{"id":491,"date":"2015-01-15T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=491"},"modified":"2015-01-15T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:03:18","slug":"why-are-there-no-lefties-on-talk-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Why Are There No Lefties on Talk Radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/emmetttyrrell\/2015\/01\/15\/why-are-there-no-lefties-on-talk-radio-n1943028\/page\/full\">Why Are There No Lefties on Talk Radio? &#8211; Emmett Tyrrell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the &#8220;why&#8221; is quite easy. \u00a0Radio requires you to think. \u00a0Thinking is the enemy of the Progressive. \u00a0It requires a blind faith adherence based in emotion. \u00a0Raw emotion without Reason can only get you so far. \u00a0Contrast this with television, where ideas and thought invariably take second place to the imagery. \u00a0Imagery is very easy to manipulate to get the needed emotional response. \u00a0Hence the preference of Progressives in the visual media.<\/p>\n<p>The know this and use it.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any doubt? \u00a0Consider this; with the push for reestablishing the Fairness Doctrine for radio have you ever noticed there is never an effort to apply that same standard to television?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Are There No Lefties on Talk Radio? &#8211; Emmett Tyrrell. Actually, the &#8220;why&#8221; is quite easy. \u00a0Radio requires you to think. \u00a0Thinking is the enemy of the Progressive. \u00a0It requires a blind faith adherence based in emotion. \u00a0Raw emotion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=491\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[22,49,50,63,99,106,127,128],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-first-amendment","tag-tcot","tag-culture-2","tag-culture-war","tag-first-amendment","tag-political-correctness","tag-progressives","tag-radio","tag-talk-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-7V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}