Sorry. I've been largely absent from the two blogs for 6 or 7 weeks. I've been moving some stuff into storage, hassling with car repairs, and just generally bemoaning my fate (it's from Shakespeare -- read a book!). It's been hard to write long articles because of time constraints. It's hard anyway to write stuff because I listen to so many pundits every weekday. These include Rush, Rusty Humphries, Jason Lewis, Jerry Doyle, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage. I also catch the TV pundit shows O'Reilly, Hannity, Greta, and Beck. And The 700 Club has some good 7 to 10 minute video clips 3 or 4 times per week. On weekends, I listen to Wayne Allyn Root's 1 hr. show from Las Vegas, and also listen to my favorite pastor/preacher Ron Dart. And, I never miss Professor Michio Kaku's 3-hr show on Saturdays, Science Fantasic.
Since I must put SOMETHING up everyday to avoid losing regular readers, and since I'm listening to all these pundits anyway, I've decided to start a new regular segment which I will call "Nitpicking The Pundits". Here is the first NTP:
It seems to me that the conservative pundits fall into two main groups --
GROUP A
Those that believe we can pull ourselves out of our current political doldrums if we can just revive and restore The Republican Party. Get it back to it's Reagan roots.
These are all (or most?) of the FOX news people - O'Reilly, Hannity, Cavuto, Shep Smith, etc. and include Rush Limbaugh and many others on radio.
GROUP B
Those that seem to lean to some third party effort such as The Libertarian Party. They call themselves "Independent". They seem to believe that the Republican Party is hopelessly compromised and unrecoverable (kinda like when your hardrive gets that Blue Screen Of Death and makes clicking and grinding sounds).
They include Jerry Doyle, Rusty Humphries, Michael Savage, Jason Lewis, Neil Boortz, and Glenn Beck. All except Beck never appear on FOX News TV shows.
--Ray Curtis, Wednesday, August 12, 2009