Do you know anyone in professional sports?
Some quick searches revealed that 13 of the top 18 teams still playing NBA games this season broadcast sports on 32 radio stations that feature Republican/right wing/racist talk show hosts.
So, while basketball players have been kneeling for the anthem and wearing jerseys with slogans calling for equality and justice, team owners continue to broadcast games on radio stations dedicated to undermining those efforts. 16 of the 32 stations feature Rush Limbaugh, who coordinates with Trump and has likely been used by Putin since at least 2008. His 600 stations lead a chorus of 1500 radio stations in denying systemic racism, selling racist policies, and fighting police reform.
Those radio stations can reasonably be considered the voice of the modern KKK.
Hundreds of those racist Republican radio stations depend on professional, college, and even high school athletes in various sports to attract advertisers. That includes more than 260 Limbaugh stations that parasitize 87 universities and their student athletes. In some of those sports most of the athletes are black.
With Biden’s pick of Senator Kamela Harris for VP, Republican radio will begin ramping up the racism and the misogyny. Those stations will play a critical part in any Trump attempt to avoid leaving office.
Democrats need more than GOTV and donations. At $1000/hr, 1200 radio stations broadcasting 15 hrs/day of Republican talk radio are worth $90MIL/week and nearly $5BIL/year.
It might only take one famous athlete to tell his or her team to stop. If any of the teams or schools begin to pull out of Republican talk radio others will follow. Most schools and pro teams broadcast on a number of other radio stations as well and few will be able to defend staying on the KKK stations and not looking for alternative apolitical stations.
At the same time Limbaugh is missing a lot of time with treatments for stage four lung cancer. The advertising industry and stations know they cannot replace him and expect to be able to charge the same fees for those 3 prime hours per day. They cannot count on him returning to normal.
The Republican radio monopoly is on the edge of a cliff and just needs a little push. Any significant activism aimed at it will force the advertising industry to ask advertisers if they really support Trump and global warming and COVID denial.
The advertising industry wants the millions of ears those radio stations reach and will begin to break up and democratize the Republican monopoly before advertisers desert radio all together.
Without Limbaugh and talk radio Trump has no chance and Putin will lose a very important propaganda tool.
If you have any connections with sports writers or sports radio, or know anyone in pro sports…..
Limbaugh led the national effort to label Colin Kaepernick and other kneeling athletes “anti-American”.
Here is Limbaugh from July 27, 2020, explaining how Black Lives Matter will destroy professional sports in America:
But now, because of the anti-cop sentiment, they've lost half of the audience. Now, what does the NFL think is gonna happen and what does Major League Baseball think is gonna happen once they start protesting the anthem and kneeling, which Major League Baseball has done, and they put Black Lives Matter all over the pitcher's mounds. And it's a Marxist organization. Everybody knows this. And they're ignoring it. It's not hard to find out that it's not about civil rights. It's not about fairness. It's not about doing this.
It's a pro-Marxist, anti-American, full-fledged anti-American organization.
Those teams are listed below with the call letters of the racist radio stations they support. ‘L’ after a station means it headlines Limbaugh. ‘RW’ means it doesn’t headline Limbaugh but usually has a variety of other racist blowhards like Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Michael (Wiener) Savage, Alex Jones, etc.
Washington Wizards
“Putin says tell them COVID IS A HOAX so we can cancel the election”
WBRG 1050 AM & 104.5 FM RW
WLVA 580 AM, 94.1 FM RW
WRNR 740 AM and 106.5 FM RW
WNOS 1450 AM & 106.5 FM RW
WCHV 1260 AM and 107.5 FM RW
Los Angeles Lakers
KTIE 590 AM L
KTMS 990 AM L
KVTA 1590 AM L
KGX 920 AM RW
Portland Trailblazers
KLOO 1340 AM L
KBKR 1490 AM L
‘Brain’ storm…..
KBND 1110 AM RW
KFLS 1450 AM RW
Boston Celtics
WLOB 1310 AM RW
WXTK 95.1 FM L
WPRV 790 AM RW
Utah Jazz
KVNU 610 AM L
KDXU 890 AM L
KYAH 540 AM RW
Phoenix Suns
KATO 1230 AM L
KNKI 106.7 FM RW
KNTR 980 AM / 97.3 FM RW
Orlando Magic
WWTK 730 AM RW
WHBO 1040 AM RW
Dallas Mavericks
KTBB 600 AM L
KEES 1430 AM L
Milwaukee Bucks
WMEQ 880 AM L
KFIZ 1450 AM RW
Denver Nuggets
KNFO 106.1 FM/105.5 FM L
Houston Rockets
KTRH 740 AM L
Miami Heat
WIOD 610 AM L
Indiana Pacers
WBIW 1340 AM L
Limbaugh’s racism is well documented. For months 10’s of millions heard him call Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown ‘thugs’ and paint their killers as the victims to taint jury pools for those trials. According to Limbaugh and his wannabes, Ferguson protests were riots instigated by President Obama and Attorney General Holder to create chaos.
The video below contains a very small sampling of previous Limbaugh racism compiled by Rick Strom (producer of The Young Turks), including (transcript below ) a past take on the NBA:
Limbaugh:
“I think it’s time to get rid of this whole NBA. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call ‘m gangs…. They’re going in to watch the Crips and Bloods out there wherever the neighborhood is where the arena happens to be” and “You look at the NBA players and the uniforms, you don’t have to go back very far. The uniforms have changed totally. They’re now in gang colors.”
More:
Louisiana’s David Duke is considered a KKK grand wizard while being ‘subtle’ or ‘presentable’ enough to run for major political office. Limbaugh, a guy who reaches a much larger audience 5 days a week with only slightly more subtle racism, should be considered the KKK’s all time imperial wizard for his 30 years making excuses for racism and white privilege and making racism ‘acceptable’ for a major political party.
Jailing immigrant children is also okay on Republican talk radio. They’ve been calling to wall-off Mexico for two decades. Since 2000 team Limbaugh has been telling their vast audiences that Democrats have been encouraging immigration so ‘illegal aliens’ can vote for them — and that’s why we need voter ID and other voter suppression legislation. It worked.
Related:
How protests at 87 universities can start a cascade that will force the GOP to dump Trump