Talk Show Over the Edge?
When does a talk show go over the edge? Well, we got to hear "when" on Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Buffalo.
I was listening to WBEN (930 am) on my drive to Fredonia in the morning. It's been fun lately because the conservative talk show branch of the Republican party has been squealing louder and louder as the election nears and polls show Obama ahead.
But on Wednesday, talker Tom Bauerle went over the edge. OK, he's just being ignorant when he refers to Obama as the Kenya-born Marxist Barack Hussein Obama. He's refusing to recognize evidence Obama was born in Hawaii, he's showing an ignorance of Marxism and he's stoking anti-Muslim resentment (and suggesting Obama is Muslim, which he isn't). In other words, it's typical talk show bottom feeding.
But on Oct. 29 (or earlier today if you're already reading it), he made comparison's between Obama's potential election and Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Then he made a statement to the effect, "not that Obama's planning to send Jews to concentration camps ... not that I would put that past him." For approximately 10 minutes afterward Bauerle continued on a hate-filled diatribe in which he tried to explain how Jews and Catholics should never vote for Obama.
He did everything but call for a sniper to put Obama out of his misery -- Bauerle's misery, that is. His talk show sank into hate speech -- not hate speech in the legal sense, but in the sense that encourages hate of those who disagree with you. Talk show hosts aren't good winners, and they're something much worse as potential losers.
WBEN is a commercial venture and has the right to put anybody it wants on the air, but I would humbly suggest that people start complaining to the sponsors of a show that has gone this far beyond responsible speech. Why would any company want to sponsor this kind of talk?
I was listening to WBEN (930 am) on my drive to Fredonia in the morning. It's been fun lately because the conservative talk show branch of the Republican party has been squealing louder and louder as the election nears and polls show Obama ahead.
But on Wednesday, talker Tom Bauerle went over the edge. OK, he's just being ignorant when he refers to Obama as the Kenya-born Marxist Barack Hussein Obama. He's refusing to recognize evidence Obama was born in Hawaii, he's showing an ignorance of Marxism and he's stoking anti-Muslim resentment (and suggesting Obama is Muslim, which he isn't). In other words, it's typical talk show bottom feeding.
But on Oct. 29 (or earlier today if you're already reading it), he made comparison's between Obama's potential election and Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Then he made a statement to the effect, "not that Obama's planning to send Jews to concentration camps ... not that I would put that past him." For approximately 10 minutes afterward Bauerle continued on a hate-filled diatribe in which he tried to explain how Jews and Catholics should never vote for Obama.
He did everything but call for a sniper to put Obama out of his misery -- Bauerle's misery, that is. His talk show sank into hate speech -- not hate speech in the legal sense, but in the sense that encourages hate of those who disagree with you. Talk show hosts aren't good winners, and they're something much worse as potential losers.
WBEN is a commercial venture and has the right to put anybody it wants on the air, but I would humbly suggest that people start complaining to the sponsors of a show that has gone this far beyond responsible speech. Why would any company want to sponsor this kind of talk?
posted by Mister E at
11:00 AM
1 Comments:
Tom compared Obama to Lenin earlier in the campaign. So at least he knows his history of oppressors.
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