WXIT 1200 AM: Moral Values

So--pretend you're a little kid getting a late ride to school because you were feeling kinda sick in the morning, but magically--now you're all better! It's about noon, and you're on your way to school--and mom/dad have the radio tuned to RUSH, on WXIT 1200 AM. A real opportunity for some quality family time.

But on this magical day, you get to hear Rush's confession about his past penchant for threatening and intimidating people he interviewed when he was a "journalist," and also learn all about masturbation.

What a special moment it is when your young child turns to you to ask, "What is masturbation?"

Rush must have a heck of a lot of sponsors up here in the High Country. Because as this incident and many others demonstrate, the free market clearly trumps morality. Yet we seem to hear all the time about how important it is to be kind and moral here in the High Country.

We wonder--how many of these same people who preach morality all day long secretly crouch in their cars and living rooms to listen to their true savior, Rush?

And we also wonder--how in the world is WXIT serving the public interest by airing Rush? What do the local sponsors of Rush think of his behavior? Is Rush's kind of talk acceptable to the sponsors--as long as they get a good return on their investment? How moral, indeed.

Listen to Rush's full audio here, and also view the transcript.