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Archive for August, 2008

Talk Radio and the Conspiracy to Kill

Posted by roc on Aug 03 2008 | Shock Jocks

Now I know how the others feel.

Having written extensively about talk radio’s right wing shock jocks and the hate speech they regularly use to tar opponents – equating liberals with terrorists, homosexuals with child rapists and the Mafia, and political and media figures with the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan (even calling on air for assassinations, as Michael Reagan, son of the late president, did last month) – it was only a matter of time until the smear merchants took aim at me. Continue Reading »

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