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Hate. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing but profits. Maybe.
Try pointing out to haters of their hate and they offer up more hate.
Point out this hate to advertisers supporting the specific medium of the haters and the haters up the hate.
'That's hurting me' the haters cry, oblivious to the irony. Their hyperventilating honor code: "Whatever I want to hate, I should be able to hate whenever I want to hate, and wherever I want to hate, without any hateful repercussions."
The po'r wittle haters hate to have their hate medium's financial status affected by hearty advertisers who, when informed, hate to hear such hate.
The haters cry: 'It's plain hateful not to give us hateful financial backing so that we can hate to the hilt. We want to freely hate and should be handsomely haul in heapings of renumerations for our habitual hair-trigger habit. Otherwise, the hackles of the inhabitants of Hatedom will be raised and our hadj to Hatedom will leave us haggard. The heavy-handed and hallucinatory half-baked half-bloods and half-breeds harmonizingly hammering at us half-cocked must halt. We do not hem and haw about this. We've had it up to here with this hooey and are ready to hogtie and hoist our hatchets into the highfalutin hijackers of our hate.'
Here's some of the hateful handiwork of the haters:
Media outlets battle it out over free-speech rightsGo here for the rest.
By Martin Kasindorf
USA TODAY
1/24/2007
LOS ANGELES — In a dispute between the "new media" of the Internet and the "old media" of broadcasting, liberal bloggers and conservative talk-radio hosts are accusing each other of trampling the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech.
Hundreds of blogs are exhorting national advertisers not to buy commercial time on Disney-owned KSFO-AM in San Francisco because some on-air hosts have made comments that the bloggers allege are racist or encourage violence.
KSFO personalities say the bloggers are trying to muzzle their political views. The bloggers say they're rallying behind the free-speech rights of a colleague whose website was briefly shut down after Disney's ABC network threatened to sue over alleged copyright violations.
Some advertisers, including Bank of America and MasterCard, have deserted KSFO since an anonymous media critic identifying himself online as Spocko began posting recordings of the station's "Hot Talk" hosts. Spocko and some of his readers have been e-mailing the audio to KSFO advertisers since 2005, asking the companies whether they want to be associated with the controversial rhetoric.
The First Amendment flap was debated Sunday on CNN's Reliable Sources. Dan Riehl, a blogger critical of Spocko, said some of the radio hosts' comments "were blown out of proportion or misrepresented" in the complaints to sponsors. Mike Stark, another blogger and a Spocko ally, said: "The way to fight free speech that you disagree with is to engage in more free speech. And that's exactly what Spocko did."
Examples of commentary that riles the bloggers:
• In November, morning co-host Melanie Morgan said of then-incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat: "We've got a bull's-eye painted on her big, wide, laughing eyes."
• Evening host Brian Sussman in December referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who has a Kenyan father and a white American mother, as a "halfrican." In October 2005, Sussman asked a caller to prove he wasn't a Muslim by saying "Allah is a whore."
• In October, host Lee Rodgers warned "enemy" Muslim nations: "You keep screwing around with stuff like this, we're going to kill a bunch of you — millions of you."
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