From the Washington Post.

It has been well-known that liberals don't do as well as conservatives/libertarians as talk radio hosts.

Bill O'Reilly's theory on this is charitable:

...O'Reilly thinks those left of center can't get the job done on the air. That's not a knock on their ideology, he says, but a comment on the liberal tendency toward inclusiveness and reflectiveness -- both deadly qualities in a medium that talk-show producer Randall Bloomquist describes as "the World Wrestling Federation with ideas."



"Conservative people tend to see the world in black and white terms, good and evil," says O'Reilly in an interview. "Liberals see grays. In any talk format, you have to pound home a strong point of view. If you're not providing controversy and excitement, people won't listen, or watch."



My theory is less charitable: That liberals, including most of the media, spend most of their lives talking to each other in places like the East Coast and Hollywood, and have no idea how the rest of the nation thinks. I believe that the main reason they can't keep a talk show going is because their philosophy is completely full of shit from the upper ionosphere clear down to the Moho, and on talk radio, it shows.

But then that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Then O'Reilly gives a little dig:

Besides, he adds, dangling new bait, "[National Public Radio] is all left, top to bottom. That's where the left goes. . . . They listen to Diane Rehm."

Predictably, like all hard core liberals in the media, Rehm is shocked that anyone could possibly think that they have ANY sort of bias:

Rehm, the host of an NPR-distributed show out of WAMU-FM in Washington, replies: "If a liberal is a talk radio host who represents more than just one view, then I am indeed a liberal. . . . I've never felt there's just one way and one way only. [Some hosts] espouse one view over and over again, whereas our message is far more confusing because we're open to ideas and let you make up your own mind."

"Open to ideas." Right. Show me a liberal radio host who might entertain the idea that a conservative concept warrants anything other than utter contempt, and I'll show you a sky darkened by flying passenger pigeons.

An interesting factor that is not addressed in this article is a critical event that happened years ago: the "Fairness Doctrine" regulations on radio were scrapped in 1987. What this did was allow real opinions on the air, and talk radio blossomed. What no one predicted is that it would be conservative talk radio.

You can bet your last dollar that the left would now dearly like to reinstate this government muzzle (government muzzles being a favorite tool of the leftist), and several attempts have been made. So far, with no success.