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Air America show calls on listeners to complain to Severin advertisers

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Air America's Young Turks show is calling on listeners to contact Jay's advertisers and complain about the
fact that their money is funding a "racist" who hasn't been fired yet for what he said:

http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2009/5/4/141957/6060/Diary/Fighting-back-against-Jay-Severin

I note one comment on that page suggested that 96.9 change its call letters to "WTKKK". Oddly enough,
when the Imus comments about the Rutgers athletes came out, and he was in deep water, Howie Carr
started to refer to 96.9 as being "WTKKK". A few months later he _almost_ wound up working for them.
 
I really hope that these bastards lose their jobs for saying something stupid, just for irony.
 
"Don't the professional victims need to be more than three in number to have an effect?"

So I guess anyone who publicly objects to racism on the publicly-owned airwaves is a "professional victim"? Let me guess--this question is posed by another right-wing lover of all things bigoted.

Here's the deal Infidel: we have a free-market system in this nation. That means that broadcasters can put almost anything they want to on the air. But that's only part of it. The people on the butt end of this stuff get to object, loudly sometimes, and they can also, if they so choose, stop buying the products peddled by these lowlifes, and even urge others to do the same thing.

Welcome to America.
 
>That means that broadcasters can put almost anything they want to on the air.
>
Right. And the damn shame of it is that without controls we end up with bottom-feeders like Severin, Carr, Savage - the list of the worst of the worst is truly endless.

We wouldn't need rules for fair and balanced opinion if we had opinion-speakers who take their own responsibility for what they say. (Oh, darn. I just described LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE TALKERS. No wonder we never hear from THEM!!)
 
Depending on one's point of view, it could be said of libtalkers too (Schultz, former host Franken,
Randi Rhodes (who had such nice things to say about people ranging from the former President
to even Hillary Clinton), Malloy etc.

People have the right to not listen to stuff if they object to it of course...personally am not too fond of
Savage or Severin but I like Carr. He isn't perfect either (remember the "towelheads" remark after Okla.
City bombing, for which he apologized...) of course.
 
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