Conservatives: Which Political News/Media Personalities do you listen to?

[Grizzly Adams]

I'm out of the loop with popular conservative commentators/personalities. Are the days of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity are over? What about Ben Shapiro and Justin Peterson? Post in the comments you're favorites.

I'm a lefty but I like listening to other view points. So steer me that direction. It's your opportunity to win somebody over.

I used to listen to a fair bit of Ben Shapiro the last few years -- he was balanced in his criticism of left and right, but in the runup to 2024 he became a Trumpbot, despite all the criticisms he had for the man. I've mostly stopped listening.

Some of my news commentary comes from a legal podcast called Advisory Opinions which focuses on court proceedings from district through Supreme courts. It's hosted by David French and conservo-hottie Sarah Isgur. Other items come from around the Internet, chiefly CNN.com and a local newspaper.

And here.

 

[jaypatriot]

I second your choice of Bret Beier. He might have the best panels in the business.

Most importantly, his panels are always have high decorum. I can't tell you how refreshing & appealing that is.



Dayem. You're hitting some great sources! Weekend Journal Report is another of my favs.

I consider these all to be quality Conservative sources, sources that I as a Lib too go to.



Without a doubt. I can't last more than 10 minutes with Hannity.

BTW - Not trying to shill too much for them, but you too may be a candidate for News Nation. They do seem to to take their striving to be Indie in a serious vein.

OMG. We could be best buddies. But only if you drop your Democrat Party affiliation and become a Republican.

Today's Journal Editorial Report was especially good.
Especially Jason Riley talking about his new book which more than half the posters on these threads would never look at.

 

[Felis Leo]

When I was a conservative, I would check Drudge Report every morning to see what the most-recent news and media narratives were. I still do.

I also consumed a lot of the Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro. I no longer do that.

 

[jaypatriot]

When I was a conservative, I would check Drudge Report every morning to see what the most-recent news and media narratives were.

I still do.

Not surprised you still do. Drudge now leans Left.
According to the maniac Tucker.

Tucker Carlson: ‘Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive left’​

by Joe Concha - 07/25/20 12:05 PM ET

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/509017-tucker-carlson-matt-drudge-is-now-firmly-a-man-of-the-progressive-left/

 

[Felis Leo]

Not surprised you still do. Drudge now leans Left.
According to the maniac Tucker.

Tucker Carlson: ‘Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive left’​

by Joe Concha - 07/25/20 12:05 PM ET

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/509017-tucker-carlson-matt-drudge-is-now-firmly-a-man-of-the-progressive-left/

Speaking as a newly-minted member of the progressive left, I just do not see it.

But then, since Tucker Carlson is a Nazi, I am sure he believes anyone who still believes in the Holocaust or thinks desegregation was a good thing is a member of the progressive left.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

pretty much nightly Fox opinion shows. Ingram is a populist same as myself so I dont miss her. Hannity and Jessie are OK but way too hysterical at times.
And the 6PM Fox report. Which has has been the very best of any evening news.. I dont do daytime TV or talk radio

Jesse Watters is a dolt. I mean truly dim. Hannity is so far up Trump’s arse he can tell you what Trump ate for dinner the night before. So… An idiot and a sycophant. Yeah, that’s where I want my news and political opinion coming from.

 

[forn]

Have you considered News Nation? You come across as reasonable, rationale, and balanced. You might find News Nation's Indie ethos refreshing. I know I do.

I think it's been recently added to my service, I'll most likely give it a look. I don't like to exclusively keep to one network.

 

[jaypatriot]

Speaking as a newly-minted member of the progressive left, I just do not see it.

But then, since Tucker Carlson is a Nazi, I am sure he believes anyone who still believes in the Holocaust or thinks desegregation was a good thing is a member of the progressive left.

I'm a Conservative and believe the Holocaust happened and desegregation is a good thing.
I don't think I'm a Progressive. I woke up this morning and feel like my intellect is still intact.

 

[jaypatriot]

Jesse Watters is a dolt. I mean truly dim. Hannity is so far up Trump’s arse he can tell you what Trump ate for dinner the night before. So… An idiot and a sycophant. Yeah, that’s where I want my news and political opinion coming from.

