welcome you take my take a live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a call or two to nine zero four twenty one thirty four so you get the first call or the next nicholas in las vegas a necklace you want to talk about the boston man has been great i think. i have i really want to talk about the boston bombing. in grant from what i. love i love the challenge walk high really don't even pay attention to him and all that garbage. all they've been cocky about your strictly the boston bombing where things like your car you're going on you're on your back cars are carry your compute bomb it could be

a potentially your type of plant security in particular right no i don't. nicholas i've heard that put forward there are a few folks who are suggesting and in fact actually a member of congress quoted one of them yesterday as. a false flag operation that was done by our government that it was you know this kind of thing i don't think so i think the story that we're seeing is the story we're seeing that the older brother was apparently you know very very damaged person who was radicalized in. without getting into a long thing and that is younger brother got dragged into this and you know it's it's one of was you're right though there isn't enough discussion of cis for there's a lot not off this discussion of a lot of things that's been the case with our news ever since the eighty's when reagan stopped in force in the. fairness doctrine would require use to be new and so now we have infotainment it's unfortunate let's go to our first video question of the night this is kerry in clarkston washington. you know we're talking about

this gun control laws or gun registry laws well i just went in to get my drivers license renewed and now. the d.m.v. is requiring face recognition photography and i don't know about registry but i certainly would like the people that own guns to maybe consider volunteering something like that to show that they are you know honorable people that own guns for honorable reasons just a suggestion thanks tom love this new format. thanks carrie and thanks for submitting a video question you can do it just by you know recording it on your cell phone and e-mail it to us the. the idea of a gun registry ironically is one that nobody has proposed no nobody in congress has proposed this and yet this is the straw man you know i think frankly it might be

a good idea but nonetheless this is the straw man that the n.r.a. has been you know if they will even know it's going to take about it pretensions to activity in principle themes aside the george w. bush or library is just a glorified p.r. campaign for a war criminal and that is feeling very. far right conservatism has become a cult and rush limbaugh its leader by definition a cult is a group or sect bound together by adoration of the same thing person ideal whatever a cult promises redemption it tells you that if you do it it says and as it believes you will be protected from the evil people who are out there to get you and the rest of society

a cult purges the nonbelievers and actively tries to vilify all those who are not part of the cult saying that they're doomed to dust and go to hell or some variation there so how did limbaugh at least according to frank luntz become the leader of such a large and influential cult well like with any cult power limbaugh has or is flock has grown over time. radio started out in conflict with mainstream society outside of mainstream politics and what was once a little cult guided by limbaugh has transformed into a massive call that today has enveloping much of the so-called conservative movement so how did this transformation occur well like cult leaders do limbaugh offered up a theatrical flair and a company that with marketing genius he offered his followers redemption he offered them protection from what he told them they should fear liberals feminists he

demanded ideological purity and absolute devotion to the ideology of far right conservative corporatism and he vilified all those who didn't see things his way limbaugh then managed to convince his followers that faith in his word was more important than facts like global warming matter what everyone else said of raj must be true only information that supports limbaugh's positions can be believed that everything else is just lies since his first successes has been followed by a succession of other right wing call leaders and glenn beck's to ann coulter to alex jones which brings us to today rush limbaugh and the rest of the right wing talk radio called have conjured up such a large following that they're helping the koch brothers and other right wing billionaires drive the polarization within the republican party and thus within america's political discourse ironically. it's frank luntz who says this the top

republican consultant and campaign group not me it's him earlier this week once told a group of college students at the university of pennsylvania the limbaugh and his fellow right wing talk radio called leaders are problematic for the republican party because they're responsible for the stark polarization within the party once as comments were secretly recorded it was. really really. dropped. from. this is no you're right it's only you know it's. got three hours. or. something. he's getting short like work with. the wrong choice he's trying. to pawn some factors to

immigration this is a traditional republican broach it was really. it's just. more. basically lunch was saying that the right wing media and its cult following are not serving the national political debate certainly not helping the republican party widen its appeal beyond its declining base of aging boomer cultists but no matter what does limbaugh and the rest of his right wing media pals will continue to rally their followers and continue to vilify those who dare to think otherwise continue to paint president obama as america's anti-hero so they can become the heroes right using terms like socialist and muzzle to further scare their cult followers in the scene things their way in following them. the good news is that there are still some semblance of a normal and non cult media in america may not be the best but unlike the

right wing media real media and even progressive media generally is not cult like we talk about ideas that are widely accepted things like the social safety net clean environment discrimination solid middle class good trade policies and that are not in conflict with the rest of society. good media is not based on fear or on faith in. weird theories it's based on facts and respects other beliefs and ideas instead of vilifying and perhaps most importantly real media doesn't fear or hate our government and certainly doesn't suggest that we should be armed and ready to attack our own government. sadly that cult is coming dangerously close to having complete control over the republican party and much of the political discourse in our country thankfully people are waking up and recognizing that the far ring me the far right wing media is just about

a cult and that's the way it is tonight thursday april twenty fifth two thousand and thirteen just want to let our viewers in the pacific northwest know that i'll be heading your way this weekend about keeping money out of politics tomorrow i'll be at the first unitarian church in portland oregon from seven to nine pm on saturday speaking at the grand theater in salem oregon from one to three pm and from five to six pm on saturday i'll be at the portland area global aids coalition spring celebration portland oregon look forward to seeing you all there and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your it see them all .

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