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In reply to the discussion: Chris Matthews delivers the damn smartest reply I have seen to the "Socialist" accusation [View all]Duppers
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Chris Matthews delivers the damn smartest reply I have seen to the "Socialist" accusation [View all]
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
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Yes. He frustrates me sometimes. I was especially disheartened by how much he reviled Bill Clinton.
Texin
Mar 2019
#67
It's only socialists who are wanting to call the Dem. Party a socialist party.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2019
#70
Yes, he did. I remember Tip O'Neill, too. He was a powerful figure in Congress...
Honeycombe8
Mar 2019
#88
Whoa! I think he said that about Dubya Bush; maybe when Bush was playing fighter pilot.
maddiemom
Mar 2019
#91
No, it wasn't. It was definitely about Obama. I was watching at the time & remember it.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2019
#106
No. You haven't heard the ribbings against him for saying that about Obama?
Honeycombe8
Mar 2019
#105
Nah, Tweety's OK. An insider, a guy perhaps too easily dazzled at times. But always a liberal.
Midnight Writer
Mar 2019
#22
I used to like Chris a lot more than I do now. It isn't that I don't like him, either -
PatrickforO
Mar 2019
#11
sometimes he infuriates me - other times he just seems to strike a note of pure insight
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#17
the wingers aren't satisfied with 'socialism' though, limbaugh is calling us 'stalinists'!
certainot
Mar 2019
#10
AI just made it a lot easier to digitize talk radio. rw radio is doomed, it's just up to dems to
certainot
Mar 2019
#23
Just curious, why listen to these stations? Perhaps you live in a geographically challenged area...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#51
and you live in a city? your sister's a whore, your father's a thief, and your ideas a treasonous
certainot
Mar 2019
#66
Gawd, calm down. The only reason I asked was pretty well if you're in a rural area. The area...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#69
you asked why i listen to it. i don't listen much anymore but sample it. it's very predictable
certainot
Mar 2019
#77
and limbaugh provides transcripts that can now be accessed through iheart instead of his website
certainot
Mar 2019
#26
+1. Yes. We need to find a succinct message(s), and then Repeat Repeat Repeat
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#18
AOC is getting hammered on talk radio and the left ignores it - that's a problem
certainot
Mar 2019
#32
in 40 states with 80 senators there are no free easy alts for politics while driving, working and
certainot
Mar 2019
#30
There's millions of people who listen to talk radio religiously every day....
KY_EnviroGuy
Mar 2019
#81
I know some people think it's a gimmick but Naming Has Power - I believe that.
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#60
We aren't going to be able to stop that, you know. The EXACT thing the right-wing
PatrickforO
Mar 2019
#84
dem messaging has not worked! the cons sit in their think tanks and look for progress and then
certainot
Mar 2019
#87
i'm serious - it wouldn't take much to convince the ad industry to desert rw talk radio
certainot
Mar 2019
#92
trump has done us a favor by telegraphing his attack this far in advance, now we
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#19
it seems so obvious, yet this has been completely absent from the discussion
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#24
"Capitalism or socialism? We already made that choice. Both. Now we just need to find
EveHammond13
Mar 2019
#27
Wealth & Income Inequality is historically high right now. Can't and doesn't last. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2019
#72
Trumps is not for capitalism. He is for fascism. Fascism is when the state exists to aid corporation
McCamy Taylor
Mar 2019
#99