Liberal Talk Radio

Stanley Kurtz writes on the corner:

continue to get plenty of responses to my posts from earlier this morning and yesterday about the increasingly leftward tilt of Country Music Television (CMT). So far it’s unanimous. Everyone who’s seen both prefers Great American Country (GAC) to the more left-leaning CMT. As best I can tell, though, GAC is newer and poorer. Their production values aren’t as high as they could be, no doubt because they don’t yet have the resources of Viacom. (Lot’s of anger at the presumed politics of Viacom from readers, by the way.)

Good God, if CMT is too leftie (what, because they play a Willie Nelson tune every once in a while?), I can’t imagine what GAC is like. CMT videos are basically GOP talking points sung in rhyme. Montgomery Gentry is my personal fave (PS, pop quiz: whose videos are more “literal”, i.e. devoid of any subtlety or metaphor: country music or karaoke? I say country music!).

Finally, let’s just set the record straight about “liberal” Viacom. This is the same Viacom that owns CBS, yes? The Same CBS that refused to air Moveon.org’s ads during the SuperBowl? The same CBS that scrapped the movie, The Reagans? The same CBS that bowed to FCC pressure not to air Saving Private Ryan unedited, after it had shown it twice before?? Yeah, buncha commies over there, for sure.