If You Build It They Will Come
September 13th, 2006 | by Craig |If you build it, will they come?
Gotta love that free market.
This should be an object lesson for those who think that the market can be manipulated or controlled, but I doubt it will be.
9 Responses to “If You Build It They Will Come”
By Shane Mason on Sep 13, 2006 | Reply
From the article:
The right wing is sure to seize on Air America’s financial woes as a sign that progressive talk radio is unpopular. In fact, Air America succeeded at creating something that didn’t exist: the progressive talk radio format. That format is now established and strong and will continue with or without Air America.
Nuff said?
By Dave Budge on Sep 13, 2006 | Reply
And of course Think Progress has no horse in that race. There’s a little credibility problem with all of that. N’est pas?
By Craig on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Re: The article.
He doth protest too much, methinks.
Of course the right wing is going to point out the failure, since the right wing has known the whole thing was doomed to failure from day one.
You don’t build things from the top down, you build them from the ground up.
By Andy B. Hammond on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
I honestly tried listening to Air America when it was in Missoula because I wanted to learn how and why the Liberal/Progressive mind works. Pretty much had it figured out in a couple of listening session. Oppose everything Bush says or does. Bush lied. Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld are Nazis. Bush stole the election. Bush is a dumb a**. You get the point. Same thing every day.
I thought it was very interesting when the format could not survive in the very left-leaning Missoula. Even the liberals didn’t want to listen to it.
By Shane C. Mason on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Andy, you think that Rush is any different? Nope. They are both sucky to be sure.
By Andy B. Hammond on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Being a Rush listener for many years, I have found him to be very entertaining and able to articulate substance to his positions and beliefs. He treats his callers with respect and dignity as long as they do the same. He even puts liberal callers to the top of the order.
He’s been on the air for nearly 20 years and revived the AM radio format. He relies on the free market for funding his show and has become very wealthy because of it.
By Dave Budge on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
I just have to add this to the archives from The Corner:
By Gman on Sep 15, 2006 | Reply
Liberals don’t need think tanks, tv shows, and radio programs because they have two very influential entities in their camp — the government and the press. I’ve always argued that the biggest liberal think tank is the government itself. Consider: whenever some onerous land use regulation is proposed in local gov’t, local gov’t staff doesn’t objectively evaluate the merits of such policy. What they do is defend the merits of such policy. In fact, bureaucrats are not just technocrats, but lobbying technocrats. It’s hard to disagree with the technocrats because they are the “experts.” Hence, the burgeoning of gov’t via the perpetuation of bureaucracy.
By Andy B. Hammond on Sep 16, 2006 | Reply
I have also heard for years about the next liberal “Rush Limbaugh”. Hightower, Coumo, and others. All have failed while Conservative radio - Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingram, Reagan, Liddy - has flourished.