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Entry Level Shout Radio Job Openings: Only Malignant Narcissists Need Apply?

In the Wikipedia article on “malignant narcissism” (a phrase coined by Erich Fromm in 1964), the list of symptoms associated with it struck me as rather parallel to the traits that you tend to encounter when dialing into right-wing shout … Continue reading

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Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party

This unsettling foreign ad made me think of their relationship:

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Survival of the John Birchest: The Economic Pressures on Shout Radio to Push Ever Further to the Far Right

At conservative David Frum’s New Majority website is a fascinating article on what’s driving American “shout radio” to, well, shout even louder than usual: [I]n an interview with a talk radio trade publication, Talkers Magazine, late last year, Talk Radio … Continue reading

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The Department of Homeland Security’s Nine Page Intelligence Assessment on Right Wing Extremism

  The Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment on right wing extremism (April 2009) was vociferously panned by Shout Radio and Fox News conservatives. But the report now seems rather prescient in the light of two violent far-right incidents in the past two … Continue reading

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Identity Politics: Is It Only a Problem When Non-White People Do It?

Matthew Yglesias today notes the hypocritical—and ultimately racist—undercurrent just beneath Shout Radio Republicans’ objections to Sonia Sotomayor: Qualifications like time at Princeton, Yale Law, and on the Circuit Court that work well for guys with Italian names suddenly don’t work if you … Continue reading

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