Ed Schultz & Michael Medved: Can America survive them?

I have come to despise political talk radio. Examples from the left and right.

Ed Schultz is a radio and television left wing talker. He is rah rah pro-Obama. When President Obama wanted to bail out the auto industry I called Ed Schultz on his radio show.

The auto safety report had just been released. Chrysler Auto did not make the top ten list; not one of their vehicles. I called Ed and started to say that maybe we don't need as large a bailout package. he challenged me: "why do you want to kill the auto industry? Why are you on the "right" so opposed to union labor? etc..."

(one of the few times I've been accused of being a righty.)

I argued that maybe the government should only bail out Ford and GM and let the smallest and worst managed fend for itself. I argued that if Chrysler couldn't make a safe vehicle than why spend the money bailing them out.

And you know what Big Ed said? He said, "when I go shopping for a vehicle I'm not thinking about safety."

What a dishonest intellectual fraud.

And here we are now. Chrysler is now foreign owned. GM has laid off about 50% of their workforce despite the bailout. And Ford refused the bailout money and is burning up the track.

Now for Michael Medved; another fraud.

Medved is a standard right wing talker. He portrays himself as just right of center but he is pro-right and anti-left and gives a nice spiel on the benefits of the judeo-christian ethos.

He ends his radio segments with the catchphrase, "...with this, the greatest nation [the USA], on God's green earth."

I heard him argue with a caller the other day that he uses "greatest" not that America is better than every other country, but that it is the most influential. The USA has the largest economy, he argued, and has the most immigration and the largest army etc.. and therefore is the greatest by virtue of her influence on the global sphere.

Except that he is a smart guy. Medved has written numerous books. He writes for newspapers and magazines. Words are his stock and trade. He purposefully uses the word greatest because he is so smart and knows that one of the dictionary definitions of great is large. Ooooh, i'm so impressed by his ability to use a dictionary. He uses the word greatest because it means what people think it means, the best.

Like american teenagers who say fag and then look at you and say, "but in England it means a bundle of sticks." or idiots who insist that the word niggardly can be used without racial connotations.

With intellectual frauds like these on the left and right what hope is there for America's future?