Radio Adventures while driving through the Midwest.

[No2W2004]

Now I can start to see why some Freepers think the way they do. While driving my kids through Missouri and Oklahoma, I spun the dial to catch the local radio flavor. While I never caught AAR, I was constantly bombarded with Rush/Hannity/O'Reilly. If that's all you get to hear, then no wonder people's views are warped.

On Sunday driving back through Oklahoma I got to hear a ad for a congressional race between 2 Democrats. The candidate who the ad was for stated that his opponent is getting 80% of his funding from "radical eastern liberals who want to force their views on Oklahoma" such as (gasp!) abortion on demand.

The conservatives are really pounding the "wild eyed radicals from the liberal eastern establishment who want to force your sons and daughters to have gay sex and kill babies while your tax dollars pay for it all" message. With no opposing view points, no wonder the race is as close as it is.

[MuseRider]

1. The only

talk radio we get around here that is not RW is Colmes and you know what a waste of time that one is. You are so correct, it is 24 hours a day 7 days a week here, one right after the other. There is nothing else, nothing. I never, ever turn on those stations anymore.

[slappypan]

2. genocide in Rwanda

They say hate radio was a major factor in the genocide tragedy in Rwanda — radio hosts exhorted people to pick up machetes and hack their neighbors to pieces.

[madrchsod]

3. yes and the people who hacked

their neighbors to pieces used brand new machetes provided by the government...it was planned and executed by the government using radio announcers to incite the people..

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Massachusetts, too...

somewhere around Springfield I was flipping through the stations and found one where some preacher was complaining about arts funding. Claimed one truck driver contributed more to society than all the artists combined.

Took forever to find something that wasn't bad music or bad ideas.

The simple truth is that hate sells. It's simple to grasp, and requires no work on either the speaker's or listener's side.

Note that this is true everywhere. Even on this board there are more kneejerk "_______ Sucks!" posts than rational discussions of why "_____" sucks.