How the Hell We Got Here: Why the Democratic Party is Splitting

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136. so, what part of obama's gansta community organizer mooslim

terrorist history was true?

yeah, he was a community organizer instead of a top shelf black trophy lawyer for some chicago firm making $500/hr and THAT was a negative because..... ACORN, and SOROS, and SAUL ALINSkY and so on.

tens of millions believe that shit, enough to enable a major obstruction

most of the shit i see repeated here often re hillary is from idiots who apparently believe limbaugh, or their parents who listened to limbaugh.

it doesn't matter what sanders is or has said or is saying or did.

here's michael savage getting warmed up:

I was using Snowtape to sample a variety of Republican talk radio stations this Monday September 14, and caught some of the ubiquitous Michael (Wiener) Savage show.

These were cut from two 20 minute segments I recorded. There was more.

BERNIE SANDERS IS A
Schmuck

Liberalism is a mental disorder, Bernie’s an eg of someone who’s on medication, well he’s on medication obviously in my opinion he should be on severe thorazine in a bug house

He’s a retrovirus, not only a carrier of the marxist virus but he’s actually an infection himself

Schmuck, a lowlife of the lowest order a brooklyn commie, i know the type.... if they were a teacher they’d get fired for sleeping with a student

I knew the type, the grandfather stood on the corner of union square on a soapbox screaming about the wonders of communism even though he fled russia

Schmuck

(Bernie supporters) millennials, morons lived in their parents basement until yesterday

The clinton machine will not let him get there- it will be a pullonium bagel or an exploding knish, there’ll be an accident, a little advice for bernie- don’t jog in marcy park

Liberty university- why would they let this schmuck speak there? let this anti christian communist speak there?

What does that mean raised in a jewish family, non observant? he was a communist descended from jews!

Let him sell body parts, lunatic, too stupid to invest wisely

We're overrun by mexicans and syrians and this schmuck’s talking about income inequality

Steeped in marxism right down to the dirty suit, died in the wool loser, at least he’s not wearing a pantsuit, now if he came out in a pink pantsuit i’d say he has a better chance at the crossover vote

If he won i’d leave the country

Inarticulate lowlife, bad health, lifetime of mariajuana, bad red wine, tofu, probably enlarged breasts from the tofu, emaciated mentally and physically, can’t he get a hair cut? the breath on this guy, halitosis

I want to ridicule him, i want to tear him apart like a cat with a mouse, i’d invite him on the show anytime he wants,

Moron moron moron sick


Does it matter what some self-hating insecure jerk on 400 radio stations says to millions of Americans about Bernie?

Hell yeah.

Imagine some jerk gets up on a soapbox across the street from your house and starts yelling crap like that about you.

He comes back day after day and even brings a megaphone so the whole block can hear him. Then he starts insulting your family and friends.

And to pay for what he's doing he gets Nike to pay him to wear the Nike swoosh on his shirt.

At what point do your neighbors start to believe what he's saying because they see you giving him the free speech free ride, chanting "sticks and stones..." with your fingers in your ears? Neighbors and strangers say they heard another lying jerk down the street saying exactly the same thing. And another lying jerk a few blocks over. Who are they going to believe?

Liberals, Dems, the Left have to go on offense if anything's going to change.

If I hadn't pointed out this crap from Savage it's possible none of Bernie's supporters would ever know. How much more is coming his way that won't be noticed?

And those aren't just individual jerks enjoying free speech rights standing on the corner soapbox- they're doing it while hiding behind call screeners and sometimes prompted by paid callers, from radio stations licensed to operate in the public interest, and they're often coordinated on important messaging.

I keep hearing that social media and the internet will make the difference this time. If I was Karl Rove with a billion dollar bank account what kind of dent could I make in that advantage by hiring and prompting a few thousand foreign trolls- like that Russian group exposed a few months ago?

The only real challenge to Republican radio today are the stoprush/flushrush efforts and they've cost the Limbaugh empire a lot of money. The Left needs to expand those efforts.

Republican radio has a weakness.

More than 1/4 and possibly as many as 1/3 of all Republican talk radio stations parasitize and piggyback our publicly funded universities and colleges. More than 270 out of 600 Limbaugh stations rent the logos of about 90 major universities and benefit the same way Nike does when it pays a star athlete to wear the swoosh.

In this case the stations pay a small licensing fee (compared with what TV stations pay) for the privilege of broadcasting the school's sporting events. Why would they pay instead of the other way around? Because they can use the association with the school and its sports teams for community credibility to help them draw local and maybe national advertising dollars.

Meanwhile, while riding the school mascot, they're selling hate, racism, global warming denial, and Republican disinformation- the kind of stuff universities condemn in their mission statements and the bronze placards on their buildings- stuff about honesty, integrity, fairness, tolerance, wisdom, curiosity, science, creativity, and higher education.

Those associations with Republican radio make those schools appropriate places to protest almost any important issue until they start looking for apolitical alternatives to broadcast their sports. One university doing the right thing would shame others into following.

That is when local advertisers would abandon Republican radio. Without those schools helping them many stations would have to change format or sell. The upcoming elections could be very different.

Students at universities around the country starting Democratic Students or Bernie For President chapters might want to check to see if their schools rent their mascots to Republican radio stations so a few jerks like Savage, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Levin can yell over them and determine whether Bernie or Hillary are acceptable as president (and university regents and chancellors/presidents, for that matter).

These 90 Limbaugh-loving schools and many others play an important part in electing Republicans, passing their anti-democratic bullshit, obstructing progressive reform, and swiftboating Democratic candidates.

And if Republicans whine that the school needs the licensing revenue, start a donation drive to make up the difference- I'll bet it won't be much compared to what it buys the GOP, ALEC, and the billionaires those radio stations work for.