Hate Radio [View all]

Specifically, New York City, RW talk radio. A host, whom I won't name b/c he doesn't deserve publicity, triple-downed on TSF's Truth Social Post on the murders of Rob and Michele Reiner. Defending what Trump said about Rob Reiner because Rob Reiner criticized his “friend” Trump. And such a coward: he didn't take phone calls.

His station also is cowardly. A constant disclaimer that the views of the hosts don't reflect the views of the owner and the advertisers to the station. Bullshit! The owner is losing money but keeps hosts like this precisely because they advance HIS political views. And the owner is regularly begging for advertisers but no bites. No business, law firm, etc. wants to have its goodwill compromised by abhorrent views like the one I cited.

I thought Rush was loathsome. I thought nobody could go lower than Glenn Beck. (A radio rival of Beck, Bruce Kelly,, during Beck's stint at Phoenix station Y-95, saw the ugly side of the radio host's personality in "one of the cruelest events in the history of morning radio," writes Zaitchik. A couple of days after Kelly's wife had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on air to ask if it was true. When she said yes, he joked how Kelly "can't do anything right — he can't even have a baby." https://theweek.com/articles/493667/glenn-becks-prefame-enemy-list)

Yes, I understand that guys like these without a leash and a microphone try to be outrageous just to get people to listen and to talk about them all day. It gets attention and ratings.

But they pollute the airwaves with their views that don't reflect any decency, empathy, thought.

I call them the children of Father Coughlin.