[Aramike]

Some good points, Enigma. But I have to disagree on some.

This is all just silly, but just to point out, I'm a liberal who thinks abortion is bad. I just don't think it should be illegal. But lets not get off topic...

I would agree that what I said was me being a little glib and silly. It is indeed a little more complex than that.

I personally believe the liberal talk radio fails because it's just too damned angry. Furthermore, while I believe that a significantly portion of the population is socially liberal, I believe they are also fiscally conservative. McCain tried takling Obama on the fiscal issue, but since when have Republicans been conservative with money? Obama, knowing that, was EXTREMELY fiscally moderate during the campaign.

Long on disdain, short on common sense.

Concerning the Fairness Doctrine, I don't agree with this comment. "Common sense" requires a sense of history. People need to remember that there WAS a Fairness Doctrine. And, during that time, the only talk radio programming you could get was news and recipes.

I live in a fairly liberal city (Milwaukee). Yet, it's most popular talk radio stations are conservative. The most popular is Moderate-to-Conservative, but it has all the major local sports teams to boost its ratings. The second most popular is conservative hosts all day, one right after another, going from local to national and back again (it has that looney-toon Coast to Coast junk overnight, but hey...). Remember - this is a liberal city in a solidly-blue state.

Liberals have actually had shows on both of these stations. The shows were failures. Now imagine FORCING them to have liberal programming. These stations wouldn't be able to survive.

And the WORST part is yet to come: what if a station puts on Liberal programming, but people don't think it is liberal enough? What will be the benchmark?

Ideas can't be regulated. The Fairness Doctrine would simply eliminate them, I believe.

The sway of elections in our country dispells any idea that the US is just so massivly conservative that there is no room for liberal radio.

This is where I disagree the most. I don't think we can read anything into the sway of our elections because it seems to be a back and forth, historical trend. Liberals that say Conservatism is dead would be wise to remember that, only 4 years ago, Conservatives were saying that Liberalism is dead.