Donna Brazile: "Trump Is Amplifying Everything That We've Heard On Talk Radio For The Last 8 years"

[kpete]

DONNA BRAZILE: Donald Trump is amplifying everything that we've heard on talk radio for the last eight years, Matt, you know that. There's not one AM channel, whether I'm home in the South or riding up into the Northeast, they've been saying this kind of dog whistle, you know, everybody is the problem and people have not taken responsibility. I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric. And he knows exactly what he's doing. This is not the Donald Trump who denounced David Duke in 1991. This is a guy who is now soaking up this hate and he's spilling it back out.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/03/13/abcs-donna-brazile-donald-trump-is-amplifying-e/209216

[spanone]

1. K&R...

[dembotoz]

2. the crazies got a voice in trump

[Sanity Claws]

3. 8 years?

I think hate radio has been going on since at least the 1990s.

[lunatica]

4. It's been much longer than that with the Shock Jocks in the 1990s

And the media doing wall to wall coverage on Lewinsky and dick, Lorenna Bobbit and dick, and OJ. Hasn't Donna Brazil heard of Limbaugh?

[Zippyzagnut]

5. K & R

Troof!

[ReallyIAmAnOptimist]

6. "Last 8 years"? How about last 30!

Hate speech + loss of hope (secondary to 30-years of trickle down and 'free' trade agreements), and presto!

[MisterP]

7. 32 years since they killed Alan Berg

[Person 2713]

30. That's right- gunned down

[Hydra]

9. Ya, that was my first thought

The media and the establishment is acting like all of this came out of nowhere. They must think we're stupid or something.

[KoKo]

11. ...!

[valerief]

20. My thoughts exactly! I was thinking, "Eight? How about the last twenty-eight?" nt

[AwakeAtLast]

25. Right there with ya. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. And CNN, MSNBC et al are helping

[Hydra]

10. Even PBS

I can't find anything to watch in the MSM that isn't set in RW framing...not that I miss the MSM, it just shocks me how utterly slanted everything is now when I see it.

[malaise]

12. Big time - Drumpf gets more coverage than the President n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. As CBS said, covering the Trumpeter gets audiences, which sells advertising

Outfits like CBS are not primarily news media. They are primarily entertainment including the news programs. There are here and there scattered throughout the day snippets of posturing to try to create a patina of seriousness.

[passiveporcupine]

37. Yes, we have become the ultimate reality TV nation

Even our presidential campaigns are now reality TV.

I wish TV was never invented. I can't believe how many people waste their lives glued to the tube, not learning, just being entertained with dumber and dumber programming and they eat it up.

[Greybnk48]

13. So true Nadin, and definitely making it much worse. n/t

[uhnope]

15. that's a ridiculous statement showing you don't know what Brazile is talking about. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. So the networks are not amplying the message by

having Trump 24-7 and if he takes a dump it is breaking news? Really.

And thank you for telling me I am ignorant without using that precise word

I crack me up, how funny people are here at times.

[uhnope]

18. you just proved it again

Brazile is not just talking about Trump's words--she's talking about RW talk radio that's been saying the same things and worse for years and years. Really racist stuff is all over the radio all the time. You really don't know if you think that compares to MSNBC giving airtime to Trump. The point is that years of RW talk radio have laid the foundation for this moment

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. I know exactly what she is talking about

I am adding the networks that right now ARE AMPLIFYING THE FUCKING MESSAGE. Slowly, and in a low voice, IT IS NOT JUST RW TALK RADIO ANYMORE. Is this now crystal clear, or do you need me to say it even slower?

And yes, you did it again... personal insults are great.

Thank you.

[uhnope]

21. this is so cool. best example of passive-aggressiveness

best example of passive-aggressiveness on the Internets I've seen lately... Immediately & repeatedly accuse the other person of personal insults that you make up out of thin air, while insinuating insults yourself ("Slowly, and in a low voice...or do you need me to say it even slower?&quot

yeah the Internet. what a waste










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[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Whatever, welcome to my list of non interaction

have a good day...preferably a good life

[JoeOtterbein]

23. Of course Nadin is right about CNN et al

The new give-away since cable news was born is: Follow the Ratings

[Skittles]

14. why do people keep saying 8 years

it's not like the Greedy Old Pig party suddenly became racist when Obama was elected

[Person 2713]

29. True dat !

[uhnope]

17. we have to stop ignoring RW radio & make it an issue. DUers get on board?

people love to look at themselves writing 1000 posts but will they take the time to call their local RW talk radio sociopath & do the right thing, or file FEC complaints, or bombard the RW talk show hosts' FB & Twitter with protests

[passiveporcupine]

38. what is that you say?

call their local RW talk radio sociopath & do the right thing

That is just fodder for them. That's what they want...people to call in and complain so they can shit on them live and then cut them off. Yeah...that'll work.

