Wednesday, October 21, 2009

HEARD ON THE RADIO

For the last several weeks, WTOP radio here in DC has been regularly airing anti-soft drink/juice tax advertisements. I can’t recall hearing anti-cigarette tax or anti-liquor tax advertisements, at least not at the frequency and decibel level of the anti-soft drink/juice ad campaign.

Sin taxes are OK, unless it's my sin being taxed.

WHY DO PEOPLE LISTEN TO RUSH?

CNN aired a segment with a psychiatrist to analyze conservative talk radio listeners. According to the psychiatrist, Rush Limbaugh has an audience because he’s “operating like the bully, and if you’re on the playground...you want to be...under the bully’s wing and go along with him and get...some power by proxy.”

It’d be interesting to see FOX News air a similar analysis of people who watch CNN, MSNBC, etc.

BREAKING NEWS

Obama has authorized 40,000 troops for combat ... with Fox News.

THE GIBBS SEAL OF APPROVAL

FOX News’Brit Hume wonders whether American journalists from other news organizations really will become the lackeys of the Obama administration by ignoring news stories originating at Fox, just because Robert Gibbs disapproves of FOX News.