Our Military Men & Women In Europe Will Finally Be Spared From Scourge Of Limbaugh Hate Broadcasts

[kpete]

The American Forces Network (AFN) Kaiserslautern PowerNet transmitter goes off the air Sunday, August 31st. The hills ARE alive now that the racism, misogyny, homophobia, anger and hate of Mr. Limpballs no longer pollutes the European air.

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After numerous petitions, emails, letters, and pleas for removal of Mr. Limpballs from the AFN, our military men and women in Europe will finally be spared. The scourge of hate and fear broadcast to them on the tax-payer dollar will go quiet. Rush Limbaugh may give the show to them for free, but the tax-payer pays for the station operations.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/30/1325923/-AFN-Kaiserslauten-Transmitter-Goes-Off-the-Air-Taking-Rush-Limbaugh-With-It#

[DrDan]

1. used to listen to that while at Sembach AB around 1970

[former9thward]

2. Any member of the military can listen to Rush or those on the Left.

There are two stations: Power Talk and The Voice.

Lineup:

AFN PowerTalk gives you three full hours of Rush Limbaugh, Ed Schultz, Sean Hannity and Thom Hartmann each weekday - plus a weekend lineup never before seen nor heard in political talk radio. It’s the most complete list of shows from liberal to conservative and everything in between all on one channel.

AFN PowerTalk the only channel on earth where you can find all the political talk heavy weights, like Glenn Beck, Stephanie Miller, Mark Levin, Randi Rhodes and more! Where left and right collide...AFN PowerTalk.

The Voice is your source for news, talk and information. You can get Rush Limbaugh, Ed Schultz, Mike Huckabee, The Osgood File, Kim Komando, Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes, Banmiller on Business, At Home, Health Beat, Big Biz Show and so much more. The Voice is your single source for AP news, ABC news, Fox news, and military news.

The Voice stands alone for the most complete news coverage from multiple sources. Stay informed and get up-to-date information all in one place.


http://www.afneurope.net/Radio/AFN360InternetRadio/tabid/2174/Default.aspx

[Cha]

3. No way! Finally.. The brainwashing will stop!

thanks kpete~

[Sopkoviak]

4. This has nothing to do with Limbaugh

This action is a result of the current administration shutting down a source of news, information and entertainment to our service members, their families and support staff in order to save about 60 million bucks.

For that idiot at Kos to take any credit for this is just moronic.

My Grand Daughter is an USAF nurse stationed at the Kaiserslautern Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and I can assure you that she and her fellow Airmen and soldiers are not real happy about this development.

Oh sure they can still get streaming audio but many prefer radio for it's mobility.

But then they're just military so who gives an eff.

http://voice.adobe.com/v/LGPqaAhvoaj

[cheapdate]

5. Oh for crying out loud!

I doubt that anyone joins the service with the expectation that entertainment radio programming will be provided at all US military bases. I remember my sadness when WVUA went off the air in Nashville, but somehow I manged to persevere. There are an endless variety of opportunities to find fulfillment from being stationed in Germany without a base radio station.

[Duppers]

8. what kind of poster would "morn" Limbaugh's ...

broadcasts being stopped?? Grrrr.

Glad all my letters and petitions signings did not go for naught.

Your post has the odor of a troll.

And, for your info, DUers support our military's welfare more than rethugians lawmakers do.

[progree]

9. Sopkoviak almost got a hide here, in HOF, not starting out too well

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125549820#post3

[former9thward]

18. Your petitions did go for naught.

AFR is simply changing the medium for its broadcasts. It will have the same shows.

[Doctor_J]

13. Limpballs is a "source of news"?

Since when?

Enjoy your stay

[Iliyah]

6. Finally!

The MFers took the only Liberal station and replaced it with MORE hate radio here in LA, including rushepoo's bullshit. I'm also glad its tanking BUT hate radio have lots of money, crap.

[maindawg]

7. This is huge

I am stunned. I was so out raged that they broadcasted this a hole its nothing but fascist propaganda. Are you telling me , that they have decided that fascist propaganda is not cool, or are you telling me, that the this phase is over and the next phase will be 10 times worse?

