If the NRA bought the radio station that your state university broadcasts sports on would the university keep associating with the station, helping it attract advertisers to pay for that anti-gun control messaging? What about the KKK?
That’s basically what happened 30 years ago when Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine. The NRA, KKK, GOP, and ALEC essentially bought more than 1000 radio stations.
These 5 Florida universities support 20 Limbaugh/NRA/KKK radio stations — Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2.
They are among at least 88 US universities that broadcast sports on more than 260 Limbaugh stations — and they will all be working for the NRA in the coming days, helping keep the GOP in line, helping Republicans rationalize another massacre.
Those schools are legitimate places to protest for gun control until they start looking for apolitical radio stations to broadcast sports on.
Every time a mass shooting happens the talk show hosts on those stations go to work for the NRA to generate ‘popular’ support for resisting gun control. They will offer their condolences as they always do and then point out that if the teachers had been armed and trained…… And so on.
Tonight that’s what national talk radio god Mark Levin was doing. Tomorrow all the national talk radio gods will do the same anti-gun control, blame liberals crap.
Here’s what he did in the 20 minutes or so I could stand to listen, paraphrasing, with a few callers:
don’t listen to the politicians because all they will do is play politics, calling for gun control, trying to divide us — it’s just evil, evil, evil, and you can’t control it, like natural disasters, and what we need is prayer in school, we need the ten commandments in schools, this is Hollywood-driven moral rot, we need god, government has taken god out of the schools…. caller says we need to beat the liberals and get real security in schools but the politicians are more concerned with gun control… caller says it’s destruction of the family unit thanks to the liberals, the democrats, thanks LBJ, unemployment to encourage people not to work, and Democrats are going to destroy social security…. sick culture…. and we send all our kids to these government facilities and there’s no security…. caller says the gun free zones are turning us into sitting ducks…. can you believe it, gun free movie theaters? Teachers should be armed… and so on….
There will be 1500 radio stations doing the same thing for days, until Republican politicians get the message they must resist the temptation to cooperate with Democrats on gun control.
Americans wonder why there was no gun control after Sandy Hook? Look no further than the local Republican radio station. And hundreds of them depend on professional and university sports to attract advertising.