Go ahead, Google Obama Youth. I dare you.

Go ahead, Google Obama Youth. I dare you.

Michael DelGiorno continues his irresponsible broadcasting today on 99.7 WTN, firing up parents of school-aged children by applying historically combustible rhetoric to President Obama, and then sending these highly agitated parents to your kids’ schools.

Next Tuesday, President Barack Obama will deliver a national address to the students of in public schools across the country to encourage the kids, as a letter from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan states on the Ed.gov website, to “challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.”

Age appropriate follow-up discussions and activities have also been set up for kids in grades K-6 and 7- 12.

And away DelGiorno goes. But not before prefacing his fear-not-fact-based harangue against President Obama’s address to classrooms with this:

“By the way, may I say that doing this, in and of itself…there’s nothing wrong with that if the President sticks to the text we are being pre-given. There’s nothing wrong with that. The motive? The real agenda? And oh, by the way, the real curriculum behind it? Might be troubling. Here. Follow the bouncing ball.”

The subtext is, of course, “don’t look at the facts, listen to my insinuations and snide tone and be very afraid because the bogeyman is out to get your children.”

So believing it his purpose in life to drag everything down into the gutter with him, DelGiorno then used a good portion of his 3-hour radio show yesterday to sully President Obama’s address. Sandwiched between words llike “Hitler,” “indoctrinating,” and “scary stuff,” he said the following:

  • Barack Obama was going to “seize control of the internet”
  • Barack Obama will “keep everybody’s name and archive them who speak ill of his policies”
  • “I don’t need the President to raise my kids”
  • The first time any president has “spoken in secret on the internet directly to people’s kids”
  • “Public education is not about education anymore it’s about indoctrination, and they (the Obama administration/Department of Education) prove it here”
  • “Students will accept Barack Obama as their Lord & Saviour”
  • “Does the speech make you want to do anything…besides kill yourself…”
  • “They’re going to make a whole freakin’ semester out of the President”

As you know from reading about his proclivity to falsely label President Obama the “antichrist,” DelGiorno lies to further his agenda (which, by the way, is to scare the living daylights out of his fellow Americans/Christians). He didn’t disappoint when yesterday he told his listeners that the President’s address will be broadcast to their kids directly to their classrooms – in secret over the internet – so parents won’t be able to watch it. Why not on TV?, he asked. Because, he said answering his own question, they don’t want you to know how they are indoctrinating your kids.

DELGIORNO: How do you feel, in general, about the President of the United States, while you’re at work, through a website and through the teachers, are going to talk to your kids…without you there…about something you don’t know what he’s going to do? About something you don’t know what they’re going to do in classroom? I thought it was interesting. He’s either really web-oriented….why not talk to them over television? Why the internet?
SIDEKICK: Or he views them much like the Muslims do, the Vanguard of the Future. [A nudge nudge wink wink to "socialism" and Hitler youth].
DELGIORNO: Takes a radical broad to say that. You got guts girl.
SIDEKICK: Thank you.

The truth is, the address will be available to anyone to watch on the White House website as well as on *Ta Dah* C-SPAN, which the last time I checked was TV. The address will also be streamed live online at C-SPAN.org, and on C-SPAN Radio (90.1 FM in Washington, D.C., and channel 132 on XM Satellite Radio)

The simple, easily-proven truth is easy to ignore when it can’t be used to further your fear-based conservative talk radio agenda, isn’t it?

Today, DelGiorno didn’t even bother prefacing his comments but he did add what I’m sure he thinks is a grand idea to his bile. An idea he so expertly pretended (like he pretends with all his ideas) to think up all on his own you could almost hear the fake light-bulb go on atop his head.

Instead of keeping your kids at home on Tuesday, he thought “spontaneously,” why not go to school with them? That’ll show ‘em (meaning principals and teachers), he said.

So DelGiorno is firing up parents with insinuations – that the government is trying to indoctrinate their kids into a Socialist Hitler-like Obama Youth (as I heard one parent-caller today describe it), that he is making them pledge their allegiance to the President (instead of the country), and that the government wants to whip up blind allegiance in you kids in the same way terrorists want to whip it up in theirs – and then sending them in that highly agitated state to your kids school.

Oh, have I mentioned that DelGiorno’s kids go to private school so he won’t have anything to worry about on Tuesday?

More irresponsible broadcasting from Michael DelGiorno and 99.7 WWTN. Listen to the whole clip here:

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UPDATE:
History from Mark Brown of NoChaser and more from Woods at Pith in the Wind and TNDP chair Chip Forrester.

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Not a loveable little fuzzball.

Not a loveable little fuzzball.

