Monday, March 03, 2003

All Power to the Jacoby-ins

Jeff Jacoby, yet another one of the Boston Globe's poor helpless token conservative op-ed trogs, thinks the proposed "liberal" talk radio show won't work.
It's pointless to wallow in why he thinks it won't work-the real reason is, Jeff doesn't need the competition.
Like most regional conservative columnists Jeff desperately wants to rake in the big bucks with a television sinecure or better yet a full time radio gig like Boston Herald Columnista Howie Carr has got.
And why not?
For today's jingo-propagandist-punditocrat, the loose journalism standards to today's talk radio/opinion teevee are a potential goldmine...one can profitably call for the elevation of George Bush Junior to the Sultanate or accuse Senator Clinton of necromancy sans reproof or damage to advertising sales.
Jeff has wanted such a gig for so long he can taste it, I recall with the simplest nostalgia the smirking constipated rictus he'd affect on WCVB's old "Five on Five" sunday morning yakfest.
It was like he was rehearsing his game face for the notional "Jeff Jacoby" cable-show.
Mark my words he wants it and he wants it bad, beating up a liberal radio show that'll never come to pass is just the dues he has to happily pay in order to get scheduled after Mike Savage on MSNBC.
Sick
Demented
Typical...

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