07 September 2005
there's nothing quite so chilling as conservative talk show laughter. it's used for belittlement, it's used to ignore an argument. that is, it's always the laughter directed at someone. it is, perhaps, the laughter of someone who, for far too long, was laughed at him/herself. again, if i seem to like liberal hosts better, aside from their taste, it's b/c laughter w/ them, in the main, is not a strategy; it's simply what a human being does from time-to-time. |
my name is fred solinger. on wednesday, september 7, i will provide running commentary on seventeen straight hours of running commentary, opinion, and straight news from a variety of radio stations and television networks. my objective is to be objective ... beyond that, i'm not quite sure, but hopefully it'll be more lucid at 4am, when all of this is over. one thing is for sure: i won't be lucid at that hour. links to the monitored programs, arranged ideologically*, in alphabetical order, lest i be charged w/ bias: the fair & balanced: the left: the right: *that is, when the host has an avowed political position; otherwise, they are assumed to be independent. this is as applicable to bill o'reilly, who leans right, as it is to jon stewart, who leans left.    |