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certainot

(9,090 posts) Thu Jan 26, 2017, 03:09 PM Jan 2017

These 88 universities are Trump allies. Students and scientists can protest right on campus.

How many protestors is one Republican talk radio host worth?

A few hundred Republican radio liars on more than 1000 radio stations across the country are attacking protestors, lying about their motives, magnifying any violence, and encouraging government officials and cops to mace them and crack their heads. Like they did with the Iraq war protestors, Occupy Wall Street, and Ferguson. They attack government employees, representatives trying to do the right thing, and any citizens resisting Trump. They keep Republican politicians in line.

257 of Limbaugh’s 600 radio stations, including many of the loudest in the country, would probably have to convert to other programming if they couldn’t depend on the help of the 88 major universities listed below. By broadcasting sports on those stations those universities give them community credibility and help them attract advertisers.

There is no excuse for those schools not to begin looking for apolitical alternatives. Until they declare they will begin that process they are helping a few hundred think tank-coordinated fools and liars minimize anti-Trump activism around the country.

Here’s an example of this unholy alliance. The major Limbaugh station in NM is paid by Learfield Sports, a major university sports licensing company, to broadcast Lobos games. In late November (22) one of their producers (Pat Frisch) was criticizing Santa Fe for being a ‘sanctuary city’ and suggested to his listeners on the morning commute that they may want to watch the killer vigilante “Purge” movies, and, “some people may say hey maybe that’s not a bad idea”.

It’s possible he got that from one of the think tanks or one of the national talk show hosts and there are other local blowhards repeating the same thing all over the country. That’s how RW radio works.

The RW radio blowhards are starting to lay out a list of unreal (and expensive) ways Trump will get ‘illegal aliens’, criminals, drug dealers, and Mexico, etc., to pay for the wall. That will help the Republican base deny reality and enable Republican politicians and media to support the racist jerks in the White House.

All over the country Hispanics are worried about their relatives and children because of assholes like that, and our universities are endorsing a lot of it.

Trump and the Republicans are going to shout over any progressive activism with a few hundred radio hosts reaching tens of millions of people in 40 red states with 80 senators. In the vast majority of those parts of the US there are no free easy alternatives for politics, especially while driving and working.

It is a huge unchallenged advantage for them, invisible to those it attacks.

Talk radio is Cheeto Samson’s hair and the universities below are the scissors. Any of Trump’s atrocities can be protested at these universities. It would only take a few universities to shame the rest.

Below are those Limbaugh stations per state and the number per university. These are minimum numbers. Total RW stations parasitizing publicly funded universities may be much higher.

From republiconradio.org:

ALABAMA 8 Auburn 3, Alabama 2, Southern Alabama 2, Troy 1
ARIZONA 2 Arizona St. 1, Arizona 1
ARKANSAS 3 Arkansas 3
CALIFORNIA 5 San Jose State 2, USC 2, Fresno St. 1
COLORADO 4 Air Force 2, Colorado 1, Colorado State 1
CONNECTICUT 1 Connecticut 1
FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2
GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
IDAHO 7 Boise St. 4, Idaho 3
ILLINOIS 7 Illinois 7
INDIANA 11 Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1
IOWA 5 Iowa 4, Iowa St. 1
KANSAS 4 Kansas St. 2, Kansas 1, Wichita St. 1
KENTUCKY 3 Louisville 2, Kentucky 1
LOUSIANA 3 LSU 2, La.-Monroe 1
MARYLAND 2 Maryland 2
MASSACHUSETTS 1 Boston College 1
MICHIGAN 19 Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
MINNESOTA 4 Minnesota 4
MISSISSIPPI 6 Mississippi St. 3, Mississippi 2, Southern Miss 1
MISSOURI 6 Missouri 6
NEBRASKA 6 Nebraska 6
NEVADA 1 Nevada 1
NEW JERSEY 2 Rutgers 1, Seton Hall 1
NEW MEXICO 3 New Mexico 2, New Mexico St. 1
NEW YORK 7 Syracuse 6, Army 1
NORTH CAROLINA 16 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
OHIO 10 Ohio St. 6, Toledo 1, Dayton 1, Bowling Green 1, Xavier 1
OKLAHOMA 5 Oklahoma St. 3, Oklahoma 1, Oral Roberts 1
OREGON 12 Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5
PENNSYLVANIA 14 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1
SOUTH CAROLINA 4 South Carolina 2, Clemson 2
TENNESSEE 7 Tennessee 4, Memphis 3
TEXAS 16 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1
UTAH 1 Utah St. 1
VIRGINIA 6 Virginia Tech 5, Virginia 1
WASHINGTON 6 Washington 5, Washington St. 1
WEST VIRGINIA 2 West Virginia 1, Marshall 1
WISCONSIN 5 Wisconsin 5