Rick Sanchez Questions Education Level Of Talk Radio Hosts

CNN host Rick Sanchez took a stab at the talk radio world yesterday, questioning why many Americans believe in economic conservatism usually defined by Supply Side economics.

Attacking “these guys on talk radio” for promoting the lowering of taxes on the wealthy, he later asked guest Georgia Tech Professor Danny Boston whether he was frustrated by radio hosts “who don’t even have a college degree” weighing in on this issue.

“If you listen to these guys on talk radio, some of whom make thousands of dollars if not millions of dollars– you know who I’m talking about– you will have heard this consistent narrative,” he says, as he explains traditional fiscal conservatism and free market economics.

Do we know who he’s talking about? Chances are it’s the three most listened-to hosts on the radio: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, all of whom are, as Rick Sanchez points out, fairly wealthy– not that Sanchez’s CNN gig makes him a pittance or anything.

It perplexes him, Sanchez explains, that people listen, because they act in what he perceives to be the opposite of their self interest.

He proposes the question of this contradiction to Professor Boston– suggesting that the people that disagree with him would necessarily think of Boston as “overeducated and stupid” on account of his academic pedigree.

This seems to imply that Sanchez doesn’t think much of the intelligence levels of the folks on talk radio:

Is that something that’s frustrating, that you know this stuff and can explain it, but yet the people who are really leading the charge in this country are the guys on the radio, many who don’t even have a college degree?

Rightardia comment: Less than 30 per cent of Americans have bachelors degrees and the Republicans have been dumbing up the high school curriculums for years by eliminting, civics, history, the arts and music classes. You can also get an associates  degree today that is a two or three year technical or occupational degree that is stripped of humanities classes.


Corporations want productive drones that don't ask questions or agitate for better working conditions. Most Americans are unaware of the sweat shop working conditions and child labor that plagued this country at the beginning of the 20th Century.  Many are also unaware of the causes of the Great Depression.


Some believe they may someday win the lottery and reap in all of those tax breaks the GOP has been giving to the affluent.

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