If you haven’t cruised the AM side of your radio dial lately, you may be surprised at what you haven’t heard. AM radio has been taken over by the ultra-conservative right and their pro-God, pro-war agenda. Worse yet, they are feeding it to our kids. More and more adolescents are being drawn into the mire that is Talk Radio. Where once was classic country music and wholesome hip-hop programming is now a cesspool of ideology driven infotainment.
Some of the characters are more harmful than others but be assured they are all bad. Very bad. These are the preachers of intolerance and hate who hide behind the guise of entertainment and news.
Amongst the worst of the worst is Premier Radio’s Glenn Beck. Each day Beck traffics in vile Republican propaganda and bigotry. He pokes fun at the disabled and intellectually challenged with segments of his show aptly named: Moron Trivia, The Corky Report and Jepretardy. He has even stooped so low as to mock Dr. Steven Hawking, one of the most brilliant minds of our time, and poor Alan Colmes’ wandering eye.Another purveyor of narrow-minded abhorrence is Michael Savage. His shows bears
a harder edge and a take it or leave it attitude. Savage, a doctor of botany (go figure), delivers his version of the “truth” with a vicious tongue often resorting to personal insults when confronted by real facts from real callers. Savage, whose real name is Weiner, refers to his forum as “The Savage Nation” Obviously his brand of hate would reach fewer ears if his show were named “The Weiner Nation."
Laura Ingraham is a former lawyer, supreme court clerk, and speech writer for Ronald Reagan. She hosts a daily hate radio show which mixes farting and burping noises with sound bites of democrats (out of context of course) edited to make them sound stupid. Don't worry too much if your kids are listening to Ingraham's show it is little more than Republican drivel with a whiney cheerleader at the mixing board.Perhaps the real damage is done by the producers of these ideology driven programs. The shows are purposely aimed at a more impressionable demographic 12 to 20 years of age with the use of “youthful” sounding theme songs and bumpers (and the occasional fart and burp sound) all the while wrapping the hatred of progressive thought in an ironic flavor of comedy (if you want to call it comedy). Many parents don’t take the time to analyze what their children are listening to and if left unchecked, this brainwashing of young minds will ultimately be societies undoing.
Mark my words.
Copyright © 2005 Quaid Davis. All rights reserved.
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