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redshirt posted:Which made me realize I'd enjoy listening to left wing radio. Is there anything out there worthwhile? Note, NPR is too right wing for my tastes these days.
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:I think this is what you are talking about : http://mediamatters.org/video/2006/11/09/limbaugh-greets-democrats-as-liberators/137266 Amazing, yeah, judging by the language used that has to be what I was thinking of, even if I'd wrongly remembered the focus being on the White House, not Congress. Thanks! redshirt posted:Which made me realize I'd enjoy listening to left wing radio. Is there anything out there worthwhile? Note, NPR is too right wing for my tastes these days. I would suggest looking into college radio. Check the schedules of any college radio stations in your area, and when they're not playing Godspeed You Black Emperor they tend to have pretty leftward leaning news material. And Pacifica.
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redshirt posted:Somewhat relatedly, Jim Rome (sports radio) went on an extended discussion of marriage equality in general, and homosexuality in sports in specific. A couple of callers came right in with the "It's a sin, they need to repent" bit and he went right after them. It was refreshing. It's always interesting to me when political/cultural topics break into sports radio. It's pretty rare and usually the hosts will turn away quickly, so it was fascinating to hear Rome take on the subject. Stephanie Miller! https://www.stephaniemiller.com/
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platedlizard posted:Stephanie Miller! https://www.stephaniemiller.com/ Stephanie Miller is more snarky fun than substantive, in my opinion, although her show has gotten more issues oriented in the last year or so it seems. You should listen to it because she is funny and entertaining, but just think of it as a good natured audio Wonkette type show. It's hard for me to think of stuff I like that's specifically radio and not the radio broadcast of, say, Rachel Maddow.
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Today third-string radio fuckhead Roger Hedgecock said allowing gays to marry was like calling a dog's tail a leg and had a good laugh about it, and then said gays just want power and don't actually care about families or anything like that and they're only 3% of the population so why should anyone give a poo poo what they want. Literally the first time I've ever changed the channel in disgust in 10ish years of listening to conservative talk radio. This is what leathery human poo poo looks like. 
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For some reason in my head that's what Mark Belling looks like.
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I imagine any NFL team that wasn't ok with gay players would quickly realize how many gay superstar players they have, or find themselves facing a mostly-gay team of incredibly built, finely manicured football playing machines. In all seriousness, there really is just no incentive whatsoever for any professional sports organization to be anything but 100% super pro-gay.
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Warchicken posted:I imagine any NFL team that wasn't ok with gay players would quickly realize how many gay superstar players they have, or find themselves facing a mostly-gay team of incredibly built, finely manicured football playing machines. Before the Super Bowl, Chris Culliver made some anti-gay comments. He plays for the San Francisco 49-ers. He recieved some significant backlash for that.
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quote:Which made me realize I'd enjoy listening to left wing radio. Is there anything out there worthwhile? Note, NPR is too right wing for my tastes these days. Sirius has a left-wing talk station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_XM_Left) but I have no idea how good any of the shows are. Tim Selaty Jr fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Mar 29, 2013 |
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redshirt posted:Which made me realize I'd enjoy listening to left wing radio. Is there anything out there worthwhile? Note, NPR is too right wing for my tastes these days. -The Young Turks -Stephanie Miller -Randi Rhodes -Thom Hartmann And though I'm not sure if he still has a radio show, Ron Reagan. Dude is extremely entertaining.
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Mar 29, 2013 12:38
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Mr Interweb posted:-Randi Rhodes
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ReindeerF posted:I don't really know the rest too well, but this person is just horrible to listen to. I remember hearing her on Air America back in the day. I'm kind of surprised she's still at it.
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ReindeerF posted:I don't really know the rest too well, but this person is just horrible to listen to. I agree. Totally ruined Ozzy's sound.
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Pope Guilty posted:I remember hearing her on Air America back in the day. I'm kind of surprised she's still at it. She's actually syndicated by Premiere now, aka Clear Channel.
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Mar 29, 2013 13:59
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ReindeerF posted:I don't really know the rest too well, but this person is just horrible to listen to. I know she's not really enjoyed, even by liberals, but I like her. 
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mr. mephistopheles posted:said gays just want power and don't actually care about families or anything like that Projection much?
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Power over what? Like, did I miss the part in the wedding ceremony where the rings you exchange are forged in the fires of Mt Doom and twisted by Mordor's evil?
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They seem to think rights are some sort of zero-sum game where gays getting rights means they have to be taken away from straight people. As Orange Devil it seems to be projection- they're oppressed gays and other minorities so much they're terrified that the same thing will happen to them if said minorities git even the slightest bit of rights/power.
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Crameltonian posted:They seem to think rights are some sort of zero-sum game where gays getting rights means they have to be taken away from straight people. As Orange Devil it seems to be projection- they're oppressed gays and other minorities so much they're terrified that the same thing will happen to them if said minorities git even the slightest bit of rights/power. There were quite a number of people, some in my own family, that truly believe (still do) that Obama's election would bring about white slavery as 'revenge'.
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Mar 29, 2013 15:55
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Mr Interweb posted:I know she's not really enjoyed, even by liberals, but I like her. I listen to her once in awhile. Sometimes it's cathartic to hear a visceral liberal reaction of something horrible the republicans have done. Mike Malloy is better at it though.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Power over what? Like, did I miss the part in the wedding ceremony where the rings you exchange are forged in the fires of Mt Doom and twisted by Mordor's evil? Power over his tanning bed, by the looks of it.
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The Angry Bum posted:There were quite a number of people, some in my own family, that truly believe (still do) that Obama's election would bring about white slavery as 'revenge'. In the end, this is exactly what conservatism is. A reaction by ruling groups against the growing power of oppressed and minority groups.
