Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
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Susie Madrak On Glenn Beck's Violence Inciting Rhetoric
I’m waiting for Glenn Beck to finally apologize.
I’m waiting for him to acknowledge that violent rhetoric can and does influence mentally unbalanced people, and that a line has been so clearly crossed, even Glenn Beck has regrets.
When you tell people Obama’s planning to kill them, that has consequences.
When you warn people of an impending Reichstag moment and power grab, you’re targeting our leaders.
When Byron Williams, armed to the teeth and wearing body armor, drives to San Francisco to shoot officials of the Tides Foundation and hopefully start a revolution, was it a coincidence that you’d targeted them with your violent rhetoric?
When your fan Richard Poplowski became so convinced that the Obama administration would take his guns that he gunned down three Pittsburgh policemen, you planted those seeds.
What’s that old saying? “Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.”
You can hide behind the flag, Mr. Beck, but now everyone sees you for who you are. You’re a liar, and a bully, and a thug. You incite other people and sit back, counting your cash.
Shame on you. You’re a twisted excuse for a human being, and your words led to the death of other human beings. No, you didn’t pull the trigger — but neither did Charles Manson.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/remember-when-beck-ridiculed-pelosi-c
Here’s the Pima County Sheriff on the responsibility of pundits who stoke the mentally ill’s violent, paranoid delusions.
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/pima-sheriff-clarence-dupnik-calls-out-vitr
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Poll Finds Fox News Viewers Significantly Misinformed
A poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org has found that the higher amounts of money flowing to the 2010 elections led to a more poorly informed public. The poll, titled “Misinformation and the 2010 Election: A Study of the U.S. Electorate,” was the first conducted after a national election since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission, which freed corporations and unions to spend unlimited money to influence U.S. elections. The poll found strong evidence that voters were significantly misinformed on many issues that figured prominently in the 2010 election campaign, including the stimulus legislation, the healthcare reform law, TARP, the state of the economy, climate change, campaign contributions by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and President Obama’s birthplace. In most cases, increased exposure to news sources decreased misinformation, but exposure to certain news sources were found to create higher levels of misinformation. For example, people who watched Fox News almost daily were significantly more likely to hold beliefs that are not true, including that their own income taxes have gone up, that most scientists do not believe climate change is occurring, that most economists estimated the new health care reform law will worsen the deficit, that most Republicans opposed the TARP bailout, and that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and cannot legitimately serve as president.
Phil Donohue on the Detrimental Effects of Media Consolidation
I’ll admit I’ve always loved and admired Phil Donohue but after seeing him recently on Oprah and now seeing this clip http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/phil-donahue-media-consolidation-and-being he has become almost God-like to me.
Phil suffered the same back lash that I did (on on a much smaller scale) during the run up to the Iraq War. The sad part about all of this is I don’t think we as Americans have learned a bloody thing from the Iraq War and the complicity of the media in promoting an unnecessary-pre-emptive war. The consolidation of media ownership thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 passed during the Clinton Administration has had a devastating effect on both the content and the character of mass media in America.