Idiot of the Week : Conservative Radio Host Wishes for "A Nice School Shooting" to distract from Impeachment

We've been saying for years that conservative voters and followers suffer from mental illness. This week's idiot actually has a radio show that those voters listen to, and cheer. This week's idiot wished for "A Nice School Shooting" to distract Americans from the president's impeachment. That's SICK.
People who listen to him and support him and these values are SICK. The idiot later said "It was a joke." Joking about murdering students in a school is NOT a joke. 
Here's the story.
Conservative radio host wishes for a ‘nice school shooting’ to distract from impeachment
washingtonpost Dec 19, 2019

As Chuck Bonniwell welcomed listeners back from a break on his Colorado talk-radio show just after 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, he laughed as he introduced a segment discussing the “never-ending impeachment of Donald Trump.”

“You know,” he said, “you wish for a nice school shooting” to interrupt the nonstop impeachment coverage.

His wife and co-host, Julie Hayden, immediately jumped in and cut him off.

“No, no, don’t even — don’t even say that,” she said. “No, don’t even say that. Don’t call us, Chuck didn’t say that.”

Bonniwell quickly tried to back off from the statement, saying he would want a shooting “in which no one would be hurt,” but the damage had already been done. By the end of the day, the couple’s conservative show was canceled by the Aurora, Colo., radio station 710 KNUS.

“Given the history of school violence that has plagued our community, 710 KNUS confirms that an inappropriate comment was made on the ‘Chuck & Julie’ show by co-host Chuck Bonniwell,” the station said in a statement Wednesday evening. “A programming decision was made to end the program immediately.”

Bonniwell did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Wednesday. In a now-deleted tweet, Bonniwell defended himself, suggesting people had misunderstood his intent.

“I made an inappropriate comment meant as a joke,” he said, the Denver Post reported. “I’m sorry it was not received that way.”

“Chuck & Julie” was removed from the station’s website and returned an error message by early Thursday.

The radio station said the “Chuck & Julie” show would be replaced by former White House aide Sebastian Gorka’s “America First” program starting Thursday.

KNUS is no stranger to controversy brought on by its programs. Another host denied allegations last week that he had posted white-supremacist memes online after he made comments on-air that mirrored an anti-Semitic post by someone using his name on a Russian social media platform frequented by extremists. That host told 9News the post was part of an elaborate plot by a local anti-fascist group to defame him. The station defended him.

What is a "Liberal" and a "Conservative"?

In today's volatile political climate, we often hear conservative people saying that "liberals" are
"trash" or horrible people (which could not be farther from the truth). In fact, looking at the actual definitions from dictionary.com, you'll see that liberals welcome everyone, new ideas and want to learn, while conservatives want no progress, do not welcome others, do not favor education or new ideas and want to keep living the same way they had in the past.
  Here are the definitions. Which one would YOU prefer to be known as?
We'll take being known as the educated, caring, welcoming progressive liberal, thank you.

Conservative  adjective

1. disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.

2. a preservative.

Liberal adjective

1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.

2. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism, especially the freedom of the individual and governmental guarantees of individual rights and liberties.

3. Free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant:

Studies: Conservatives Tend to be Less Educated and Believe Fake News

  Studies of education levels and voting trends confirm that conservatives have lower education levels than average. Several studies, including one recently from a social media site that generates "fake news" on purpose, have conveyed that conservatives are much more gullible and less informed about news, science and education. They also tend to believe fake news stories and don't fact check, where liberal-minded, more educated people question stories.  
 This is not our opinion, it's research. Below is the proof: Education and Voting and Believing Fake News

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1) PEW RESEARCH POLL: Education and Voting -   A report from the (non-partisan) Pew

This actually provides a good contrast

Research Center finds a wide partisan gap between highly educated and non-highly-educated Americans. Not only that, but the share of college grads and post-graduates who are "consistently liberal" (based on their answers to a series of policy questions) has grown sharply in the last 20 years.
  Split it out by party, and the shift is even starker. Among the post-grad set, more than half of Democrats and Democratic-leaners today are "consistently liberal," up from fewer than one-in-five in 1994. Likewise, among college grads, it jumped from 12 to 47. NPR Reported on these findings in April 2016 (Click to read full article).

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2) MORE EASILY BELIEVE FAKE NEWS - Why conservatives might be more likely to fall for fake news
 "Numerous reports have highlighted how fake news creators began targeting conservative readers after finding them receptive to stories that reinforced their existing worldview. As one fake news creator told NPR, "We've tried to do [fake news with] liberals. It just has never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out."" 
  Click here for the Washington Post Story

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My (Rob)  personal interactions- As someone who works in science I've met a number of people who just can't look beyond their religion to see the reality of science. (That's actually the issue with the Republican Party). It's maddening that people refuse to be educated. Here are some things I've encountered:
1) GLOBAL WARMING - Most conservatives deny the science that Earth's climate is warming (97% of scientists KNOW the Earth is warming and that mankind's pollution has and continues to contribute to it). Conservatives disagree with the science because they're being funded by the very fossil fuel industry that has been exacerbating the Earth's warming.

2) DINOSAURS- Conservatives either think dinosaurs didn't exist or they roamed the Earth at the same time as humans. FACT: They  were separated by millions of years.

3) AGE OF THE EARTH - The Earth is actually 4.543 billion years old. 

In 1898, Marie Curie discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity, in which unstable atoms lose energy, or decay, by emitting radiation in the form of particles or electromagnetic waves. By 1904 physicist Ernest Rutherford showed how this decay process could act as a clock for dating old rocks.

 The best estimate for Earth's age is based on radiometric dating of fragments from the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite. From the fragments, scientists calculated the relative abundances of elements that formed as radioactive uranium decayed over billions of years.

   SO, where did conservatives come up with 6,000 years old? - Earth was pegged at a youthful few thousand years old by Bible readers (by counting all the "begats" since Adam).  

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    BOTTOM LINE - WHAT YOU CAN DO: If you're conservative, start reading, learning and become progressive. Otherwise you'll be misinformed about the world around you.  Learn science. Question news sources (go to the websites and if it says "satire" it means it's fake).  Progressive thinking is responsible for creating inventions, exploration, new technology. Conservative thinking would prevent those things. 

TAKE THE QUIZ- How Conservative or Progressive are you? https://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/quiz.php