These 90 universities are helping the GOP obstruct and compromise the SCOTUS nomination.

[certainot]

The 90 universities listed below, plus others, will help republicans obstruct president Obama as he tries to fill the supreme court vacancy.

Limbaugh declared that no Obama SCOTUS appointee will be approved.

Republican talk radio stations have been defining who is and isn’t acceptable in SCOTUS candidates for 25 years. If Republicans don’t entirely obstruct the appointment they will force compromise (already are) on selection of the ultimate candidate. As soon as an appointment is made they will use those 1200 radio stations to attack that candidate using distortions and lies. Knowing what Republicans will put them through, much of it from the talk radio gods, will cause good SCOTUS candidates to decline.

Limbaugh and his Sandra Fluke-like attacks on Anita Hill are why we have Clarence Thomas on the supreme court. David Brock only supplied some ammunition.

At bottom of the diary is a list of about 90 universities listed by state, which support over 260 Rush Limbaugh stations. They have no excuse to continue to broadcast sports on those totally partisan Limbaugh stations. Alternatives are available.

260 stations x 15 hrs/day avg RW talk x 5 days/week x 52 wks = 1,014,000 hrs of pro Republican advertising every year. At $1000/hour that’s 1$BIL in free yearly republican advertising/infomercials endorsed by those universities.

1200 radio stations are worth more than 4BIL$ in free Republican advertising and infomercials.

That is why Trump and Cruz are beating the GOP establishment and all its PAC money.

All 600 Limbaugh stations and probably all 1200 or more Republican radio stations will be making sure that’s what the base will be demanding no SCOTUS appointment from their Republican senators.

The Republican talk radio monopoly may be experiencing a little disunity as they go in the GOP primaries but all of the right wing blowhards always unite on issues like this. It is what they do.

Those stations will help ensure that the teabag base does not allow cooperation from any Republican senator.

Those publicly funded schools should be protested and petitioned until their support for republican radio ends. They have no excuse to continue their support for undeniably partisan, anti-public education, pro-global warming, bigoted programming.

Why would any university continue to endorse Limbaugh, who referred to Planned Parenthood as “Planned Butcher-hood”, where babies are ‘chopped up’ into ‘baby parts’?

Why do these universities continue to help the NRA beat back calls for sensible gun control even after 20 children were slaughtered at Sandy Hook/Newtown?

Why would any university lend its good name to radio stations that cover their communities in racism, bigotry, and hate?

Why do these universities undermine their own scholars and scientists and threaten the future of their students and the planet by helping the fossil fuel industry deny global warming? This issue alone makes these relationships inexcusable.

Why do they continue to help elect Republicans who defund education at the state and national levels and fight efforts to reduce student debt?

Why can’t those 90 universities do a better job honoring the goals and principles they express in their mission statements?

No matter what the endorsement of Limbaugh and RW radio brings in, how can it balance the effect of years of education budget cuts due to Republican policies sold by Republican radio?

Surely donors can be found to make up the minor loss from sports licensing from those stations.

How can it be good for a university’s image to let those radio stations use their logos, mascots, and community standing to incite violence with lies and hate, and use and excuse racism, sexism, global warming denial, character assassination (swiftboating), and lying to further Republican goals?

Those universities may as well be renting their logos to the KKK to put on their robes. There is no difference.

Republican talk radio hosts are always on the wrong side of issues effecting students, faculty, and employees unless you believe religion and free markets will solve all our problems. For 25 years those stations have worked primarily for the corporate think tanks, ALEC, and establishment Republican goals.

They have a huge say locally and nationally on peace and war, environmental issues, wages and worker rights, public education privatization and voucher scams, student debt relief, electronic voting machines and voter suppression legislation, and net neutrality. They regularly attack teachers and professors, intellectualism in general, and science.

Student activists all over the country are being undercut by their own universities.

How many student activists and voters can a single radio host reaching tens of thousands, even millions, cancel out?

Choosing to broadcast sports on a Republican talk radio station can’t be excused as an objective, apolitical, market-based choice. The local talkers on these stations routinely weigh in on the elections of university regents and who is and isn’t acceptable to be chosen for university chancellors and presidents.

All those stations will attack the Democratic presidential candidate.

Democratic supermajorities are possible if democrats do something different and stop giving Republican radio a free speech free ride.

Stop these 90 universities from helping GOP obstruct/compromise SCOTUS choice. One university declaring it will not renew it’s support of Republican hate radio will shame others into doing the same. Any community discussion of university support for Republican radio will result in loss of advertisers. Stoprush and Flushrush proved that publicly exposing an association with Limbaugh is poisonous.

