Billboard in Houston: 1070AM LIBERALS HATE IT!

[Catherine Vincent]

I was on my way to work this morning and saw this, I thought...WTF? The "liberals hate it" was more bold and that stood out more so I saw that first. All I could do was shake my head. The hateful conservatives must really be losing their base if they have to interject liberals in their advertisements.

[mmonk]

1. The new culture is to be anti-liberal.

[hexola]

3. The "new" culture...have you been alive for the past 20 years?

I think just the EXACT opposite...

[wryter2000]

8. Yup

Ronald Raygun started it. Poppy Bush used to sneer "liberal" and laugh at the applause it got him.

[mmonk]

10. Continued culture?

I remember when being liberal started to become an asset. Haven't seen it come back yet.

[hexola]

2. The party of hate...and division...

Generating hatred is the GOPs primary talent...no suprise. They are so proud of it.

[WiseButAngrySara]

23. You have that 100% correct. Dividers NOT Uniters. And as for the

Party of "Moral Values?"...how wrong they have proven THAT to be. The Monica Scandal was a NOTHING in comparison to what these criminal thugs have done. They breed HATRED to generate FEAR. Fear is the most potent method of control of power...look what it has produced? Spineless Dems, for one thing. I won't even consider most of them 'leaders.' I am truly ashamed of the Democrats response to the Feingold Censure. For his numerous offenses, B* deserves NOTHING LESS THAN IMPEACHMENT!

[reichstag911]

4. Hate is their stock-in-trade.

We've got 560AM here in Chicago for Repug bloviators, and their billboards say the same, "Liberals Hate It." They're pathetic.

[dave123williams]

11. Business clearly isn't...why alienate half the audience right off the bat?

[hexola]

19. More proof that the GOP is nothing more than a cult of personality...

They could care less about issues...being a jerk-off on AM sells!

[Bridget Burke]

5. Liberals would have to listen in order to hate it.

And most of us aren't masochists.

(Not that there's anything wrong with sado-masochism between consenting adults.)

[chaumont58]

6. Liberals in Texas?

How many? Three? Four?

And none of them in Houston.

[theoldman]

15. There are many liberals in Texas.

There is one in Dallas, one in Fort Worth, one in Austin, one in El Paso. You get my point?

[ananda]

20. I know lots of liberals in Houston!

I live in Houston. I'm liberal. Lots of people I know
are liberal. The peace movement is large and strong
here.

Sue

[Catherine Vincent]

28. Why hello there fellow Houstonian!

:hi:

[Weembo]

35. Amen to Houston liberals!

[gkhouston]

21. nice of the "conservative" OP to visit us and tell us about the

billboard, then. :eyes: Quite a few DUers deep in the heart of Texas.

[Bridget Burke]

26. I live in Houston. My US Rep is Sheila Jackson Lee.

She is not perfect but nobody would mistake her for a Republican.

I know quite a few Liberals--but I do live Inside the Loop. They are scarcer in Far Suburbia, but not extinct.

Pray, tell us where you live.

[OBrien]

41. mine too

I live in the Heights. I'm not native Houstonian, but frankly, I'm getting pretty sick of people bashing Texas. They don't seem to understand that there are probably more democrats that repubs here.

[More Than A Feeling]

7. There's one by the Dan Ryan as you come into Chicago too

I saw it and I thought: "Hating liberals? In CHICAGO?" The professor I was with at the time commented that it was for the suburbanites coming to work in Chicago, which made sense. Still surprising, though.

[Brewman_Jax]

9. 920AM in Atlanta

same big billboard here I saw driving down the highway. I thought the neo-cons had better things to do. :shrug:

[xultar]

16. Yup. Those fuckers but if you think about it we hate ourselves too.

[RebelOne]

25. The same billboard is on Cobb Parkway in Marietta

near the Big Chicken.

[sabra]

12. Same billboard in Chicago burbs: 560WIND ...

[LSK]

13. i have seen a similar billboard around Chicagoland too

[xultar]

14. I saw thoes when I flew in on monday 3 of them from IAH to 45S

Sorry I didn't get to meet you while I've been here.

