Last week, Bill "Willie" Cunningham told his Cincinnati listeners: "The great war of this generation's time is the war against Islamic fascists... They do not live for life, they live for death. Only through death can they believe they can be with those 72 virgins in heaven and have sex with children for eternity, which is the goal of that religion."
The execrable Michael Savage wannabe is known as "Willy" for reasons that promise to get even more obvious as his national radio career unfolds. Cunningham's inflammatory remark just happened to coincide with the roll-out by Premiere Radio Networks' (Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Dr. Laura) of his national syndication on 325 stations and XM satellite radio.
(Although PRN handles liberal talkers too, they know how to market to conservative audiences. Racism thinly dipped in a patriotically correct sugar shell of "security" really works on conservatives! The ambiguously racist remarks made by the likes of Don Imus, Limbaugh, Savage, Glenn Beck and Cunningham are calculated, and ubiquitous on right-wing radio- and gives listeners cover for their racist hearts-of-heart).
Here's an audio clip.
Why should you care? Because he's been welcomed into Seattle by Fisher Broadcasting to replace the peculiar Matt Drudge on KVI and compete with the awesome Sunday dreadnought that is the David Goldstein Show (KIRO Saturdays, Sundays, 7-10p).
Although it has been said that he's a lesbian, (See photo) Cunningham made his chops in Midwestern conservative talk radio with remarks such as these to Fox News' Alan Colmes:
In the good old days, back when AIDS was an appetite suppressant and when gay meant you were happy, back in those days there was discipline in public schools. But not today.
We need more of that old-fashioned religion, and we need more teachers beating people about the face and head, especially on the derriere. If we had more of that, believe me, we'd have less people thinking like you.
As talkers like Cunningham (whose silly name is Lumpy Giggletushie) piles up hot radio ratings with target market bigotry, bias-related incidents against Muslims have increased. In Ohio, swastikas and the phrase "white power" were spray-painted recently on a Toledo Islamic school and rocks were thrown at worshipers outside a Columbus mosque.
Anti-Moslem hate crimes and incidents have recently increased nationwide. There was a recently shot fired into a Texas mosque; a New York Muslim woman was badly beaten; arsonists torched a mosque in Northern California, and vandals slashed the tires of a Maryland Muslim activist's cars.


And why don't you just answer the damn question if you've got an answer. I don't think you have. I know about r-67. Chucks knows about it. Your "baa baa" leader on the radio hasn't talked about it yet? Maybe YOU need to find a new leader.
I'm not the one having to "research" everything. My resources seem to be doing fine keeping me informed.
Speak for yourself if you have any thoughts besides dodge and duck, klueless.
And chucks, I don't disagree with the majority of what you said. I asked for some specifics. Edwards, Kucinich and Gore.
You didn't even address the first two; as for Gore, he touched me authentically at the Dem's convention. He's not a great performer. Is that what you want? A performer? Well, he's not it. Can you blame anybody in this day and age of "Hollywood" candidates for needing handlers? They've all got 'em just like they've all got $400 haircuts.
But you righties make your judgments on that kind of crap. Why not look at issues instead. That's the hate part. You ridicule and mock stuff that's not important. That stuff is playground bullying and nets about as much good as the playground bully does.
Gore has been saddled with allegations that are unfounded but you wouldn't know that because you don't care to know. You find it easier to believe the farce that the right puts out - the smears. Your "handlers" - Karl Rove and Co.- know that you will never find out if any of the lies they tell are true or not. Like Barnum and Bailey, they play you guys with talking points filled with hate.
You are smart enough to see it but you don't want to. And because the Dems don't play that game nearly as well, they look like they're caught with their pants down often.
We don't know how to play that game. People say we should learn. I don't want the Dems to learn to play by your rules. Sorry.
You leave me guessing. You have some integrity but you sell it to the highest bidder when the Repugs offer you a tax break.
I know you weren't listening to Seder about a half hour ago. I wish you had been. You'd have heard some real interesting numbers on Star Wars and what's left of it - quite a bit, it seems. But, there's no one left to use on. It was a long discussion - probably too long to keep the interest of most conservatives, but you'd have found it interesting Mr. hate-gummint-spending.
Also, chucks, on a looser level, the spelling of "lose" is l-o-s-e. (I wouldn't have mentioned it but you did it twice.:)
Posted by: joanie | October 08, 2007 at 10:43 PM
She's Mrs. Wall Street Fremont. And, she does like the military.
(From HowieinSeattle who links it)
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"How anti-war is Hillary?"
Markos:
Retired general endorses Clinton, says she doesn't oppose the Iraq war at all.
A retired U.S. Army general visiting [New Hampshire] to campaign for Hillary Clinton said yesterday she does not oppose the Iraq war -- and she said she's never heard Clinton oppose it, either [...]
Kennedy said, "I don't oppose the war. I think it's being very badly led by the civilian leadership." And, [Retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy] added, "I have not ever heard (Clinton) say, 'I oppose the war.' I've heard her say that we need to begin withdrawal under a plan led by the military and defense secretary. I've heard her say we need to create a regional stabilizing group by allies, by leaders in the world and by all of the states that are bordering Iraq. That is a very important idea and the point of that group is to create incentive and assurances that will keep the neighboring countries from becoming involved and entering Iraq. That's a much more sophisticated thing than saying, 'I oppose the war.'"
Posted by: joanie | October 08, 2007 at 10:48 PM
I don't hate the Muslim populace, there's no need to get personal, but yet Muslim revolution after Muslim revolution produces one backwards secular theocracy after the other. Whos fault is that?
If I hate conservatives by name then chances are I'd hate Muslim by name if I got to know them better.
Posted by: Andrew | October 08, 2007 at 11:34 PM