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BYE BYE RIGHT WING HATE RADIO

A lady wrote a letter to The Fresno Bee criticizing right wing gasbags Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The Bee has a comments section for people to respond to letters and, of course, the Ditto Head community was represented. One response said something about "the left," assuming that the writer was on the left. Criticizing the tactics and misinformation of Limbaugh and Hannity automatically puts you on the left? Who knew? Rush Limbaugh could claim that he parted the Red Sea and the Ditto Heads would rush to his defense because they're morons. The good news is that right wing hate radio is declining in California. They had they heyday and we see the catastrophe that has resulted. This article by Michael Finnegan is at www.latimes.com:

Tune in to conservative talk radio in California, and the insults quickly fly. Capturing the angry mood of listeners the other day, a popular host in Los Angeles called Republican lawmakers who voted to raise state taxes "a bunch of weak slobs."

With their trademark ferocity, radio stars who helped engineer Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's rise in the 2003 recall have turned on him over the new tax increases. On stations up and down the state, they are chattering away in hopes of igniting a taxpayers' revolt to kill his budget measures on the May 19 ballot.

But for all the anti-tax swagger and the occasional stunts by personalities like KFI's John and Ken, the reality is that conservative talk radio in California is on the wane. The economy's downturn has depressed ad revenue at stations across the state, thinning the ranks of conservative broadcasters.

For that and other reasons, stations have dropped the shows of at least half a dozen radio personalities and scaled back others, in some cases replacing them with cheaper nationally syndicated programs.