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certainot

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6. rw radio is the root of the problem
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 10:30 AM
Dec 2015

1200 radio stations on which hundreds of the most racist sexist and ignorant assholes to ever sit in front of the microphone can avoid cameras and hide behind call screeners with caller ID software and say basically whatever they want without being challenged. fox jerks have to be much more careful.

those radio stations can also be coordinated locally to state and local issues re ALEC and the think tanks more easily also.

amazingly, these 90 universities keep rw radio going by renting their logos and mascots to 270 limbaugh stations to help sell the trump racism and islamophobia, attack planned parenthood, and deny global warming.

if progressives wanted to end this 25 yr attack on democracy all they have to do is push a few universities to divest from rw radio and shame the others into doing the same. those are several hundred of limbaugh's loudest radio stations, about a 1/4 of all rw radio stations, and many are already having trouble thanks to stoprush. the rw radio monopoly would fall apart.

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No sympathy here malaise Dec 2015 #1
Was thinking of this earlier ... dixiegrrrrl Dec 2015 #2
Trump is their worst nightmare come to life--a Godzilla risen from the fetid swamp of RW ideology... Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #3
So if Trump is the face of the New Republican Party does that mean the others are too liberal? jalan48 Dec 2015 #4
A majority of the 30 to 40% of the American electorate that would vote Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #14
IMO, Tweetie is then a Faux Snooze affiliate Hepburn Dec 2015 #5
Not to mention Morning Scar...40 frigging minutes they had him Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #16
Oh, man, the Joe Scum tRump daily puke festival! Hepburn Dec 2015 #17
rw radio is the root of the problem certainot Dec 2015 #6
Amen...Fox by itself can only do so much to get the bigotry ball rolling... Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #24
i think of fox as the visual icing on the talk radio lie turd pie certainot Dec 2015 #34
Yep and that landslide carries with it down-ticket losses as well Volaris Dec 2015 #7
Spot on. safeinOhio Dec 2015 #9
Yeah. Eventually Republican Rule will get so bad that even the idiots will see it for what it is Volaris Dec 2015 #28
I love to ask Trump supporters safeinOhio Dec 2015 #29
It's not that American wages are too high, it's that the wages of the developing world are too low Volaris Dec 2015 #31
An opportunistic infection .. DemoTex Dec 2015 #8
An auto-immune cancer that will consume them from the inside out. Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #19
I just subscribed to a TV service for the first time in Le Taz Hot Dec 2015 #10
Yes, the mainstream media is aiding and abetting tRrump's insane bigotry just as surely Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #11
Wow, great article and spot on. firebrand80 Dec 2015 #12
I still think T-rump is working for the Democratic party mitch96 Dec 2015 #13
Megalomaniac, self-delusional glory. Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #15
Too late... Helen Borg Dec 2015 #18
Don't see how anybody can catch him now...they're going Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #21
Trump pushes the political agenda further to the right. jalan48 Dec 2015 #20
Bingo. Atman Dec 2015 #26
If tRump's assigned secret agenda is to prepare the terrain for a JEB ! victory, Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #27
The election is nearly a year away. Atman Dec 2015 #32
Fox News brought this, it should be forced to eat it. Initech Dec 2015 #22
It is possible we are missing something here? pangaia Dec 2015 #23
The explosion/implosion may prove to be catastrophic when it comes. Surya Gayatri Dec 2015 #25
You ask good quesitons. pangaia Dec 2015 #33
It took a while 2naSalit Dec 2015 #30
They built the Monster. hifiguy Dec 2015 #35
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