[lbo-talk] WBAI

[Jesse Lemisch]

One day, by accident, I found myself listening to a WBAI show done by a
cabby. He and his callers were boasting about how they pass by disabled
people, wheelchairs etc., laughing uproariously. It wouldn't have been out
of place on a right-wing talk show.

Jesse Lemisch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] WBAI


>
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Joseph Wanzala quoted:
>
> > Steve Brown...
>
> ...on the topic of WBAI. WBAI is a hotbed of racial accusations of
> the most debased and depressing sort. Supporters of the current
> management team call almost anyone who criticizes them "racist." And
> even though much of what he writes is right, Steve Brown has harmed
> the cause of reviving the station by saying racially inflammatory
> things that make it all too easy for management apologists to make
> the charges stick. The opposition to the so-called "Justice and
> Unity" slate <http://justiceandunity.org/> is, alas, almost entirely
> white. It's very hard to take sides in this. Meanwhile, the current
> fundraiser - scheduled to last 24 days, the longest I remember in the
> 18 years I've been around the station - is limping along, at about
> 25% short of its goal. Sad.
>
> Doug
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