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(9,090 posts)if the left had gone to her defense the way stoprush and flushrush and boycottrush went to sandra fluke's defense that would have ended rw radio's invisibility to the left and we'd have single payer, no bush, no iraq, and a lot less global warming denial.
back then we didn't have social media but protests at those rw radio stations and at the 90 major universities that support 270 limbaugh stations, along with a general awareness of how much shit that classic CIA style radio psyops was pumping into the country, would have destroyed it.
today thanks in large part to stoprush and co, clearchannel/i fart radio is 20 bil in debt.
for those who continuously dismiss the importance of rw radio, consider some simple math:
at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ FREE/month for pro republican wall st propaganda.
that's been going for over 25 years- the advertising dollars paid for most of that.
that is why we got clarence thomas.
and until the left gives rw radio the attention it deserves, with protests etc., there will still be dem politicians intimidated by and giving weight to the illegitimate made-to-order constituencies rw radio routinely creates on behalf of the wall st stink tanks.