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[Laurence Glavin]

WWZN (financed by Soros--er, Santos) gets a "dash".

What is your basis for intimating that George Soros is providing the financial backing for Jeff Santos' Revolution Boston programming on WWZN? Isn't that simply speculation on your part and maybe on the part of some of your right-wing friends? I have heard that Soros has, for years, turned a deaf ear to pleas for money to finance various attempts at airing Progressive talk on commercial radio. The rumors that I've heard say the Michael Dukakis is providing the $$$ behind Revolution Boston, but I have no proof of that. However, the disproportionate amount of air-time that Santos spends on public transportation are certainly consistent with Dukakis's priorities.

Every time I hear Mr. Soros's name in regard to being the silent Svengali behind liberal or left-wing organizations, I think of Stephanie Miller's oftimes stated wish that that were so. If Soros DID bankroll an Air America-type operation by buying a full-power FM in a major market and letting be an LMA partner, such an outlet might have had a chance of success. Then CCU and others would not have the argument that "Progressive Radio" can't succeed anywhere. As I mentioned earlier, some class-A (ie, 6KW-equivalent-limited) FMs in the midwest are doing fairly well with the format even while being rim-shotters. Oh, and this just in...the conversion of KKGN-AM Oakland/San Francisco to even more right-wing talk may be on hold after all!

 

[raccoonradio]

I'm joking Didn't put a smiley in. Soros did give money to NPR though, supp. for hiring "reporters". Whether it's Santos, or a Senator who married a ketchup heiress*, or whomever, or ad money,
WWZN is getting some kind of funding to keep it on.

*--When in Pittsburgh, visit the John Heinz History museum, named after the former Republican
senator from PA who died in a plane crash. There is a small section devoted to him and you'll
see pictures of him and his then-wife Teresa...a registered Republican until her second husband's 2004 presidential run...

http://www.heinzawards.net/pub/photos/life_and_times.jpg
Teresa Heinz and her husband senator John...Heinz

Just as Rupert Murdoch donated $1 million to Republicans, Soros donated $1.8 million to NPR. Warner
Todd Huston in BigGovernment.com: "After all, if the assumption that conservatives owning Fox makes its news slanted, shouldn’t the same logic dictate that anything Soros owns reflects his ideology? Shouldn’t we assume that NPR’s new reporters will be left-wing hacks bought and paid for by one of the richest, most active, most extreme left-wing activists in the world?"
http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2...-millions-buying-political-reporters-for-npr/

...Waiting for the likes of a Limbaugh, Carr, or Severin to be funded by taxpayers...

>>As I mentioned earlier, some class-A (ie, 6KW-equivalent-limited) FMs in the midwest are doing fairly well with the format even while being rim-shotters.

You'd think someone would try it in Boston, then. Mr Mindich...? Actually I can think of a couple left
leaning big FM stations in town. One is on Guest St, right across from WRKO's studios and the
other is attached to B.U.

 

[vmorrison]

The notion that Mike Dukakis is behind Revolution Boston is hysterical. Anyone who knows Dukakis knows he wouldn't part with the kind of money necessary to fund the Santos operation. I believe Santos has several Angels who must be happy with he results because he shows no sign of slowing down.

 

[raccoonradio]

Howie was saying today that Soros is making big money off the failure of MF Financial or something. Howie btw tells of one time when a couple "union guys" stopped by Dukakis' house to talk to him. He offers them a beer and they accept. They think, hey seems like a pretty good guy. Dukakis returns with one 12 oz. bottle...and two glasses.

Hey, big spender!

 

[vmorrison]

Dukakis also was not popular with the Secret Service during his Presidential run. One night he snuck out of the house and could not be found. The Agents asked Kitty if she knew where he may have gone. She said that since this was they day that the coupon circular arrived he was probably down at the Start Market. The agents raced down to the Star Market on Harvard Ave in Brookline. There they found the Democratic Nominee for the President of the Free World pushing a carriage down an aisle with the sale circular in hand.. Dukakis explained to the agents that he had to buy the Del Monte canned string beans while they were on sale.

 

[raccoonradio]

Ha! Think I heard something like that. In the fictional realm, Sat. Night Live used to have Jon Lovitz playing Dukakis (this is turning into a thread on its own) and one skit had him saying "Look, I'm going to lose. Badly. So since I still have a little campaign money yet, why not throw a little party? Join us." It became
"Dukakis After Dark"--a spoof of Hugh Hefner and "Playboy After Dark"...complete with someone imitating Ted Kennedy, etc. And a spoof of the Dukakis-Bush debate, with Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush,
had Bush saying "In summation...stay the course...thousand points of light. Stay the course." Lovitz as
Dukakis looks at the camera and deadpans, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy."

 

[Cap-n Spackle]

The agents raced down to the Star Market on Harvard Ave in Brookline. There they found the Democratic Nominee for the President of the Free World

Where did he find room to park his tank?

 

[raccoonradio]

Howie has had a pic of Dukakis in the tank in his office ("He looks like Snoopy in there"--Jerry Williams)
with the caption TANKS FOR NOTHING

 

[Eli Polonsky]

She said that since this was they day that the coupon circular arrived he was probably down at the Start Market. The agents raced down to the Star Market on Harvard Ave in Brookline.

There's no Star Market on Harvard St. in Brookline (not Ave., that's in Allston). The only supermarket on Harvard St. has been a Stop & Shop for many decades, maybe that's where he was?

 

[vmorrison]

You are so right the Star Market is on Beacon St. The Stop N Shop is on Harvard. I believe he was at the Star on Beacon

 

[Cap-n Spackle]

The 1200 autopilot was stuck on Friday's forecast for most of Saturday.

 

[HHH]

Just as Rupert Murdoch donated $1 million to Republicans, Soros donated $1.8 million to NPR. Warner
Todd Huston in BigGovernment.com: "After all, if the assumption that conservatives owning Fox makes its news slanted, shouldn’t the same logic dictate that anything Soros owns reflects his ideology? Shouldn’t we assume that NPR’s new reporters will be left-wing hacks bought and paid for by one of the richest, most active, most extreme left-wing activists in the world?"
http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2...-millions-buying-political-reporters-for-npr/

Look beyond donations. Certainly you know who Roger Ailes is and why he started the Fox News Network, don't you?

 

[raccoonradio]

To make money? And perhaps push an agenda, and provide opinions not heard, for the most part,
on other networks. For his efforts, Fox News Channel's nightly show ratings are regularly #1 or
close to it, and supposedly the audio portion of FNC is one of the most listened to channels on XM.

By the way, my tax dollars help pay for CPB/NPR/PBS. Tax dollars don't pay for Fox. And if anything,
a 2008 report of _voluntary_ contributions by corporations to NPR included "Fox Broadcasting Company".
Imagine. And Harry Shearer's "Le Show", heard on many NPR stations, has had him bashing Rupert
Murdoch a lot, even though Shearer admittedly makes millions of dollars working on The Simpsons...on Fox. But hey, Rupert has to feel good about the money the show makes for his network.

Oh well. (Seth McFarlane of Fox's Family Guy, when asked how Rupert Murdoch thinks of his liberal
opinions, replied that Rupert---the man, not Stewie's teddy bear--didn't mind. "Rupert is a businessman
first and a Republican second").