Racist mother-fuckers on the radio

Today on my way home, I'm flipping through the radio stations, and happen to land on Mike Gallagher. He was actually trying to make a racial case out of the Greensburg tornado. He started complaining about how Hurricane Katrina victims are still whining for assistance, and how USA Today has them all over the front page of the paper. He then went on comparing the coverage that Greensburg received to Katrina and the '04 tsunami, wondering if Oprah was going to do a special for Greensburg anytime.

I'm sorry, but as tragic as the Greensburg disaster was, it just doesn't even begin to compare to the devastation caused by the tsunami or Katrina. Despite what racist assholes like Gallagher want to believe, race isn't an issue in the amount of coverage. And it's not as if people are completely ignoring the Greensburg victims.


Then let's not forget Rush Slimeball's "Obama the Magic Negro" song that he's been playing ad nauseum lately. Or Michael Savage's almost daily rant against immigrants - both legal and undocumented.

What fucking assholes. If Imus can get canned for what he did, why can't we get these racists off the air?

Limbaugh is on right-wing radio, which caters to a right-wing audience. His sponsors know they are right-wing. His listeners expect right-wing opinions and rants, and occasional line-crossing.

How would we get them off the air? While MSNBC and CBS expect centrist and leftist viewers, it's a pretty fair bet that Rush's distributors don't give a fuck what liberals think of them. Heck, here in Chicago, our AM right-wing talk station ran billboards a couple years back saying something along the lines of "WIND 560 : Liberals Hate Us!"

They don't give a fuck.

I've traveled far and wide in the western US. Most places outside of larger cities, Oxycontin Rush is the only political show available.

Imagine all those people, their only source of talk radio being Rush.

Oklahoma and Tennessee and North Carolina and Mississippi and Alabama, etc.) this is what it is: in most major markets in the "fly-over" states, the only talk radio available is Rush, Hannity and all the other right-wing jackboots.

That's why it's so hard to flip theses states - so hard to make them understand they're voting against their best interests. They don't realize it because they never hear any opinion other than the rightwing one.

if we could get a concerted effort to write letters and make sure that sponsors of the Pig-Boy's show know that we are not going to purchase their products, and then if we actually didn't purchase their products.

Heck, let GM explain to their shareholders why they want to piss off 52% of the American population.

Liberals and Democrats made a huge mistake 20 years ago when they were complacent and didn't organize boycotts, sit-ins, ltte efforts and generally fight back against these pricks on the radio. I guess we thought if we ignored it, it would go away. And what happened? The hate-wing talkers took over radio and spread like a cancer. Soon we found ourselves having to knock down the lies spread by these pricks everywhere from the water-cooler to the PTA meeting.

We have a very simple choice. Do we allow them to continue poisoning our society and our political discourse, and do nothing, or do we stand up and smack these bastards in mouth?

I say we punch 'em in the mouth.

And to those DUer's who say "boycotting Rush, or taking a stand against hate-wing talk radio is an attack on the First Ammendment"...I say; "These bastards have been yelling 'FIRE' in a crowded theater for over 20 years now"

That's who owns WIND. It's a company that makes its money from sources other than its right wing hate gasbags. Some of it comes from "dollar-a-hollar" preachers like Dobson and Mega churches that get their money (under the table) from various GOOP money laundering operations, other sources come from their Christian music stations that get tons of money from record companies and from operating on the very cheap. The talk network makes little local money and ratings, but it clears these hate radio shows across the country. It's a nice little scam that takes advantage of the de-regulation rules of Telcom '96. Corproate America has little to do with the financing of this company, thus sponsor boycotts will do little to affect the Salem money machine.

This company really needs to be exposed...similar to how Sinclair Broadcasting was outted as a GOOP ass-kisser in 2004 and have suffered financially for it ever since. Also, it's time to demand Congress do the long-needed review of Telcom '96.

BTW...Rush isn't on WIND.

Cheers...

the more shrill their mouthpieces become. I sometimes am forced to listen to RW hatemongers when Air America programming is preempted in my city for sporting events (and sometimes I just want to see what the "other side" is saying), but lately it's been SOOOOO over the top in terms of vitriol that I can feel my blood pressure rising after just listening to a few minutes of any of them. WE HAVE THE POWER -- WE have just as much buying power as the wingnuts -- why don't we try and take some of these asshats down????

you say "I'm sorry, but as tragic as the Greensburg disaster was, it just doesn't even begin to compare to the devastation caused by the tsunami or Katrina."

per unit greensburg is way more wrecked than new orleans and similar to places in the tsunmai zone. fortunately the relative death toll is much lower.

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I just meant that the scale of the disaster is nowhere near the other two. Tragedies like this are always horrific, but when you have hundreds of thousands of people left homeless, it tends to make bigger waves (no pun intended).

....one of the most loathsome racists ever to pollute the public airwaves.

And your point is well-taken: if Imus lost his job over the comments he made, what are these sickening, right-wing hate jockies still doing with jobs?

That man is a very sick SOB. Genuinely sick.

There must have been abortionists and gays in Greensburg, how else do you explain such devastation?




































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vs. this Greensburg tragedy?

That is a big, big difference right there.

while it leaves a path of devestation, you usually don't have to go that far to get to unscathed civilazation and get food, water and shelter. My dad's home town was hit by an F2 or F3 (much, much smaller than the F5 that hit Kansas and it wasn't on the ground nearly as long) a few years ago. Typical of this size tornado, while it destroyed a lot of Main Street, it was one of those that knock over one building and the one next to it only has minimal damage. Luckily, not many homes were destroyed and there were only a couple minor injuries. Power was knocked out for several days, but the towns 5 miles east and west of it still had power and no damage at all. The highway between the towns was passable so people had places they could go and help could get into the town pretty quickly.

Big city versus small KS town.
Tornado versus Hurricane.

Maybe KS has the EXACT same problem, but because of the magnitude difference, there might be only 2 people in Greensburg where there were 1000s in N.O. It's all about the law of averages. The things we saw in N.O. won't show up in Greensburg because they are so small.

For better or worse, generic racist blather is protected by the 1st Amendment Free Speech clause. So long as it doesn't cross the line into personal threats against a specific individual, or libel against a private citizen, the speaker can say it.

The FCC has some control over time, place, and manner of broadcasts, but it usually exercises that power for profanity or sexual expression (e.g. wardrobe malfunctions).





Is is me, or are the racist bloggers 10x more active this week, talking about tornadoes in Greensburg and police brutality in Los Angeles???

I've been through several tornado disasters. They're truly terror on earth as you only get a few moments warning (if any) and then all hell breaks loose followed by absolute calm and quiet. I saw a twister rip through Plainfield, IL in '90 where road maps of the area became obsolete...the debris was that intense. And so was the media attention, but deservedly so. For many of the survivors, we provided info on where they could find shelter or help with insurance or other needs.

NOLA is an ongoing disaster that only got worse with the hurricane. The poverty and infrastructure problems of New Orleans were the disaster that only became open when Katrina struck...and then the subsequent booosh regime debacle regarding recovery is a story the Repugnicans and goons like Gallagher want to avoid like the plague. It shines a light on the slimy contracting and exploiting of the situation. It avoids the obvious attempts by this regime to "de-black" a red state. What the DOJ couldn't do, mother nature will.

Try and find Greensburg on a map. Again, it's sad what's happened there, but I will assume that a majority of the town residents have insurance and if you take a ride down Main Street a year from now you'll see a new and thriving town...a far cry from taking a ride today in the lower 9th in NOLA.

Remember...when the facts belie your reality, make up a new lie and a new reality. The GOOPers need to hammer the codewords and memes as a desperation tactic to stay both "relevent" and attempt to hold on to what dwindling power/influence they have. This is truly whistling past the graveyard.

Katrina doesn't begin to compare to the devastation caused by the tsunami. What was it, a few thousand dead compared to a couple hundred thousand, something like that? But then, it sucks to have to compare these numbers...

... When this things get quoted so many times it almost becomes brain washing, it's not words I want rolling round my head as a black person. And no personally I don't listen to rap.