Iowa Is Missing Out
While other areas of the country (WI, MN, eg.) get to listen to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the publicly owned commercial airwaves every week, Iowa radio stations are making sure we get to hear only the conservative blather of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Jan Mickelson – multiple hours per day on multiple stations in some cases. Check out this incredible line-up of guests on Ring of Fire this weekend. Since we can't actually tune in, we're stuck with listening online and subscribing to the podcast.
Here's an example of the kinds of things RFK Jr. has been saying for years, so it is no wonder the corporate media does not want his radio program to be too widely available.
“They say that they like private property but they don't like private property except when it's the right of a polluter to use his private property to destroy his neighbor's property and to destroy the public property.
“And they say that they like law and order but they are the first ones to let the corporate law breakers off the hook. And they say that they like local control and states rights but they only like those things when it means sweeping away the barriers to corporate profit taking at the local level.
“… we have negligent and indolent media and press in this country which have absolutely let down American democracy. All this right-wing propaganda which is planned and organized and [has] dominated this country [and] the political debate for so many years, talking about a liberal media. Well, you know and I know there is no such thing as a liberal media in the United States of America.
“There is a right-wing media and if you look where most Americans are now getting their news, that's where they're getting it. According to Pew, 30 percent of Americans now say that their primary news source is talk radio which is 90 percent dominated by the right.
This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 2 o’clock Central, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 7 pm Central
This week on Ring of Fire: Senator Al Franken will be joining us to discuss his role in the United States Senate.
Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, will be here to talk about the dysfunctional state of American politics, and what progressives can do to help fix our broken Congress.
Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic adviser to vice president Joe Biden, will tell us how the Obama Administration’s economic policies have prevented our economy from taking another nose dive.
Radio host Shannyn Moore will be joining me to talk about the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska that is threatening to destroy vital habitats for Alaskan salmon.
And author Justin Krebs will be joining us to talk about how we can use our liberal values
in ways that go far beyond voting and campaigning.
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