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How Fox News and Right-Wing Media Brainwashed This Dad and Destroyed This Family

it's just me said:
The people with "news, thoughts, and opinions" get booted off the air because their ratings suck. And no, old people do not carry transistor radios with them, that is so last century. We have cars with radios in them.

Your last sentence is supreme projection.
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Psst Hannity, Rush, etc. have not been booted off.
 
bomberfox said:
Psst Hannity, Rush, etc. have not been booted off.
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That's because their ratings don't suck. Airhead America, on the other hand, went bankrupt.
 
Old 'N Chill said:
This seems to happen to a lot of old people who fall into this dark rabbit hole, they become angry, paranoid, hateful and basically brainwashed by the right-wing media. They hear the lies and conspiracies so much, that they begin to believe all of them as truth.

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Does left wing media have the same influence?
 
it's just me said:
That's because their ratings don't suck. Airhead America, on the other hand, went bankrupt.
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You said opinion shows usually get canned. Companies go bankrupt all the time. Progressive radio shows are still online :)
 
it's just me said:
I call BS on that. What "things" specifically?
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Well, lets do "the IRS conspired against conservative nonporfit applicants."

What really happened is in response to a deluge of applications for 501(c)(4) status post the Citizens United decision, IRS workers used search words instead of actually doing their jobs and checking each as they are supposed to.

It's all in the IG report on the issue.

He said, to paraphrase, that using search words resulted in applicants who should have been approved not being and some who should have been denied got approved. That it was the IRS departments job to verify that every applicant is on the up and up.l, jot to use arbitrary terms to screen them.

Now, why were there so many 501(c)(4) applications? Why didn't they just do 526, which is the political nonprofit class? 501(c)(4) is also not tax deductible, but only permits 49% of donations to be used for electioneering. 526 can spend 100%.

Because 501(c)(4) confers donor anonymity, 526 does not.

Now there were more conservative groups that got caught up in this. But there were far more applications from conservative groups trying to get anonymity for their donors.

These are the facts in the case.

But y'all believe that Obama had the IRS "silence" conservatives.

But 502(c)(4) is not supposed to he "primarily political". An IRS beaurocrat interpreted the law to mean not more than 49% could be spent on electioneering. The "political" cutout was so say a bicycle rider group could spend some money lobbying for bike lanes, very specific activity directly related to their charter. 526 exists to be the political nonprofit class.

So there's one.

There are more.
 
bomberfox said:
You said opinion shows usually get canned. Companies go bankrupt all the time. Progressive radio shows are still online :)
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Canned. Bagged. Canceled. If there are "Progressive" radio shows on the air, what are you complaining about?
 
nota bene said:
And why does it dominate? Could it be that there aren't enough viewers to keep progressive stations going? Is anybody stopping progressives from starting their own stations and broadcasting their views? No.

I was very excited when Air America launched and wished greatly for their success/for them to shut up about the "Fairness Doctrine." What happened to Air America?
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I really don't give a damn about the reasons behind it nota bene, I already said here that stations do get taken off the air if they aren't successful. that's no big mystery.

That doesn't change the fact that conservative talk radio dominates the AM radio stations, and their hate and disinformation is affecting the way older people think. It makes older people more angry, racist and hateful. They no longer know the difference between conspiracy and reality, much like the Trump Party "republicans/Christians" and their hateful divisive leader. That is the point of this thread.
 
Old 'N Chill said:
I really don't give a damn about the reasons behind it nota bene, I already said here that stations do get taken off the air if they aren't successful. that's no big mystery.

That doesn't change the fact that conservative talk radio dominates the AM radio stations, and their hate and disinformation is affecting the way older people think. It makes older people more angry, racist and hateful. They no longer know the difference between conspiracy and reality, much like the Trump Party "republicans/Christians" and their hateful divisive leader. That is the point of this thread.
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I think you're being more than a bit ageist here in your overgeneralization.
 
nota bene said:
I think you're being more than a bit ageist here in your overgeneralization.
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Well, we're all entitled to our own opinions, aren't we? Have a nice day....adios!
 
Leave it to right wingers to take every single wrong message from this :lamo
 
Brainwashing is a myth. People on the right also attribute opinions they do not like to brainwashing. One does not get places in politics by changing peoples' minds. One gets places by articulating and channeling sentiments that already exist. Political messages are only effective when they tell people what they know to be true in their lives, and what they want to believe.

I like to investigate different points of view. I get news and views from many different sources. Nevertheless, I am the final arbiter of what is true or false. I love logical reasoning, and facts that can be documented. I respect my feelings, but I view them as facts about me, rather than absolute truths.

Right now the mainstream media seems to be sympathetic toward the demonstrations about the death of George Floyd, and forgiving about those who riot. This is not the way millions of Americans feel. I predict it will increase the audience for Rush Limbaugh and FOX News.
 
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