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Dem Sweep Energizes Conservative Movement, Talk Radio, Blogs
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney — NOT ANGRY, GIDDY! For Conservatives, Election Outcome Couldn't Be Better *** WELCOME 2CC RADIO CANBERRA LISTENERS *** If talk radio is now somehow irrelevant, then why are nervous liberals watching its every move? Yes, once again, our "progressive" friends want to have it both ways: as they argue that it no longer matters, they want the medium shut down through the imposition of a Fairness Doctrine. ...

The Winter Of GOP Discontent
Firedoglake — ... Do you sense Grover Norquist's empire crumbling beneath his myriad leadership failures and the stench of his Reed/Abramoff vig connections?  Keep on meeting at Brent Bozell's house, plotting conservatism's return to "same as last decades."    Because nothing says leadership like stagnant repetition of failed ideology, hawking the same loser snakeoil.  Make the dwindling stodgy GOP remnants misty-eyed with faux faded glory.  Paunchy high school jocks still buying rounds on touchdowns past.  Sad. ...

Boston Globe: Talk Radio Now 'Irrelevant'?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Looks like a couple of fellows pushing a book were able to convince the Boston Globe to let them contribute some soothsaying about the future of talk radio. Scratch that, they are talking about today, here and now -- and it's all bad. In the Boston Globe, Steve Elman and Alan Tolz have proclaimed "the rising irrelevance of talk radio," so Rush... fuggedaboutit. Hannity... go back to house painting. Michael Savage... go back to whatever the heck it was you were doing before you were "Michael Savage." It's over. Just like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor (excuse my John ...

Boston Globe: Talk Radio Now ‘Irrelevant’?
Stop The ACLU — -By Warner Todd Huston [image] Looks like a couple of fellows pushing a book were able to convince the Boston Globe to let them contribute some soothsaying about the future of talk radio. Scratch that, they are talking about today, here and now — and it’s all bad. In the Boston Globe, Steve Elman and Alan Tolz have proclaimed “ the rising irrelevance of talk radio ,” so Rush… fuggedaboutit. Hannity… go back to house painting. Michael Savage… go back to whatever the heck it was you were doing before you were “Michael Savage.” It’s over. Just like when the Germans bombed Pearl ...

Will Rush Go Down Too?
The Mahablog — ... A couple of weeks ago, Steve Elman and Alan Tolz wrote in the Boston Globe that the influence of rightie talk radio is in major decline: ...

Tone Deaf
The Mahablog — ... Sure he can bellow, but does anyone care? In the past several months we’ve seen over and over again that what Rush bellows does not move public opinion by so much as a hair. Steve Elman and Alan Tolz wrote in the Boston Globe (November 8, 2008), ...