[Catherine Vincent]

30. Same here!

I noticed you typed IAH. Ha! I refuse to call it what they named it also. :-)

[gkhouston]

34. I always call it

Intergalactic Airport. :-)

[Catherine Vincent]

39. Ya know it would be easier to just say Bush airport...

But I continue to say in-ter-con-ti-nen-tal airport. 7 syllables instead of 3. I'm making it hard on myself! And it's not hatred, the dad isn't as bad as the shrub. The shrub has made it such a bad name, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth!

[Canuckistanian]

17. Way to piss off half your potential listeners

Yeah, their advertisers must LOVE that point.

[Warpy]

18. It's screaming for a brave kid with a can of spray paint

to paint "PATRIOTS" over "liberals."

Wouldn't that be just perfect?

[Catherine Vincent]

31. Probably not a good idea.

It's not against the law to carry a weapon in your car, so some conservative would see someone spray painting over it and may take the notion to take a shot. You never know.

[dogday]

22. Where is it located in Houston

I am a local and would like to see it... Thanks

[Bridget Burke]

29. I'll buy the spray paint if you're athletic enough to do the job....

Or we could hire some taggers...

Note: This is a JOKE! Defacing a billboard might be fun.

But It Would be Wrong.

[Catherine Vincent]

33. My bus was heading south toward downtown on I45.

It was definitely after the beltway but before 610.

[Weembo]

37. On I-10 West just after the interchange with I-45

[KyuzoGator]

24. There are billboards for Limbaugh that say "LIBERALS JUST DON'T GET IT!"

It's a trend. They have nothing.

[gkhouston]

27. so, this billboard, or one very much like it, is appearly all over the

country. Interesting, don't you think?

[rpgamerd00d]

32. Get cans of spraypaint and blackout the word "Liberal". 1070AM - Hate it!

[dogday]

40. Change it to Liberty

That sure changes their message... Liberty Hates It!!! That's true for sure

[hexola]

36. Start calling the advertisers...!!!

This stupid campaign can be stopped dead in its tracks...

Money talks...

Start calling the stations advertising clients...

[LibinMo]

38. I bought satellite radio

So I won't have to listen to right wing broadcasts anymore. That's
all we can get here. I had to give up my USA Today newspaper in order to pay the $12.95 a month. A good trade-off IMO.

[Craig3410]

42. Quick question...

why does Houston need 11 christian stations?

[RaleighNCDUer]

43. Wouldn't it be a little more accurate to say

"Liberals Ignore It!"?

Of course, it is conservative so accuracy is not exactly a strong point.

[Catherine Vincent]

45. Good point!

[liam_laddie]

44. the perpetrator corporation

The three stations mentioned...Houston 1070AM, Chicago 560AM, and Atlanta 920AM are all owned
by Salem Communications Corporation, a network of (95) stations - (60) in the top 25 markets -
"...targeted to Christian and family themes audiences." Closely allied with the Council For National
Policy (CNP). Far-reich. Know thine enemy; these are NOT Christian, doubt if they've ever heard of
the parables. Links:

<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Salem_Communications_Corporation>

Write the ownership, complain!
Salem Communications Corporation
4880 Santa Rosa Road, Suite 300
Camarillo, CA US 93012
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
URL: http://www.salem.cc/

And a primer on CNP <http://watch.pair.com/cnp.html#cnp>

[KharmaTrain]

46. Salem "Media" At Work...Major GOOP Astroturfers

This is a company that operates right wing hate radio stations in major markets funded by running religious "dollar-a-hollar" preacher and Christian rock stations...along with a nice cash inflow from folks like the Scaiffes and other right wing slush funds.

They have a similar billboard for WIND here in Chicago...they're placed safely in the Repugnican suburbs. I've also seen the same billboard for KRLA in Orange County.

This is the company that bankrolls liars like Bettamillion Bill Bennett, Lucious Laura Ingraham, Puke Hewitt, Hypocrite Medved and a certain Michael Weiner. You want to hear the parallel universe? The culture war in full swing? Tune to your local "Patriot" affiliate.

Fortunately these stations draw poor ratings, but they're well funded and not going away.

[zbdent]

47. Put a smaller sign on it

"Republicans hate facts . . ."

[Radio_Guy]

48. Better yet

"The Culture of Corruption" loves it.