Wingnut Attack: "Kill the Illegal Immigrants"

[ajhenderson]

> We've seen examples of what happens when people go too far.
> They stand alone with little support behind them. In the
> political arena, Abramoff couldn't get the Pizza Hut to
> deliver to his house he was so untouchable. On the left,
> Ms. McKinney also discovered she was the last one standing
> at the mike.
>
> We had a local talk show host who paid the price for
> comparing our former African American mayor with a monkey at
> the zoo. He had some listeners defend him, but let's just
> say the outrage exceeded the listener support.

Yes, but Bob and that unlistenable high-pitched voice of his are still on two CC stations, even displacing Limbaugh to early PMD on the one.

 

[dampier]

> Yes, but Bob and that unlistenable high-pitched voice of his
> are still on two CC stations, even displacing Limbaugh to
> early PMD on the one.

The DeVirginator didn't displace Rush - Rush has been at 2pm since he started on WHAM. I wonder if he's still doing his show on the Utah Family Values Network, which is a laugh in and of itself considering what he did to the young women he married for all of 30 seconds.

To his credit, he has since avoided lingering too long in the land of personal morality judgments, at least on his local show.

 

[Nate Wesley]

> As to your saying there's a difference between those who
> host a show, it only proves why your buddies at AAR will
> never be as successful as conservatalkers; you view a talk
> show as a podium which holds serious responsibilities to
> provide some sort of public service. Wrong - the only
> difference between the aforementioned driver and the talk
> show host is that the latter has to do it entertainingly.
> There's no responsibility to the public required.
>

I.E., whenever you have no proof to support your dumb claims, just make shyt up on the fly. Conservative talk radio rule #1.<P ID="signature">______________
"We are told by our bosses that our first purpose is to make money. Making money is good, but that's not why the FCC let us use these airwaves."
--NotSoSilentBob, R-I moderator</P>

 

[Nate Wesley]

> I'd say it's more like the bank refusing your loan because
> you had a bankruptcy last year. It IS an issue of
> credibility. Seems to me the Iraq war started over a year
> ago, but I still hear about how "Bush lied". And I get sick
> of hearing Al Franken AND Sean Hannity talk about WMDs and
> serin gas.
>
Over THREE years ago, to be exact.

And the evil leftist MSM keeps finding ways to bring it up...you know, little stories like the Washington Post finding that Bush knew beforehand that the claim about the Iraqi trailers being largely disproven:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041202145.html

Not that you'll actually take time to read such reports, as you've obviously got a short attention span. <P ID="signature">______________
"We are told by our bosses that our first purpose is to make money. Making money is good, but that's not why the FCC let us use these airwaves."
--NotSoSilentBob, R-I moderator</P>

 

[kaufcom]

> It's a sad day when local government gets to kibbutz about
> how we do our jobs. Just what we all need - more big brother
> over your shoulder making sure we play nice. We already have
> a playground mom with the FCC. We don't need misguided
> patrol boys in the form of local politicians adding their
> agenda to the supervision.


It's a sad day when a talk show host has the freedom to joke about shooting men, women, and children. There are limits to free speech. Remember what Oliver Wendell Holmes said. "You can't yell fire in crowded theatre."
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http://talkingradio.blogspot.com/</P>

 

[Arbitorn]

It doesn't begin to compare to some of the "joke" stuff I've heard on programming slanted the other way. The point is, it was a joke (as opposed to the "fire in a theatre" line. It wasn't said to induce panic, it was sarcasm to make a point and if action needs to be taken it should be by the FCC, not the local sheriff. My point was that we already have supervision. We don't need jurisdictions competing for the keys to the transmitter.