CBS Hates Talk Radio — And Its Fans

by L. Brent Bozell III,

Liberals like to think that conservatives are very closed-minded and can’t handle listening to an opposing opinion. But whenever “mainstream” journalists start discussing talk radio and how it’s “bad for America,” you can surmise that they often can’t handle the other side.

On Oct. 16, the CBS News show “Sunday Morning” devoted the whole show to exploring “A Nation Divided.” CBS would like you to think they don’t like division and are not divisive. That’s false.

Fill-in host Ted Koppel began: “Tens of millions of Americans get their political marching orders on the radio.” Now how insulting is that? How divisive is that? Anyone who listens to conservatives on the radio is (to borrow the old Washington Post insult) “poor, uneducated and easy to command.”

Democracy is supposed to be about persuasion, and you’re not going to persuade someone or unify the country by saying half of us are taking “marching orders” from talk radio generals. It sounds like CBS liberals are frustrated that their “marching orders” aren’t followed.

To sum up, CBS journalists think conservative radio is bad for America, but when they compare conservatives to Cambodian communist crackpots who slaughtered about 2 million people, that’s not divisive. It’s a satchel of sweet reason.

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