Cut That Shit Out Right Now. Right Freakin' Now, Got It?

[elfs]

While I don't make a habit of listening to Air America any more than I listen to The Truth, I do try to tune in to the Stephanie Miller show in the morning (it's not an Air America product, but Stephanie appears to have overwhelmed whatever Air America offers in her timeslot), which is often a screamingly funny little morning radio show from a very leftist point of view.

AM 1090, the local radio station, though, makes a big deal about this being an Air America affiliate, and often plays bumpers from their audience members touting their liberal bona fides. It's a little creepy and more than a little sad. I can't tell if station director Lee Callahan puts them up because they're idiotic, despite their being idiotic, or she can't tell that they're idiotic. Calls to nationalize our banking system or our automobile manufacturers and one blazingly stupid complaint about how the Bush era's "regulations" make it hard to innovate financial products here that conflict with "offshore banking," whatever that means. (If he thinks that sucks, wait until the MPAA, the RIAA, and the telecomms all get control of what you and I can put on the Internet. It'll all start with trying to save the children, of course.)

Today, though, AM 1090 went too far. The bumper had a listener calling for an auto-da-fe of Phil Gramm and his wife, "fueled with all the worthless stock certificates." It was outrageous I sent the station director this email:

Lee, the bumper you've been playing during Stephanie's show calling for an "old-fashioned burning at the stake" for Phil Gramm and his wife is simply beyond the pale. Eliminationist rhetoric is supposed to be the tool of the right. Normally, I wouldn't complain, but calling for the murder of a politician, even in jest, is grotesque.

That one needs to be pulled.

[Edit: Ms. Callahan kindly responded to me and let me know that although she's the morning voice of AM 1090, she doesn't get to decide which bumpers are aired. She says she will forward my email to the people that do.]

Comments

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Hear-hear.

The point of replacing the group of criminals we endured for the last eight years was NOT finding a whole 'nother group to replace them with, which we can call our own.

Civil discourse would be such a very welcome change!

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I got a nice reply from Ms. Callahan saying that she wasn't the station director, but that she would forward my comment to him. Let's hope I don't hear that bumper again. It's really offensive.

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

I am hoping that eventually Air America and 1090 will fully understand that now we've won, and are no longer under Bush Inc's thumbs, and can move on to adult discourse.

Ya see, I want revenge on the Right, and the best revenge is living well and showing them you're better. It certainly isn't committing their sins in reverse.

[fallenpegasus]

And what will make it different this time?

It never is. The right was evil and the left was stupid. The current ongoing change is that the right is getting more stupid and the left is getting more evil.