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I'm all in favor of reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine. Let me know when you need support at the rally for it. I suspect you only like the idea when it works for you so I'm not holding my breath.

Mike Malloy is just awful. I listened to a few minutes of him two or three times back in the Air America days. My dad likes him, I don't get it...if I wanted to hear deranged ranting I'd work in a mental hospital. Or become a conservative.

bdrasin says

if I wanted to hear deranged ranting I’d work in a mental hospital

.... or stick around here and read some of the loony left's deranged rantings. And just think, you don't even have to go to work to see it, it's free.

"So when does Seal Unit 6, or whatever it's called, drop in on George Bush? Bush was responsible for a lot more death, innocent death, than bin Laden. Wasn't he, or am I wrong here?,"

I suppose one could consider that to be encouragement. I wouldn't, but one could.

He probably could have made (what I assume to be) his point better by saying something like "Should we now expect Seal Unit 6, or whatever it's called, to drop in on ..." That seems to be less open to unsympathetic interpretation. Assuming he wasn't actually encouraging such an action, which I suppose he may have been (for all I know).

P.S. Eat the rich! Seize the means of the production in the name of the proletariat!

Who's Mike Malloy?

One thing I do notice is that when a "liberal" says something asinine (shock, horror, there are idiots in all political persuasions) its indicative to you kids of the deep hypocrisy lurking under the surface of ALL liberals and clearly shows the feelings, barely disguised, of what EVERY liberal thinks.

but when a "conservative" says something shitty its "just one person" and is "just a silly little thing anyway, what can't you take a joke?"

Anyway, he should have said "Barbara Bush's husband". Then he'd be clear and safe from all accusations of false insinuations...

People listen to liberal talk radio? What's news to me, and I am a Socialist. Didn't Air America go bankrupt? Yes, they did.

MarkInSF says

Who’s Mike Malloy?

Wikipedia says he's self syndicated (sort of like self sex, you get the idea) and he's on a whole 13 radio stations plus some channel on xm. Gee I wonder why not too many people picked this up. He must command all .000001% of the radio world.

Where in the world does Ray dig this stuff up? There are only 24 hours in every day to spend looking for this stuff.

bob2356 says

He must command all .000001% of the radio world.

Like Liberalism itself. If left to the free marketplace, it can't survive.

bob2356 says

Where in the world does Ray dig this stuff up? There are only 24 hours in every day to spend looking for this stuff.

"That's what he does.... that's ALL he does" - Terminator, 1984

RayAmerica says

bob2356 says

He must command all .000001% of the radio world.

Like Liberalism itself. If left to the free marketplace, it can’t survive.

So some whack job with an audience of a couple of thousand people represents all of liberals. So RayRay you must also believe that Tim Mcviegh and the Unibomber represent conservatism?

RayAmerica says

Like Liberalism itself. If left to the free marketplace, it can’t survive.

That sounds pretty strange, given that a free market is a liberal thing. Are you saying that free markets lead to authoritarian and hierarchical social structures? If so, then how does this occur? Through concentration of economic power into fewer and fewer hands? I am disturbed by this possibility. How can we avoid this?

Why are ya'll even feeding the troll?

RayAmerica says

Like Liberalism itself. If left to the free marketplace, it can’t survive.

antizeus says

That sounds pretty strange, given that a free market is a liberal thing.

Obviously, some explanation is required as to what was meant by this statement. Liberalism, as expressed, for example, by Air America (you know, the all liberal talk radio station that went bankrupt, that one) could not survive in the free marketplace of ideas. I listened to it several times myself (I had to be quick because the station lasted like 10 minutes, probably more like 10 days, but it seemed like 10 minutes) and was so bored by its adolescent cheerleading of such inane comments such as "Conservatives are like ... you know ... just like Nazis," etc. that I couldn't take it anymore. Apparently, the liberals that listened to it (all 15 or 20 of them) couldn’t stand it either. Keep in mind that Air America was “going to put conservative talk radio out of business …GUARANTEED!" However, the free market place decided decisively that listening to it was pure torture (maybe that’s too strong of a word, but, IMO, water-boarding couldn't be worse). Then you have NPR, which is another Liberal venue that can't survive on its own and requires constant funding by the Federal Government in order to keep it on life support. Why? Because the free market place will not support its hopelessly boring, liberal dribble. There you have it. I hope that clears things up for you.

shrekgrinch says

Have you ever read his Manifesto? No? So instead you just typed shit up on here…I see.

Actually his manifesto was all over the place politically. If you actually read it you would know that. However I will concede that in this single instance of the case of the unibomber that you are correct in accusing me of following your normal modus operandi of posting sh*t without thinking.

