I’ve been exposed to some AM/right wing radio recently. Obnoxious, of course, but occasionally it’s intersting to check in with the squares and fascists. Isn’t it interesting, the psychology behind it all, constant demonization of the “liberals” and the culture of acceptance, every day some new outrage to be worked up about, and how the whole machine is operating on ANGER. More than some ‘upstanding solid citizen’ shit, like ‘perhaps we should pity and teach the misguided heathens’, fuck that, they want conflict and descenting opinion to have less representation. It’s not like you turn on NPR or some other ‘liberal media’ and hear Carl Castle foaming at the mouth about what he can’t stand about the right, or the situation remaining at the end of republican control of the executive and legislative branches. You just tune in to get the news. Maybe there is a bias, esp. in the editorials (and I admit being guilty of refering to Daniel Shore as ‘that pompous egghead’ on occasion) but it’s not a call to arms. Air America is defunct, and I never once tuned in. AL, Janeane, go ahead and blame me, but I’m not too worried about your futures. There’s enough anger and despair in my life without getting more from the radio. Radio used to be about music and melodramas. True, comedians can get pithy in their rountines, but that’s not actual political commentary. Sadly, The Daily Show is a major source of current event update for many, but anyway…

I was listening and it suddenly struck me who else operates in this fashion - get ‘em good and riled up, make sure a faith based value system is the foundation on which you pretend to stand, constantly draw the lines between US and THEM but blur the line between ‘education’ and ‘opinion’…

Do mullahs constantly bitch about taxes too?