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Recently watched Nausicaa and The Valley of the Wind then drew this and thought it was cute how Ghibli continues to influence my work.

KMOV: 

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMOV.com) -- Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is considering the idea of another political run, telling radio host Marc Cox in an interview "The voters of Missouri deserve to have leaders in the U.S. Senate who are going to fight for them.”

In the seven-minute interview, Greitens reiterated that Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican party, and heaped praise on the former president while attacking President Joe Biden's policies for being 'radical' and 'leftist.'

When pressed as to whether or not he is considering challenging Roy Blunt for his Senate seat, Greitens took aim at the Republican while not committing to a run.

Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens (R), who resigned under disgrace over blackmail accusations, is talking about running for Senate against incumbent Roy Blunt (R). He floated this during his appearance on KFTK’s The Marc Cox Show on Monday.

Jeremy Kohler at St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 

series of controversial remarks by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on a St. Louis radio show are getting widespread attention — and some pushback.

In an interview on Friday with talk-radio host Marc Cox on KFTK (97.1 FM), Parson indicated both certainty and acceptance that the coronavirus will spread among children when they return to school this fall. The virus has killed 1,130 people in the state despite a weekslong stay-at-home order in the spring that helped slow the virus’ spread — and the state set a record on Saturday with 958 new cases.

In the same 10-minute interview, Parson said that if it came to it, he would probably pardon the Central West End couple who pointed guns at protesters marching past their home on a private street on June 28.

Parson’s comment on the coronavirus signaled that the decision to send all children back to school would be justified even in a scenario in which all of them became infected with the coronavirus.

St. Louis-area schools are expected to release their reopening plans on Monday.

“These kids have got to get back to school,” Parson told Cox. “They’re at the lowest risk possible. And if they do get COVID-19, which they will — and they will when they go to school — they’re not going to the hospitals. They’re not going to have to sit in doctor’s offices. They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.”

He emphasized that people who are at high risk of becoming seriously ill should be protected but said most people in the state were smart enough to figure out how to stay safe without government interventions such as mask mandates.

“We gotta move on,” he said. “We can’t just let this thing stop us in our tracks.”

In an email on Sunday, Dr. Alex Garza, incident commander of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, called the question about returning to school a “Gordian knot.”

While it is important for children to be in school, he said, and it is true that they do not typically get seriously ill from COVID-19, “we worry about those in school who are not children — teachers, support staff and volunteers. Many of those people will have a much more serious response to the virus and that is what we want to avoid. These children could also come home and spread the virus to others in their household who could also be at a greater risk of a serious outcome.”

In a tweet on Friday, state Auditor Nicole Galloway, the Democratic candidate for governor, said Parson’s comments displayed “stunning ignorance … on how COVID-19 affects children. He admitted that he’s okay with your kids (and your families) getting the deadly disease when he sends them back to school. Does he not realize multiple American kids have died after being infected?”

The out-of-touch Missouri "Governor" Mike Parson (R) went on KFTK's The Marc Cox Show this past Friday to justify children going to in-person schools even if they get COVID-19 and spread it to their families and other school staff and students.  Missourians, wake up and vote for Nicole Galloway this fall!

Eric Hananoki at MMFA: 

In a recent radio interview, right-wing commentator Todd Starnes spoke about his departure from Fox News, implying that people are trying to silence him over his beliefs and saying that he will never “compromise" them. He also said he received messages of support from people in President Donald Trump’s campaign.

TheWrap reported on October 2 that Fox News had “ousted”  Starnes from the network, where he had worked for 15 years. Starnes was most recently a host for Fox News Radio and Fox Nation, and he also frequently appeared on programs such as Fox & Friends and wrote pieces for FoxNews.com. He left a trail of toxic remarks, including about LGBTQ people, Muslims, and immigrants. In August, just a few weeks after the anti-Hispanic and anti-immigrant mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, Starnes compared immigrants to Nazis. 

[...]

In an October 3 radio interview on The Marc Cox Show, Starnes spoke about his departure from Fox News and said that he had a “great” run at Fox News but that “there are things that I just will not do and that is compromise my beliefs, ever. You know, I’m proud to be a conservative. I’m proud to be a Trump supporter. And I’m also proud to be a person of faith.”

He later added: “I would never try to silence, you know, someone from the left. I mean, that’s their opinion. But that’s the kind of country we live in these days. And, you know, I report on these kinds of incidents all the time, never realized I was going to be one of them.” He then declined to say what the network specifically objected to, saying, “I really can’t talk about that part.”

BREAKING: Far-right pro-Trump extremist hack Jamie Allman has lost his radio show on KFTK as well.

Brianna Sacks at BuzzFeed News: 

On Tuesday morning, Allman did not appear on his radio talk show, “Allman in the Morning" and a guest host told listeners that "Jamie is taking a couple of days off."

Entercom, which recently acquired 97.1 FM, confirmed to BuzzFeed News Tuesday night that Allman would no longer appear on the station after it investigated the incident. The radio host has been with the station for 12 years, an Entercom spokesperson pointed out, but is new to the Philadelphia-based media company.

