What is even worse is there is I haven't see is how these shows have contributed to the hate and brutality in our society.
Yet, you're certain it's Limbaugh/FoxNews/
Hannity/Levin/Beck/O'Reilly/etc, etc, etc..... liberalmike27 (2,188 posts)
33. The population,is a herd
The cattle drivers, of the rabble, are the media--all of it, not just the news. Opinions are shaped, and formed through the media, including the perception of danger, and the need for a gun, the promotion of fear. Giddy up pokies.
Partly this is due to the reducing of education, the nearly demonizing of smart people, and knowledge in general, by this same media, and the cutting of their budgets by governments, installed in office by this same media, and the money behind it.
And there is the rest of the herd, the older cattle. I think it was Abby Hoffman who once said "You'll have to be willing to kill your parents in a revolution." I think I know what he meant, in that they are the first people to brainwash us, to expose us to brainwashing forces, to pass on things on which they have already been brainwashed, like "rags to riches," or "military lore."
They're your cities snowflake. Yours. Your hero (D)Marxists have run them since anyone under 60 remembers.
Nuclear Unicorn (13,064 posts)
52. The homicide rate is down and the cops are killing unarmed people.
drmeow (2,579 posts)
14. Stories about black, hispanic, or arab (dark skinned) criminals
make the news while the same stories about whites or lighter skinned minorities don't. I find it particularly striking when it comes to domestic violence and child abuse just because those sorts of stories are less likely to make the national news in general. It is to the point where if I see a story headline with something like "couple does despicable thing to child" or something like that, I just don't want to look cause I KNOW they have picked the story not because it is a heinous and despicable crime but because the perps belong to (certain) minorities.
Because there are far more of them committed, idiot. Reading, not MSLSD, is fundamental.
Star Member BlancheSplanchnik (12,049 posts)
19. Yeppers.
****ing ronnie raygun.......****in******* PUKES.
But, of course. Fairness Doctrine,
and all............
Lot's 'O Ronaldus hate in that threaad.
Heather Kube (15 posts)
62. And we had Air America, but not enough people tuned in
and it died.
Surprise... Surprise....
certainot (2,753 posts)
46. not sure that equal time would be possible or desirable since it works both ways and there's no reason to mandate a liar up against a truth teller a lot of folks mistakenly believed that's what the FD did, and that's something the rw sold in their descriptions of the FD for rw radio all that's needed is for americans to stop ignoring it and as you say challenge it. Air America Bwaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha....
for one thing, i doubt it would survive except in some southern swamps if it wasn't a well protected monopoly. and trying to compete with the monopoly won't work well either- not soon enough. It didn't survive anywhere, sweetcheeks.
'all' the left has to do is challenge it enough to make it so costly for the right to keep it going that stations have to drop the RW talk. then stations will open up for liberal talk. it would probably not take anywhere near a 50- 50 proportion to make the rw propaganda ineffective. once it got going i'll bet 75 - 25 is all it would take for truth and common sense to sink in and make a lot of the rest go away. the real 'market' value of a bunch of ignorant liars would show. Air America Bwaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha....
IMO 'challenging' means getting in their face instead of ignoring them, with protests, monitoring them and making the results known so media and politicians can't repeat their crap without public knowing where it comes from, discrediting their national and local talk gods, etc.
I'm Thom Hartmann and I'm gonna kick your ass. Notice how I spell my name with an "h"? Take that, h8erz.
extending the rush boycotts/advertiser education efforts to all rw stations getting universities to pull their sports broadcasts from limbaugh and other rw stations- that alone might break the rw talk industry. Because it has worked so well, so far....
How to go from, correct to blithering stupidity, at light speed. Well done, stupid.
