Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:

Rob wrote:I've been tuning in to AM radio every day at noon the last couple of months (just the first 20-30 min) because, for reasons I don't understand, I need to see how long The Rush Limbaugh show still features Rush Limbaugh, even though he's been dead a while. Today's first segment featured a rather spirited 10 min Rush rant - from like 11-12 years ago... explaining to people how terrible Obama is and how people should be really scared. The temps don't seem to do much but preach Rush's holy doctrine. This was (maybe still is?) the largest media audience in the country.

I did that once. Bouncing between conservative radio doing stale Rush takes and NPR saying everything is institutional racism is a great way to understand how braindead the vast majority of talk/news radio listeners are, across the "vast" political spectrum from woke left to neocon right.

Rob wrote:I enjoy conversing with you, BI.

BurtReynolds wrote:

Rob wrote:I've been tuning in to AM radio every day at noon the last couple of months (just the first 20-30 min) because, for reasons I don't understand, I need to see how long The Rush Limbaugh show still features Rush Limbaugh, even though he's been dead a while. Today's first segment featured a rather spirited 10 min Rush rant - from like 11-12 years ago... explaining to people how terrible Obama is and how people should be really scared. The temps don't seem to do much but preach Rush's holy doctrine. This was (maybe still is?) the largest media audience in the country.

I did that once. Bouncing between conservative radio doing stale Rush takes and NPR saying everything is institutional racism is a great way to understand how braindead the vast majority of talk/news radio listeners are, across the "vast" political spectrum from woke left to neocon right.

I want to hear more about this. Which NPR show most closely resembles Rush or Hannity? Do their audiences speak in unison on certain current topics as well? How influential is Audie Cornish compared to those guys?

I think this is a false equivalency even if NPR is “liberal” and/or “woke”. Why am I wrong?

BurtReynolds wrote:Selling the menthol ban as a measure to promote racial health equity is quite a take. The White Man's Burden is never finished!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/health/f ... index.html

4/5 wrote:Certainly there won't be a black market for these illicit menthols and it can't possibly wind up giving police more discretion to stop the purchase/sale of a good that's apparently used overwhelmingly by racial minorities. At least we know that police wouldn't ever choose to spend their timing actually policing the sale of something as insignificant as individual cigarettes, so I'm sure this will be fine, too.

B wrote:

4/5 wrote:Certainly there won't be a black market for these illicit menthols and it can't possibly wind up giving police more discretion to stop the purchase/sale of a good that's apparently used overwhelmingly by racial minorities. At least we know that police wouldn't ever choose to spend their timing actually policing the sale of something as insignificant as individual cigarettes, so I'm sure this will be fine, too.

Bammer wrote:Trump = Travel restrictions from certain foreign countries = racist

Biden = Travel restrictions from certain foreign countries = protecting the American people