Re: Right-wing hate talk radio bracing for Barack Obama victory
- From: St Louis Bob <free.tuneup@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:43:49 -0700 (PDT)
On Oct 31, 7:24 am, Harry Hope <riv...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From The New York Daily News, 10/30/08:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/10/30/2008-10-30_rightw...
Right-wing radio hosts bracing for Barack Obama victory
By DAVID HINCKLEY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
With the presidential election days away, the talking heads of
right-wing talk radio are mood-swinging between anxiety over a
potential winner they despise and hope that the polls and pundits have
got it wrong.
But the enthusiasm gap for John McCain afflicts some of the hosts as
well.
Michael Savage, heard nightly on WOR (710 AM), announced Wednesday
night that he was endorsing McCain, "even though he’s almost as bad as
[GEORGE W.]Bush," because "we can’t afford to elect a radical Marxist
like Barack Hussein Obama."
His sense of obligation won out, Savage proclaimed dramatically:
"My endorsement could change the election and help save America."
Savage also has offered a few ideas that could expedite that process.
"People on welfare shouldn’t be allowed to vote," he said.
"They’ll only vote themselves a raise."
That’s Savage being Savage.
But at the same hour on WABC (770 AM), host Mark Levin bemoaned the
potential election of a "socialist" who would "take away our freedoms"
and end America as we know it.
"Sometimes I feel like I’m talking to myself," said Levin, who has
also ripped McCain, but endorsed him after the Sarah Palin selection.
"We need to do something."
Earlier on WABC, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) warned Sean Hannity
ominously that a President Obama "would knock guys like you off the
air."
Hannity himself has been repeatedly charged that we don’t know if
Obama was really born in Hawaii and thus is really a citizen.
That hosts like Hannity give voice to some of the wilder Internet-fed
rumors offends at least one local program director, Rennie Bishop of
WWRL (1600 AM), the local outlet of the liberal Air America network.
"Talk radio now isn’t about issues, it’s about flame-throwing," says
Bishop.
"They’re just throwing anything out, no matter how pointless or
baseless, to see if it will stick."
Talk radio – or at least the 90% that sees itself as a proud outpost
of traditional American values on a hostile liberal mediascape – has
seen the McCain campaign as catch-up from the start.
But veteran Republican cheerleaders like Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are
not going to throw in the towel in the closing days.
Each day they cherry-pick the polls, or parts of polls, that can
support the argument that the race is close and McCain can pull it
out.
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These cretins are truly pathetic, ain't they.
Harry
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