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(9,090 posts)by a few hundred lying blowhards on a 1000 good old low tech radio stations getting piggybacked by putin - and will soon lose net neutrality
and obama may have fired them up but they believed the bullshit that obama COULD give them single payer, close gitmo, etc while ignoring the right's most important weapon as it beat the crap out of their reps. so then they didn't vote in 2010- and so on....
and how many of those are students going to the 88 universities that broadcast sports on 257 limbaugh stations while they sell club gitmo coffee mugs and help those stations bring in advertisers to broadcast, for eg on limbaugh today, 'comedy' bits about spanking kids being great cardio vascular exercise, making fun of "shattered testicles" in soccer ("i thought it was a sissy's game" says soccer mom....), global warming is still a hoax, attacking pelosi, obama clinton, comey, the trump/russia story is a hoax, etc. oh yeah, and the one deep state item that is the basis for all this is the golden shower fake dossier. totally made up, totally phony, etc ..... that's all in the 15 minutes i just heard while writing this before turning it off (sponsored by ziprecruiter, etc)
the quickest way to get the dem party to go 10 pts left is to stop ignoring talk radio, the only medium with NO counterpart on the left and the dominant free easy medium in 40 states with 80 senators. the medium used to enforce who and what is acceptable politically in the US, who advances in primaries, and what legislation advances. limbaugh and sons are the biggest political correctness cops in every state, while they whine about political correctness and get validated by people like bill maher, who's got a great show but like most liberals is talk radio-blind and when he blames fox should be blaming talk radio.
and while young and old liberals complain about money in politics they might want to consider this simple math: at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 5 = $75,000/wk x 1200 stations rw talk radio is worth $18MIL/day or 390MIL$ /month or 4.68 BIL$/ year FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican free market deregulation and wall st think tank propaganda, swiftboating, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.
and about $1BIL of that is endorsed by 88 major universities - sports teams