Three of the major publicly funded universities in Kansas and Missouri broadcast sports on 11 stations that headline Rush Limbaugh. University of Missouri lets Limbaugh ride the Missouri Tiger on 7 stations, the K State Wildcat on 3 stations, and the Kansas Jayhawk on 1 Limbaugh station.
One of the primary jobs of those stations is to amplify Republican and teabagger positions on national events like the murders of Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and use them to make racism acceptable, scare teabaggers into buying more guns, voting against gun control, etc.
All of those 1000-plus radio stations defend officer Darren Wilson and the Furguson police department and excuse their actions. Like they did with the killer of Trayvon Martin. They are the same stations that egg on mayors and police departments to crack down on all protestors who are not teabaggers. Like they did with Occupy Wall Street.
Limbaugh’s racism, misogyny, hate, and lies are well known but he is almost always reinforced by the other national and local bloviators and haters that precede and follow him on those stations.
Michael (aka Savage) Wiener is also a regular on hundreds of stations like that. I recently recorded about 6 minutes at the start of his November 19 show and got his take on Obama’s executive action on immigration and on Ferguson.
Barack Hussein Obama said he is going to act within the law. Moussolini said he was acting within the law when he violated the law. Hitler said was that he was acting within the law when he needed some living space for the Germans.
Pol pot did it legally. That's the mountain of human skulls in Cambodia. It started with a nice professor in Cambodia who went to Paris to study Marxism. He came home a dictator. He arrested everyone the middle class, everyone with eyeglasses. He elevated the street garbage in Cambodia the street garbage who never went to college, who never went to high school, who never went to grade schools. The street garbage in Cambodia were elevated to the leadership positions in Cambodia. They were 13 14-year-old thugs, does it sound familiar, and they were given red scarves, red scarves, to wear so they could be part of this identified gang under Pol Pot.
Limbaugh (and maybe others) have suggested Obama organized the recent influx of young Central American refugees as part of a strategy to bring in diseases like ebola, increase the number of Democratic voters, and maybe to form a secret army/gang. That may be what Savage/Wiener is adding to.
And they started to arrest the entire middle class architects- doctors, lawyers, teachers, social workers, dentists, anyone with eyeglasses was considered a counterrevolutionary under Pol Pot, the mild-mannered Marxist professor who work came back to Cambodia and started to institute what he said was fairness- policies of fairness. He said that the Cambodia had been taken over by a parasitical middle class and they just want to make things fair and so he unleashed 13 of 14-year-old garbage on the middle class along the lines of Ferguson. Yes I'll say all go online and say the garbage in the streets of Ferguson, they don't work. Tell me what they do for living. They’re parasites on society. Tell me how people can be in the streets for months at a time without any known source of income and not be called a parasite. Explain that to me. Tell me how you can explain that to me. So if you think there are no parallels in history that means you do not know your history and you condemned to repeat it.
How many cops hear this stuff from radio stations endorsed by our major universities? These stations are often the loudest stations in local or national emergencies.
He goes on:
demonic man in the White House
dictator
gangs in the streets being run by all of the social activists
street rats
the vermin in the street
what they do best which is selling drugs or whatever they do to make a living
Then he blames Obama for our crumbling infrastructure, schooling system, poverty, unemployment, health care, etc....
He's creating the America that he and Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama and the other four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse are creating- a new America right in front of your eyes...
At least 28%, or more than 170 of Limbaugh's stations, depend on major 'liberal' university sports programs for community credibility and ad revenue. I don't know how many of Wiener's do also.
Parasites? The talk radio gods use our public schools while they attack teachers, students, and public education and try to defund it so it can be privatized. Talk about parasites.
Our own universities undermine our ability to address important issues and events. Here's another example of that destructive relationship as it undermines important student activism: Denise Oliver Velez's recent diary, Roofies, rape, and 'It's On Us', links to a video by University of Oregon students (calling themselves Oregon University Ducks) contributed to the national 'It's On Us' campaign against sexual violence. Meanwhile, Ducks football broadcasts on 2 Limbaugh stations. Oregon State broadcasts on 4 Limbaugh stations. The Ducks just played the University of Colorado Buffaloes, who's students are also active against sexual violence, and that game was broadcast on the loudest Limbaugh station in CO.
Police and soldiers around Ferguson might think differently about what Limbaugh and Savage are saying if communities and students made it clear it's not okay for a bunch of racist, misogynist liars to ride their sports mascots.
(More on Republicon radio)