Editor, The Beacon:
Recently I walked into a local hardware store to grab a few items I needed for a building I was working on.
I had frequented this establishment regularly as it is near the job site and its convenience was worth the trip. The staff was helpful, and I was able to find what I needed.
Usually, they are piping music through the store’s audio system, and you hear the classics played on 105.9, but what I wasn’t aware of was the morning show on 105.9: an extreme right shock-jock opinion show that spews hate on the radio. The DJ was comfortably stating that the U.S. president and the whole Democratic Party are responsible for the atrocities in Israel.
No context, no facts, no journalistic integrity. Making a complex issue sound so simple with the pure peddling of hate and misinformation — to appeal to whom, I ask?
Who finds this to be appropriate? Who needs to ingest this at 8 in the morning?
I am a 53-year-old human, American and husband. I know right from wrong, and what I heard was very, very wrong.
This kind of hate is aired because there is an audience for it, and that, too, is wrong.
What’s happening in Israel is unfathomable, and to make it political and vilify and blame other humans while people are being slaughtered is beyond the pale.
Ask yourself if this is appropriate behavior under these circumstances in these United States.
Kelly Hobbs
DeLand
I’m just happy that four generations of my family fought in wars to protect our freedom of speech.
Thanks to them we have freedom to shop where we want to shop and the freedom to change the channel when we don’t like what is being said.
See everyone at the Ballot Box in a year.