What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.

At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.