Local Scum
by digby
Media Matters issued a report a couple of weeks ago on local conservative radio that is just mindboggling. As terrible as Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage are, the even more odious lower tier creeps are just stomach churning. Here’s just one example of the typical sort of thing that was said during the campaign:
“Jews for McCain because Obama wants to gas the Jews, like the PLO wants to gas the Jews, like the Nazis gassed the Jews.
I recall wondering where all the lunacy we heard from those people at the McCain and Palin rallies was coming from and now we know.
One of the major themes among these local jackasses is aggressive misogyny. This fellow from Minneapolis is an especially loathesome little person:
In a recent report by Media Matters for America documenting the right-wing echo chamber of local and regional radio hosts, Minneapolis’ KTLK radio host Chris Baker stood out as one of the most prolific purveyors of inflammatory rhetoric.
The report “RadioActive Smears” notes that Baker, among others, often engages in sexist and misogynistic commentary. Baker mocked Nancy Pelosi, the nation’s first woman House Speaker, by saying her response to the financial crisis is “another reason why it’s rare to find a woman worthy of serving in political office.” He has also said, “I’m not excited about women voting” and said that Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin “shoulda had a little cleavage going. … I noticed a little panty line on her.”
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- Baker: Media have “blood on their hands” for murder of transgender woman because they created “false sense of reality”
- Baker called Obama a “little bitch” who “won’t even stand up to” “smoking-hot” Palin
- Baker: “I don’t think homeless people should vote”; “I’m not that excited about women voting”
- Baker on Palin’s appearance at VP debate: “Shoulda had a little cleavage going … I noticed a panty line on her”
- Minneapolis radio host Baker said Code Pink protesters “ought to have all their tubes tied”
- Radio host Baker referred to Thomas Beatie as a “mutilated lesbian”
- Minneapolis radio host Baker promoted video of pastor calling Obama’s mother “trash”
I don’t know if this is a chicken or and egg thing. Is it that these guys are giving reprehensible audiences what they want or is it that the audiences are being taught to hate by reprehensible hosts? (Or is it just that all these people have sexual anxieties that make them need to reach out to fellow insecure morons for reassurance?)
Whatever the cause of their psychological impairment, these radio hosts — and their listeners — are disgusting.