Black Radio on Obama Is Left’s Answer to Limbaugh

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/us/politics/27radio.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1217116840-SmReQ7c6xPfBOPBwmC+CIA

Warren Ballentine, one of black talk radio’s new stars, was on a tear against Senator John McCain as he broadcast from the Greenbriar Mall here last week, blithely dismissing Mr. McCain’s kind words about Senator Barack Obama at the recent N.A.A.C.P. national convention.

“He came out talking about how good of a race Barack Obama was running, and how proud he was of Barack,” Mr. Ballentine said. “You know he went back home and said, ‘I can’t believe I spoke in front of all those Negroes today!’ ”

“He was pandering to the crowd, talking about how he felt when Martin Luther King Jr. died,” Mr. Ballentine went on. “However, he didn’t vote for the holiday of Martin Luther King Jr.”

Rush Limbaugh, meet your black liberal counterprogramming. Mr. Ballentine is one of the many African-American radio hosts and commentators who are aggressively advocating for Mr. Obama’s election on black-oriented radio stations daily.


Warren Ballentine
Monday - Thursday: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
http://www.1300were.com/showdj.asp?DJID=38346

[Trajan]

1. It's a nice thought ....

But the numbers don't bear up ....

I despise that rat bastard Lush 'Jeff Christie' Rimbaugh, but, amazingly, his numbers are huge .... way huge ...

It is pitiful how many human beings are so ignorant ....

[maseman]

4. He's on 600 radio stations...most with great signals

But overall is numbers are not that huge. Take NYC. He only reaches less than 3% of the total population per week. That means that more than 97% of the population of NYC never tunes him in.

It is mostly old people who listen to him. 60% of his audience is over age 65.

[Tim4319]

2. I am a huge Warren Ballentine fan.

I listen to him on "Grown Folk Radio" 102.5 WAMJ in Atlanta. It is a shame he does not get as much attention as he should.

Plus he has some inspiring quotes:

"If you push me, I will pull you!"

And, "We can agree to disagree"

[flashl]

3. Are Dems paying attention?

Black Democrats Urge Media Counter Offensive

Nov 2002

Republicans lavished millions of dollars on Black media in the mid-term election campaign, principally Black radio. DNC Voting Rights Institute director Donna Brazile and political strategist and polling consultant Cornell Belcher, authors of the report, warn that "Republicans are well-positioning themselves to suppress the turnout of African American voters via their specific negative attacks asserting that African Americans are taken for granted and Democrats are out of touch with the values of the community."

The GOP is not just whistling in the wind - negative ads challenging Blacks to stop loving a party that does not love them back, resonate. "Unfortunately, many of the post election headlines by 'Black leaders' criticizing the Party's efforts will find their way into Republican Black communications in the 2004 cycle, further helping Republicans dissuade African Americans from voting," said the DNC memo.

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A shadowy, Christian Right-associated outfit called Council for a Better Government ordered Black radio ads worth $1.5 million in 12 states: Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina and North Dakota, according to the Associated Press. Other operations outside of the official GOP spent millions more on Black-oriented media. The Democratic National Committee and its congressional campaigns spent about $3 million on reaching Blacks through media.