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(9,090 posts)because it's very repetitious and pretty much all follows the same lines and formula.
it wouldn't take much listening to get the flavor but now the dem party needs to be digitizing it.
i'm familiar with pbs and it's good for the most part but the bothsiderism still rears up, or the dems are too socialist, need to moderate to appeal to republicans, etc stuff is there and a lot of that is from the general overwhelming buzz from the radio creating and selling bullshit.
the problem is most political analysis on the 'left' is done as if studying fish without water. they might see it on fox, the cartoon cliff notes for talk radio. then there's amazement at the ignorance and lies and they think it comes out of thin air or something - but they don't factor in talk radio.
it goes to absurd levels - even though sam nunberg, who's been on msnbc over and over, told gabriel sherman for NY magazine 4/3/16 that he listened to "1000's of hours of talk radio" for trump in 2014, no one ever asks him about it and the questions that might suggest it was to help coordinate with the russians. it's absurd. i hope mueller has, or the dem investigators.
rw radio is very localized within whatever comes out of limbaugh's ass, and he's already got most of the blowhards in the country calling warren pocahontas, bernie crazy bernie, etc. he'll lead the effort to steer the dems away from populist candidates who they think can win.
in iowa for instance, the rw stations are helping iowans decide who is and isn't acceptable in the dem field. and i wouldn't be surprised if there might be russian callers to those local shows along with the think tank callers.
when the field narrows down or they spot someone very threatening they'll go full swiftboat and their dem voters won't have a clue until it's too late
my point is no one in the dem party orgs or progressive orgs seems to take rw radio seriously, maybe because they live in big cities with plenty of alternative so they expect free speech and market demand to work, but it's been kicking our ass for 30 years.