Julie Alderman and Pam Vogel at MMFA:

Conservative local TV news behemoth Sinclair Broadcast Group isn’t just pushing right-wing commentary in its national “must-run” segments. It’s also depriving its viewers in at least one city of any actual local news reporting at all, instead filling news airtime with an unhinged commentary show from local far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Jamie Allman.

Sinclair has recently garnered widespread criticism for its plans to drastically expand its hold on local news in major cities and battleground states, and for its unusual practice of mandating that its stations across the country air regular right-wing commentary segments. But Sinclair's decision to replace typical newscasts at its St. Louis, MO, station with a Fox News-like commentary program laden with conspiracy theories reveals a more concerted decision to push right-wing talking points on unsuspecting local news audiences whenever possible. It also reveals the media giant’s complete disregard for the responsibility it has to provide its viewers with information in the public interest.

Beginning in 2015, the Sinclair-owned KDNL, an ABC-affiliated station branded as ABC 30, switched from broadcasting typical local news reports to instead offering its viewers three airings per day of The Allman Report. Billed as a “non-traditional newscast,” the 30-minute program airs during weekday time slots typically reserved for a local newscast: 6:30 a.m. leading into Good Morning America, 5 p.m leading into ABC World News Tonight, and 10 p.m. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported last week that as part of Sinclair's proposed expansion, the company "disclosed its plans to expand morning and evening newscasts in St. Louis at 4:30 a.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., in a regulatory filing Thursday but didn’t say on what station.")

The Allman Report is hosted by Jamie Allman, a local conservative radio host. Allman’s TV show closely mimics the playbook for a classic Fox News evening commentary program. It touts a “debate-driven” and guest-heavy format and focuses on bread-and-butter conservative topics. Allman often delivers monologues that mirror former Fox host and current monster Bill O’Reilly’s “Talking Points Memo” or any of the unhinged commentaries Sean Hannity unleashes upon his audience nightly.

KDNL leadership admitted that the show would have a “conservative” bent when announcing its debut. But Allman’s extreme far-right rhetoric and fringe conspiracy theories go far beyond conservative spin. For years before Sinclair opted to give him a city-wide platform, Allman pushed numerous far-right conspiracy theories on his KTFK talk radio show, Allman in the Morning, which he continues to host regularly. He also employs patently offensive rhetoric targeted specifically at women, people of color, and immigrants on air and in social media. And yet, Sinclair has only magnified and legitimized his voice, as well as those of the extreme guests he favors.

As Sinclair continues to argue that its move toward further media consolidation will deliver higher quality news to its local audiences, it’s nevertheless feeding factually devoid trash to the people of St. Louis.

Contents: 

Allman is a pro-Trump sycophant

Allman pushes far-right conspiracy theories and classic right-wing myths

Allman regularly tweets racist and anti-immigrant commentary and race-baits on air

Allman often uses misogynistic language

Allman frequently unleashes unhinged attacks on people he disagrees with

Kyle Mantyla at RWW:

Right-wing commentator, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump–obsessed sycophant Wayne Allyn Root is positively exhilarated over reports that the U.S. military dropped the “mother of all bombs” on ISIS fighters in Afghanistan recently, rejoicing that the move has “solidified” President Trump’s re-election in 2020.

Appearing on “The Marc Cox Show” yesterday, Root declared that he and all the other “angry white males” in America are “jumping for joy” over the airstrike because it shows the world that “we got a new sheriff in town, baby.”

“The United States is number one again,” he said. “You feel proud to be an American … We’ve got a great man as president.”

Root insisted that while Trump is not actually crazy, having a reputation is a great asset because it makes the world think that “we have a crazy man in leadership” and so “the whole world is now on notice that a crazy man [has] his finger on the nuclear button and there is no one who is going to screw with the United States for the next eight years of Donald Trump.”

“Believe me when I tell you,” Root said, “it probably got solidified today, between the missiles aimed at Syria and the world’s biggest bomb dropped on ISIS, I think Trump is a shoo-in for re-election. We got him for eight years. Liberals are going to be sick to their stomach for eight years because this guy wins and wins and win again.”

From the 04.13.2017 edition of KFTK’s The Marc Cox Show:

It’s no surprise that virulent anti-immigrant activists like Ann Coulter are flocking to Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy, and Eagle Forum’s Phyllis Schlafly is no exception.

Schlafly told radio host Marc Cox last month that the GOP should nominate Trump because “he acts like he loves America.”

“The Republicans would be doing themselves a favor by nominating Donald Trump,” she said. “He’s the only one, I think, who really talks the language of the grassroots and why we want to make America great again. That’s a great line.”

“Yes, and he’s speaking up for America,” she later added. “And your average person believes in America and wants to believe that America’s the greatest and doing the right thing and everything. And he acts like he loves America and is going to stand up for us and not let some of these other two-bit politicians in this country or other countries push us around.”

From the 10.25.2015 edition of KFTK’s The Marc Cox Show: