None of the aforementioned Conservative TV/radio personalities may have said it, but they certainly don't do much to quail the fear and anxiety of their listeners. If anything, they want them pissed off so that they'll do "something". What that "something" might be none of us knows. The hope is they just get more involved with politics or a hot-button issue they're passionate about and take a political stand against it, i.e., write their Congressman, form a protest rally (i.e., a Tea Party :roll: ), start a petition. But I'm willing to bet if President Obama...let's just say if an attempt was made on his life...not one of them would mourn for him.
I know of not one thing former President Bush did on the domestic front that was worth a flip. The man spent the better part of his 8-yrs in office dealing with the war effort on two-fronts. He didn't have time to give much thought to domestic affairs. Nearly everything he did was consumed by foreign affairs.
Don't patronize me.
Unless and until one of them says, "someone really needs to assassinate the president," or words to that effect, they have no responsibility whatsoever for what their listeners do. For you to imply that it is somehow up to them to "quail" their listeners' fears is ridiculous.
My fearmongering?!? Listen to yourself. Not one of my post has ever been said to equate to a "the sky is falling!" montra Rush, Hannity, Liddy, Levin, Colter or any of the other mainstream Convervative talking heads have done since President Obama assumed office. It wasn't me that said, "I hope he fails". You say something like that and how else do you expect your listeners to take his words or the meaning behind them? Sure, Rush has come back and said what he meant was "I hope his 'policies' fail", but once that genie's out of the bottle that is his big mouth, the people who make up his die-hard listening audience jumps on it and runs with it. Add to that all the :spin: against every one of President Obama's policies or his initiatives to turn things around in this country...
I don't think so. It's no different that a newspaper printing false information. Of course, it's all opinionated to a high degree, but my point is politically motivated talk radio - be it Conservative or Liberal - do that same thing: play to their listening audience.
That may be the case, but they have no responsibility to their audience to do anything beyond entertain them. If they want someone to allay their fears, they need to seek out a psychiatrist or a member of the clergy.
I was part of a site that documented some of the insanity over there for a while ("some," because there was way too much for us to keep track of). That place is slightly to the left of Storm Front.
