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    Default Conservative Radio Station Pulls Trump Criticizing Conservative Talk Host Mid Show

    Can't let the Trump fans be spoon fed anything but a steady diet of propaganda:

    Conservative Radio Station Pulls Trump Criticizing Conservative Talk Host Craig Silverman Mid Show...

    A conservative radio station in Colorado is disputing claims by one of its hosts that the station fired him mid-show last weekend just as he was airing disapproval of President Trump. As host Craig Silverman and executives with the Denver-based 710 KNUS shared their view of events, the incident underscored the growing isolation of conservatives whose viewpoints reflect anything but unwavering support of Trump.

    Silverman, who has hosted his weekly show since 2014, alleges that his willingness to criticize Trump, whom he voted for in 2016, had long set him apart at KNUS. The station is broadcast by Salem Media Group, which promises conservative, Christian viewpoints and has a history of cutting ties with the president’s critics. But nothing brought out Silverman’s tensions with others at Salem, he said, like the Democratic-led inquiry into whether Trump abused his office to secure a foreign investigation of a political rival.

    “I heard my fellow hosts say: ‘It’s boring. It’s a sham. Bad for the country. A hoax,’ ” he told The Post on Sunday. “So many of these talk show hosts are doing the total bidding of Donald Trump. And I want to offer my contrary voice.”

    Right-leaning talk radio is closely attuned to the Trump base, said media historian Brian Rosenwald, author of “Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States.”

    “There’s an understanding now, given that all the ‘Never Trumpers’ are gone, that if you work for a Salem company, you’re going to be pro-Trump,” Rosenwald said. “And where is conservative media? It’s where conservative consumers are, which is pro-Trump,” he told The Post.

    Silverman, a former local prosecutor, has told Colorado media for years that he wants his show to be an “island of independence” within his station. Asked in 2014 whether his “liberal and libertarian viewpoints” were out of sync on KNUS, he told Complete Colorado that “there is diversity in their hosts.”

    He said he has felt more and more the odd one out, though. Invitations to appear on colleagues’ programs have thinned over time, he said.

    Asked whether he thinks his views fueled Saturday’s events — as he has suggested to some reporters — he said, “All I can tell you is the attitude around Salem.”

    Another former KNUS host said the station and Salem Media have a pattern of pressuring and sidelining conservative-leaning hosts whose beliefs fall outside of a narrow, and relentlessly pro-Trump, worldview.

    Denver Post weekly columnist Krista Kafer co-hosted a drive-time political talk show on KNUS for three years until she was dismissed in 2017 for what she said management perceived to be her “anti-Trump” beliefs. Despite sometimes praising Trump, Kafer’s criticism of him resulted in management singling her out for rebuke, and when her co-host left the station, Kafer said, she was forced out.

    “I felt I had a good relationship with [KNUS] management, but I had been called to the carpet a few times by management over ideas that my beliefs were not in line with the station’s,” Kafer told The Post. She recounted a Salem executive “reaming me out” in front of KNUS management for her views.

    Kafer defended the broadcaster’s right to be ideologically consistent but said she is troubled by the idea that even within a conservative framework, criticism of the president is not fair game.

    “You can soften the truth, but you can’t not say it,” Kafer said."

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    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    Political censorship is a strong indicator of bias.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Political censorship is a strong indicator of bias.
    CNN and MSNBC censor any news of the multitude of accomplishments of President Trump, Snowflake, and it isn’t mentioned by snowflakes like you

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Political censorship is a strong indicator of bias.
    Wait. I thought it was us (D)s and libs that were stifling free speech.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Hello ThatOwlWoman,

    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Wait. I thought it was us (D)s and libs that were stifling free speech.
    Don't know about that but it has been well publicized that President Trump is preventing people from telling the truth. Trump himself has much to say, but refuses to say any of it under oath to be truthful.
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    someone is paying these businesses to side with Russia


    either straight out treason or blackmail


    this is why the republican party ended the fairness act that was designed to protect our media from being bought out and turned into propaganda after what we saw happen to Germany under Hitler


    right wing media is doing putins bidding

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Political censorship is a strong indicator of bias.
    LYING ABOUT IT IS TOO.


