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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “InterCHANGE,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Conservative talkers have not lost their principles
By Kevin Fischer
Wednesday, Feb 6 2008, 05:30 PM
John McPain’s showing on Super Tuesday has the left spouting their usual false knee-jerk reactions.
Their short-sighted thinking process goes something like this:
1) Conservative talk show hosts don’t like McCain.
2) Conservative talk show hosts rip McCain.
3) McCain does well on Super Tuesday anyway.
4) HA HA! Conservative talk show hosts are a bunch of fools!
While the Democrats clash about personalities and race and gender, the Republicans are fighting about issues. Conservative talk show hosts have taken on McCain on his positions that are nowhere near being in a true conservative’s ballpark. So they speak out on how and why McCain is not a conservative and how he would damage not only the party but the country.
When McCain did well Tuesday night, his victories were not a reflection on conservative talk show hosts. People who often speak out about the genre of talk radio or television generally have no understanding of how that piece of the media works.
Talk show hosts, no matter what the political persuasion, are not Pied Pipers. They have no magic spell to place viewers and listeners into a seductive trance.
The consumers that watch or listen are not lemmings or trained seals. They don’t sit back like robots, waiting for instructions from the master talk show hosts. No, they have minds of their own, capable of making decisions after careful thought.
All the talk show hosts can do is their homework, prepare a case, and try to make a persuasive argument.
Charlie Sykes and Mark Belling have no control whatsoever over what a voter in Arizona does after he walks into the booth.
It’s one of the greatest misperceptions about talk show hosts, that somehow they have the ability to make listeners drink the Kool-Aid right through the radio speakers.
What really happened is that democracy played itself out. Despite the dead-on analysis of conservative talkers, Mitt Romney didn’t make as strong a case. Republicans are either unaware of his history of stabbing conservatives in the back and warming up to the liberal press, or are aware and simply don’t care.
Conservative talk show hosts have been consistent for many years in their disdain for McCain’s stances. The outcome was not what the hosts wanted Tuesday, but they remain steadfast in their principles, something the unprincipled left will never truly understand.
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