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Atheists & Agnostics

Warpy

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1. The deep south is like another planet, isn't it?

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 03:55 PM

Jul 2015

You begin to see just why they elect assholes who sell them out when you listen to fundy radio down there. When that's all you hear, you tend to believe it.

Whole sections of the country are getting to be just like it, too. No alternative messages are getting through, at all.

It's why scuttling the Fairness Doctrine (and Reagan vetoed it 3 times after Congress passed it again) has done so much damage. It allowed propagandists funded by billionaires to control everything a lot of people in this country hear.

Preachers are the worst of the bad lot.

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Yesterday I was driving through the wilds of SE MS, lost the NPR station, and found Janet Parshall [View all] A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 OP

The deep south is like another planet, isn't it? Warpy Jul 2015 #1

You acknowledge it, but it bears repeating: bvf Jul 2015 #2

Yeah, I was in rural Ohio a couple years ago. progressoid Jul 2015 #6

Well, yes it is, but to be fair, Ms. Parshall is all over the country. A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #4

Yeah, poor old Camping, at least he had the good grace to be surprised Warpy Jul 2015 #5

I used to listen to Camping a fair amount, particularly out west. A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #8

You begin to see just why they elect assholes who sell them out when you listen to fundy radio down AlbertCat Jul 2015 #15

Her show is everywhere- digonswine Jul 2015 #3

I stopped using a radio years ago. Warren Stupidity Jul 2015 #7

LOL...Well.... A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #9

Some of us have other ways of listening nt Lordquinton Jul 2015 #12

Hear, hear! Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #10

Yes you are, dearie. A HERETIC I AM Jul 2015 #11

I'm beginning to believe that folks like these are more useful to our cause than to their own. LiberalAndProud Jul 2015 #13

rest of humanity (or at least a sizable number of rational people) just do not care to be subject to AlbertCat Jul 2015 #14