Black Radio on Obama Is Left’s Answer to Limbaugh - NYT

[Kire]

Source: New York Times

Black Radio on Obama Is Left’s Answer to Limbaugh
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: July 27, 2008

ATLANTA — Warren Ballentine, one of black talk radio’s new stars, was on a tear against Senator John McCain as he broadcast from the Greenbriar Mall here last week, blithely dismissing Mr. McCain’s kind words about Senator Barack Obama at the recent N.A.A.C.P. national convention.

He came out talking about how good of a race Barack Obama was running, and how proud he was of Barack,” Mr. Ballentine said. “You know he went back home and said, ‘I can’t believe I spoke in front of all those Negroes today!’ ”

“He was pandering to the crowd, talking about how he felt when Martin Luther King Jr. died,” Mr. Ballentine went on. “However, he didn’t vote for the holiday of Martin Luther King Jr.”

Rush Limbaugh, meet your black liberal counterprogramming. Mr. Ballentine is one of the many African-American radio hosts and commentators who are aggressively advocating for Mr. Obama’s election on black-oriented radio stations daily.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/us/politics/27radio.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

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radio seems to be quite a topic this weekend (see my journal)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Bless that man and his number.

If we cannot get white radio hosts to stand up in any numbers and speak the hard truths about the right, then our African American Bretheren might as well take that bit in their teeth. They will have my full and unvarnished admiration and support for doing it as well.

[MadMaddie]

2. I am glad to hear this....one thing that frightens the Rethuglicans

more than anything is any mobilized and energized group whether they be Latino's, Gays, Women, African-Americans and all Liberals!!

We have to keep up the pressure on the Rethuglican bastards and make them more reactionary and desperate.

[Luminous Animal]

3. Wrong, wrong, wrong...

Again the corporate media legitimizes the radical right. Limbaugh is a white supremacist. A very smart white supremacist. There is no way in hell that Mr. Ballentine or the majority of African-American radio hosts will attain for and reach the Rush's divisiveness.

This article only serves to establish that Rush is the norm.

Who here agrees that "black" radio(in all of its entirety) is the opposite of one bigot?

[Kire]

4. opposite?

It's obviously not the opposite, but that's not what said in the article. It's not perfect, but it's more than there was in any other previous election since Rush went on the air.

[Robb]

5. I'm calling the ombudsman

I distinctly recall vomit being the left's answer to Limbaugh. :shrug: