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...understand it, you were all big Los Angeles Lakers fans growing up. Now be honest. Did you hate the Celtics? Pierce: I hated the Celtics. Hated them...
...only way to combat that danger is by force. "Domestic politics has enslaved foreign policy to the point where it is endangering Germany's alliances," says Jan Techau, of the German Council on Foreign Relations. "German political élites need to speak about repositioning foreign policy. Germans will understand. They are not stupid." In such getting of wisdom lies the reinvigoration of the Atlantic alliance...
...Predictably, my great-aunt didn't cope well with the changes. To her, Ataturk's most profound legacy was to get women out of their veils and their homes. She was unable to understand why anyone would choose to wear a head scarf. For her, being modern and wearing a head scarf were incompatible; my live-and-let-live attitude infuriated...
What is it that the mainstream media don't understand about your role and the role of conservative talk radio in general? I don't think they understand why I do it, No. 1. I treat it as a business. My definitions for success have nothing to do with who wins elections, but rather, Is the program growing audience-wise? Are we attracting new sponsors? Are those sponsors paying confiscatory rates? Are we able to charge confiscatory rates? Which we are. Are they getting results for their advertising? Yes they are. We're sold out constantly...
...second thing that the media don't understand - and I think it's because talk radio is outside the Beltway - it's a phenomenon that attracts what I call the people who make the country work. I don't think politicians and elected officials and bureaucrats and even the media are responsible for the greatness of the country. I think it's individual Americans laboring in anonymity, not seeking fame, just trying to get by, play by the rules, work hard, ordinary people doing extraordinary things. And those are the people who listen to talk radio. And the media think...