Thank God for good people
Published by Mike Stark December 2nd, 2006 in UncategorizedLike this radio host, Jerry Klein. On WMAL radio out of Washington DC, he broadcast a call to arms. If we’re at war with Muslim extemists, he said, we need to know exactly who it is we are fighting. He went on to suggest that we identify the Muslims amongst us by various methods, ranging from arm bands to red crescent tatoos.
Callers lit up his phone lines. Some told him he was nuts, but there were plenty that agreed whole-heartedly. Some went further - suggesting internment camps or banishment.
Of course Klein didn’t let this go on for his whole show. He called those that agreed with him “disgusting” after only half an hour. (I’m told Dick Cheney and Michelle Malkin were holding when he pulled the plug.)
You can listen to the mp3 of the show at Jerry’s website. Here’s the direct link to just the audio.
He’s got major surgery scheduled soon, so in addition to emailing him with your thanks, say a prayer for him if you do that type of thing.
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I actually heard part of the show live. Thank God for people like Jerry Klein, who make these xenophobes expose themselves for exactly who - and what - they are. WMAL is the station in washington that appeals directly to the White Male Conservitive “christian” demographic, and preys on their fear mechanism that craves red-meat hatred. Their lineup includes Limbaugh, Hannity, Mark Levin, and Tammy Bruce….Their morning show is hosted by none other than former Repub congressman Fred Grandy…better known as “Gopher” on the Love Boat. The only “sane” talk host in their local crowd is Chris Core, who is on 9-12 AM. Klein is their “pet liberal”. and is afforded a totel of two free hours a week on Sunday afternoons….and only AFTER a one-hour joint show paired up with a total moron right-wing kook named Chris Plante. Listening to Plante bloviate is about as entertaining as watching paint dry. There is an excellent exchange in the mailbag archives section of a local radio and television board, www.dcrtv.com, that covers the thinking of the typical WMAL caller. Go there and look at the responses in the days following the Klein show on Nov 26 to see come really interesting “opinions”.
I’ve not listened to the broadcast, but I did catch the news report concerning it. One could argue that because his stance was obviously satire, that some of the ‘bigots’ actually were just adding to the joke. Granted, after reading and listening to the rantings of a local Wingnut who’s fans would support such an idea, I’ll have to concede that I think most the bigots were bigots that called in to support the branding idea.
It reminds me briefly of the Milgram experiments and more recently, it reminds me of Borat. Both reveal a dark nature of people that some are uncomfortable with being revealed. Granted, Borat was edited to within an inch of its life, so I have to take that with a grain of salt towards revealing the darker nature of people.
great points Charles - I hadn’t considered the parallels…
what is scary is that 90% of us don’t know what the Milgram expirements are. That history is so easily repeated. it’s really scary.
Mike,
I would say 100% don’t know what the Milgram “expirements” are, including you.
Now you know too Andy from Beaver City:
Method of the experiment
Subjects were recruited for the Yale study through newspaper ads and direct mail. The experiments occurred in two rooms in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall on the university’s Old Campus. The experiment was advertised as lasting one hour, for which the respondents would be paid $4.50 whether they completed the task or not. The participants were men between the ages of 20 and 50, from all educational backgrounds, ranging from an elementary school dropout to participants with doctoral degrees.[1]
The role of the experimenter was played by a stern, impassive biology teacher dressed in a technician’s coat, and the victim was played by an Irish-American accountant trained to act for the role. The participant and a confederate of the experimenter were told by the experimenter that they would be participating in an experiment to test the effects of punishment on learning.[1]
A slip of paper was then given to the participant and another to the confederate. The participant was led to believe that one of the slips said “learner” and the other said “teacher,” and that the participants had been given the slips randomly. In fact, both slips said “teacher,” but the actor claimed to have the slip that read “learner,” thus guaranteeing that the participant was always the “teacher.” At this point, the “teacher” and “learner” were separated into different rooms where they could communicate but not see each other. In one version of the experiment, the confederate was sure to mention to the participant that he had a heart condition.[1]
The “teacher” was given a 45-volt electric shock from the electro-shock generator as a sample of the shock that the “learner” would supposedly receive during the experiment. The “teacher” was then given a list of word pairs which he was to teach the learner. The teacher began by reading the list of word pairs to the learner. The teacher would then read the first word of each pair and read four possible answers. The learner would press a button to indicate his response. If the answer was incorrect, the learner would receive a shock, with the voltage increasing with each wrong answer. If correct, the teacher would read the next word pair.[1]
The subjects believed that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual shocks. In reality, there were no shocks. After the confederate was separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level. After a number of voltage level increases, the actor started to bang on the wall that separated him from the subject. After several times banging on the wall and complaining about his heart condition, the learner gave no further responses to questions and no further complaints.[1]
At this point, many people indicated their desire to stop the experiment and check on the learner. Some test subjects paused at 135 volts and began to question the purpose of the experiment. Most continued after being assured that they would not be held responsible. A few subjects began to laugh nervously or exhibit other signs of extreme stress once they heard the screams of pain coming from the learner.[1]
If at any time the subject indicated his desire to halt the experiment, he was given a succession of verbal prods by the experimenter, in this order:[1]
1. Please continue.
2. The experiment requires that you continue.
3. It is absolutely essential that you continue.
4. You have no other choice, you must go on.
If the subject still wished to stop after all four successive verbal prods, the experiment was halted. Otherwise, it was halted after the subject had given the maximum 450-volt shock three times in succession.
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yeah, i think andy was trolling my spelling… ugh… why do they always do that?
Hey Einstein, I was making fun of his spelling. Get it? It was a joke.
Why did you copy a whole lot of crap from Wikipedia without linking to it? It is now a useless space to all of us who already knew.
Lighten up, Andy. You are sounding like one of those losers who slams the table muttering “great…that’s thirty seconds of my life I’ll never get back.” Take a little advice…there are plenty of decaffinated brands on the market today that have just the same flavor as the original.