Two Minutes Hate
Media Matters launches daily round-up of talk radio vitriol

Washington, DC -- Today, Media Matters for America announced the launch of "Two Minutes Hate" -- a daily video product that will round up the most noteworthy examples of hateful rhetoric, offensive commentary, and conservative paranoia on talk radio. As Media Matters has documented, there is a nationwide network of conservative radio hosts who regularly attack immigrants, women, the LGBT community, minorities, the poor and homeless, progressives, unions, college students, and even autistic children.

Watch our first three episodes HERE.

"The public needs to understand that the vitriol on talk radio goes well beyond Rush Limbaugh," said Eric Burns, president of Media Matters. "As 'Two Minutes Hate' will demonstrate daily, Limbaugh's show continues to be an inspiration for the countless conservative radio hosts who spread similarly hateful rhetoric from coast to coast."

BACKGROUND

"Two Minutes Hate," a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, will summarize each day's lowlights in conservative talk radio in a two-minute video.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

Women, minorities, autistic children: Conservative radio's vitriol not reserved for Obama

http://mediamatters.org/research/200811130002

It's not just Limbaugh and Hannity

http://mediamatters.org/research/200811060005

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