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Talker's MagazineThe quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).

The AdvocateNo, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.

Media MattersDocumentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.

Orcinushome of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups

Hominid Views"People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.

Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.

Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."

The Moderate VoiceThe voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.

News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.

HistoryLinkFun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.

right-wing blogs we like

The Reagan WingHearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.

December 13, 2011

Breitbart attacks beck for attacking newt for attacking romney and other funny valentines

The mighty ship that is the American right is cracking-up on the hostile reefs of ideological purity and old-fashioned personal grudges. Underline the personal.

Remember how we told you that Beck alleged on the Fox Business Channel that Gingrich was so similar to President Obama as a progressive, that the reason tea party baggers would vote for him instead over the President would be because of race? He as good as called Newt's tea party supporters racists.

O dear.

Not a surprise, then, that this has caused some anger- on the right. on a rightie podcast, electronic media mogul and loudmouth Andrew Breitbart, gut the flapping Beck like a fat perch:

This guy has always been about himself. You know, while you’re sitting there watching him talk about the food shortage stuff, he doesn’t tell you this ties to the Mormon Church. He doesn’t talk to you about his investors. He doesn’t tell you that they’re paying for him to create a crisis. He always talks about Cloward-Piven and how Rahm Emanuel said ‘Don’t let a good crisis go to waste,’ but creating a hysteria that there’s going to be food storages because of chaos that is coming – he is profitting off this as well. There is a financial stake for him with food storage companies that advertise on his site. This guy is a huckster. He’s always been a huckster. It was only a few years ago that he was a shock jock, that he was a morning zoo guy. And he’s been taking people’s content for years and not crediting it.”

Gingrich, who's popping his buttons over his polling successes, may be coming back down to earth. Besides right-wing pundits, former Republican Housemates, the business community, and radio hosts clawing at him, it's becoming clear the South ain't sold on Newt and neither are the evangelicals in the Southern-based GOP. Never mind the early polling from Florida and South Carolina.

Couldn't even begin to predict how this uniquely strange primary will come out- we think Iowa will pick none of the above by choosing a dark horse like Santorum or Paul, (!) or Bachmann.(not to worry, they're not that dark).

As we see it, each of these Republicans- especially Romney and Gingrich- are deeply flawed, and the GOP's chance of a lifetime will be squandered by squabbles about ideology and irrelevant (to governance) social issues, religion, or marital infidelties.

Comments

The irony is, what Gingrich did with Freddie Mac etc, and what Beck was doing with his hucksterism, was simply exploiting the free market. So when they get criticized because their behaviors were unethical, it's an acknowledgement that business activities need to be held to a moral standard - which is exactly the opposite of what they argue when it comes to regulation.

In other words, they're all about that icky post-modern situational ethics (another bugaboo on the right). And they're all hypocrites.

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Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.

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