Stuck in AM Radio Mode: Ranting and Raving on the Airwaves

In summary: I like him.In summary, Michael Savage was a commentator on AM radio who was very critical of Obama. He has made a number of inflammatory statements about Muslims, liberals, and same-sex marriage. His show has been dropped from several sponsors because of these comments.
  • #141
Cyrus said:
I have the booklet, it's sitting in my basement right now. And I'll have you know I had a big time audio installer do it, with years of expert experience and charges top dollar - I did it :-p.
Remind me not to have you install my next audio system, big-time-installer. I can't stand AM and I want to be able to change radio bands without reading a manual and making multiple button-presses while traveling down the highway. :eek:
 
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  • #142
turbo-1 said:
Remind me not to have you install my next audio system, big-time-installer. I can't stand AM and I want to be able to change radio bands without reading a manual and making multiple button-presses while traveling down the highway. :eek:

It's not my fualt. I installed it. I didn't make the radio itself.
 
  • #143
Cyrus said:
It's not my fualt. I installed it. I didn't make the radio itself.

You're the one who bought it with no AM/FM button. :-p What did you think you were getting, an iPOD with no buttons?
 
  • #144
Moonbear said:
You're the one who bought it with no AM/FM button. :-p What did you think you were getting, an iPOD with no buttons?

Actually, I bought it on ebay and it was really a good deal. New in the box for only 70 bucks including shipping. The wire harnes was another 18 bucks. I got a radio with an audio adapter for my ipod, cd player, and AM/FM for under 100 bucks total. I had to replace my old radio last summer because the CD/Tape player broke and I only had raido or my IPOD with a tuner that always got static. Now it plays nice, and loud when I am scooting along. :biggrin:
 
  • #145
Cyrus said:
Actually, I bought it on ebay and it was really a good deal.
Well, now we know why.

The eBay description said 'FM and AM'. It didn't say 'FM and AM and then FM again'...
 
  • #146
DaveC426913 said:
Well, now we know why.

The eBay description said 'FM and AM'. It didn't say 'FM and AM and then FM again'...

AHAHAHAHAH :smile:
 
  • #147
DaveC426913 said:
Well, now we know why.

The eBay description said 'FM and AM'. It didn't say 'FM and AM and then FM again'...

:smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #148
maze said:
UN has passed a non-binding resolution making it illegal to criticize religion (presumably because such criticism would be "offensive" to religious people).
I'd like to see the resolution that you're referencing. This neither seems like something that the United Nations would do, nor something that is under their jurisdiction.

maze said:
non-binding resolution
lol ;-) Are there any "binding" resolutions? The UN has no true authority, other than the Security Council.
 
  • #149
jacksonpeeble said:
I'd like to see the resolution that you're referencing. This neither seems like something that the United Nations would do, nor something that is under their jurisdiction.

resolution A/C.3/62/L.35

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:QMZ3za1ofksJ:www.eyeontheun.org/assets/attachments/documents/6231.doc+A/C.3/62/L.35&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hrcn1082.doc.htm
 
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  • #150
jacksonpeeble said:
I'd like to see the resolution that you're referencing. This neither seems like something that the United Nations would do, nor something that is under their jurisdiction.

A link from https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=304205

The council is dominated by Muslim and African countries. Muslim nations have argued that religions, in particular Islam, must be shielded from criticism in the media and other areas of public life. They cited cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as an example of unacceptable free speech.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/26/un-body-oks-call-to-curb-religious-criticism-1/
 
  • #151
maze said:
resolution A/C.3/62/L.35

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:QMZ3za1ofksJ:www.eyeontheun.org/assets/attachments/documents/6231.doc+A/C.3/62/L.35&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

When I read that, I see nothing "making it illegal to criticize religion". What I do see are statements like

Stresses the need to effectively combat defamation of all religions ...
Urges States to take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination of racist and xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion ...
Underscores the need to combat defamation of religions ...

In other words, the resolution expresses the concerns and wishes of the U.N. but doesn't actually establish any law. As jacksonpeeble said, that would be outside their jurisdiction.
 
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  • #152
Actually, I thought I'd remembered Richard Dawkins saying something to the same effect. That the US was more tolerant of atheism than his homeland.
 
  • #153
I haven't read every comment in this thread but I just wonder why is conservative talk radio continuing to thirve while liberal talk radio went bankrupt in 6 months?
 
  • #154
Redbelly98 said:
When I read that, I see nothing "making it illegal to criticize religion". What I do see are statements like

...

In other words, the resolution expresses the concerns and wishes of the U.N. but doesn't actually establish any law. As jacksonpeeble said, that would be outside their jurisdiction.

The bill aims to make "defamation" of religion illegal, particularly things like the Mohammed cartoon. It is non-binding though, so member states are not required to enforce it.
 
  • #155
Woody101 said:
I haven't read every comment in this thread but I just wonder why is conservative talk radio continuing to thirve while liberal talk radio went bankrupt in 6 months?

Noone wants to listen to liberal talk radio. I've listen to the only talk radio station here in Seattle and it pretty much sucks. Very little debate on liberal issues and a lot of snide conservative bashing. What I have heard lacks simply lacks content. The closest thing to successful liberal radio might be Dennis Miller (on a conservative radio station) but he doesn't really belong to any political camp as far I can tell. Good show.
 
