Posted by Jay Diamond on September 13, 2009 at 18:46:29:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hannity- 8 Years As a National Host Today posted by Allan Sniffen on September 13, 2009 at 10:05:05:
When for four months Malzberg screams 10 times a day that "Folks, Barack Obama HATES! this country and his WIFE HATES! this country"(this particular phraseology and the reference to the first lady seems to have changed after a post of mine last week)....but when he did that for four months every day at the top of his lungs....I don't care what you say....It is Vile Poison squared.
And when for over ten years, every day, Hannity couldn't survive a fact check in the average kindergarten class, and when he violated Abner Louima with the equvalent of a verbal plunger after Louima had been worked over with a physical plunger, that was nothing else but Vile Poison.
Prior to low-brow, rightwing, dishonest, and hate fueled talk radio, the political culture of our country would have prevented Joe Wilson from screaming insults at the President of the United States in the midst of an address to a joint session (or anywhere else).
This culture of relentlessly dishonest and utterly ignorant pure hate which is ubiquitous all over low-brow, rightwing radio is nothing other than Vile Poison.
But there where people who for a long time considered throwing Christians to lions as merely "Entertainment".
Y'know, it is possible to do a radio program that is truly entertaining, honest, intelligent, funny, and informative.
But doing that requires some amount of ethics and talent and diligent application.
And that does not describe the low-brow, rightwing, hate fueled, dishonest, and power hungry slobs who bleed pure poison all across the public spectrum.
Trivializing the most ugly and persistently untruthful political slurs about crucial public policy questions along with ugly and false personal character assassination in furtherance of a political agenda that could not exist on the merits is not entertainment by any meaningful definition.
For example, on this idiotic and malicious low-brow, rightwing radio the President of the United States is a Marxist who HATES! this country along with his wife.
That's just one example...some others: Death panels, birthers, the USA couldn't live without attacking and occupying Iraq (3 Trillion dollars later of tax payers money), Sarah Palin is a genius who loves America even as she makes speeches of love to the Alaska Independence Party whose whole existence is devoted to LEAVING the country she makes believe she loves.
And an endless torrent of irresposibly, immorally, throwing red meat to the least informed, most hate filled cadres in an increasingly ignorant demographic consumed in the malice and stupidity that makes license holders money today as it eats the country up from the inside in the long term.
This is the message that goes out all over talk radio on the Public's Air, minute by minute, day after day after day.
It is killing the country they make believe they love.
Hey, but it pays well.
What it is, is a disgrace, and it is a travesty to trivialize it as "entertainment".
Richard Bey is entertaining.
The unlettered, humorless slobs talking spit on low-brow, rightwing radio are not entertainment. They are an ugly spectacle. There is a difference.
Anyone who has seen traffic slow to a crawl as the motorists gawk at the spectacle of bleeding and broken bodies in the immediate aftermath of a big traffic wreck understands that difference.
It is not subtle. Neither is the radio cancer eating away at the civic body of the United States.