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In reply to the discussion: List of all Progressive talk radio stations by State!!! [View all]Justpat
(3,567 posts)17. My road trip story
A couple of years ago I was driving from Long Island, NY to Lexington, KY to attend the annual yearling sales there. I started out listening to WWRL in NY, a progressive station that has Mark Riley, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes in the daily line up. Then I get to MD/VA where there was only Pigboy and Beck.
Then I get through south western VA and southern West Virginia where, literally in the middle of nowhere, the only voice on the airwaves was Glen Beck.
The sw VA and southern WVA area is very mountainous and rural. But somehow Fox news had managed to get a signal as clear as day to all the people living there. There was nothing but static on any other station. The fox station was so clear it sounded like Beck was in the passenger seat.
How come we cannot get our voices heard? How come we cannot get progressive businesses to invest in
radio? The most ignorant, backwards voters will continue to be that way if they never hear a peep from
some other point of view.
The particular Beck rant that day was one of his super crazy ones. He was speaking in a low, conspiratorial voice claiming that us liberals were coming for them and their way of life and to prove his point he was reading from
a SDS tract from the '60s. Holy shit the man is crazy.
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