Meanwhile in Local News, the Republican Party Is Filth All the Way Down.

Dateline, an hour from my front door, from the Washington Post, which, once again just drove on by my house without stopping is and saying "Hi".

At small-town radio station, the right-wing misinformation effort goes local

NORMAL, Ill. — When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s campaign bus came to town recently, the local conservative talk radio station covered the event, dutifully informing its audience on social media that “counter protesters were in attendance.”

Except (emphasis added)...

The “counter protesters” were the radio station’s employees. They mugged for photos in front of the governor’s bus, held up signs that said, “Fire Pritzker” — then turned around and covered the Democrat’s event.

Yep.  Ever since President Biden was elected ...

...the talk radio station Cities 92.9 has upended the traditional media ecosystem in this part of Central Illinois with an unusual mix of hyperlocal news coverage — crime, weather and the like — and election misinformation. Replying on Facebook to a social media post about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, the station turned its focus to the 2020 election results: “What about the insurrection on Nov. 3?”

Cities 92.9 organized a sold-out bus trip to the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, supported a man accused of making a Nazi salute at a school board meeting and co-hosted a fall “freedom” festival during which a former Marine and Jan. 6 attendee called for revolution, saying, “Violence is always the answer.”

And why have they made their already-wingnut freighted radio shitpile over into an even bigger disgrace to civilized humanity?

Because the Librul Media Conspiracy made them do it.

The station’s managers said in an interview that they are simply providing coverage that serves as a necessary counter to the liberal bias they see in the established local media outlets, which include a newspaper and two other news radio stations.

Honestly, WaPo people, the next time you pile into your Zeitgeist Action Van and venture into the mysterious interior of the American continent to do yet another story about yet another clutch of Republican bigots and imbeciles for yet another tale of Magic Ruralism (tm), swing on past and let a Midwest Liberal hip you to what's been going on around here in plain sight since at least the 1980s.

I'll even take you out to Lincoln's Tomb, which is a mere 10 minutes from my front door and where, late at night, when it's very quiet, you can here the distant, Speed Queen dryer sound of the Great Emancipator spinning in his grave.

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