Posted on 03/31/2005 8:09:51 PM PST by txradioguy
It started out when I saw this "Letter To The Editor" in the March 22nd Stars and Stripes:
AFN needs diverse opinions
Rush Limbaugh is not of interest to all. Equal time needs to go to more moderate interests, and, failing that, to progressive ones.
I hereby launch a campaign to hear Air America once, at prime time, for every time Rush is on the air. Please let your local American Forces Network radio station know that you need to hear more than a paid announcement from the party line.
Any other point of view is absolutely necessary. Rush’s sources and motivations are highly suspect, and it would be interesting to look on White House pay records for what amounts go to the “Excellence in Broadcasting Network.”
I would also be curious as to what influence leads this broadcast to be on AFN on prime time four to five days a week, with political balance only from my fellow Texan Jim Hightower, for five minutes, buried somewhere in the early morning.
If we don’t demand freedom of choice, we won’t get it.
Emily Dolan Gordon Grafenwöhr, Germany
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And I replied with this in the March 29th Stars & Stripes:
Air America not the answer
This is in response to the letter writer who demanded “equal time” for Air America since American Forces Network broadcasts Rush Limbaugh (“AFN needs diverse opinions,” March 21). It sounds eerily like a form letter being circulated at the Liberal Web site DemocraticUnderground.com, so the editors of Stars and Stripes should be warned that more letters like this may be on the way. Let me also remind the letter writer, Emily Dolan Gordon, that the Federal Communications Commission’s “fairness doctrine” went away more than 20 years ago, so AFN, if it chooses, does not have to give “equal time” to the hate speech on Air America just to make it “fair.”
Second, why would anyone want to subject the soldiers and their family members proudly serving in all branches of the armed services to the anti-military filth that the hosts of the shows on Air America spew anyway? Besides, the liberal point of view is already disseminated on AFN through National Public Radio.
I suggest that if anyone wants to listen to their kook-theory scare-the-people diatribes, he or she should simply go to Air America’s Web site and listen for free. And if anyone dislikes listening to the things that Limbaugh has to say that much, he or she should simply exercise the greatest freedom we have as Americans, the freedom of choice, and change the channel.
Spc. John S. Wollaston Camp Casey, South Korea
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These started showing up in my mail box yesterday. The original letter writer started first:
Why don't you believe in equal time? Then you could make your own decision instead of someone else telling you what to think? I regularly listen to those I don't agree with...otherwise I'd be living in a bubble. I learn so much that way. When I'm against something or for something.. I KNOW why. When you just listen to Rush...you are just repeating his thoughts..not your own.
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Subject: Hey FreepTard
Must be nice to be sitting in the rear with the gear rather than wearing a flak jacket and web gear with the poor slobs in the Iraqi theater, huh?
Regarding your bullshit letter in S&S (and calling it bullshit is being polite):
"Second, why would anyone want to subject the soldiers and their family members proudly serving in all branches of the armed services to the anti-military filth that the hosts of the shows on Air America spew anyway?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3380046
You obviously have never listened to Randi Rhodes. She, like me, is a veteran. She served in the Air Force. She is a staunch defender of servicemembers and their families, no matter what your masters told you.
If you weren't a knuckle-dragging freeptard, you'd know that.
Hey, maybe before you open your yap and spew your own version of hate, maybe you should open your ears and actually listen to who is saying what, who is defending who. Bush is cutting veteran's benefits. Rush tell you that? Bush sent the Army to war without body armor. Rush tell you that?
No, you'd rather drink the Bush Kool Aid and believe the lies Limbaugh spews rather than open your d*mn eyes and realize you've been conned.
Oh, and Google is our friend at Democratic Underground.
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Subject: What Planet Are You From?
Sir: I am not sure from where your delusions stem, but let's clear up a couple of things: Air America is not 'hate speech;' it's free speech, and small balance to the right-wing venom polluting the airwaves. NPR is highly-censored, 'right-wing lite' news. Rush Limbaugh really truly honestly IS a big fat idiot (and a liar to boot). Also, you may want to get your facts straight, if you want to consider yourself in any way a 'journalist.' There is NO 'form letter' on the Democratic Underground, demanding equal time for Air America on AFN, or on any other issue. Here at Democratic Underground, we pride ourselves on being sufficiently intelligent to write our own letters, in our own words, expressing our own thoughts. In other words, we are not merely 'dittoheads.' I am sorry to hear that you consider Air America's programming to be 'anti-military filth.' You must have a pretty loose standard for what you consider to be anti-military. You must surely despise the Bush administration's cutting of funding for VA hospitals; talk about anti-military filth! And from a deserter to boot. What a black mark in American history to have a Commander in Thief who ran from duty like George W. Bush did (not to mention Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld). Your writing sounds eerily like the hate-filled rants of Rush himself. Or are you simply another paid shill for the Bush administration, like 'journalist' James Guckert/Jeff Gannon? One last thought: if you really value the freedoms of our Constitution, you might want to take a look at the way Bush has violated his oath of office in his attempts to dismantle the First Amendment.
