Talk Radio Owner Orders Rhetoric Dialed Back

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/cumulus-radio-conservative-election-fraud/2021/01/11/e12ec46e-537c-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

After decades of Flush Phlegmball (the gateway drug), he's no longer enough.

That's why Savage/Levin/et. al. have flourished, and from there, there's no more down to go, except for Stormfront and the like.

Without the hate hit, growing more industrial-strength every year, the rubes may as well be listening to the yard sale call-in show on the local AM station.

Now that the Democrats are in power, hate radio will play the victim card over and over. “See what the socialists are doing to freedom loving Americans now?” And the poor, aggrieved MAGAts will listen slavishly.

. . . . as it always is, for every change in the federal code or gay wedding cake topper, it's not going to have the same delicious End Times mouthfeel.

Though as you point out, and to paraphrase Humphrey Bogart, "We'll always have Socialism."

..fuckin' loser MAGATS!

Not gone, just highly supressed and hopefully scorned, to nearly out of existence and their jobs back home, by the true patriots of America.

They are merely back underground. Thus eternal vigilance is necessary.

They need to confess their lies and start telling the truth. They're culpable for a lot of the division in this country.

Damned Fascists! They have been stoking rage for 30 years! They can still push hate and lies.

the fairness doctrine. Then the GOP moneymen bought up every failing AM radio station in the country - well over 1000 - and in came Rusty Limbaugh to demonize Democrats. Then came Murdoch and Ailes with FOX, which really pushed the envelope on the truth. But the right-wing zealots weren't done yet. Newsmax really tore the lid off "alternative facts", and then OAN, which has no tether to reality at all.

So thanks, Ronnie Raygun. I hated your decrepit old ass in the 80s, but you're the gift that keeps in giving.....SHIT!

Apparently the orange menace was NOT really good for business long term.
He's not yet out of office & big business is discarding him like an empty wrapper.
BI, Forbes, Amazon, Apple, Google, several companies pulling money from sycophants, and now Cumulus.
It's almost as if they would have made their money if he was never president, and they'll continue to make it when he's gone.
Well, it's not almost like that. It'sexactly like that.

...not really culpable. And the 2 magazines, as long as they didn't promote the vote fraud lie are shielded.
It's more that big business likes the status quo & stability. And, aside from COVID, the Obama recovery economy was still humming.
So, they all knew the whole time that the last 4 years of profits & rising stock prices had nothing to do with the manbaby in the WH.
But, the crazy is creating instability & uncertainty. So, he no longer represents economic status quo.
Also, (not exactly a profile in courage), he's gone anyway. So, cutting him loose early carries no risk.
The risk here is to the Rs in general.
Big business, going forward, may see THEM as a risk, not dems talking corporate taxes & regulations.
Open revolt is much worse for business that EPA regs. Especially since environmental abatement measures are already a sunk cost!

without the radio." - Joseph Goebbels

Fascist hate radio is complicit in turning tens of millions of Americans into deranged fascist lunatics, who are dangerously out of touch with reality. Cumulus was just following Goebbel's long term Nazi blueprint for propagandizing ignorant people into becoming a fascist mob, who would worship, and be easily controlled, by an authoritarian dictator.

Great post. The Third Reich's mass production of cheap radios affordable to the middle class was no accident.

Wonder how Hannity feels about that?

“After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America’s largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction,” the Washington Post reports.

.... Sebastian Gorka who have fomented hate by spreading lies for years and now they
have "found Jesus."

... I had the radio on scan and I hit on one of the many right wing stations. It struck me funny
to hear an out and out nazi sympathizer, Sebastian Gorka, and look at the Ohio River valley
where in the 1940s hundreds of thousands of Americans came from in order to fight the Nazis
in WW II.

One of the worst things that Ronald Reagan did was get rid of the "fairness doctrine" and so for
the past 2.5 generations millions of Americans have been bathed in non stop misinformation and
that bull shit fed the cancer on American which "bloomed" in the attack on the Nation's Capitol in
order to stop Joe Biden being President.

sorry to

A friend and I discussed the loss of the Fairness Doctrine when it happened. We anticipated big problems.

I have to remind myself sometimes that everyone wasn't in agreement about fighting the nazis. I watched The Remains of the Day again last night. As late as the 1980s I heard my boss's boss say, "Hitler wasn't all bad." People can be awful, disgusting, wreckless, selfish, and hateful.

revolked .

What will these simpletons do if nobody tells them how to think?

How will they handle lie-free news? I've been in shock since upstate Wisconsin news outlets have been telling the truth. Too bad that wasn't an option during the Scott Walker regime.

And enforce community monopoly rules, break up groups like sinclair and cumulus, and get back to regional as opposed to global ownership of news outlets.

Facebook and google included. Amazon as well.

Break up the monoliths, get some fresh air and diversity back into the system.

That guy is a ducking dweeb. "The Radical Democrats" won.

in hindsight, why they wanted to get rid of Section 230.

Why can't they have the courage of their real convictions and just admit that they don't care about no damn democracy, don't want no democracy, in fact, don't even want or care about no pesky free and fair elections either?

They just want their authoritarian daddy figures in power to tell them who to hate and when to do it. Oh, and to tell them they're "patriots" and throw the words "freedom" and "constitution" around alot without really caring about or wanting either.

Come on, stop being cowards and tell us who you really are and what you really want, Buttercup.

Just a few years too late

and what transpired last Wednesday with you enabling this profaned BS for so many years...............FUCK YOU, who are your advertisers............

They need to tell their listeners the truth and admit that they lied.

Fox Noise. But the right wing Medusa Snake has many heads. Rusty Limpballs, Lose Knobs, Shawn Vanity, Cucker Tarlson, Liar Ingraham, Snark Levin, Rabid Bat Roberson, Newt GangreneRICH and the entire GOP. Burn them all to the ground.

NOW a warning!!???

A little late, but okay.

Let’s slam that barn door but good, now that all the horses have already run out...

they tell one more lie they are fired.

Daily: https://www.westwoodone.com/PROGRAMMING/Talk-Radio/Daily-Talk/

Includes Mark Levine, Michael Knowles and Ben Shapiro

Weekend: https://www.westwoodone.com/PROGRAMMING/Talk-Radio/Weekend-Talk/

Remove their permission to broadcast on American airwaves and block the frequencies. Arrest the staff too and ban them from the industry!

Burn the whole network of liars down! Make them apologize in public to everyone they lied to. Mao had a point about that.

Then go after the Mercers and the other enablers who financed it all and who own the networks, affiliates and shell companies.

And finally get Rupert Murdoch and his criminal spawn in court and charge them too.

These are public airwaves. They are not to be used to foment an overthrow of a democratically elected government.

They've always known that sooner or later something like this would result from their white-grievance storm-the-barricades bloviating...

Most business models including media require a modicum of sociopolitical stability to succeed.
Entonces, mis amigos, the talk radio heads mst now reign
in the monster they created that is trying to burn down the village. Hold the irony on your tongues and savor it, kids.

But nobody is laughing this time.