Not your Grandfather's Fire Side Chat

In a shocking recent development, I have become addicted to talk radio, especially that of the conservative persuasion.  I enjoy hearing what the other side thinks and to prepare for the times in which I want to be on my toes to counter the economic and social nonsense in their politics.  Most of all, however, I like to pick apart the hypocrisy in the daily rants against the democrats and for the republicans of the world.  Many a time in the past few months I've driven with conservative radio personalities screaming at People Like Me and our destructive liberal tendencies.  While I do think that it is true that I, and the people I choose to socialize with and love, tend to be quite liberal on social issues AND that we tend to be educated to the point of being 'out of touch' with Joe SixPack.  Yet, the vitriolic methods and transparent attempts to brainwash the American radio listeners about the evils of all things democrat seem just as abhorrent as, gasp, Ivy League Universities. 

The selectivity of stories presented by such strongly opinionated conservative havens, inclusive of all Murdoch media outlets, provides a great disservice to Americans who long to be involved in politics.  If this election has the power to do anything, it is to garner a passion for politics and the process that the nation hasn't seen since the our collective spirit was broken in Watergate.  Liberal leaning radio stations are far from balanced in their reporting, yet Conservative talk radio seems to take mind control to a new level.  The goal of each discussion is the dissemination of unilateral opinions concerning the 'other' as well as inundate listeners with so much junk mail that the real messages never make it into the voter's mental inbox.  And yet I still listen, captivated by the slow, methodical pulse of conservative voices beating into the brains of all those who will listen.