Do you normally ascribe to the aphorism "throw out the baby with the bath water' or "paint them all with the same brush" when you talk about the entire universe of Fox News commentary?

 

[Chomsky]

I think it's been recently added to my service, I'll most likely give it a look. I don't like to exclusively keep to one network.

I hope you enjoy them.

They do seem to make a legit effort to meet their self proclaimed "Indie" ideology. I find it refreshing.

Daytime programing is out of Chicago, as they are on outgrowth of the old WGN Superstation. If you were familiar with the "News Nation" news coverage segments of the old Superstation, you will know what to expect.

I particularly enjoy Dan Abrams, Chris Cuomo, and "The Hill". You might be surprised by Cuomo's segment, as his staunchly applied Indie ethos here differs quite a bit frim his work at CNN.

 

[choiceone]

Other:

Harris Faulkner is the only broadcaster I watch and I don't watch her everyday.

Honestly, I work everyday and on my time off, I watch some network shows, Netflix, Disney, Paramount, read (A LOT), play golf, travel, visit relatives, waste time on the 'net. Sitting and being bombarded with news propaganda all day is the last thing I want to do.

I'm a liberal, but if you can get a chance, please watch the animated film Flow (2024), which won Academy and Golden Globe awards this year and awards at a lot of International Film things last year. If you have a cat or dog, I recommend watching with your pet, as it's been reported that cats and dogs love it. Some have stayed in rapt attention for the whole one and a half hours.

 

[Felis Leo]

I'm a Conservative and believe the Holocaust happened and desegregation is a good thing.
I don't think I'm a Progressive. I woke up this morning and feel like my intellect is still intact.

Well, yes. But I do not look to a man like Tucker Carlson as an authority on what conservatism and who a conservative is versus what progressivism and who a progressive is. I doubt you would be in Tucker Carlson’s good graces if you were brought on his show and you told him that. At best you would elicit a smirk and an eye roll.

 

[choiceone]

That is nonsense! I've tried to watch that gentleman and his wife, and he is no Conservative. He and his spouse are mouthpieces of Leftist propaganda as bad as anyone on CNN or MSNBC.

Now he MAY have been Conservative way back when he was in Congress. But IMO he has clearly turned to pandering for the Left on his TV show.

Don't be too mean to him. I'm a leftist/liberal, of course, and do not think Joe panders for the left, but he has moved from conservative to centrist, and I loved the fact that, in accusing Trump and his MAGA as "fascists." he took honest glee in this word. I think only a former conservative turned centrist could do it so repeatedly.

 

[MAGAnificent]

I'm out of the loop with popular conservative commentators/personalities. Are the days of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity are over? What about Ben Shapiro and Justin Peterson? Post in the comments you're favorites.

I'm a lefty but I like listening to other view points. So steer me that direction. It's your opportunity to win somebody over.

Since I retired in late 2022, none of them on anything close to a regular basis or anything other than a youtube snippet. When I was working, and spent time on the road, I listened to many talk shows, some political and some not. I listened to Rush Limbaugh until he passed. I occasionally listened to Hannity or Levin for entertainment. I also listened to Doctor Radio and during college football season, SEC channel.

 

[George50]

who?? ROFL.
Here's a clue. anyone who consumes only 1 source OR political bias, is by that fact uninformed. Multi-source or get spun

Perhaps so. But looking at the accuracy of the beliefs of those who consume news from primarily one source is the best way to determine how those sources inform their consumers. That’s what the University study did.

Of course the absolute worst possible source is our current President. Listen to him and you will believe these lies:

The 2020 election was stolen.

Climate change is a hoax.

Most illegal immigrants are dangerous criminals, only some are good people.

Tariffs on China are paid by China.

China operates the Panama canal.

The U.S. is the only country with birthright citizenship.

January 6 was a love fest.

EV’s are going to put our automakers out of business.

Trump won the 2024 election by a landslide.

Ukraine started the Russia/Ukraine war.

