Talk about “hot talk.” Listen to this talk radio confrontation between actor Alec Baldwin and conservative talkers Sean Hannity and Mark Levin on WABC’s Brian Whitman show.
What’s interesteing is how Baldwin keeps wondering why the host has to have Hannity and Levin on when he has regular listeners waiting on line. But the nature of talk radio is “hot talk” — rage, anger..stuff that gets the adrenalin going. Still, if you can detatch yourself from the whole talk radio culture that we’re all conditioned to now in this country, and you look at it from the standpoint of political debate, you wonder: how did political discussion get so absolutely poisonous in this country?
Another question is: why did Hannity and Levin have to be on with Baldwin? It’s to create a moment of confrontation. Just taking calls from callers, discussing films and talking about issues might not be “hot” enough. The name of the game is “controversy” and rage.
The host of this show is a complete loser. To lose control of your own program is pretty sorry.
They finally get to confront the evil Alec Baldwin and all Levin can come up with is an insult about the guys wife? The kind of woman that is out of Mark Levin’s league, by the way. What a pathetic litle loser.
This just shows the hatred and bile that spews from the Liberal side. The right-wing talk show hosts keep expressing a good point — if the liberals and Democrats could put aside their hatred and hate-speech and actually come up with ideas, they would stand a chance to be what they once were — a great party.
But, it was learned from your side Bill. Consider it flattery since the (fake) conservatives were, and are still the champions of hate, and hate-speech.
The popularity of Mark Levin truly confounds me. He has an awful radio voice – really high-pitched and whiny. And he has a terrible personality, as envinced by his fat jokes and wife jokes about Baldwin (made even though Levin is something of a porker himself).
I guess right-wing radio fans were desperate for someone to attack those scary judges, and nothing but, for 3 hours a day. Oy, what losers.
“bile that spews from the Liberal side”?
1. Baldwin was the guest on a radio show.
2. Two conservatives call in, specifically to attack Baldwin.
3. Hannity starts with the “you lied about appreaing on my show” innuendo.
4. Unable to focus his attacks only on Baldwin, Levin “goes there,” bringing up Baldwin’s wife.
And the bile is coming from the LEFT side?
ROFLMAO!!!!
meaning… that saying things such as:
LEVIN: I just told you – you’ve got a two digit IQ.
LEVIN: I’m not a cabin boy, butt-boy.
LEVIN: And you know what you are? You’re “Brokeback” Alec.
…is pretty much what “the cool kids” do?
or are you just trying to say that if you want to insult someone, it’s perfectly acceptable to try to insinuate that they are gay.
since, ya know, gays are second class citizens and all.
the moderate voice is sullied by visits of people like you.
Bottom line: Hannity/Baldwin threw the same kind of stuff at Baldwin that he and many of his fellow entertainers have been saying about Pres Bush, VP Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, and others in the administration or who support the administration. Baldwin couldn’t handle it, which is why he stormed off in a fit of feigned indignation.
Call me partisan, but Hannity has done far more damage to the world than Baldwin. If anything, Alec has brought a little joy to the world, with his movies and guest appearances on SNL. Hannity just divides the nation full time. Baldwin has only spent 5 minutes dividing the nation.
Ad Hominum started when Baldwin called Hannity a hack, Levin came back with just as much and returned even more with the weight and wife remark, that’s when I characterized Whitman as polemic. You got two extreme sycophants, Baldwin and Hannity, and Whitman just added vinegar and oil into the same bottle.
hmmmm, hannity and levin listening to a late night liberal radio show together……. wonder which one was holding the phone, thought i heard a little squealing going on in the background levins butt boy comment maybe a little wish fulfillmenteh there markie!!!!!!!!!!
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I was putting in some extra hours for a Little Rock radio station that touted “Hot Talk” several years ago. The name isn’t used as much, but the concept is still around. Conflict on the air works.