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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy the "EFF" is Jimmy Buffet being promoted by Hate-Radio?
Please excuse my salty Sailor language, but this pisses me the fuck off.
Jimmy Buffet is coming to town. Great music, loyal fans and he puts on a great show.
Our local wingnut hate-radio station is doing a promotion giving away free tickets.
Why the fuck do we continue to treat these fucking piece of shit radio stations as if everythings just fucking normal.
Heres the line-up of my local hate station.
0600-1000: Local Wingnut who tries to play both-siderism, but is nothing but a toxic racist asshat
1000-1200: Brian Kilmeade (yes, even a no talent hack from Faux and Fiends can have a radio show as long as they attack Democrats and suck Retrumplican dick non-stop)
1200-1500: Rush (enough said)
1500-1800: Hannity (Putins favorite host)
1800-1900: Some local Lets rip-off military retirees and anyone with a TSP account 'investment' show
1900-2100: Michael Fucking Weiner Savage
These stations, along with hundreds of others in every nook and cranny of this country, have done nothing but demonize and dehumanize our friends, neighbors, co-workers and families for over 30 fucking years now.
When do we stop just treating them as if; well, thats just business.
This is NOT normal! Im sorry, IT IS NORMAL because weve enabled it to be normalized.
Sure, these stations do nothing but take a giant shit on over 50% of the communities they serve, but hey! Jimmy Buffet tickets!!!!
Its fucking maddening.
When is enough going to be fucking enough? Would it be when these stations and their hosts are responsible to causing a stupid government shutdown that is ruining peoples lives and livelihoods?
Hey folks! Were fucking there!!!!!!
Maybe we should just continue to ignore it. Maybe we should just accept it as normal.
Hey, we give you 160 hours a week of nothing but toxic garbage, but be sure to tune in for the Ohio State Buckeyes taking on the Minnesota Golden Gophers in a classic Big Ten Basketball game. By the way, be sure to stay tuned after the game so that Rush can tell you how your next door neighbors daughter is a slut, and how the family of immigrants across the street that run your local restaurant are just parasites coming to kill you. Please dont miss Hannity after the game as well, so you can understand how the guy who works at the Naval Base and coaches your kids softball team is just sucking at the teat of gubmint, is probably a terrorist, and
god forbid
has a decent pension.
These fucking radio stations ought not be giving away concert tickets
they should be fucking toxic to anyone and any company that comes within 1,000 fucking yards of them.
These radio station own this fucking stupid shutdown as much as Donnie Tiny Hands does.
When the fuck do we actually start making them fucking pay for the terrible harm theyve done to our country?
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)I'm willing to be most Democrats don't listen to right-wing radio, so it's not like a boycott would have an impact.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)and I'd like to know of ANY company that I do business with doesn't fund racist, asshatted propaganda.
If said company does funds racist, asshatted propaganda, we have a duty to ensure they know that they've lost our business...and why they've lost it.
I don't drive a Ford, but if Ford was sponsoring racist, asshatted propaganda, Ford should know that I would do all I could to put them out of business.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)A lot of info here:
https://www.republicanradio.org/
lunasun
(21,646 posts)to their listeners isnt that how it works?
I have written to the local state college where I live regarding the choice of broadcast station for games also
dhill926
(16,346 posts)Jimmy is one of the good guys...I'm sure he wouldn't be too happy about this...
cwydro
(51,308 posts)You even know the lineup!
If you stop tuning in, it might be better for your blood pressure lol.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)I strongly believe that we have the wrong attitude about this incessant, relentless propaganda in EVERY fucking nook and cranny of our country.
I keep hearing, "well, don't listen to it", or "Democrats and liberals don't listen to it, so why bother?"
That's a terrible attitude.
It's like saying; "I don't eat honey, so why do I care if they kill all the bees"...NO, it's even worse than that. It's like saying; "I don't eat honey, so why shouldn't I spend my money at a company that funds the destruction of bees?"
I'm an American. It matters fucking deeply to me that I not help fund companies and corporations that promote the demonization and dehumanizing of my fellow Americans.
Gee, it's not like Hate Radio is doing anything to harm us all...is it?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Freedom of speech - its a thing.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Right Wing radio station buys tickets to Jimmy Buffet and wants to give them away as a promotion?
Well, okay.
I mean, it's not like Jimmy Buffett has any say in who buys his tickets, so.....
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)White People.
Who listens to Hate Radio?
White People.
QED.
Buffet has a large following that are RWers.