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certainot

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19. a petition would just be one way to address the problem- universities contradicting their mission
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 08:11 PM
Jan 2012

statements and their status as 'institutions of higher learning'

they are essentially endorsing a soapbox used to undermine the implementation and recognition and validity of science in their communities and in the country.

those radio stations play a huge part in obstructing global warming action and have made it practically impossible for republican politicians to cooperate, even enabling some of the dumber ones to get up on the floor of congress to refute the science accepted by the vast majority of climate scientists.

if limbaugh and hannity can say it on 1000 radio stations all day long, protected from feedback and reinforced by guests from the think tanks and then repeated by local talkers, it becomes a lot more acceptable. even moreso if it's on the station the local college football or basketball teams broadcast on.

in my area the limbaugh megastation does the state uni sports and now one of the sports announcers does a local political talk show at night- a real RW moron reinforcing the same crap, attacking and lying.

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mark to come back to later. rurallib Jan 2012 #1
Should I have posted this in MEDIA? certainot Jan 2012 #2
You might want to cross post it there as well! Rex Jan 2012 #3
ta, i'll do that certainot Jan 2012 #6
U of Alabama is no surprise -- meet the AL State Climatologist ! eppur_se_muova Jan 2012 #4
the twit even gets a wiki entry to emphasize his denial.... certainot Jan 2012 #16
What's the point here? Initech Jan 2012 #5
I'd say most of those stations had those sports on the air long before Oxycontin Boy showed up. hobbit709 Jan 2012 #7
the text of the suggested petition does not imply a conflation of university mission with limbaugism Agony Jan 2012 #9
so the station was fine for university sports before and then was taken over for partisan BS certainot Jan 2012 #10
They did here. Fawke Em Jan 2012 #11
Highly likely, I'd say. gkhouston Jan 2012 #14
Agreed. This article is very confusing. jwirr Jan 2012 #15
i have no idea what you're saying, please elaborate, certainot Jan 2012 #17
It's really confusing as to what this petition was trying to prove. Initech Jan 2012 #18
a petition would just be one way to address the problem- universities contradicting their mission certainot Jan 2012 #19
One should expect better from so many institutions of higher learning. Uncle Joe Jan 2012 #8
shame on them certainot Jan 2012 #20
Question... JSnuffy Jan 2012 #12
for their purposes it's the same thing- the purpose is to obstruct action and deny action is needed certainot Jan 2012 #13
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