Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank

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61. it has the perfect defense - it gives liberals headaches

and because they believe the rw's bullshit that its 95% monopoly is an expression of free speech and market forces - as if 95% of americans who would listen to talk radio would prefer the lies and ignorance and hate of limbaugh and sons.

liberals also stupidly believe that its negated by their internet advantage

and mostly because people like frank have no way to read and study rw talk radio's content - the patterns and repetition and how it effects media and politics - so they write analyses like this, excluding the right's best weapon and blaming their own, and not voting- and then it gets worse.

apparently frank doesn't mention this major liberal disadvantage. i don't mean to pick on frank, but liberals are continuing to make a major mistake if they ignore the right's advantage in their political evaluations - it means it will continue to be ignored.

i used to think the content and repetition on those radio stations was important but this simple math, even if the $1000/hr is fairly arbitrary, should be enough to put rw radio and the absurdity of ignoring it in perspective:

at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ /month FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican wall st think tank propaganda, free market deregulation bullshit, swiftboating, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.


almost any issue can be protested at these 90 universities -- then maybe the left will notice. until then analysts like frank are really missing a major part of the problem.