[former9thward]

19. The OP is in error.

The shows are remaining the same. The medium is changing because the technology that average members of the military use to listen to shows has changed.

[ancianita]

10. Whew! SO glad! Thanks for the great news!

[NashuaDW]

11. Not every military person necessarily agrees with you

Ever consider that a sizable number of folks might like Rush?
He does have the largest radio audience in the country.

I agree that the fact that it was done to save money is a crappy thing to do to our troops.

[Doctor_J]

14. Too bad. My taxes pay for AFN and right wing propaganda should not be part of it

Enjoy your stay.

[former9thward]

20. RW prop is still part of it.

The OP is completely in error. Same shows, different broadcast medium.

[Doctor_J]

22. AFN line-up should be, for 6 months or so

Press, Steph, Thom, Ed, and Malloy. That's it. Then we'll see how things sit.

[raccoon]

12. This is a cause for rejoicing. nt

[Duppers]

15. the trolls are here

Always with their rationalizing.


And my ignore list grows.

[Nye Bevan]

16. Shouldn't they also ensure that Limbaugh's show is blocked from internet streaming in those bases?

As long as we are picking and choosing what shows servicemen and women should be allowed to have access to?

[Mariana]

24. Aren't they already picked and chosen?

Does the current system provide every single show in existence?

[NashuaDW]

17. It must be nice ...

... to be able to dismiss everyone that disagrees with you as a 'Troll.'

The military as a whole tends to be more conservative than the general population.
http://themonkeycage.org/2012/02/10/voting-behavior-of-us-military-personnel/

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_11/015602.php

Fortunately, I don't think this was an ideological decision. There is still plenty of talk radio (left and right) for service members to listen to.

Imagine the outrage if a Republican administration killed off broadcasts from Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartman, and Ed Schultz.

And I agree with Sopkoviak that Kos is a moron for thinking he had anything to do with this action.

BTW, I spend 8 years in Germany and a year in Turkey during the 70's & 80's. AFN & AFRTS were lifesavers.

[tabasco]

21. Not the military I was in

The nation’s 24 million troops and veterans account for about 10% of the nation’s potential voters, but they’re not the monolithic bloc many believe.

Outsiders tend to think the U.S. military is made up entirely of blood-and-gut conservatives, à la John Wayne, but there’s little real evidence to back that up. When the Iraq war was launched, the consensus among U.S. military officers interviewed at the time was that one in three officers opposed it, suggesting they all weren’t gun ho.

“The officers by and large are more conservative,” says an Army sergeant just back from Afghanistan. “But the enlisted tend to be more liberal.” Of course, with fewer than one in five of those in uniform an officer, there’s a lot more enlisted voters.

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/05/does-the-military-vote-really-lean-republican/

[RGinNJ]

28. Not in my Navy

I served for 20 years with a very inclusive and intelligent group of a individuals. Never did I run into people who espoused any of the strange RW talking points that Limbaugh puts out.

[Paladin]

23. Way the hell past time for this. (nt)

[hack89]

26. What? Not broadcasting AFN?

There are some great programs on that network.

[hack89]

25. So you don't think AFN is a good thing

And should not be available?

[MineralMan]

27. In 1967-8, when I was stationed at a small (600 people) USAF

base on the Black Sea coast in Turkey, even we had an AFRTS AM station on the base. AFRN news on the hour and non-stop music the rest of the time. No talk shows. No nothing but music and news. There were three guys who covered the shifts, playing real vinyl, mostly supplied by people stationed there. A lot of times, the station just played whole album sides with no interruptions. At night, the station played taped music on the slowest speed their deck supported, so the three guys didn't have to run the station 24/7.

I guess things have changed, but we all appreciated having that station available. That and the base movie theater, which ran movies all night for the shift workers on the base. Mostly a couple of years old. We once even had a non-stop Spaghetti Western film festival, featuring all of the Sergio Leone Good, Bad and Ugly series. The audience kept a running count of dead people out loud during the movies, which we all saw multiple times. Clint Eastwood. Excellent.