  • #156
Thanks for the link! I have to say, I didn't really believe that they passed a resolution to that effect, but you proved me wrong. :wink:

maze said:
The bill aims to make "defamation" of religion illegal, particularly things like the Mohammed cartoon. It is non-binding though, so member states are not required to enforce it.

The United Nations never really looks to make things "illegal." They do exactly what their resolutions say - they make requests. None of the operative clauses include strong command words. In Model UN, we learned this firsthand. There's really no true authority in the UN. Only the Security Council, NATO, WHO, and WTO can truly act on their requests.
 
  • #157
Ivan Seeking said:
Let there be no doubt: The Republicans have earned my disdain.
:smile: Did you really imagine there was any?
 
  • #158
Cyrus said:
I accidently got into AM radio mode in my car for the last two days, and I can't figure out how to take it back into FM because there isn't a stupid AM/FM button. I had to have hit some funky combination of buttons to go into AM and now I am stuck. ANYWAYS, I've been stuck with this AM radio for the past few days now.

WoW.

This stuff is intense. One bozo is Michael Savage. This guy is a real jerk. He was saying stuff like: "See that, those evil white men with slide rules built the golden gate bridge in the 30s. With just a slide rule, those evil white men (sarcastically)."

Then there was Sean Hannity talking about how Obama wants to make this country have currency that's part of the world economy (think euros) and how were turning into a socialistic nation. On and on and on hating Obama, these two.

Now, I don't mind the if republicans disagree, but the tone of what these guys are saying is really to the level of hate speech. It's pretty absurd. Frankly, I'm shocked they have an audience. That scares me.

They weren't just against Obama, they were nasty about it - and I mean nasty. This Savage bozo wouldn't even call him obama, he called him 'chuckles'.


You just think the button is missing...sounds like you've been targeted for re-programming Cyrus...it won't be long now.:smile:
 
  • #159
WhoWee said:
You just think the button is missing...sounds like you've been targeted for re-programming Cyrus...it won't be long now.:smile:

LOL :biggrin: Resistance is futile.
 
  • #160
Build an AM transmitter and jam that program.
 
  • #161
Do you realize how many stations Hannity is on...in case you travel...use this station finder

http://hannity.com/AffiliateSearch.asp
 
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  • #162
Cyrus said:
I care because the level of hate they spout of should be sensored. It's way way over the line.
No problem, get started on a Constitutional amendment, because absent direct incitement to violence, there's nothing else you can legally do about it. Nor should there be.
 
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  • #163
In Cuba and North Korea they have jammers for sale...
 
  • #167
Wait a minute...that means the UK is trapping the looney toones inside our country. We should deport him to the UK and make him their problem!
 
  • #168
Is this the hate thread for those who hate talk radio?
 
  • #169
Phrak said:
Is this the hate thread for those who hate talk radio?

Nope, I don't hate talk radio. I hate hate radio.
 
  • #170
Phrak said:
Is this the hate thread for those who hate talk radio?

hate in this thread is not equivalent to the hate talk radio.

Mr Weiner has caused offence in the US with his views on immigration, Islam and rape.

He also angered the parents of children with autism by saying most cases were "a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out".

He was once fired from cable news channel MSNBC for calling a gay caller to his show a sodomite who should "get Aids and die," but later said he thought it had been a crank call.

Taking this as accurate, I wonder how much hate this thread contains relative to the above.
 
  • #171
Phrak said:
Is this the hate thread for those who hate talk radio?

As Cyrus implied, it is about discrediting these clowns and exposing them for who they are. Obviously the British Government agrees with the tone of this and other similar threads.

Frankly, anyone who listens to these hate-radio idiots should be ashamed of themselves.
 
  • #172
rootX said:
hate in this thread is not equivalent to the hate talk radio.

I'm inspired by conservative talk radio to listen closely for the logical falacies, as little as I listen to it. Limbaugh, for instance, is a dime a minute. On the other hand, our local political channel, PF\politics, is a Gordian knot.
 
  • #173
Ivan Seeking said:
As Cyrus implied, it is about discrediting these clowns and exposing them for who they are. Obviously the British Government agrees with the tone of this and other similar threads.

Frankly, anyone who listens to these hate-radio idiots should be ashamed of themselves.

Ashamed of what? I guess if I were to consider talk radio as something as vile as "hate-radio" I wouldn't listen to it. But, I don't see the "hate". And, please define what "hate-radio" is? What is it that is so hateful about it? :confused:
 
  • #174
drankin said:
Ashamed of what? I guess if I were to consider talk radio as something as vile as "hate-radio" I wouldn't listen to it. But, I don't see the "hate". And, please define what "hate-radio" is? What is it that is so hateful about it? :confused:

No one's saying talk radio is hate radio. Were saying hate radio, is hate radio.

You don't see the problem with Michael Savage saying things like kids with Autism are being "a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out"?

Not only is this offensive, it shows a total lack of willingness to respect the medical community. Its along the lines of those nut job scientologists saying physcologists are evil. Why you listen to this horse **** amazes me. I tend to filter out the garbage on the TV and radio, not the other way around.
 
  • #175
Danger said:
Ah, yes... the good old days of burning witches at the stake, lynching blacks, keeping the women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen... I can see the attraction.

Hilarious!

Danger, where did you get that avatar? Every time I see you make a funny comment like the one above, I laugh myself to death.

Great stuff...*I'm still laughing*
 

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