Good God in Butter our public airwaves are a sewer of right wing lies.

[Botany]

I was kind of listening to a Browns' game on a local central OH FM station and maybe
2 to 3 hours after the game somebody called Larry Elder came on to say that Barack
Obama is connected to Hamas and the liberal media is covering it up because of all the
cash they are getting from some source.


And I have no doubt that some people listen to and believe that crap.

[Matthew28]

1. The brainwashing has worked

We have one hell of a tough road ahead of us to defeat it.

[Siwsan]

2. Ah, Larry Elder - haven't heard that name, in a while

From his WIKI page:

Elder's political views are philosophically libertarian and have also been described as conservative.[20] He supports free trade, school choice, and same-sex marriage. He opposes the income tax and supports replacing it with the FairTax, a national retail sales tax. He is also a firm opponent of the war on drugs and has been quoted as saying: "Philosophically, I think that if somebody wants to sit around and get stoned that's up to him or her. And if that ruins your life, so be it.... So I am for drug legalization."[8] Although he is not an Objectivist, he says that Atlas Shrugged, written by novelist Ayn Rand, is one of his favorite books.[21]

Elder's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times (August 17,2006) that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.[22]

Following Elder's re-registering as a Republican, in a 2008 interview with The New Individualist Magazine he said, "A lot of my listeners will often call up and say, 'I preferred you when you were a Libertarian.' I always tell them I never was a 'capital-L Libertarian.' I am still 'small-l.' It’s a philosophy to me, not a party."[21] Elder supported presidential candidates Harry Browne[21] in 2000, George W. Bush[23] in 2004, and John McCain[24] in 2008.

Roll Call reported that Elder contemplated a possible run for the United States Senate against California Senator Barbara Boxer in 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Elder

[sharedvalues]

5. Anyone who likes Ayn Rand is a mental midget.

[defacto7]

3. They pretty much own those airwaves.

They're going to do whatever promotes their agenda.

[sharedvalues]

4. We HAVE to stop rightwing hate radio

It's killing the country.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

7. When people stop listening to it . . .

. . . it will stop. What else could you possibly have in mind?

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Break up the conglomerates?

Restrict the number of stations that can be owned by a single entity in order to encourage greater diversity in programming?

Clear Channel shouldn't be able to enjoy the near monopoly that it currently does.

[sharedvalues]

9. Stop CC's monopoly. And expose the lies!

[sharedvalues]

10. Expose the lies. "Sunlight... is what neutralizes them"

http://nordic.businessinsider.com/doj-asks-rt-to-register-as-foreign-agent-under-fara-2017-9/

"The DOJ wouldn't send this letter, particularly to a media outlet, unless they had sufficient intelligence to show that these outlets met the FARA standard - essentially, that they were being directed and controlled by a foreign government," said Asha Rangappa, a former FBI counterintelligence agent who is now an associate dean at Yale Law School.

"Shedding sunlight on all of their activities is really what neutralizes them," Rangappa added. "If a foreign intelligence service is trying to disseminate propaganda, it will only work if people don't know anything about the source of the information. If they're registered as foreign agents, it's basically saying they're not real journalists."

Dems need to point out the right-wing media lies.

[maxrandb]

6. Boycott the fucking Browns and

Any college that broadcasts its games on stations that provide nothing but reich wing hate for the other 165 hours a week.