It is possible that many of these stations will have to change programming to maintain their university sports broadcasting rights. The GOP will begin to lose their most important national and local political/media weapon.

These universities have NO EXCUSE!

ALABAMA 8  Auburn 3, Alabama 2, Southern Alabama 2, Troy 1
ARIZONA 2 Arizona St. 1, Arizona 1
ARKANSAS 3 Arkansas 3
CALIFORNIA 5 San Jose State 2, USC 2, Fresno St. 1
COLORADO 4 Air Force 2, Colorado 1, Colorado State 1
CONNECTICUT 1 Connecticut 1
FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2
GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
IDAHO 7  Boise St. 4, Idaho 3
ILLINOIS 7 Illinois 7
INDIANA 11 Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1
IOWA 5 Iowa 4, Iowa St. 1
KANSAS 4 Kansas St. 2, Kansas 1, Wichita St. 1
KENTUCKY 3 Louisville 2, Kentucky 1
LOUSIANA 3 LSU 2, La.-Monroe 1
MARYLAND 2 Maryland 2
MASSACHUSETTS 1 Boston College 1
MICHIGAN 19 Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
MINNESOTA 4 Minnesota 4
MISSISSIPPI 6 Mississippi St. 3, Mississippi 2, Southern Miss 1
MISSOURI 6 Missouri 6
NEBRASKA 6 Nebraska 6
NEVADA 1 Nevada 1
NEW JERSEY 2 Rutgers 1, Seton Hall 1
NEW MEXICO 3 New Mexico 2, New Mexico St. 1
NEW YORK 7 Syracuse 6, Army 1
NORTH CAROLINA 16 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
OHIO 10 Ohio St. 6, Toledo 1, Dayton 1, Bowling Green 1, Xavier 1
OKLAHOMA 5 Oklahoma St. 3, Oklahoma 1, Oral Roberts 1
OREGON 12 Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5
PENNSYLVANIA 14 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1
SOUTH CAROLINA 4 South Carolina 2, Clemson 2
TENNESSEE 7 Tennessee 4, Memphis 3
TEXAS 16 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1
UTAH 1 Utah St. 1
VIRGINIA 6 Virginia Tech 5, Virginia 1
WASHINGTON 6 Washington 5, Washington St. 1
WEST VIRGINIA 2 West Virginia 1, Marshall 1
WISCONSIN 4 Wisconsin 4

[navarth]

1. I'm definitely passing this on to students/alumni around here. Thanks.

It would be even better if there was more detail about which stations they refer to.

[certainot]

4. thanks. one way to get the stations involved is by searching

the school sports team and "radio affiliates" or something like that

usually the media links at the sports teams sites have something on the site or a link to radio stations

[certainot]

11. that logo has been bugging me, i can't identify it!

i was thinking nittany lion but...

[navarth]

12. You mean my icon?

Surely you jest, my friend.

My icon represents the Detroit Lions, a team I love with an abiding passion, that plays in the City of Detroit, my hometown that I also love with an abiding passion.

Other than that, I have no opinion on the matter.

And now please, back to our regularly scheduled thread, which is far more important than mere sports entertainment.

[certainot]

15. of course! my apologies, i was thinking college.

in my searches i've seen that a lot of, probably all pro teams broadcast on limbaugh stations, but they're privately owned except the packers. i would think however, and wouldn't be surprised, if pro athletes might have a few things to say about the racism coming from those stations. but pro athletes are on a tightrope when it comes to getting political.

actually, there are 24 or so limbaugh stations in michigan- so the 19 the mich unis endorse is a huge part of that

Michigan 24
Alpena
WZTK
105.7
M-F 12p3p
Battle Creek
WBCK
95.3
M-F 12p-3p
BentonHarbor-Elkhart, IN
WSJM
94.9
M-F 12p-3p
Big Rapids
WBRN
1460
M-F 12p-3p
Cadillac
WATT
1240
M-F 12p-3p
Carrollton
WSGW
100.5
M-F 12p-3p
Detroit
WJR
760
M-F 12p-3p
Escanaba
WCHT
600
M-F 12p-3p
Flint
WWCK
1570
M-F 12p-3p
Grand Rapids
WOOD
1300
M-F 12p-3p
Grand Rapids
WOOD
106.9
M-F 12p3p
Hancock
WMPL
920
M-F 12p-3p
Iron Mountain
WMIQ
1450
M-F 11a2p
Iron River
WFER
1230
M-F 11a2p
Ishpeming
WIAN
1240
M-F 12p-3p
Jackson
WKHM
970
M-F 12p-3p
Kalamazoo
WKMI
1360
M-F 12p-3p
Lansing
WJIM
1240
M-F 12p-3p
Marquette
WDMJ
1320
M-F 12p-3p
Menominee
WAGN
1340
M-F 11a2p
Sandusky
WMIC
660
M-F 2p-5p
Shepherd
WMMI
830
M-F 12p-3p
St Joseph
WSJM
1400
M-F 12p-3p
Traverse City
WTCM
580
M-F 12p-3p

[navarth]

16. Yes.

My beloved Lions just announced they're moving their broadcasts to WJR next season. Jeebuz wept.

