Hate Radio: The Salem Radio Network
If you've got a good job, or an education, or an FM radio, chances are you haven't heard the Salem Radio Network. So you probably don't realize just how ugly things have gotten in this country. Sure, you remember the ugly invectives from the "Religious Right" during the election, and you might remember Tom DeLay threatening to get even with the federal judges who decided that a person's right to make a decision with their spouse regarding the use of extraordinary means of life support in the event of irreversible catastrophic brain damage is not the business of Bill Frist, Rick Santorum and the irrepressible asinine Sam Brownbeck. You might even have heard Ann Coulter encouraging the murder of those she calls "liberal". But you haven't heard hate until you've heard The Salem Radio Network.
SRN, and their parent, Salem Communications is an upstart media conglomerate in the Clear Channel mode, but they play a low-down game, manipulating the religious fervor of the Evangelicals to push a neo-fascist agenda that makes the check-pants conservatives at Clear Channel or Fox News look like pikers by comparison.
Think of the ugliest stereotype of the phoney-baloney, cynical, TV preacher, sucking money from desperate folks while pumping it back into the political system, not to make the country better, but to fatten their wallets and to grab power. Picture the most foul Bill Maher joke about the neocon hypocrites with a cross in one hand and a flag in the other, greasing the way for rotten corporate thieves to take wealth beyond measure, while convincing the middle class that the lack of proper health care is the American Way. The reality of the Salem Radio Network has these exaggerations beat by a mile. They are the real deal. They are the Anti-Christian Christians, the Anti-American Americans. They are the worst of the worst. And they're slick liars, smooth on the outside, rotten on the inside. They've learned their business-school lessons well, with their synergistic marketing and disciplined message. And they're coming to your town.
I wish I had the literary and journalistic skills to convey the nastiness of this outfit, but nothing I could possibly write would do the job as well as a couple of hours of listening to SRN. Go to the website, find a station near you, or go to the individual hosts' websites and listen online. Then tell me if I'm wrong. It's time that that the decent people of America found out just how bad things have gotten, and just how serious the religious maniacs are about taking away our freedom, our way of life.
[Note to Chicagoans: Here, the Salem Radio Network can be found at AM 560, "Left on your dial, but Right on the issues."]
SRN, and their parent, Salem Communications is an upstart media conglomerate in the Clear Channel mode, but they play a low-down game, manipulating the religious fervor of the Evangelicals to push a neo-fascist agenda that makes the check-pants conservatives at Clear Channel or Fox News look like pikers by comparison.
Think of the ugliest stereotype of the phoney-baloney, cynical, TV preacher, sucking money from desperate folks while pumping it back into the political system, not to make the country better, but to fatten their wallets and to grab power. Picture the most foul Bill Maher joke about the neocon hypocrites with a cross in one hand and a flag in the other, greasing the way for rotten corporate thieves to take wealth beyond measure, while convincing the middle class that the lack of proper health care is the American Way. The reality of the Salem Radio Network has these exaggerations beat by a mile. They are the real deal. They are the Anti-Christian Christians, the Anti-American Americans. They are the worst of the worst. And they're slick liars, smooth on the outside, rotten on the inside. They've learned their business-school lessons well, with their synergistic marketing and disciplined message. And they're coming to your town.
I wish I had the literary and journalistic skills to convey the nastiness of this outfit, but nothing I could possibly write would do the job as well as a couple of hours of listening to SRN. Go to the website, find a station near you, or go to the individual hosts' websites and listen online. Then tell me if I'm wrong. It's time that that the decent people of America found out just how bad things have gotten, and just how serious the religious maniacs are about taking away our freedom, our way of life.
[Note to Chicagoans: Here, the Salem Radio Network can be found at AM 560, "Left on your dial, but Right on the issues."]
posted by Nittacci at 10:01 AM
1 Comments:
I know this Salem Network, with their "SRN News". These boys are scary. Have you heard the anti-abortion commercials? They used to say "Opinions expressed by this commercial are not necessarily the opinion ". blah blah blah" Now, they've taken that off.
I'd like to know how they're able to buy so many stations in one market. Political Contributions, maybe?
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