Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Wanna take a guess which of the three gets the last word?

Richard?

Originally Posted by James Brown

Richard?

OK, that was in poor taste.  Sorry.   I thought the 3 people comment was odd, since Richard has professed atheism here several times if memory serves.   

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Beautiful shots, Jim. Not bad, for a Marxist.

спасибо, Comrade Russkie

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Trump did not win over any independents with that CNN town hall. If anything, he drove more away and solidified the position of those that already opposed him. The funny thing is that his team was advertising the town hall as his opportunity to appeal to moderates and independents.

An appeal to moderates and independents is certainly what the team wants, they are presumably professionals.   Their boss is uncontrollable though, and if a MAGA rally presents itself, Trump is gonna MAGA rally.   This was a theme in the last South Park episode by the way.   Very funny.

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Thank you for finally making my point.

My lunch yesterday was interesting. My Trump supporting close friend, who is one of the finest people I have ever known, said he did watch the town hall and he liked what he heard - not surprising. However, when I asked him if he thought Trump was electable, he said her really didn’t know. He said that Trump was electable just two weeks ago. Hope?

I'm curious how your friend deals with Trump's lies and moral failures?  Does he deny that the lies are even lies, for instance does he actually think the 2020 election was stolen or that E. Jean Carroll was just making up a fictitious assault for money?  Or does he just accept the lies and hold his nose because Trump is more likely to advance your friend's favored policies than any Democrat would be? 

Did he cringe during the town hall when Trump repeated the big 2020 lie, or when Trump attacked Carroll to the delight of the crowd?   Or did he fist pump and say "hell yeah!"  Or was it something in the middle, along the lines of "I wish Trump wouldn't do that, but I sure would like more conservative judicial appointments...." 

I know you don't speak for your friend, but I am curious about your impression.  

Jim 

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Based on where you live, the host might be Mike Rosen, but in the end, it doesn't matter since there are almost zero left-leaning talk shows. Unlike righties, lefties are not lemmings that need to be continuously outraged, and talk show charlatans do not easily monetize them. In short, there is no incentive for the existence of left-leaning radio.

Hi James, Mike Rosen retired years ago, at least in the Denver market, and he was no charlatan.   Rosen was/is a very articulate voice of fiscal conservatism.   He was quite liberal on social issues IIRC.   

There is certainly tons of left wing content.  Look at the pod casts Rod posts all the time.  I imagine that the lefty demographics get their echo chamber fix on line, or maybe from MSNBC etc. not the radio.   It takes a genuine old-timer to listen to talk radio.   I'm not nearly old enough to be a talk radio regular.   (Although I loved Mike Rosen when he was on the air.)

I think you knew all this of course and are just baiting Richard, but what the hell....

Do you remember extreme lefty Randi Rhodes on Air America?   I used to hate her!   When I was younger and more easily fired up.  She is still out there:   Streaming her content to adoring lefties.   https://randirhodes.com/   Lots more like her.   No doubt you've heard of Keith Olbermann!

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Подожди минутку... разве Трамп не русский шпион, а не Браун?

Разоренный 

Originally Posted by James Lacey

We were talking about *radio* talk show hosts, but your point is taken. Even lefties have some outrage media. In any case, it's seriously disingenuous for Rich to act like he was talking about anything other than a conservative. And honestly, it doesn't matter how the host leaned politically; it's still a bad sample.

Absolutely, the weird thing is that Rich signaled it was a bad sample in his original post, and then pushed back when you confirmed it.  Funny.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Maybe it's just my take on it but I don't consider a youtube presentation that I link to from time to time to be the same thing as a talk radio show. I consider the latter to be along the lines of an AM radio station broadcast like that of the Rush Limbaugh genre. Basically, it's a loud and obnoxious right wing echo chamber that's fact-challenged, to put it mildly. It's where these guys get their "news"...

We disagree.  The gun control podcast you posted the other day was loud, fact-challenged, and obnoxious.  The podcaster had no discernable credentials.  I don't know what his audience size is, but some podcasters have audiences much larger than your typical radio host.   

The times they are a changing.   

Hi Rod - the quote button won't let me quote your eyepiece post... weird.  Anyway, nice post.  You are in the top echelon of visual observers, and I am always impressed with your contributions here and at CN.  I agree about the various levels of knowledge at CN too, way too many know-it-alls with no real experience.

My eyepiece collection takes a bit of explaining.   As you all know, Al Nagler and his team designed the Nagler, Ethos, and other bleeding edge eyepiece designs.  Meade copied them first, and now various other Chinese vendors copy them - E.S. and the like.  No harm I guess, the price of the various copies is right and some may like the copies better.  

But part of me, maybe the part that got me into patent law (even though Nagler's designs are off patent) wants to own and support the original designer.  So all my eyepieces, at least the ones I use, are Televue.  I have a pair of 24 mm Panoptics for my binoviewer.  A couple of pairs of Nagler type 6s for the binos (13, 7 and 5), and a couple of Ethos, in 2" format, which work so incredibly well for inexperienced guests, and which I love so much have all but caused me to mothball the binos.   

My first eyepieces in 1984 or so were Televues.  I wish I still had that smooth-sided 1980s era 32 mm plossl.  I sold it here I think!  So for dumb loyalty, or for whatever reason, color me green and black!  Jim