"On The Sean Hannity Show,” which is carried by more than 600 stations, the election was referred to as fraudulent, rigged, stolen or illegal in 35 out of the 45 episodes transcribed" between Nov 22 and January 5... nytimes.com/2021/02/10/bus…
'"On Dec. 16, Mr. Limbaugh - the country’s No. 1 radio host, with an audience of about 15.5 million a week - told listeners Biden “didn’t win this thing fair and square, and we are not going to be docile like we’ve been in the past, and go away and wait till the next election.”
There is a very long history of links between extremist radio and extremist behavior, including violence, from the US (Father Coughlin broadcasting anti-semitism in the 30s) to Rwanda. This is just the latest episode in a long line of them.
"Mark Levin, who reaches an estimated 11 million listeners a week, said in a Christmas broadcast that stealing elections “is becoming the norm for the Democrat Party” and called on his listeners to “crush them, crush them. We need to kick their ass.”
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