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roachboy · 10-14-2006, 06:59 AM

this thread seems to come framed by elements of the limbaugh set.
and here i thought that limbaugh had faded into a richly deserved irrelevance---one more example of the extent to which american conservatism is something of a jurassic park of otherwise discredited ideological formations.

i listened to air america once or twice and found it really tedious.
i understand why it was formed--but i never understood why the organization decided that it needed to play the same flintstone radiogame as the limbaugh set played.

i would have thought that it made more sense to support the expansion of democracy now or other such programming that pulverize the conservative worldview by exposing its manifest limitations in terms of information, which in turn undermines the one-dimensional interpretations that the conservative set seems to gravitate toward. given that the weakness above all others of contemporary conservatism is its refusal to deal with complexity, the proliferation of sources of information would seem its worst nightmare.

besides, regardless of the legion problems with the planet limbaugh, the show was an interesting and effective strategic development during the clinton period--but the effectiveness of the format dissolved quite rapidly once the conservative set came out from under its cultural rock.
the tactics of the planet limbaugh are played out.
air america had nothing to do with this---the tactics are played out due to overexposure.
right talk radio is the p-diddy american politics.

but we'll see what the far right comes up with this time, once they pass into a richly deserved oppositional position again, prelude to their slide back into the ooze of the american backwater, where strange fish like ustwo swim in dank waters that admit only indirectly of information, and where coherence cannot survive because of the intense pressure directed against it.

10-14-2006, 06:59 AM	#15 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	this thread seems to come framed by elements of the limbaugh set. and here i thought that limbaugh had faded into a richly deserved irrelevance---one more example of the extent to which american conservatism is something of a jurassic park of otherwise discredited ideological formations. i listened to air america once or twice and found it really tedious. i understand why it was formed--but i never understood why the organization decided that it needed to play the same flintstone radiogame as the limbaugh set played. i would have thought that it made more sense to support the expansion of democracy now or other such programming that pulverize the conservative worldview by exposing its manifest limitations in terms of information, which in turn undermines the one-dimensional interpretations that the conservative set seems to gravitate toward. given that the weakness above all others of contemporary conservatism is its refusal to deal with complexity, the proliferation of sources of information would seem its worst nightmare. besides, regardless of the legion problems with the planet limbaugh, the show was an interesting and effective strategic development during the clinton period--but the effectiveness of the format dissolved quite rapidly once the conservative set came out from under its cultural rock. the tactics of the planet limbaugh are played out. air america had nothing to do with this---the tactics are played out due to overexposure. right talk radio is the p-diddy american politics. but we'll see what the far right comes up with this time, once they pass into a richly deserved oppositional position again, prelude to their slide back into the ooze of the american backwater, where strange fish like ustwo swim in dank waters that admit only indirectly of information, and where coherence cannot survive because of the intense pressure directed against it. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 10-14-2006 at 07:02 AM..