May 5th, 2009
 
 Dana Milbank of The Washington Post waxes rhapsodic:
Maybe Barack Obama really is The One.
Yesterday’s news was good — almost supernaturally so.
The economy? Recovering.
The markets? Rallying.
Swine flu? Abating.
Drought? Ending.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared his confidence that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are well secured. The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee declared his confidence that a massive health-care overhaul will be accomplished this year. Warren Buffett declared his confidence that the economy is “out of the quicksand.” And the Supreme Court was confident enough about the state of the nation to turn its attention to Janet Jackson’s breasts.
 Read the whole thing HERE.
May 5th, 2009
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 David Gergen (above), a former adviser to Democratic and Republican presidents, says America’s corporate leaders generally have unsavory reputations these days — and deservedly so.
 To remedy this situation, Gergen suggests, business folks need to do four things: 1) Acknowledge their role in the current economic mess; 2) Get back to fundamentals; 3) Work for, not against, social reforms; and 4) Embrace the concept of corporate management becoming a true profession.
 Read the whole thing HERE.
May 5th, 2009
 
 Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, the leading trade journal of the talk-radio industry, puts El Rushbo’s vaunted ratings in perspective:
Rush Limbaugh, even though he’s number one, is not the dominant figure in radio. Radio is much larger in total than any of its on-air components. There are no Super Bowls in radio…
Nobody in radio has a following that comes anywhere near a majority of Americans. Limbaugh gets about a 5 percent, 6 percent share of people listening to the radio at any given time when he’s on - and he’s only on three hours a day. The idea that radio is dominated by conservatives or by Rush Limbaugh is not correct.
 Harrison also expects radio as we now know it to all but disappear as Internet radio becomes dominant:
AM/FM radio has about five good years left, if that. And what we consider to be radio today will be on the Internet. And the Internet websites will be media stations. The Internet is not only going to change radio; it’s going to change humanity. That’s how profound this revolution in communication will be.
 Read the whole interview with Harrison HERE.
May 5th, 2009
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 Conservative columnist David Brooks ARGUES that Republicans are in trouble because they don’t promote the values we used to see in director John Ford’s (above) movies.
 I think this stuff is silly, but you might not.
