Hate Radio: Media Matters Documents Their Attacks On Almost Everybody!

[Joanne98]

As Media Matters for America documented, the nationwide network of conservative radio hosts -- personalities without the national prominence of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh -- engaged in an all-out effort to foment hate and suspicion of Barack Obama by participating actively in an echo chamber of smears and falsehoods about the primary candidate and then Democratic nominee. But these same radio hosts were by no means discerning in their vitriol and did not save their ire solely for Obama. The smears ran the gamut, both in the context of the 2008 election, as Media Matters noted in the previous report, and beyond. Immigrants, female politicians (and women in general), the LGBT community, the poor and homeless, minorities, progressives, unions, college students, and even autistic children were targets of these radio personalities' invective. Media Matters and Colorado Media Matters have compiled some of their more noteworthy attacks on these groups.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. What is their core audience?

I assume it is stupid white men, because if women in general are dissed by them, any self-respecting woman wouldn't be a willing listener.

[Joanne98]

2. Well, since they're on EVERY channel. Most of their audience are HOSTAGES!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I don't have satellite radio

just the local garbage that is spewed over the airwaves. But I do have a CD player, and that's what I use instead of the radio nowadays.

[GentryDixon]

5. I subscribed to Sirius

for that very reason. My husband & I travel back and forth from Utah to the East Coast and I was tired of the Christian Conservative or right wing hate radio. Nebraska is the worst!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Whom DON'T they hate?

Seems like their audience is limited more and more to angry, stupid white men.