http://www.shockjocks.org Hate Speech & Talk Radio Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:09:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Testifying at his federal "Death-Threat Trial," Internet shock jock and FBI confidential informant Hal Turner said federal agents -- while asking his help in identifying a white supremacist killer -- told him to “ratchet up the rhetoric.” Turner, on trial for threatening the life of three federal judges who issued ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2010/03/04/hal-turner-hate-speech-the-feds-made-me-do-it/ The memorandum below was distributed to the staff of Air America Media on January 21, 2010: From: Charlie Kireker Date: January 21, 2010 4:36:59 PM EST To: All Subject: Air America Operations It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2010/01/21/rip-air-america/ Max Blumenthal explores whether newly-elected New Jersey Chris Christie granted legal protection to Neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner for his undercover role in a federal program to "flush out" violent far-right plots... Turner walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom a free man on December 7, after being charged by federal ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2009/12/22/hal-turner-and-chris-christie/ The BBC reports that a Rwandan journalist who encouraged Hutus to slaughter Tutsis during the 1994 genocide has been jailed for life after admitting to inciting violence. In one broadcast Valerie Bemerik told her listeners: "Do not kill those cockroaches with a bullet - cut them to pieces with a machete." She ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2009/12/15/rwandan-shock-jock-jailed/ Michael A. Orozco had it right -- or rather, half-right. Orozco, one of the lawyers for Hal Turner, the Internet radio host accused of making death threats to three federal judges in Chicago, offered as a defense that his client is “nothing but a shock jock." But Orozco also added, ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2009/12/03/%e2%80%9cnothing-but-a-shock-jock%e2%80%9d/ Shocking news from the Land of the Shock Jocks: "For more than five years, Hal Turner of North Bergen lived a double life...The public knew him as an ultra-right-wing radio talk show host and Internet blogger with an audience of neo-Nazis and white supremacists attracted to his scorched-earth racism and ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2009/11/30/hal-turner-i-was-a-deep-undercover-intelligence-operative/ Mark W. Smith reports in the Detroit Free Press that Fox News host and Number Two Rated Radio Shock Jock Sean Hannity apologized on his Fox show recently after it was revealed by comedian Jon Stewart that the program had used archived footage of a well-attended rally and passed it ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2009/11/12/hannity-we-screwed-up/ Writing in the Boston Globe, guest columnist Steve Almond asks, "Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Fairness Doctrine?" "OF ALL the Big Lies told by the pooh-bahs of talk radio, opines Almond, "The most desperate and deluded is this: that the so-called Fairness Doctrine would squash free speech." Almond believes this to ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2009/11/09/who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-the-big-bad-fairness-doctrine/ "Talk radio?" sniffed one Democratic digital native, "Why are you focusing on that? The only people who listen are seniors and cab drivers, right?" Wrong, as http://www.shockjocks.org/2009/11/04/122/ Rather than "roll over and play dead in response to Obama's marginalization push against key conservatives," Rush Limbaugh is responding with his "own offensive," as Brian Maloney reports on The Radio Equalizer blog. As 'revealed' in a Fox News Sunday visit, Limbaugh's key tactic, according to Maloney: "fearless denunciations ... http://www.shockjocks.org/2009/11/03/rush-plays-offense/