Rumble In The Talk Radio Jungle

Alan Colmes, Fox News Radio, moderates Talkers New Media "Rumble" featuring, from left to right, Randi Rhodes (Premiere Raido Networks); Bill Press (Dial Global); Roger Hedgecock; Allen Hunt (Allen Hunt Show); Alan Stock (KXNT Las Vegas); Phil Hendrie (Talk Radio Network); Steve Malzberg (WOR Radio Network); Errol Louis (WWRL NYC); Neal Boortz (Dial Global); Thom Hartmann (Dial Global/WYD Media). Westwood One's Jim Bohannon referees in a ump's shirt and whistle.

It's liberal radio talk show hosts v conservatives in a debate on how to meld political ideology and entertainment into talk show success, ratings, and sponsors. It's a fine line with liberal talk show hosts and liberal syndicators like Air America flopping big time in an industry where conservative hosts rule. Reading between the lines, it seems as though the liberal talkers are taking shots at incendiary (highly successful) conservative hosts Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Rush.  I waved my hand at Alan to ask specifically about Beck but he ignored me. Maybe he was pissed because I called him a "fucking liberal" in a huddle with former WOR programming czar David Bernstein.  "Why are you calling me that?" Alan beseeched.  Alan, you and I are Facebook friends.  I was fucking joking.  You're a lovely man with a  chick magnet personality. Really. I like you. A lot.

Fired now-bankrupt liberal Air America Princess Randi Rhodes (falling upward at Premiere Radio Networks which syndicates Rush Limbaugh, among others), as lone lady on the panel, squeezes balls right out of the box by suggesting conservative WOR NYC's Steve Malzberg needs to get laid....

For more Talkers NMS video, go to Chickaboombox.  The above is edited for brevity and bullshit....

As for bullshit, MSNBC's Ed Schultz, host of "The Ed Show" and a liberal radio talker, had a lot of balls showing up at Sean Hannity's Talkers reception last Friday night.  Ed's now pushing government takeover of radio to silence the far more successful conservatives like Rush: