Oooh, ooh, check this out: I just stumbled upon the perfect radio station for me! It talks about “educated modern feminazis who have all the power in today’s America,” “mainstream Leftie traitors to all traditional American values,” and “Obama just said that illegal alien children are our future and our American kids are not our future because the illegal alien kids will owe him their lives and be forever obedient to his regime.”
Shit’s priceless. It’s so much better than N’s favorite preacher station with its boring “neither a lender nor a borrower be” and “premarital sex is a road to divorce.”
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Have I ever mentioned before how funny it is to me when people sincerely, out of context, quote Polonius? Now seems like a good time to mention it. 🙂
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They think it’s from the Bible. 🙂
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Oh dear! To thine own interpretation be true.
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Well, some people think Shakespeare contributed to the KJV, so they might not be that far off.
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What’s really funny is that the preachers are all pro-free markets but anti-borrowing. Which is only one of many contradictions that don’t seem to bother them.
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I know, right? He was written as a tedious old fool who spoke in neat platitudes to hide the fact that he had no idea what he was talking about. The people who quote him must feel some kind of strange kinship.
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“I know, right? He was written as a tedious old fool who spoke in neat platitudes to hide the fact that he had no idea what he was talking about. The people who quote him must feel some kind of strange kinship.”
– This is a seriously brilliant generation. The world is in good hands. Or will be once we, the old fogeys, step aside.
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Rush Limbaugh?
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I think it was a station coming out of St. Louis. maybe it’s him, maybe it’s some wannabe.
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Fox Talk FM 97.1 has some syndicated big name weirdos, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck being the best known. Rush Limbaugh (born in Cape Girardeau, MO) and Bill O’Reilly may be doing TV only, having become “too big” for radio. Politics shows up on the high wattage fundamentalist syndicated station 91.5 FM. Try 2:00 PM for the station owner’s radio show. June is a good month, what with “Pride” LGBT parades aggravating the fundamentalist Christians (I miss good old Fred Phelps already, he was so bizarre in his anti-gay antics that he made normal people rethink their own prejudice). There are some medium and low wattage stations in rural areas. The economics of radio now favor large stations that are 95% national syndicated shows, and large stations do not bother with local news beyond the traffic report. Even 10 years ago there were a few stations left with locally made programs, and long-distance driving could be a radio tour of Americana, but now – homogenous. Public radio stations and low and ultra-low-watt non-profit and college stations are the major source for truly local programming.
Here are a few sites that report on the Fox and fundamentalist religious public figures:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/
http://mediamatters.org/
http://www.talk2action.org/
To prove that there is nothing new under the sun, here is a famous 1964 essay by historian Richard Hofstadter:
http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
This historian also wrote a book on “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”.
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Such a great comment and it got stuck in Spam until I rescued it.
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