Well, now that we know that Michael Savage is officially on Premiere Radio’s list of unacceptable shows for a large swath of American businesses and Premiere has pulled all of its ads for two weeks on all stations (did maybe some stations tell Premiere to “shove it?”)…<\/p>\n
So I’m listening to the streaming of Michael Savage on WAAV-AM in Leland, North Carolina, a station owned by Cumulus Media.\u00a0\u00a0 If you’re rusty on your geography of North Carolina, Leland is across the river from Wilmington NC, a few miles in from the Atlantic ocean.<\/p>\n
That part of North Carolina is full of important military installations, largely because of geography.\u00a0\u00a0 The best known is Camp Lejuene, the Marine’s basic training facility just up the road in Jacksonville, NC.\u00a0\u00a0 A little to the south is the Army’s Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point with its 16,000 acres for storing ammunition.\u00a0\u00a0 This part of North Carolina has a lot at stake on anything about the role of the U.S. Military.<\/p>\n
A good part of the show today was dedicated to the orders to US Marines in Afghanistan that when Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visited, Marines were not permitted to have firearms in his presence – so as to not have Marines with guns and the Afghans not having guns (which would show we don’t trust the Afghans to not shoot us!).<\/p>\n
All very interesting…\u00a0\u00a0 Savage then went on a rage saying that we need the Military Draft back and there is no way we could have won World War II without the draft.\u00a0\u00a0 A Ron Paulish caller pointed out to Mr “Follow the Constitution” that there is a prohibition on “Involuntary Servitude” in the 13th amendment except as punishment for a crime, to which Savage responded\u00a0 with the predictable “So you wanted Hitler to kill all the Jews?” *sigh*<\/p>\n
Then we went on a tangent as often happens discussing the history of China and how the Mandarin leaders destroyed the country of China when a few powerful leaders fell out of touch with the common man [oh?]<\/p>\n
All of this narrative is just the prelude.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s the end of the hour.\u00a0\u00a0 I think this was a local “avail” (a time slot for a commercial), but either way…\u00a0 it was an advertisement for SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program – aka “food stamps”), trying to recruit more people to sign up.<\/p>\n
I checked.\u00a0 I don’t qualify.\u00a0\u00a0 You can only have $2000 in cash or cash-like assets to get them (living month to month with total dependency on your government checks)<\/p>\n
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Well, now that we know that Michael Savage is officially on Premiere Radio’s list of unacceptable shows for a large swath of American businesses and Premiere has pulled all of its ads for two weeks on all stations (did maybe … Continue reading