Xenophobic Talk Radio

[AztecGringo]

I don't know about the rest of you but I cannot believe the anti-immigrant, racist, xenophobic rhetoric that is pervasive on Los Angeles talk radio. I listen sometimes to KABC or KFI and it is scary the extent to which they denigrate undocumented immigrants.

There is a particular talk show host overnight on KABC named Kevin James. I e-mailed him and told him that he was xenophobic. He referred to my e-mail on the air and said the writer (me) was an idiot. I then wrote him an eloquent (except for the part where I called him a pussy) response inviting him to write to me and engage in a personal dialogue. I am still waiting.

I am interested in what others have heard and believe about the content of talk radio and the impact that it actually has on influencing public opinion.

[The Stranger]

1. Neocon Public Relations (NPR) today featured a story on Russian xenophobia

if you can believe that. It is more what you would expect from Right Wing radio than NPR, but it is becoming more and more common there.

[MrPrax]

6. Typical...

They (as quite a few of these 'liberal' outlets) had a lot to say about the race riots on Ossie beaches a month ago and the growing 'threat' of BNP in Britain :eyes:

Surprise surprise

[DS1]

2. The local idiots that I tune into now and then were claiming

some report that the anti-war crowd were joining up with the immigration protestors - because only 500 people show up for anti-war demos

[AllieB]

11. Was that Howie Carr or Jay Severin?

Both are bloviating idiots.

[DS1]

12. No, morons on WAAF

I'd rather listen to DLR trying to relive his VH days than those loud-mouthed nickelback-playing assholes

[Bluzmann57]

3. Well, I was at a local grocery store the other day

and I parked pretty far from the entrance. As I was walking to the entrance, I heard limbaugh on some guys radio as the guy sat there with the window open. Then I heard something that sounded like "Fuckin' right on!" coming from the same car. Here in this area, we have four talk radio stations, one is sports, the other three are political, etc. The station with limbaugh, etc has the best ratings among the talk stations here, but the AAR/Progressive talk is gaining fast. The other right wing station registered zero. They have O'Reilly, Savage, and other fine people like that. They are often pre-empted by Cub and White Sox games, which I find hilarious. But back to the point. Yes, talk radio can and often does influence public opinion, I believe. The Rock and Country music stations are the same stuff over and over again and I think people are getting tired of that, so they are turning to talk more and more. A local guy really irritated me a few years ago when he suggested that perhaps Wal Mart employees should just be greatful that they have jobs and quit demanding time and a half for anything over 40 hours. But, after that, a lot of people responded to him, both positively and negatively. So he got response, which was good for the station. This was before Progressive talk hit our town however. It is slowly but surely taking over, at least here in the Quad-Cities of Iowa and Illinois. And it will influence public opinion, for better or worse.

[KharmaTrain]

4. When They Say It's Not Racist, It's Racist

I was sampling some of the slime on WLS (there's a lady on here in the morning who iritates and race baits constantly) and the mantra is almost strictly on Mexicans and specifically "how dare they waive their flags in our streets"....these the same morons who pub crawl and waive Irish flags on St. Patrick's Day. They even have a black female on at night whose fed the talking points du jour and is trying the "Illegals (tranlsation: Hispanics) are taking our jobs and money away". Real nice stuff.

[DUHandle]

5. It has no impact

http://www2.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov04/272541.asp

The above link describes an incident that happened in Milwaukee, WI.

The guy is still on the air.

If you’re interested further details or what the slur was, poke around in newspapers database.

The media conglomerate that pays the radio talk show host also owns the newspaper.

[EFerrari]

7. Do you mean, writing to these creeps has no impact?

At first I thought you meant, the broadcast has no impact on the public.

[DUHandle]

9. Additional Information

After the broadcast that slurred a Mexicans (and it was about voting and the suggestion that illegal immigrants were voting fraudulently) the talk show host was taken off the air for a few days.

A Hispanic business group worked with some success to have advertisers pull their adds from his show.

After it all died down, it was business as usual for the talk show host.

To answer your question directly, efforts by concerned people engaging in correspondence had no impact, since the radio talk show host still has the same market share.

I can say the same of the efforts of the Hispanic Business group.

[EFerrari]

10. Yes. I agree. n/t

[oscar111]

8. immigrants take usa jobs from americans

job shortage is fourteen million... see sig below.

we cant take any immigrants. None.
I like all humans, just dont see expanding our job shortage. We need to end ours and also mexico's . Repeat, not racist, not xenophobic, just looking at economics and hunger.

each immigrant costs one US person his job. Not good.

Americans did every immigrant job before the flood of immigants. "jobs we wont do" is just a RW lie.

we need protectionism... and then help the repatriated mexicans in mexico elect a progressive down there to create jobs there, not here.

commments? Hope you agree.