    SILVERMAN had LOW RATINGS.
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Don't know about that but it has been well publicized that President Trump is preventing people from telling the truth. Trump himself has much to say, but refuses to say any of it under oath to be truthful.
    Just going by what we've heard from our Reichwing friends. They have their own version of the English language now, have you noticed?

    Punishing ppl for using the n-word and other filthy slurs based on race, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic group = destroying their freedom of speech
    Not allowing Xtian symbology and beliefs in public venues like schools, courthouses, city hall = persecution
    Not allowing Xtians to discriminate by claiming serving certain members of the public is against their religion = even more persecution
    Any non-RW media = fake news
    Trump = Chosen One, the Messiah
    Every last (D) = commie libtard socialist soy-boy/girl
    SSM = destruction of traditional family values
    Trump's lies = jokes
    Trump's quid pro quo = that's not illegal if it even happened which it didn't because hearsay and Schiff
    Decorated war veteran and military officer = traitor and spy
    Captured POW = not a war hero
    Convicted military criminal = yes, a war hero
    AGW = Chinese and Gore hoax

    Feel free to add your own. The TrumpCult Dictionary(tm) is growing daily.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Hello ThatOwlWoman,

    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Just going by what we've heard from our Reichwing friends. They have their own version of the English language now, have you noticed?

    Punishing ppl for using the n-word and other filthy slurs based on race, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic group = destroying their freedom of speech
    Not allowing Xtian symbology and beliefs in public venues like schools, courthouses, city hall = persecution
    Not allowing Xtians to discriminate by claiming serving certain members of the public is against their religion = even more persecution
    Any non-RW media = fake news
    Trump = Chosen One, the Messiah
    Every last (D) = commie libtard socialist soy-boy/girl
    SSM = destruction of traditional family values
    Trump's lies = jokes
    Trump's quid pro quo = that's not illegal if it even happened which it didn't because hearsay and Schiff
    Decorated war veteran and military officer = traitor and spy
    Captured POW = not a war hero
    Convicted military criminal = yes, a war hero
    AGW = Chinese and Gore hoax

    Feel free to add your own. The TrumpCult Dictionary(tm) is growing daily.
    Excellent!

    Let me try a few...

    News media = Enemy of the people.
    Trump fantasy = 'alternative facts.'
    Our intelligence agencies over Putin's 'very powerful' word for it = No reason to believe intel.
    Squeak by while losing the popular vote = landslide.
    Empty mall = biggest inauguration ever.
    Kasich refusing 'strongest Vice Presidency ever' = the grapes are probably sour anyway. Pivot to shameless yes-man Pence.
    Protecting family values = child separation at the border.
    Boasting of P grabbing = just boys. 'locker room talk.'
    NK Nuclear missile tests = 'The threat is over.'
    Stepped up Iranian enrichment = saving us from the threat of a signed agreement.
    Ripping people off of their life savings in return for learning the secrets to wealth at Trump University = higher learning.
    Losing your Panama City hotel over fraud and tax evasion = 'I am such a victim. Wah! They are all out to get me!'
    Talks to build Moscow Trump Tower = no deals in Russia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello ThatOwlWoman,



    Excellent!

    Let me try a few...

    News media = Enemy of the people.
    Trump fantasy = 'alternative facts.'
    Our intelligence agencies over Putin's 'very powerful' word for it = No reason to believe intel.
    Squeak by while losing the popular vote = landslide.
    Empty mall = biggest inauguration ever.
    Kasich refusing 'strongest Vice Presidency ever' = the grapes are probably sour anyway. Pivot to shameless yes-man Pence.
    Protecting family values = child separation at the border.
    Boasting of P grabbing = just boys. 'locker room talk.'
    NK Nuclear missile tests = 'The threat is over.'
    Stepped up Iranian enrichment = saving us from the threat of a signed agreement.
    Ripping people off of their life savings in return for learning the secrets to wealth at Trump University = higher learning.
    Losing your Panama City hotel over fraud and tax evasion = 'I am such a victim. Wah! They are all out to get me!'
    Talks to build Moscow Trump Tower = no deals in Russia.

    Oops. I better stop. If I try to be all-inclusive it will vastly exceed sound-byte mentality.
    LOL -- perfect!
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    If this radio station really had conservative values they would not be afraid to stack them up against the best the progressives could offer. They would encourage all points of view to be presented.

    It is only when there is a belief that one's position is weak that one fears a fair comparison to opposing points of view.
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