WJR, the former Great Voice Of The Great Lakes, was a really wonderful station when I was growing up. Sadly it has become a haven for the worst of the worst.

I know we can't expect the Lions to care, but the U of M and MSU should be better than this. These right wing bastard stations can't disappear fast enough to suit me.

[HooptieWagon]

2. Huh?

Just taking one example...university of South Florida. They have two radio stations, one plays jazz and the other classical. Neither station has Rush Limbaugh or any other RW talk radio. Both stations funded in part by listeners and in part by the University.
To be honest, I have no idea what you're going on about.

[certainot]

3. the unis rent their logos/mascots to rw radio stations to

to help them sell their republican crap- everything trump and cruz represent- that's why they're at the top in their primaries.

it's not the university stations, it's the stations the universities broadcast their sports on. a licensing co pays the uni, the station pays the licensing co, like learfield sports, a small part of the total licensing, and they get to use the university brand- their community cred, their logos, their mascots, to sell trump, cruz, global warming denial, defunding public ed, defeat student debt relief, and so on.

here's a summary at republiconradio.org

[HooptieWagon]

6. Ok, gotcha.

How many students do you think actually listen to radio? Very few it seems to me.

[certainot]

7. none probably, except the young republicans who grow up to be cruz

and trump and today make up a considerable and increasing portion of of the republican party.

that is the problem- the people who are most negatively impacted by those radio stations selling their hate and bigotry while they wear the uni logos and wave the uni banners do not listen to them.

they give liberals headaches so they ignore that shit and that's why we're in this mess.

[HooptieWagon]

9. Demographics of RW radio is older, and getting older.

There's no evidence young listeners are tuning in to RW talk radio. Actually, they're not into radio much at all. The 'shock jocks' get some younger listeners, but not college aged. I think you're barking up the wrong tree over nothing.

[certainot]

10. if students ignore rw radio they're stupid,

because that's what's limiting their future, obstructing debt relief, increasing tuition, and delaying action on global warming.

even republican writers are recognizing the reason trump and cruz lead the primaries is rw radio.

ignoring rw radio is the biggest political mistake in history.

like i said, it's worth over 4$BIL /year FREE advertising and infomercials for everything republican.

all this talk about money in politics is silly without counting that

[HooptieWagon]

14. I have connections with 3 local stations.

One of them is a community station, I know so many people there I have an open door.
All 3 stations are concerned about aging demographics. Young people aren't tuning in. Even the RW talk radio hosts audiences are dying off, literally.
I love radio, and think it should still play a place in a future society. But it is a simple fact that young people aren't big supporters of traditional media...radio, TV, and newspapers. They are all dying.

[navarth]

13. HooptieWagon, my friend

I think, if I may, you are missing the larger point.

It's not about whether the young folks are listening to these stations; it's that the universities they attend help these stations, thereby helping RW garbage radio, a great destructive force in our society.

At least that's the point as I see it. Perhaps I'm missing something here? Feel free to correct me. No harm no foul.

[Duppers]

5. Are you saying that because rightwing stations

are broadcasting these universities' sports events, that people are staying tuned to listen to Limbaugh & RW bullshit?

I think it depends on the intelligence of the listeners.

In general, there are 3 traits responsible for the division between the two parties: intelligence, compassion, greed.

How are you going to fix stupid?
Only stupid believes the lies and propaganda.

[certainot]

8. those schools are supporting rw radio while it craps all over

their communities and short circuits local and national democracy with puposefully disinformed made to order constituencies.

they do it while wearing the logos of those schools

i'm saying these stations are doing the groundwork repetition for every piece of crap republicans are inflicting on us and those 90 universities and more are supporting more than 25% of the loudest of them.

those stations are going to make sure that no republican senator can survive if he 'helps' obama seat a SCOTUS justice, for instance.

it's not about who listens to it- in most parts of the us there are NO free easy alts to rw radio if you want politics and current events while driving or working. they have created, protect, and maintain a talk radio PSYOPS that the left completely ignores.