Democrats are still getting trolled by the loudest trolls on the planet.
A couple of weeks ago Limbough played “Barrack the Magic Negro” to 10 million+ in order to attack Kamala Harris’s ‘black authenticity’. In the song ‘Comedian’ Paul Shanklin uses a vocal ‘black face’ Al Sharpton imitation to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon.
Now the radio racist, who might as well be wearing a white hood for 3 hours a day, is leading the KKK talk radio ‘outrage’ around the country to get Democrats out of the Virginia governor’s mansion.
Democrats are going to take a lot of that outrage as legitimate merely because they ignore the propaganda from those radio stations. Instead of Democrats having an honest discussion about all this we’re going to let Republicans decide, just like we let them decide that kneeling athletes are traitors dissing the flag, Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown deserved it, and “white lives matter” too.
In Virginia, 6 of the stations that headline Limbo are endorsed by Virginia Tech (5) and the University of Virginia — they broadcast sports on them. Those may include some of the loudest AM stations in the state.
Those schools need to be asked what they would do if the KKK, NRA, or Putin bought those stations. They might as well have bought them.
Democrats need offense and the most offensive thing Democrats in Va can do to Republicans is to protest those universities until there is a real discussion about the absurdity of ‘institutions of higher learning’ continuing to rent their brands/mascots to those stations to help them attract advertisers to pay for their broadcasting regular overt racism on public airwaves.
Those stations use public airwaves and are licensed to operate in the public interest. They all follow Limbo’s lead, probably close to 15 hours 5 days every week, and are dedicated to global warming denial, defunding and privatizing public education, excusing racism, protecting Trump, and attacking Mueller.
If Va Republicans would pay $1000/hour, 6 stations x 15 hours x 5 days is worth $450,000/week to them paid for by advertisers, endorsed by those schools, and exploiting those athletes.
To help get Kavenaugh confirmed to the supreme court Limbo spent 3 weeks calling Christine Blasey Ford a paid liar and operative of the Democrats trying to destroy a fine and decent American. He did the same to Anita Hill to get Thomas on the court.
A few weeks ago he created a nonsensical pretext, that establishment Dems or Dem billionaires would get the media to “take out” “communist” “socialist” “Marxist” “Stalinist” congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, just so he could suggest someone needs to “take her out” numerous times.
Long before Trump ever called Senator Warren ‘Pocahontas’, Limbo branded her with it. Now, in what may be efforts distance himself from Trump’s parroting RW radio, he’s trying to change his version to “faux-cahontas”.
Those stations have cheered for every government shutdown since the 90s. Limbo spent the better part of 2 months cheering on debt default in 2011, suggesting he might sometimes work for foreign billionaires.
Those are ONLY 6 of the 260 + Limbo stations (more than 40% of 600) that depend on 88 major universities. Those universities need to reread their mission statements and start looking for apolitical alternatives to broadcast sports on.
For 3 decades those 88 universities have endorsed the worst of Republican Party political tactics and lies. Protesting those universities for their support for those RW talk radio will help Republican congressmen and senators desert Trump. It will help Republicans bring some sanity back to their party, and it will help Democrats win a lot more elections.
IMO protests at those universities will prove much more effective than protesting at state capitols.
When a few universities start to end those associations others will follow.
Add to that the prospect that artificial intelligence makes it easier and cheaper by an order of magnitude to digitize, study, and monitor talk radio for content, patterns, and repetition and a majority of advertisers on Republican talk radio stations will begin to look elsewhere. When the true demand for the lies and hate broadcasting from those radio stations shakes out there will be a lot more balance in political talk radio.
That will end the undemocratic 20-1 messaging monopoly that put Trump in the White House and continues to force and enable Republicans to support him. Investigations will go a lot faster and easier for Democrats if Trump and the Republicans don’t have 1500 radio stations blowing in their sails.
These universities are good places to protest until they stop supporting racist Trump radio.
Artificial intelligence will force ad industry to kill RW radio. Dems can accelerate the inevitable.