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Radio
host to Obama: 'Go screw yourself'
 By
John Breneman
If you love to hate Barack Obama, but don't know where to
turn now that 65 million Americans have cast their vote for
his bright, passionately expressed vision for our nation's
future, I have four letters for you -- WTKK (96.9 FM, Boston).
There, right-wing talk radio host Jay Severin exercised his
freedom of speech by playing a snippet of Obama's moving election-night
speech and offering this response to the president-elect:
"Go screw yourself."
This patriotic fellow's stated aim is "to politically
destroy Barack Obama ... to undermine and destroy his political
ability to govern or to have any hope of a successful administration."
Mr. Severin praises his listeners as "the best and brightest,"
while washing their brains with white noise about the boogie
man's love of socialism and terrorism. He smugly demeans Obama
supporters as "the young and otherwise ignorant."
His station bills itself as "Boston's Talk Evolution."
Sadly, my commute does not coincide with Mr. Severin's air
time. So to feed my curiosity about the media's de-evolution,
I instead subject myself to small doses of his colleague,
comedian Michael Graham, whose best punch line is calling
his program "The Natural Truth."
 Echoing
the newest right-wing yakking point, Mr. Graham's post-election
shtick is to pretend he is being censored and oppressed by
"our liberal overlords."
Imploring listeners to "join the resistance," he
proclaimed that "talk radio is under assault." Now
that our totalitarian "dear leader" has assumed
power, Mr. Graham lamented, he can no longer utter the middle
name of "Barack You-Know-Who Obama."
Of course, he can say "Barack Hussein Obama" till
he's blue in the face. America still isn't falling for the
Muslim terrorist sympathizer routine.
On Friday, one of the Mr. Graham's first callers picked up
on his rhetoric about Obama's plan to help young people afford
college in exchange for military or community service. The
caller said the plan reminded her of Hitler youth in Nazi
Germany. Guess who plays Hitler in this scenario. (Clue: His
middle name is Hussein.)
 That's
"The Natural Truth" for you -- America oppressed
by the evil Obama.
The "fair and balanced" crowd is sounding the alarm
that Obama and his godless, elite, liberal cronies are bent
on reinstituting something called the Fairness Doctrine, which
scares the right with language intended to hold extremists
on both sides accountable for their most egregious smears,
However, since Mr. Obama holds our Constitution in higher
regard than our current president, it is unlikely he would
tolerate restrictions on freedom of speech.
If anything, Obama's election is regarded as a boon to right-wing
talk radio. Now that he is in power, efforts to demonize him
-- or "politically destroy" him as Mr. Severin puts
it -- will be even more financially lucrative.
These self-styled mini-Rush Limbaughs are smart operators.
They figure the unimpeded flow of anti-Obama effluent is what
keeps them in a higher tax bracket than you, me and Joe the
Plumber.
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Note: I invite defenders of Mr. Severin and Mr. Graham to
respond, but please understand that I am unequivocally against
censoring them or anyone else.
Also, thank you in advance for reminding me that I can change
the channel. Mr. Best & Brightest and Mr. Natural Truth
purport to facilitate a public discourse; I am simply responding
to their offer in a way that expresses my thoughts more fully
than would be possible on the radio.
Related links:
Jay
Severin's phony Pulitzer
Severin's
oops about killing Muslims
Posted on November 11, 2008 11:01 AM
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