[uhnope]

40. That's like saying protesting at a Trump rally just makes you fodder, so give up and do nothing

First of all, many stations have local hosts who are conservative but who are rather polite to callers & don't hang up on them or screen them out. I think smart, informed & persuasive progressives calling such shows, en masse, could make a difference and not just be fodder.

Second of all, if progressives bombarded the shows that do have the attributes you describe, we would make a statement, like the protesters at the Trump rally.

[passiveporcupine]

42. Good luck with that

Those shows with courteous hosts, don't bring in the money like a Limbaugh show.

And if you can get the protesters, go for it. But I haven't seen it happen yet, except for people getting sponsors to drop out. Now that, is an effective approach.

[DCBob]

26. Exactly.. he just repeats the nonsense from RW radio.. with gusto.

Regurgitated crap.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

27. Under Clinton it was 100% anti-government (Waco / Ruby Ridge)....

Under Bush it was 100% loyalty to domestic totalitarianism (U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!! Send the libs to Gitmo!)
Under Obama it's 100% anti-BLACK-government. (The NBP Muslim Obamaphones!)

Keep in mind some of these people believe Jesus was a local to their town.

[Person 2713]

28. Yes like hate radio come alive

[Lithos]

31. More like 24 years

Goes back to the start of the Clinton era.

[DissidentVoice]

32. Donna, it's a hell of a lot longer than that!

I first heard Rush Limbaugh in 1992.

Honestly, I thought it was some sort of comedy/parody of politics show.

When I found out he was serious, and read his books, it scared the shit out of me then.

It still does.

[rpannier]

34. He started out in Sacto in the 80s

He's been around almost 3 decades

[rpannier]

33. 8 Years???

Try 28 years

[maxrandb]

35. Makes me think the protests are misdirected

Hard to do anything at the National Level regarding Hate Radio, but...

- If Seattle has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do)- why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Washington DC has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If New York has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Chicago has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Cleveland has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Norfolk, VA has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Detroit has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

etc., etc., etc.,

Want to change the hatred and bigotry being spewed 24/7? Make the "local" stations pay a price for offering the platform.

Even the major advertisers pulling ads from specific shows like Rush and Savage and Hannity are not enough if they continue to advertise ON ANY PROGRAM on a Hate Radio station. I don't care if the other 21 hours are nothing but the broadcast of Unicorn Farts...if that station gives a one-second platform to Rush, or any of the other "cookie-cutter-haters", THEY ARE GUILTY OF AIDING AND ABETTING

[passiveporcupine]

39. the states that have hate radio have a lot of supporters

I'm not sure that protesting is going to do any good, because they broadcast what pays, and it's the RW nuts that love that stuff and listen to it all day, so it pays.

Washington and Oregon west side are normal people, but east side are lots of RW nuts. Southern states have lots of RW nuts.

Any area that has a lot of ranching and open dry space that is not easy to convert to a metroplex, is going to have a lot of RW nuts.

As long as they are out there, you will have an audience and therefor, a market for hate radio.

The only way I see of defeating it, is some federal law stating that there has to be equal time for RW hate and LW love.

Oh wait...we tried that didn't we? It was called the Fairness Doctrine. What happened to it?

In 1987, the FCC demolished it saying:

stating that the doctrine hurt the public interest and violated free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

So, if you want to have a battle, go for it, but it's the FCC you have to fight. Not individual radio stations.

I'd love to see the Fairness doctrine come back. But I don't know if it will ever happen.

[uhnope]

41. Good point. Why are Trump rallies being disrupted but not hate talk radio?

Moreover, why not disrupt hate talk radio by calling in? See post #17 and replies

[kairos12]

36. Past 25 years.