ProgressOhio

I spend alot of time on the road with my job. To pass the time on the long drives, I listen to the radio alot. After about an hour of the same commericlized garbage called "music" on the FM stations I have heard the rotation.

Switching over to the AM, I seek out the latest tirade of so called conservative talk show hosts. It amazes me how these people claim to stand for Family values and Christen beliefs but constantly partake in disgusting name calling and spitefull rhetoric. They dont even realize that is what they are doing.

They claim to be fair, but I have listened for years to how they treat callers who vary from thier point of view. In my opinion they select callers they know they can out debate and the moment they are losing said debate they cut to comercial or shout them down and hang up on them.

When I am lucky enough to be in an area where there is a progressive talk show host, that is where I am able to hear honest debates. The host almost always allows a caller to state an opinion that differs from theirs without interupting and name calling. It truly seems that these host have a genuine desire to listen to the other side.

Funny thing is these folks sit on their soap box and claim false alleigences to the middle class and to their religious listeners.

Perhaps by telling everyone how much they care about the poor and downtroden, and professing their beliefs over and over again these "conservitive" host think it will get them into heaven. I think its going to take more than that.