tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post112259882532017420..comments2023-12-31T13:11:40.044-05:00Comments on Newscat: First Post, or how I learned to stop hating Adam Corrolla and start loving LovelineNewsCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049304894327723728noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-55102642967210464402008-10-22T23:44:00.000-05:002008-10-22T23:44:00.000-05:00Well at least you managed to misspell his name eac...Well at least you managed to misspell his name each time...for a long time listener...you would think you would have heard his rant on how people always get his name wrong...<BR/><BR/>Anyway, the man has opinions...there's nothing wrong with that. It's kinda sad it took you so long to question anything he said...the very first episode I heard, I disagreed with him about his views on war, terror, etc...but the show was nonetheless very entertaining.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-86148740450819715572007-03-29T01:03:00.000-05:002007-03-29T01:03:00.000-05:00Hey, saw your comment in my LiveJournal, and I bou...Hey, saw your comment in my LiveJournal, and I bounced over here to read what you had to say. <BR/><BR/>Apropos to the way you feel about Loveline, you might be interested in "research" that's been written about it, especially "Institutionalizing gender and sexuality in a call-in radio advice program: a characterization of Loveline" since she agrees with you.<BR/><BR/>http://wiki.lovelinefan.com/index.php?n=Main.Research<BR/><BR/>I also think both of you are doing the same thing -- taking what Adam (and Drew) say out of context. And, even at that stretching the meaning of it. <BR/><BR/>Adam isn't a social Darwinist, he uses comedy to highlight Loveline's message (e.g. that there are certain behaviors within cultures that have seemed to help them). Most of them are as basic and loving your kids and not having them if you're not mentally, physically, and financially stable enough to do so. <BR/><BR/>If you think that message is bad, I can't help you. Though I consider myself to be extremely liberal, I'm not a postmodernist or a cultural relativist. I believe that there are patterns you can see in human behavior. I believe that it's worth encouraging people to do things that science and experience seem to make people happier, healthier, and better citizens living in a better society.<BR/><BR/>I don't at all consider this to be an extreme position, and I know that the Dalai Lama and Noam Chomsky agree with me.<BR/><BR/>Now, you can say that Adam's humor distracts from getting this point across, and your case it definitely has (as they say in the Big Book, "there are such unfortunates"). But I believe the growth of Loveline since he joined it speaks for itself. Moreover, you're also not his target audience. <BR/><BR/>As much as I know a lot of educated people who listen to the show, graduate students aren't they're demographic. It's really more for the benefit of people in their late teens and early 20's who don't know the score about relationships, drugs, pregnancy, etc. From that angle, I believe it does very well and gives very good advice.<BR/><BR/>Reasonable people can disagree, and politically there are plenty of issues I disagree with Adam on. But even a liberal like me can admit that ACLU could have exercised better judgment about some the cases it took -- to say the least.<BR/><BR/>And even being a liberal, I can empathize with many of the points Adam makes about the Culture of the Left -- what Michael Moore sometimes calls "The Church of the Left." Being heavily involved in activism in college REALLY SCREWED ME UP. It was a good experience, and looking back on it I learned a lot from it. I could explain how all of that worked, but I think if you listen to Michael Albert's lecture "New Left Lessons" you'll get the just of what happened (the audio file is linked of the page linked below): <BR/><BR/>http://www.zmag.org/albertbio.htm<BR/><BR/><BR/>I don't know. I'm sorry if I seem a little angry. But if it wasn't for Loveline, my life would be much worse now. It also hurts me to see you kind of accuse Adam of things he doesn't believe. I wouldn't respect him if I thought he was a "knuckle dragging ditto-head."<BR/><BR/>I think if you listen to some of the episodes with an open-mind, and a sense of humor you'll see the same thing. But if not, I hope I've at least helped you to think a little better of what you said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com