Reply #13: Disagree. "...someone's got to do it" is WRONG WRONG WRONG. [View All]

[cherokeeprogressive]

Why do hate-mongers like him get $400 million dollar contracts? One reason and one reason only: Because so many people listen to his radio show, and sponsors KNOW it. I'd be willing to bet that if WE (progressives) stopped listening to his show, his ratings would plunge to the point of serious impact on whoever agreed to pay him that much money in the first place.

The excuses people give when they quote mush and insanity make me laugh every time I see them. "I was channel surfing on the radio today and..." Excuse me? Channel surfing on the radio? Okay. So you were pushing your radio's preset buttons. That means you have at least one preset button tuned to all-hate radio. "I was channel surfing on TV today and HAPPENED to come across insanity's show..." Excuse me? On my DirectTV box, fox is nowhere near any other channels I might tune in to. These excuses are meant to deflect anyone who might take a person to task for listening to hate radio, or watching hate TV by making it seem as though it was quite by "accident". Hogwash. We're (progressives as a group) funding hate radio and TV with our attention to it. How many posts beginning with BREAKING! in the subject line come from the sludgereport? If the number is larger than ZERO, we're funding sludge's website and his lifestyle.

If we'd ignore their message of hate, it might lose its dominance of the media. I don't watch insanity on TV, listen to mush on the radio, or get my news from the sludgereport. I'm probably a lot less pissed off than I might be otherwise. Progressives should stop patronizing their TV stations and radio frequencies, as well as their websites.