Yesterday morning I had the misfortune to listen to KSKY 660 AM, a local D-list right-wing radio station in the Fort Worth/Dallas area. The host, one Mike Smolter (er, "Gallagher") coughed up the usual right-wing furballs.
What was interesting was an advertisement for a show called Life and Liberty with Vicki Middleton. The ad was the kind of loony tunes paranoid nonsense perfected half a century ago by the John Birch Society and more recently, by the Shit Boat Veterans.
The ad claims that Barack Obama is selling out America to the Chinese. Nothing new there. But the reason Obama is a Chinese Fifth Columnist? Surprise surprise - because he's not really an American, but a Kenyan socialist! That's funny, I could have sworn it was because he's supposed to be a Muslim Negro Terrorist, but apparently that's just a ruse to throw right-thinking Real Americans off the scent. What a fiendishly cunning villain this Obama must be!
KSKY is the local affiliate for the assorted nutters at TownHall. I bring this up because a favorite tactic of these right-wingers is to concern-troll about the "lack of civility" on the Left when they appear on TV or radio. This is especially true for Bill Bennett, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and smarmiest and most plangent of all, Dennis Prager.
I called KSKY [(214) 561-9660] this morning and asked if they were proud of themselves for broadcasting this kind of racist garbage. No response yet.
I think it would be a good idea for left-leaning guests (like Stephanie Miller, who doesn't hesitate to mix it up with teabaggers) on TV to confront people like Prager, Medved, Gallagher, Hewitt, and Bennett with the fact that the same station that broadcasts their shows also broadcasts this kind of deranged racist trash.