There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.

Vietnam charges a 90% tariff to the USA

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles.

 

[choiceone]

The Democrats have moved way further left. For example, Obama said in 2008 that marriage was between a man and a woman. Now Democrats don't even know what a woman is, unless he has a penis.

Please be fair.

Obama changed his mind while in the WH because he had an epiphany - that you should be allowed to marry the person you love.

At the same time, there are lots of Democrats who do not think that trans women are women - there are even trans women who don't think trans women are women, as the "trans" in trans woman means "transitioning toward." I'm left of center, certainly, and I deeply dislike the expression "cis woman," and the last poll I saw about trans women in women's sports showed that about 89% of those polled thought they shouldn't be in them.

Republicans - conservatives - have not really moved to the right at all, by definition they embrace the traditional, so it wouldn't make sense for them to move. Trump has been a major influence on them, of course, but that isn't a move to the right, it's just embracing populism. What has angered Democrats so much is people like Trump stand up to them now, when previously most Republicans were too afraid of their own shadow to get on the Democrats bad side. They might get called the "r" word if they got out of line. Now they've grown some balls. Some of them anyway. Congressional Republicans need to get off of their backsides and deliver Trump's "big, beautiful bill" and start codifying into law some of Trump's executive orders.

No, I disagree. Far too many people surveyed in careful polls are strong defenders of Social Security and do not seek its privatization. Republicans have been among the voices of those who do not like it that Trump is talking like an imperialist about Greenland, Canada, Panama, and Gaza while virtually blaming Zelensky for starting war when Putin aggressed in taking Crimea and did it again with Donbas.

A lot of Congressional Republicans are scared to death to cross Trump, but they don't look like they want to support his bill. He cut USAID so carelessly that food already sent rotted and US farmers were seriously harmed, and then asks for a 10% hike for defense, when we are already spending more on defense than probably everyone else put together. That's not fiscally conservative. Fed chair Powell is fiscally conservative.

 

[Dans La Lune]

None

That's far worse than any of the answers on that list.

 

[choiceone]

I'm a Conservative and believe the Holocaust happened and desegregation is a good thing.
I don't think I'm a Progressive. I woke up this morning and feel like my intellect is still intact.

I like your first line very much, though not the insult to your counterparts at the end.

 

[choiceone]

His wife is a leftist. Joe is a small government conservative. As such he is opposed to the radical insanity of the Trump administration.

I'd say Mika is a little liberal, but not a serious leftist. She is entirely too willing to let Joe interrupt her - when it happens, it''s not a pretty sight.

 

[choiceone]

The Republican Party hasn’t moved anywhere?

Just as an example:

Compare this from Ronald Reagan:

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

To the vile rhetoric of Donald Trump. From the pilgrims of Reagan to the “rapists”, “blood thirsty criminals,” and “most violent people on earth” Trump insists are ruining the “fabric” of the country and its culture.

Also, note the “free ports,” Reagan was a free trader. It was the Reagan administration that launched the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations in 1986 that lowered global tariffs and created the World Trade Organization. It was his administration that won approval of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement in 1988. That agreement soon expanded to include Mexico in what became the North American Free Trade Agreement, realizing a vision that Reagan first articulated in the 1980 campaign. It was Reagan who vetoed protectionist textile quota bills in 1985 and 1988.

The Republican Party hasn’t moved anywhere? The Republican Party has done a 180.

The thing is that Reagan was originally a solid Democrat. When he was drawn into Republican perspectives, he never rid himself of the open magnanimity of the old actors' union leader he once was. All that you cite could have come from him in either mode. It's being presidential. For myself, I'm a liberal and wouldn't have voted for him, but he was a decent president whether I agreed with him or not. Trump's rhetoric is Trump's - it's not Republican or Democrat, but rather Trumpist. I utterly opposed most of the political positions Liz Cheney took, but she's a truly decent Republican.

 

[choiceone]

Some time ago Fairleigh Dickinson University did a current events study to see how well people who consumed information from various sources could answer questions about current events. Unfortunately, viewers of Fox News scored lower than those who consumed no news at all.

