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I’ve been listening to talk radio with Sean Hannity, Jesse Kelly etc. I find it hilarious how they bend and twist what they are talking about to twist the narrative or prove their point with whatever is going on in the news or political landscape.
One time Jesse Kelly was telling his listeners if they live in a blue state to move because laws were changing and the police would take your sons away if you refused to let them cut off their penises and become trans. That’s insane. I only heard this station because a coworker left it on in a shared vehicle.
I was curious does the other side have similar radio personalities or stations? I’d like to listen to see if they are just as unhinged and what they push as facts to their base.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2023 at 16:40 UTC
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Democrats and liberals do not have programming to spread unhinged crackpot lies.
It is my opinion that what you heard is wire fraud racketeering and that the people doing it should get 20 years in federal prison. I mean, all of the people involved, like the on-air liars and their producers and the executives and the owners of the channel.
This kind of organized crime is not protected speech. No one has a right to be a liar or to run a massive fraud operation for money.
Comment by bl1y at 02/08/2023 at 13:31 UTC
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Depending on the city, your mid-day NPR station might have some kooky stuff. NPR member stations choose their own programming, but they all run Morning Edition in the morning and All Things Considered in the evening. But between those hours, they can kinda do whatever. And sometimes it gets pretty dumb.
But about the program you heard, obviously I don't know the specifics of what was said, but when California is determining custody battles, the courts will consider a parent to be abusive if they refuse to affirm the child's gender identity.
So now imagine you've got a terminally online 11 year old daughter who after a bout of depression spent binging tiktok videos says they're nonbinary and want puberty blockers. You might think the kid is just going through the ordinary trials and tribulations of that age, needs to touch grass, and maybe get some counseling before considering messing with their hormones. ...But now you're risking being labeled an abusive parent by the state and potentially losing custody.
Something I've come to notice is that while the right get hysterical about these things, often exaggerating them into caricatures, the left routinely goes into denial, refusing to acknowledge that some of this shit actually happens. It's like the right is allergic to bee stings, while the left denies that bees even exist.