Listening to conservative talk radio is painful. The right wing radio hosts should be required to read Surgeon General warning labels because their programs are hazardous to our mental health. The radio hosts on these programs don't just express their ignorance. They celebrate it. Unfortunately for me, I am too curious. I often wonder about how they will creatively distort reality to match their audience expectations. This week I listened to Rush Limbaugh and his clone-in-the-Triangle, Bill Lemay of WPTF radio. I can listen for only a few minutes at a time (see Surgeon General warning). Therefore, the following is just a sampling of comments about Obama and his inauguration from the right wing radio perspective: - True conservatives should hope that Obama fails.
- Obama's goal is to implement a "socialist agenda."
- Bill Ayers is going to be running the Dept. of Education from behind the scenes.
- Obama's inaugural address was "a rambling, disjointed, buzz kill."
- There were no memorable lines in the speech and the audience was down and depressed. There was no buzz.
- The liberal media would have told us the speech was great "even if Obama read his car's owner's manual."
Perhaps, in the future we can create a public health response to the disease of right wing talk radio. The conservative entertainers will always have a right to speak but, I think young people should be inoculated against illegitimate sources of information that do not even try to speak the truth.
- Obama's goal is to implement a "socialist agenda."
- Bill Ayers is going to be running the Dept. of Education from behind the scenes.
- Obama's inaugural address was "a rambling, disjointed, buzz kill."
- There were no memorable lines in the speech and the audience was down and depressed. There was no buzz.
- The liberal media would have told us the speech was great "even if Obama read his car's owner's manual."
Perhaps, in the future we can create a public health response to the disease of right wing talk radio. The conservative entertainers will always have a right to speak but, I think young people should be inoculated against illegitimate sources of information that do not even try to speak the truth.
Michael B. Owen
Comments
Rush who?
Limbaugh—is he still on the air? I suppose it has all been a big buzz kill for him.I voted for Ayers as a write-in, even though he didn't do enough to end the war. "The red man can get ahead, man" was a pretty good one, but from The Man Himself:
Thanks
Thanks for refocusing my attention back to the positive rhetoric of Obama and away from toxic prose of the radio nuts. They seem to worry that Obama will "reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine" for the communication industry. I really don't know what the Fairness Doctrine is but if it requires right wing radio stations to present two sides of an issue I think it is a great idea.