On the other hand, those who were consuming information from NPR scored the highest. No wonder Trump and other Republicans want to get rid of NPR!

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If you listen to NPR, you can catch "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!" on the weekend, too.

 

[Chomsky]

OMG. We could be best buddies. But only if you drop your Democrat Party affiliation and become a Republican.

Today's Journal Editorial Report was especially good.
Especially Jason Riley talking about his new book which more than half the posters on these threads would never look at.

Thank you for the kind words.

I was a Cradle Dem, literally born into the Dem Machine, and fully participatory during my early life. Many years later I transitioned to an Indie when I left the city, and no longer had the need to participate in transactional politics.

My Dem association back then was local and transactional. My Presidential votes during that time were actually pretty evenly split between the parties (until Obama & Trump came along).

I did briefly rejoin the Dems recently in response to Trump, but soon left due to my displeasure with litmus testing that seemed to be occurring. In a local experience in real-life with some very adamant & vocal younger Dem Party members, I was chastised for several positions I held which were against the Dem orthodoxy (guns & abortion). That I caught flack for those two positions, despite being in concert with much of the remaining platform and being united in displacing Trump, left me with a really bad taste in my mouth. This version of the Dems wasn't the "Big Tent" environment I remembered in days gone by.

So, I left (for the second time).

I'm now a proud Indie, no longer involved with a political party. It feels great, and I hold my head high and walk with respect. I doubt I'd ever rejoin a political party again.

My party affiliation is Indie, but that's not to say my political lean is orthodox Centrist. Some is, but I still lean Liberal on much of my public policy. I've pulled the Dem lever every Presidential vote since Obama's 1st. With all respect, I've come to despise the Republican Party and its acquiescence to MAGA.

This differs from my personal and family life, where I do indeed live my life quite Conservatively. But that's personal. It works for me & my family, but is not something I expect or promote for others or society, In fact, just the opposite. I'm nearly Libertarian in my lack of demands of society (besides strong adherence to legislated law & order).

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As to your & my cable sources, I think the commonality among them is they are quality segments, well produced and exhibiting strong & respectful decorum, while holding moderate views. In other words, they're very old school. I like that. There was a reason Walter Cronkite was the "most trusted man in America". We need more of that.

 

[Chomsky]

When I was a conservative, I would check Drudge Report every morning to see what the most-recent news and media narratives were. I still do.

I also consumed a lot of the Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro. I no longer do that.

It seems you & Drudge may have travelled the road from Conservatism to Liberalism together!

But you know, I have no big gripes with principled (Classical?) Conservatism. In fact, I believe it is an important required component to act as a Yin to Liberalism's Yang.

We all have our own political desires and ideologies. But truth be told, I strongly believe the country is best moved forward through the center. That requires a healthy balance between Liberalism & Conservatism.

 

[antiquity]

You won’t win me over with Zimmerman or Rittenhouse.

While they may not have been guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and I agree they likely weren’t guilty beyond reasonable doubt, they were certainly stupid. Nothing about their actions suggests common sense.

I have a problem with dumb people owning and using guns. They are dangerous to themselves and others. I’d prefer they leave their protection to professionals, like myself, if they are going to be that stupid.

I do not have a problem with civilians, who have taken the time to know and become proficient in the owning and use of their weapons, being armed. Just bar the mental health challenged, criminals and dopes from having them.

Not trying to win anyone over.... just trying to show how the liberal media twist stories around to fit their leftist agenda. And when the truth of the events come out they ('they' being the left) just moves on to another story they can twist without waiting for the facts to merge..

 

[Chomsky]

Not surprised you still do. Drudge now leans Left.
According to the maniac Tucker.

Tucker Carlson: ‘Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive left’​

by Joe Concha - 07/25/20 12:05 PM ET

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/509017-tucker-carlson-matt-drudge-is-now-firmly-a-man-of-the-progressive-left/

You know, I thought the above myself.

But when I checked Media Bias Fact Check, they had Drudge as Center-Right.

Here:

Maybe we were just used to Drudge formerly being Hard-Right?