Reply #67: It's a branding poll, IMO [View All]

[krispos42]

With domination by the RW media, people know who conservatives are (or their public faces, at least) and identify with them... the perception of agreement with, say, CONSERVATIVE Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly.

"Yes, they make good sense on the radio"... because those media personalities don't have to deal with any sort of self-critisism or any kind of fact or reality check. They don't give context or anything approaching enough background information to have any kind of real debate.

And they say "liberal" like it's a dirty word. With 90% of politicial talk radio conservative, it's become an insult, conciously or unconciously. The media is "liberal". Liberals like killing babys and stealing your guns. Liberals don't see the danger posed by brown people and Muslims.

Yadda yadda yadda.


I notice how the "liberal" tag went up as liberal talk radio got on the air in the early 2000's. And a knee-jerk reaction to Obama (scary brown person) got more people to say they're conservatives simply in opposition to "big spending" and the stupid bailouts.