Liberals Urged to Take On "Right-Wing Nuts" on Talk Radio

CNSnews ^ | July 15, 2006 | Randy Hall

[Cindy_Cin]

Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) challenged liberals attending the "Take Back America" conference to take on the "right-wing nuts" on talk radio and demand that local radio stations and newspapers provide "alternative points of view."

"The fight to allow people to hear different points of view is as important as any other fight, so I would urge people at the grassroots to start taking on the local media," Sanders said during a panel discussion Wednesday on the topic of media reform.

"If you have a right-wing station in your community, you've got to go up to those people and say, 'You've got to give us alternative points of view,'" he stated. "If you have a newspaper in your community that does not allow columnists from a progressive perspective, you've got to go challenge those people."

[ClaireSolt]

How sad.

[radar101]

They "Been there, Done that" and fizzled.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!! Make our day! Here they go again. George Soros, get you check book out.

[Paloma_55]

We definitely need "alternative points of view"....

In our schools, on TV, periodicals, newspapers, the college campuses, etc...

There is certainly no shortage of liberal perspective.

[SamAdams_Lite]

A few of them got on Howie Carr's show Monday. He called them 'Moonbats'.

[samtheman]

demand that local radio stations and newspapers provide "alternative points of view."

Why not put on a show that draws viewers and you won't have to "demand" anything... except higher fees from advertisers wanting to get in on the action.

[NonLinear]

Oh man! I knew I was missing something...the leftist viewpoint! Yeah, can't find that anywhere.

[TSchmereL]

Ha ha ha ha ha!

[randita]

Talk radio IS the alternative point of view to all the rest of the print and broadcast media in the country. Geez, they want it all!

[bad company]

How's that Air America thing going?

[philman_36]

If you have a newspaper in your community that does not allow columnists from a progressive perspective...
Ah, that little word "if".
Since there aren't that many newspapers which fall into this criteria to begin with it shouldn't need many volunteers to be successful.

[goresalooza]

I thought Err America was to be the big talkradio outlet for disgruntled libbos. It's a miserable failure. No show can survive on only BS, there has to be truth and facts to support what's right. The libbos have never yet understood this.

[ncountylee]

Bernie misses the Soviet single media source model. Too bad, you filthy commie puke.

[Lazamataz]

Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) challenged liberals attending the "Take Back America" conference to take on the "right-wing nuts" on talk radio and demand that local radio stations and newspapers provide "alternative points of view."

Dear Bernie,

F*** you.

Love,

Laz

[Drango]

demand that local radio stations and newspapers provide "alternative points of view."

NPR already is doing this. Bigtime.

[Fenris6]

'You've got to give us alternative points of view,'" he stated.

Dumbass. Talk radio WAS CREATED as an alternate venue for conservatives because you and your kind shut us out of television.

[johnny7]

'Equal-time' bullsh_t again. Can't win with stranglehold they already have on the media... can't win in the arena of idea's. The only thing to do is dilute the truth with propaganda!

[SQUID]

demand that local radio stations and newspapers provide "alternative points of view."

...demand that they think like us.

[MaestroLC]

demand that local radio stations and newspapers provide "alternative points of view."

It's called Al-Air America and Al-NPR, and they are both doing poorly. Also, they have Al-NYT, Al-Washington Post, Al-Time Magazine, Al-NBC, Al-C(BS), Al-ABC, Al-CNN, etc......