Tonight in Houston I was listening to the Chris Baker radio show. He's definitely a winger, definitely a Limbaugh wannabe, but not yet (operative words) as bitter and arrogant and belligerent as Hannity. Matter of fact, Baker knocked Hannity from his timeslot.
Anyway, so yes I'm a glutton for punishment. But I was actually waiting for weather and traffic not him, when a news BULLETIN came on. "Terrorists threaten Reliant Stadium!!" I thought, "Oy vey here we go ah-gain."
http://www.chron.com/...
So Chris starts asking callers about this threat. Whether they believe it or not. I'm stunned by the number of people completely complacent. People actually saying it's contrived for the elections.
One guy even starts talking about how many warnings they get regularly on the railroads and why aren't those made public. He presumes "becauses its not near an election or as sensational".
Chris sort of plays devils advocate a lot which is why he is tolerable. He doesn't scream over callers. But one caller had both he and I stunned.
Caller agrees that "yes, its due to the election" BUT, in his opinion (ready for this?) it is the Democrats contrived way of showing how we aren't safe so that people will vote for them.
Egad.
When Chris asks "Why haven't the terror alerts been raised since the last elections" the caller confidently replies "There haven't been any because we're safer". Chris answers with a noncommitted "Interesting".
Oh. My. God.
Well, there's your 28%.
However, the crux of this diary is to say that even here in deep south Texas EVERY caller I heard on this right leaning radio show no longer trusts the word of the government when it comes to reporting about terror alerts truthfully. (Some for crazier reasons than others, but what the hay?)
Looks like Tin Foil is IN this season! Whoo hoo. Gonna get mine flocked for the holidays.