: I was merely amused by Franken today, albeit a bit starstruck by the caliber of guests. He can't keep that up, but as the guests taper off I'm sure he's get into a swing. Giggled at the Garafalo puchlines, nearly fell asleep to her show. Lighten up girl!, this is supposed to be fun! Use some Irony once in a while, not just anger. Randi Rhodes knocked me out of my chair, but I've been a streaming internet fan of hers for a while. Ralph Nader actually hung up on her. Rude, Crude, love her to death.

2. Off Point: Come down off the mountain Arnold. "the more the leftists turn this election into an outright cultural war . . ." As memory serves it was W who wants to change the Constitution. More: "Al Franken, who is supposed to be the left's answer to Rush Limbaugh on their new talk radio setup" Strawman set up and not surprisingly knocked down with a warped stick.

3. No Point: Mark-O, you still here?

I didn't listen to Garofalo, but Franken was a bit "weak." At least he had a professional guide.

I didn't listen to enough of Randi Rhodes to tell whether she's just a liberal or a nut, but at least she's got a voice and presence.

Which brings me to my next topic:

I just started an AirAmerica monitoring blog called BoreAmerica.com (until that domain becomes active, use this).

BoreAmerica will be reporting on lies, prevarications, outrageous statements and other fun things sure to be heard on AirAmerica. We'll feature satires of AirAmerica, news of its contributors, and no doubt much more.

This will be a group blog, and I'm looking for other bloggers who want to contribute. Details here.

3 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Rhodes will last until the election if the station does. This is her bread and butter, it's what she has set out to do.

Franken might make it a few months, until the guestlist starts to repeat and shrink. Then he's either going to find a way to bail (difficult, given the whole thing is being billed on his back) or he will find a whole new level of bad (think Alterman on Dennis Miller, but for 3 hours every day).

Garofalo won't last a month before she starts taking a lot of vacation time. She may even bail altogether. She, unlike Franken, could probably kickstart her old Hollywood career.

Since when is amending the Constitution, requiring a supermajority of support in Congress and among the state legislatures, a "culture war?"

For that matter, since when does it fly in the face of states' rights, considering that the Constitutional amendment process is the most states' rights friendly item in the whole Constitution--requiring, as it does, a supermajority of states to ratify any amendment?

"Air America*": five stations.

Rush: six hundred stations.

As Ara likes to say: I'm just saying... ;)

I'm not too worked up about this topic, but I've heard some interesting speculation, including the suggestion that Franken, at least, won't stay the course past the November elections.

*um, ironic reference to the CIA, anyone?

Five stations is a start. Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura each started on only one station.

On the other hand, for all the comedy skits and whatnot, the fact is that talk radio succeeds at root due to pushing ideas that set people's imaginations on fire--or ideas they already have in their heads that they feel are not getting serious attention in the mainstream culture.

If Air America can do that, it will be a success. Otherwise, they won't get far. It's really that simple I think.

Good luck to 'em, honestly. Especially if they can find those ideas that really set the imagination on fire.

Mark:

I'm still here. I came back for Rosemary. She misses me. ;)

HERR Garofalo?

Dean:
So little time, so much Kool Aide to mix.

Casey,

"Air America*": five stations.

Rush: six hundred stations.

Sure and since more people watch NASCAR than read books are you surprised. Popularity is never what it's cracked up to be, look at Al Gore. Win an election, go home. At least the Bush administration has kept gas prices down at the pump, you know, since they are so closely tied to the gas and oil industry. Oh, wait, they failed there too.

We all knew Bush was opposed to nation building, we just didn't realize he was talking about THIS nation.

Has anyone seen Garawfulo lately? She's desperately trying to turn in to Britney Spears.

INTO, not in to. Sorry. Preview's not friendly enough to me...

Timmy, Timmy, Timmy...

Someday, after you've mastered the idea of which one's your rifle, and which one's your gun*, you really do need to seek professional help about this NASCAR obsession. Really. You're the only one who ever talks about it here.

My point (and I did have one {g}) was that for all the grandiose talk preceding Air America, five stations ain't nothin' to brag about. They'll have to do better than that if they want to compete with "conservative talk radio."

That's all. :)



*hint: the li'l one's the gun! :))