Sincerely Yours, Minnesota Grandmother for Truth ---------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Might Wanna Look John
Your names all over the bloghs John ... Damn!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3380046&mesg_id=3380046
FIGHT WAR, NOT WARS! KILL POWER, NOT PEOPLE!
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Subject: Fatboy Limbaugh
hey, I read your little rant about the Fat, Draft Dodging, Drug Addicted, Wife Trashing Limbaugh and would like to comment.
If a US serviceman wants to change the channel what does he change it to ?
Also, your pic should be changed. I noticed you are out of uniform. I believe being overweight is out of uniform, unless the weight is all concentrated in your necks.
I would also suggest you stop being so political. When I served honorably in the USMC, unlike your draft dodging, alcoholic Commander In Chief, I was told not to be political.
So, get a life. _________________________________________________________
So this is the respone from the "Freedom of Speech" crowd when you dare speak about their beloved little SCARE America. They have been assaulting my AFN e-mail account with this crap since yesterday. I gave NO indication that I worked for AFN, in fact I wrote the letter from my computer in my barracks room. It would also appear that I'm the target of my own thread in DUmmie land. Any advice or ideas for how I should handle this would be greatly appreciated. I need the power of the FReepers to help me on this. Thanks guys.
Use the power of ignore. Drives them nuts. Well, nuttier.
Don't you see?! The Progressives are alone to behold the historical TRUTHS! All FReepers and sheeple are mired down in a false consciousness, their feeble minds fed by a daily dose of pabulum, courtesty of the imperialist and mendacious Thought Control organs of the dictatorial Chimperor George W(armonger) McBushitler II!
But the capitalist substructure of this gruesome society is crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions, and soon the socio-cultural-political superstructure will come a-toppling down!
Then we can establish our Progressive (of course, a Marxist term meaning any change that has a net effect of moving society closer to Socialism/Communism) institutions! Once the USA is Red, all foreigners will embrace us, everyone will be happy and free, everyone will have enough food--the realization of the dreams of history's greatest poets!
And all of this has a principle cause in Air America--all stems from the aural-TRUTH that erodes the Rock of Tyranny like the Waves of the People!
/DUmmie (wow, that's really easy and fun, no wonder DU is such a popular, er, vanguard forum)
Someone once said:"Never argue with idiots, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
In case it wasn't too clear from the e-mails, the first person I wrote to and who responded to me is in Germany.
Appearently the person I replied to forwarded my e-mail to her DUmmie buddies who took offense at what I had to say. The original letter writer is in Germany. The others are coming from DUmmie HQ in the states.
JimRob thanks for the advice and for taking the time to stop by. It's always an honor.
I thought it was the "Forced Entertainment Network" or FEN in the Pacific.
Stay safe, GI.
Screw it...TEAR THEM UP. They're IDIOTS man, you'll eat 'em for lunch! Have some fun, vent some anger and go for it! You're a soldier, so I know you've dealt with worse than foul mouthed lefties:)
Do what you like, of course...but that's what I'd do! It feels good to slay liberals...real, real GOOD. Ahhhhhhhh!
Then you know how it is and why I said what I did con.
1 Hour of Rush on Thunder Am from 7pm - 8pm.
A healthy dose of NPR daily.
The majority of the news on AFN News comes from MSNBC and CNN with a smattering of FNC.
And this woman STILL had the audacity to say that the liberal view is NOT represented.
Regardless of how you decide to handle this, you know you have lots of right-minded FRiends here who support you!
(How liberal does one have to be to consider NPR as "rightwing lite"? LOL)
Although retired now, I will always be a member of our military. I spent way too many years defending America against the Socialists, to ignore it today.
I took an oath when I joined the military. I take my oaths very seriously!
ATTACK!
Thought about it but I don't have my own 24/7 account where I know it would get to him. If I send it to the "regular" e-mail address there no guarentee it will get to him.
Yup...no need to validate the nut cases by "defending". Left unsaid, they will find something else to bitch about when it comes to anything American.
That is also a very effective form of attack.
If anybody feels like FReep mailing these freaks prepare to copy....
RoMper StoMper [romperstomperrr@hotmail.com]
Kevin and Rachel [krsbusch@hickorytech.net]
Marilynn Morrissey [marilynn2@adelphia.net]
Dawn Beck [kaitcat@hotmail.com]
Nothing Follows...Bulldog 95 Delta out...
It's like a fart...you go "Whew that stinks" to yourself, and ignore it otherwise. Your time is much more valuable than dealing with hot air.
Forward or send copies of this crap to the editors of Stars & Stripes.
Hoist the buggers by their own petards.
It's done.
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