This is something I have been pondering pretty much since founding the AlabamaTeaParty.org blog, but more so lately. What I’m about to say ought to stir up a little controversy…

Study the chalk board…

The other day, Rush said something interesting. He said that he is THE Conservative. Therefore, the rest of the talking heads could only be niches built off the word conservative. Get it?

Niche was a man who I think lived back in the 1800′s somewhere in Germany or somewhere else and wrote some really strange books. Stuff like that.

Today the word “niche” means “subset.” Subset means, “kinda like, but not exactly the same…Complimentary.”

As an example, in my world, if the word jelly is already taken as a website name, then I might look for a jelly niche word like… grape jelly. That’s a subset of jelly, but it still packs plenty of jelly goodness.

Not to belabor the point, in the talking head circles, if Rush is Conservative, then the others out there can only be niches of Conservative. That’s what’s left. Point well taken.

That being the case, if you want to be a conservative talk show host, you have to pick a subset or niche talk show host description and gig. The chalkboard illustrates what I believe to be the current subsets of the superstars.

After Rush, there is the second tier.

Taking nothing away from less well known conservative talk show guys, the bottom row on the chalk board  illustrates my take on the Fox evening lineup, excluding Greta. I would have included her, but I ran out of room.

Anyway, can you guess who I’m talking about on the old chalkboard up there? Hmmn?

Not to get the wrong idea. I like them all. But some are…exasperating at times. That’s my opinion.

On a completely different topic, I’m completely taken with Glenn Beck. It is not arguable that watching him is like taking a college course. Some of us (AlabamaTeaParty.org) even have homework. The AlabamaTeaParty.org website is my homework.

Rush says, and well he should, that he is show prep for the rest of the media…but show prep for Rush should be Glenn Beck.

Rush seemed to have been quite pleased with Beck early on, but that seems to have worn off. Witness that occasionally Rush will toss out something as news that we learned on Beck days earlier.

I lamented recently that I longed for the days when we didn’t have to know so much about the inner workings of the socialist radical mind. At the same time I marveled at how far we have come in only two short years, thanks to Beck. Were it not for him, most of us would be oblivious to the hows and whys of the radical things going on around us.

Beck has lain down a master level study of the mind of the liberal/radical/progressive for us all to see and learn from. Countless times he has dropped a dime on the friends of darkness.

Beck has almost single-handedly carried all of us back to school. In comparison, Rush speaks in Cliff notes. Which is NOT to take away from Rush.

But Rush’s brilliant mind is not on biz sometimes… On Thursday July 15th, Rush spent most of the show belly aching about his Ipod or Padeye cellphone.  It was vital and important information for us all. Of course, at the end of the show Rush allowed that he would not be there Friday, for he instead would be on his G5 jet drinking wine and champagne at 51,000 feet. Rush is a party kind of guy any more.

If Rush is the high octane fuel in our engines, then Beck is nitrous oxide that makes us race cars.  Dumb analogy unless you’re a NASCAR fan. Then it all becomes very clear indeed!