I will be happy to strike the unibomber and change my list to be Tim Mcveigh, Eric Robert Rudolph, Richard Girnt Butler, Thom Robb, David Duke, Robert Jay Mathews, Eric Robert Rudolph, Scott Roeder, and Jared Lee Loughner. All militant domestic terrorist types. These are your people, are you happy now?

Vicente says

I’m all in favor of reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine. Let me know when you need support at the rally for it. I suspect you only like the idea when it works for you so I’m not holding my breath.

I am totally with you there.

state says

lol raymerica all your posts read like they were written by a twelve year old

You must be at least 12. I base that conclusion on your mature use of grammar.

RayAmerica says

Then you have NPR, which is another Liberal venue that can’t survive on its own and requires constant funding by the Federal Government in order to keep it on life support. Why? Because the free market place will not support its hopelessly boring, liberal dribble. There you have it. I hope that clears things up for you.

I don't have much to say regarding your (unquoted) criticism of Air America, because I'm unfamiliar with the details of its decline. I only listened to it for about half an hour, on one occasion, and wasn't particularly entertained. I'm inclined to believe that the problem was with that particular organization, and not with the idea of left-leaning broadcasts in general.

Regarding NPR funding, wikipedia has this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding

Apparently the NPR organization itself receives about 2% of its funding from the feds (or at least it did). The recent controversy over that former NPR guy who met with the fake Muslim organization led to comments that NPR (as an organization) could survive well enough without that funding. I have no idea if this would be the case.

Member stations receive a significantly greater proportion of their revenue from the feds. I suppose if this funding were eliminated, then less money might go to purchasing NPR programming, and perhaps NPR might not survive. Again, I have no idea. I'm inclined to think otherwise.

However, financing aside, NPR affiliated stations (at least some of them) seem to get pretty good ratings. I think my local affiliate is consistently in the top 3. From a "marketplace of ideas" perspective, that sounds pretty successful to me.

RayAmerica says

Estimates run from between 250,000 to 500,000 deaths, including women and children. This is just one example of the methods used in WW 2.

Not true.

"Drawing on archival sources, many never previously consulted, on burial records and scientific findings -- including street-by-street archaeological investigations -- plus hundreds of eye-witness reports, the “Dresden Commission of Historians for the Ascertainment of the Number of Victims of the Air Raids on the City of Dresden on 13/14 February 1945” has provisionally estimated the likely death-toll at around 18,000 and definitely no more than 25,000. "

"And there are the political distortions. The Nazis were the first to exaggerate the number of victims for propaganda purposes, and the communists were liable to push the numbers up during the post-war period, in order to discredit the Anglo-Americans, who had been the Soviets’ allies until 1945 but were now their Cold War enemies. Finally, neo-Nazis in modern Germany conjure up dizzyingly high figures running into the hundreds of thousands, while at the same time playing down or denying the World War II mass murder of the Jews and the Roma and Sinti, hoping thereby to convince their fellow-citizens that the Allied bombing of Germany was an even worse “holocaust” than the actual one. "

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,581992,00.html

Michelle Obama to host "poet" that raps about killing police and "burning" George Bush. Isn't "Hope & Change" great?

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/09/burn-a-bush-michelle-obama-invites-rapper-common-to-a-poetry-reading/

Ray, have you suffered some type of stroke recently? You don't even begin to make any kind of sense on this stuff.

And the success of AM radio for conservatives only means:

1) They love ancient technology
2) The owners of the media have deep pockets and can operate at a loss until enough truckers on meth tune in to be brainwashed
3) They have a strong inclination to be told how to think from the talking box

and perhaps that liberals can read, and do read, from a variety of sources before making fact-based assessments on current events? And if we do listen to radio, we have AM AND FM?

CL says

and perhaps that liberals can read, and do read, from a variety of sources before making fact-based assessments on current events? And if we do listen to radio, we have AM AND FM?

Oh, and don't forget we even have digital radio! And do you know that you can even listen to radio on the Internets? It's a whole new world out there... LOL

RayAmerica says

Sir, have you no decency? Have you no shame?

Rayray, have you asked yourself these questions ever?

simchaland says

RayAmerica says

Sir, have you no decency? Have you no shame?

Rayray, have you asked yourself these questions ever?

He probably doesn't call himself "sir."

Dear Duck:

You specifically stated that Bush "decided" to drop bombs specifically on "civilians." This is a very, very serious (actually nutty) charge. Again, (for like the 15th. time) please provide proof that Bush gave such an order. Thank you in advance for your cooperation (maybe the kinder, gentler approach will work … apparently saying the Duck is to left of the lunatic Howard Dean didn’t).

Who the fuck is Mike Malloy and why should I care what he says?

Did Bush specifically order cluster bombs to be dropped on civilians in order to KILL civilians?

Yes or no?

Maybe you should go back to your expertise such as declaring emphatically that the bottom in real estate hit in 2009?

By your own words, you've proven yourself to be one funny little Duckling.