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Mar 29, 2013 16:58
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Crameltonian posted:They seem to think rights are some sort of zero-sum game where gays getting rights means they have to be taken away from straight people. As Orange Devil it seems to be projection- they're oppressed gays and other minorities so much they're terrified that the same thing will happen to them if said minorities git even the slightest bit of rights/power. Yeah this works, but what I was actually getting at was, look at all the conservative groups with Family Values this and Protect the Family that and whatever else horseshit. Anyone who actually is anyone in the conservative movement doesn't give a gently caress about families or "the family" or whatever, they just use that rhetoric to get power.
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Yeah I got that, it's just interesting that the projection manifests itself in a bunch of different ways. These people have a fundamentally hateful world-view and they seem assume that everyone thinks the same way they do. Like the terror over America eventually becoming a 'minority-majority' nation shows that they realise that despite all their rhetoric about racism being over minorities really are treated as second-class citizens and they're fine with that as long as it's not them being hosed over.
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The Angry Bum posted:There were quite a number of people, some in my own family, that truly believe (still do) that Obama's election would bring about white slavery as 'revenge'.
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redshirt posted:Somewhat relatedly, Jim Rome (sports radio) went on an extended discussion of marriage equality in general, and homosexuality in sports in specific. A couple of callers came right in with the "It's a sin, they need to repent" bit and he went right after them. It was refreshing. It's always interesting to me when political/cultural topics break into sports radio. It's pretty rare and usually the hosts will turn away quickly, so it was fascinating to hear Rome take on the subject. Only a podcast but Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is really good.
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kik2dagroin posted:Wow, Rush just went on a long tirade about people collecting disability benefits. Why aren't these people included in the unemployment statistics? Why can't they provide for themselves? His evidence was 25% of people in a single county in Bumfuck, AL were on disability. Yeah, that's really something else. Rush has been going on and on about low info voters and "where do they get their information????!!" Listening to him, all I wanted to was raise my hand and go "ooo! ooo! I know where." I think it's sort of the Karl Rove trick where you accuse others of doing what you do, etc, etc. so that Rush and FOX and them can co-opt the term "low information voter". It started out as a left wing term on left wing radio. Radish posted:
I find this true of all rednecks. I've lived in NE Florida for 20 years or so and these cowboy tough guys are the most sensitive, whiny babies about everything, especially when they think they're the subject of a joke. They can't laugh at themselves at all and are the most easily offended and butt hurt individuals I've ever seen.
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BiggerBoat posted:I find this true of all rednecks. I've lived in NE Florida for 20 years or so and these cowboy tough guys are the most sensitive, whiny babies about everything, especially when they think they're the subject of a joke. They can't laugh at themselves at all and are the most easily offended and butt hurt individuals I've ever seen. "Them's fightin' words" = "STOP MAKING FUN OF MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" 
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In the Los Angeles area there's a liberal talk radio station. It used to be Air America, but now it's owned by clearchannel. KTLK AM 1150: http://www.ktlkam1150.com/main.html
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Speaking of left wing radio, is there anywhere I can go to download episodes of Miller, Rhodes, etc?
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Jim Carrey is trolling conservatives from the year 1994:Actor Jim Carrey posted:Since I released my “Cold Dead Hand” video on Funny or Die this week, I have watched Fux News rant, rave, bare its fangs and viciously slander me because of my stand against large magazines and assault rifles. I would take them to task legally if I felt they were worth my time or that anyone with a brain in their head could actually fall for such irresponsible buffoonery. That would gain them far too much attention which is all they really care about. I haven't heard someone use "colostomy bag" in a put down since... the last time Jim Carrey used colostomy bag in a put down.
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He isn't really changing my mind on the belief that anyone who says stuff like FUX news or PMSNBC are douchebags.
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http://www.change.org/petitions/dep...-back-to-canada Jim Carrey, an American citizen, should be deported because he is exercising his first ammendment rights and it just makes me so mad *punches wall*
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I Fought The Mom posted:http://www.change.org/petitions/dep...-back-to-canada Wasn't there a petition to deport Piers Morgan because of his argument with Alex Jones that the White House pretty much "Uh, first amendment protects him - thanks"?
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ThirdPartyView posted:Wasn't there a petition to deport Piers Morgan because of his argument with Alex Jones that the White House pretty much "Uh, first amendment protects him - thanks"? Pretty much they wanted him kicked out for using his first amendment rights to speak out against their second amendment rights. They did not see the irony in this at all.
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ThirdPartyView posted:Wasn't there a petition to deport Piers Morgan because of his argument with Alex Jones that the White House pretty much "Uh, first amendment protects him - thanks"? The best thing about that whole Piers Morgan situation is that his ratings were atrocious and he was days from getting fired, and then he figured out how to milk right-wing morons.
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Republicans posted:He isn't really changing my mind on the belief that anyone who says stuff like FUX news or PMSNBC are douchebags. The douchebag of my douchebag is MY douchebag.
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I'm a little conflicted about the Carrie v. Fox News beef. On the one hand, I loving HATED Bruce Almighty. On the other hand, Fox News is quite disgusting. Argh!
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Mr Interweb posted:I'm a little conflicted about the Carrie v. Fox News beef.  In seriousness, Jim Carrey gets my full support. gently caress  .
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fade5 posted:I found Bruce Almighty funny, if not screamingly hilarious. Besides, how can you hate Morgan Freeman as God? He's God already, of course, but still. I went to go see the movie in the theaters when it came out (something I did extremely rarely at the time), and I really wanted to like it, but the movie was awful, and the story was absolute garbage. Morgan Freeman was the only saving grace, but alas even he wasn't enough to overlook the movie's transgressions.
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