Radio is Cleaning Up the Nation

Posted by Mary Mancini on October 25, 2006 under Uncategorized |

Because radio is such an important tool in getting out the orchestrated and targeted message of the GOP, the White House organized “Radio Day,” a tax-payer funded 24-hour campaign commercial where more than 30 talk-show hosts were invited to question senior administration officials. If you listened to any radio in the last 24 hours you were bombarded by an orchestrated message delivered by Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, National security adviser Stephen Hadley, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, Senator Rick Santorum, and White House press secretary Tony Snow.

Boy that’s an awful lot of effort for a medium that’s dead.

Donald Rumsfeld defended “stay the Course.” Senator Rick Santorum affirmed Senator Joe Biden’s plan for Iraq. Mr. Rove predicted the Republicans would retain control of Congress. So did Dan Bartlett.

Time now for a Liberadio(!) singalong:

“Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don’t give you any choice
’cause they think that it’s treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.”
– Elvis Costello, “Radio, Radio”