WBEN’s supposed straight news - co-hosted then and now by Wenger’s wife - established itself to be little more than a right-wing activist organization.Īll it’s missing is tiki torches. In February 2013 - just weeks after the Sandy Hook massacre of 1st graders, and in response to proposals for tighter gun control - WBEN used its putative straight news morning show to organize, promote, and broadcast a bus ride to an Albany pro-gun protest against Andrew Cuomo’s then-nascent NY SAFE Act. WBEN has amplified eliminationist viewpoints for years. In 2014, at least one WBEN host openly wished for a genuine military coup against President Obama. He later forced himself to issue a milquetoast “didn’t hear it”. (At the time, Assemblyman David DiPietro was on the phone with Bauerle and said nothing. WBEN has already used the publicly owned airwaves it licenses to tell its listeners in 2013 that Democrats are “ worse than al-Qaeda”, so none of this is novel. Want examples? In 2009, WBEN’s marquee yakker fantasized that there would be a civil war because librulz. It is all part of a long-standing stationwide pattern that operates with the apparent support and assent of station management. If you took Sandy Beach, mated him with Tom Bauerle, and took away all of the experience, self-awareness, and wisdom that comes with age, you’d be left with Joe Beamer, one of the young broadcasters WBEN has brought in on the cheap to supplement its already thin-but-wide roster of right-wing outrage engineers.

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