Or so said 99.7 WTN’s Michael Delgiorno on Friday:

“Reid coined the term in a speech in an energy conference in Las Vegas with Al Gore and Bill Clinton this week and then repeated it in an interview with Politics Daily. ‘Such evil-mongers are using lies, innuendo, and rumor to drown out rational debate,’ Reid said, ‘Oh it was original for me to come up with the term. I maybe could have been less descriptive..but..and I don’t know if you’ll ever hear it from me again..’ How about we heard it once? Reid worked in the word one more time during the interview. ‘I feel I haven’t done anything to embarrass my children,’ he joked, ‘Except maybe call someone an evil monger.’ If you don’t agree with Barack Obama, if you don’t agree with Harry Reid, if you don’t agree with Nancy Pelosi, if you have read what they have not read, if you do believe in a republic, and if you don’t want a socialist nation, or if you reject this health care reform, the leader of the United States Senate thinks you’re evil…I mean…I sub-titled my book, ‘The Only Thing Shocking in Life is the Truth.’ I’ve been watching Fox, MSNBC, CNN, all morning long – not a peep. Not a peep. And if you don’t stop a leader of the United States Senate from calling you ‘evil’ for disagreeing today, good luck stopping them when they come to arrest you or kill you.”

I’d like to ask Michael what he means exactly by “stop?”

Now, if he had simply kept with the “If you don’t agree with…” theme, the word “stop” in the phrase “stop a leader” could merely mean calling them on the phone and complaining about their use of the word “evil-monger” to describe someone (like Michael, by the way) who uses “lies, innuendo, and rumor to drown out rational debate.”

But he didn’t stop at “If you don’t agree with…”. He escalated his rhetoric by throwing in the words “arrest you” or “kill you” into the mix.

He is literally telling his listeners that if they continue to disagree the next step Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and anyone who wants healthcare reform are going to take is to “arrest” and/or “kill” them.

And just how does Michael think his listeners will be able to “stop” someone from arresting or killing them? By picking up the phone and complaining? Probably not. Arming themselves? Yes. Taking pro-active measures? Perhaps.

We’ve recently seen examples of irresponsible gun ownership. There was more today in Phoenix. This is an example of the irresponsible fearmongering Delgiorno broadcasts every day of the week for three long hours.

It’s nothing if not a lethal combination and he, and his advertisers, should be ashamed.

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Matt Collins – Vice Chair of the Davidson County Republican Party, Davidson County Coordinator for the Campaign for Liberty, and Talk Radio Producer at Supertalk 99.7 WTN – agrees with us (and most Tennesseans) that we need the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act implemented by 2010 and not delayed as some legislators will try to push for in a Budget subcommittee meeting this Wednesday.

Matt has tried to contact both Rep. Curry Todd (R-Collierville), sponsor of HB 0614, and Senator Bill Ketron, sponsor of SB 0872, to ask for an explanation but has yet to receive a response.

He is also urging everyone who reads his remarks at Campaign for Liberty website to call their legislators and urge them to keep the Tennessee Voter Confidence intact.

(You can do a search for your legislator at www.capitol.tn.gov/legislators.)

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In February, Freddie and I had the opportunity to speak at the Southeastern Journalism Conference at Belmont University. Our topic was terrestrial radio, and we were challenged to prove that it was still a viable medium. (We think it is, and if you’re interested, you can download a PDF of our powerpoint presentation.)

The night of our talk, Belmont held a reception for faculty and invited guests. At the reception, I met Dr. Sybril Bennett, a professor in the Media Studies Department. If you know Dr. Bennett, then you know she has boundless energy and is full of fantastic ideas. She showed a real interest in Liberadio(!) and wanted to hear more of our story.

Coincidentally, the day before the conference, I had what was a terribly frustrating conversation with the General Sales Manager of WLAC 1510 AM, who made it clear that not only didn’t they have space for us on their station, but they wouldn’t even consider selling us time. I think the gentleman’s exact words were, “Why don’t you try doing your show in a city that might be more receptive, like Colorado Springs?” But hey, at least he called us back. Numerous phone calls to other stations including WWTN 99.7 FM, WVOL 1470 AM, and WRLT 100.1 FM (aka Lightning 100) remained unreturned in what can only be described as a picture perfect demonstration of the “Tennessee ‘No.’”

When I told Dr. Bennett about my conversation with the GSM at WLAC, Liberadio(!)’s history, our push to get on terrestrial radio in the Nashville market, and my unanswered phone calls, she had three pieces of advice:

1) You should have been blogging about this all along.

2) With all the technology out there, you no longer need terrestrial radio to get your message out.

3) Go read “What Would Google Do.”

I knew she was right, and after kicking myself for not blogging about our experiences over the last four years, I read the book and came up with a new Liberadio(!) motto: “Screw You Local Talk Radio Decision-Makers, We’re Doing This Ourselves.”

To that end, Liberadio(!) will continue to produce the best possible show and bring you quality interviews every Monday morning from 7 to 9 am on WRVU 91.1. But in addition, we will take advantage of the many new online tools available to build a community around the show so we can help amplify the progressive message in Tennessee.

We look forward to introducing new features like live streaming on USTREAM and web-only audio interviews, shows, and features, and continuing our blog with its focus on our government at all levels – federal, state and local.

We also have two recurring events each month (so far) – Thirsty Third Thursdays with Drinking Liberally and Foodie Fourth Fridays with the Davidson County Democratic Party.

We want to thank you all of our listeners and supporters so much for their dedication and look forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions because as you know, we’re all in this together.

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