Eugene Robinson asks a scary question

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66. 40 states with 80 senators are dominated by rw radio. here's some simple math

that might help convince the fools:

at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 5days/wk = $75,000/wk x 1200 stations republican 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 of good citizens, attacks on public education and teachers, passing voter suppression legislation, trying to repeal obamacare, killing net neutrality, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.

let them think about that the next time they whine about money in politics and corporate media......

many also believe the rw talking points about the 95% monopoly reflecting the market demand for rw talk radio - as if 95% of people who would listen to talk radio in their cars, at work, etc., prefer the ignorance, lies , racism, etc of limbaugh and hannity..... that's an insult to americans.

fact is it's a subsidized and protected mom and pop vs walmart media monopoly and classic military style PSYOPS.

and if it reflects market demand, why is iheart/clearchannel $20 BIL in debt? the right will gladly lose a few bil for trillions in deregulation and tax breaks....

and i suspect many of the 'intelligentsia' leading the dem party and the progressive orgs and media might as well be studying fish without water because of their incredible ignorance of what just kicked our ass.

fucking idiots.