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. 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– which 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?”

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[h/t Newsbusters]

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