What facts? Your comments are based off of a topic you have no facts on. Do you even know what a conservative is? Try listening to Rush for a week. Or better yet, listen to the Wilkow Majority. You might learn something. I am sure you are like most people and will bash someone or something without actually having any first hand experience with it. Just following the “main stream”.

Oh and he also has gay affairs with Congressional pages .

Oh and those brown people.

Laporte uses his venue to espouse liberal views (at least ones’s he agrees with, apparently scantily clad marketing is not one of those) as he is entitled, he clearly panders to the audience of the moment. Big surprise, broadcasters pandering. I enjoy listening to him, and can filter out the silly views.

The Cali lewis thing was Leo acting in his best interest to keep a respectable show on the air. You can tell a lot about a person by the way they deal with and comprehend issues outside of the topic of the show. You wouldn’t bring a racist commentator onto a tech show even though being racist has nothing to do with technology. The way others thought Cali dealt with global warming science led others to realize she could be easily skewed based on outside bias and not cold facts, meaning she wouldn’t be an informed guest on a show.

It later turned out that cali’s husband Neil had hijacked her Twitter with those posts about global warming and were not in fact Cali’s views. And now Neil and Cali are getting divorced so clearly their marriage wasn’t working out. And based on Calis rebuttal of the tweets, it turns out she isn’t so enclosed into the political mindset of republicans/teapartiers.

check it out for yourself
http://www.flickr.com/people/leoville/

Most people abhor politics. They avoid it where they can, they ‘just want to be left alone’, and they statistically vote whatever they voted (or their parents voted) four years ago. These people are the only reason McCain got anywhere close to 50% of the vote. Those of us with the luxury of having the time to pay attention rather than relying on corporate advertising, and the interest to go through the primary sources and keep track of what is said and done in politics, are overwhelmingly shifted to one side of the political spectrum at the moment.

Would an impassioned plea for McCain/Palin/GOP have made me lose a friend? I rate it 50/50. It really does mean something when someone absorbs the politics of hate so deeply and can look beyond obvious incompetence if means ‘their team wins’.

I look forward to voting Republican again – when we’re out of the current half-dozen crises this country has fallen into in the years of Bush/Cheney, and we get a non-corrupt candidate who represents conservatism without Reaganomics, theocracy, a police state, or absolute commitment to Israel. Ron Paul might have been that man, if he was a tad less extreme and a tad less popular in the racial militia set.

Conservatives need to remember their commitment to individual human and constitutional rights sometime, and have at least a passing commitment to the success of this country & its people rather than their political party. Until then, I’m going to be shouting them down with Leo and voting for Democrats who don’t hold all of my ideals.

I like listening to Mike and Carey. Mike’s poor english drives me crazy, but he does know his stuff.

You asked who else to listen to. My favorite tech shows are Mike Smith of miketechshow.com and Mike Smith and Carey Holzman of tech-vets.com. I do listen to some episodes of computer America but they cover a wide range of interests and I find only some of them worthy of my time.

Ironically, just two weeks before on his This Week In Tech show he along with John C. Dvorak hosted Becky Worley and Molly Wood to some wine and lots of suggestive “smack’ talk. Oh, how offensive and demeaning this is to professional women! Are women nothing but easy sloshes waiting for some old men to serve wine to and have one liners thrown at them about smoking dope and taking their tops off. Kind of hypocritical isn’t it.

Oh and lets not forget that on this very show this “group” took the time to take some cheap shots at Sarah Palin with the crackho.com spoof. Leo roared in laughter at how some person managed to do a re-direct from Palin’s official site to the “crack ho dot com” site. Laporte’s a real man on this one.

One thing I’ve noticed is that old Leo really gets carried away when there’s women around. Again, it looks like he’s trying desperately to come off as being young and hip.

Leo’s gig will do nothing but decline from here on out…unless he gets a grip. Once appealing to the masses, he’s letting his politics get in the way….way too much. It’s a shame. I used to really like this guy.

I still listen to TWIT as long as the guests are interesting. If the guests aren’t interesting, I quickly turn it off and skip to something more interesting, which is just about ANY other podcast of the 50+ podcasts subscribed to.

-Mike

In Leo’s case, I’d have been happy to keep listening to the tech info but he should leave it to that. Tech news & no political points of view. Cali & Neal are, IMHO, heads above Mr. Leporte.