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In reply to the discussion: Democrats Become Target of Occupy Protests [View all]kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)I really don't understand why you hate the left. It's very identity sort of precludes it from recieving the vast sums of money and organizing on a corporate level to buy out radio stations. Obviously you aren't a part of this "left" that you seem to believe is responsible for all the failure of the Democratic party, despite the fact that there has been a regular and concerted effort to marginalize the left within the party.
It is like you put up a dart board and used that to decide what to blame on the left. 'Talk radio' yup, that is definitely the fault of the left for the last 20 years. Couldn't have anything to do with the nulling out of the provisions requiring equal time and the fairness doctrine by Reagan, or the subsequent FCC decisions to water down media monopolization, or the Clinton telecommunication deregulation act.
You elaborate a lot on problems of media, but you utterly fail to describe how or where the left was responsible for Rush Limbaugh and the cornucopeia of right wing radio stars. What did the left in America do specifically to create this situation? This is a question that I don't expect you to actually answer.