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Courtesy Flush

(4,558 posts)
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 07:56 PM Nov 2013

Are Morning Drive deejays in your area full-blown wingnuts?

I don't listen to morning drive (partly because I'm retired), but a young facebook friend of mine gets all worked up over the right wing bullshit they spew, and she believes every bit of it.

Earlier this week, she posted an audio from the Walton and Johnson show in which they started with a stream of pro-Islam statements by President Obama. My friend posted something about "this is what he's passionate about". Well, 12 seconds of googling found a long list of pro-Islam quotes by Bush, and I posted a link to them, but she brushed those off, and I dropped it because I like her and her husband and I have lost enough friends over politics already.

So today, she posted another one. The same radio show is now playing clips from McCarthy-era films that were shown to schoolchildren. You know the type... "There's a Communist behind every tree". I'm guessing she doesn't know the history of McCarthyism, and she's all worked up over communism, etc. Needless to say, she hates Obama.

I used to listen to that radio show years ago. They were funny guys, but over the years they started bitching about Mexicans and Blacks more and more, and I stopped listening. That was before Obama was president, and I believe they've gone full-bore right wing since then.

Have they shifted their focus from talk radio to shock jocks, or is this a local thing?

Here's the link. The movie clip starts at the 23:30 minute mark.

http://media.bayou957.com/a/83899360/thursday-11-14-2013-6am.htm

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Are Morning Drive deejays in your area full-blown wingnuts? (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Nov 2013 OP
2 at least here lunasun Nov 2013 #1
Anger is addictive and a lot of radio personalities have taken to angering their audience Fumesucker Nov 2013 #2
The ones on the station I listen to are actually downright fantastic Posteritatis Nov 2013 #3
Yeah, but the guy after him makes him look like a communist. Hayabusa Nov 2013 #4
have a "non-political" local FM station which the news guy probably considers himself "fair" .. zbdent Nov 2013 #5
Here in New Orleans we have Walden and Johnson (Something like that) Total Fascists Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #6
That's who I was talking about. Courtesy Flush Nov 2013 #7
Oh damn!! I just realized that, the painkillers are really working Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #10
we have a morning zoo type show but they're liberals, at least the main guy is. dionysus Nov 2013 #8
I listen to FM in the morning Tree-Hugger Nov 2013 #9
Here in North Georgia, we have rightwing nuts RebelOne Nov 2013 #11
Lying for the right ensures a long and profitable career in talk radio. JEFF9K Nov 2013 #12
Nope. I live in Los Angeles. I have KROQ. Initech Nov 2013 #13
No. Most either avoid politics other than to make harmless jokes, or are bluestate10 Nov 2013 #14
Some are. xmas74 Nov 2013 #15
They pipe in John Boy and Billy here in the Roanoke, VA area Oilwellian Nov 2013 #16
WGN recently brought in Steve Cochrane, and he's more rw than he'll ever admit. Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2013 #17

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
2. Anger is addictive and a lot of radio personalities have taken to angering their audience
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 08:30 PM
Nov 2013

It keeps people listening and keeps them coming back.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
3. The ones on the station I listen to are actually downright fantastic
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 08:51 PM
Nov 2013

No patience - none at all - for most of the standard morning-show douchebaggery or a lot of the standard bigotry that a lot of morning shows have fun with. They're all over a lot of the equality-based campaigns and organizations in the city, are ruthless in calling out other groups that behave otherwise, and will demolish on the air some idiot or another every couple of weeks who tries to call in to complain that they don't hate women or gays enough.

It's ... very unlike most morning radio, while still having the essential feel of what those guys probably all think they're aiming for with their own lineups. Real breath of fresh air. (The fact that the station overall's right up my alley helps.)

Hayabusa

(2,135 posts)
4. Yeah, but the guy after him makes him look like a communist.
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 08:54 PM
Nov 2013

Tom Bradley has the morning drive from 6-9, followed by ultra-Libertarian Gary Nolan and his locally syndicated show from 9-12. And I when I saw ultra-Libertarian, I mean ultra...

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
5. have a "non-political" local FM station which the news guy probably considers himself "fair" ..
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 08:55 PM
Nov 2013

mainly because, once in a blue moon, he trash-talks a Republican.

But he's been gleefully trashing "Obamacare" ...

Tree-Hugger

(3,364 posts)
9. I listen to FM in the morning
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 09:26 PM
Nov 2013

I listen to Preston and Steve as well as Elvis Duran. They don't tend to get too political, but seem to lean more left when they do discuss it. Steve of Preston and Steve is a Republican and Conservative, I believe, but not at all asshole about it.

AM radio on the other hand....Sweet Jesus Mercy. We have 1210AM aka The Big Talker and it is loaded with local RW yahoos like Dom Giardano (probably botched the spelling) and national names such as Rush. They got rid of Rush on this station over a year ago after the Sandra Fluke incident. They just picked him up again a few weeks ago. So sad. They play Michael Smerconish, who is sometimes center, sometimes left, annoyingly sometimes right - he can never figure it out and doesn't fight back against RW crazies on his show. They also play that dreadful Dick Morris. Another local guy is conservative Gary R'Nel, who sometimes says something sensible and doesn't always tow the RW line. For a while, they had a balance of more left leaning programming, but they have really done away with that as of late.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
11. Here in North Georgia, we have rightwing nuts
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 10:01 PM
Nov 2013

during the morning and afternoon radio; for example, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Herman Cain. But of course, this is a red state and I live in a solid red county.

Initech

(99,915 posts)
13. Nope. I live in Los Angeles. I have KROQ.
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 10:28 PM
Nov 2013

Kevin & Bean (and Ralph Garmin) have kept me from going insane the last couple years. Some if the segments they do are downright hilarious. And Ralph hates county music.

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
14. No. Most either avoid politics other than to make harmless jokes, or are
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 10:34 PM
Nov 2013

Democratic leaning. Of course, I live in a deep blue state. People in my state that want to hear hate talkers have to tune to voices from out of state.

xmas74

(29,658 posts)
15. Some are.
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 10:44 PM
Nov 2013

97.7 out of Sedalia/Columbia, MO seems really bad in the morning and I tend to tune him out. 94.5 out of KC has its moments.

Mostly I listen to 96.5 The Buzz out of Kansas City. It's an alternative radio station (and in lots of trouble, ratings-wise, to the point they're asking their listeners to "listen longer.&quot . Anyway, the morning show is very liberal and the a.m. deejay is married to the head of the afternoon drive and he's even more liberal than her. They brag about regularly receiving hate calls and hateful texts from RWers.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,781 posts)
17. WGN recently brought in Steve Cochrane, and he's more rw than he'll ever admit.
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 11:23 PM
Nov 2013

But mainly he's poorly informed. He thinks that READING the news equates UNDERSTANDING the issues and is always making little snide remarks about Democrats. If he'd just STFU about politics he'd be pretty tolerable.

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