Salem Radio Network
"In her February 28, 2005, "Salem Communications and the White House" (http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200509#1552) for The Gadflyer, Sarah Posner wrote thatVery interesting the company they keep.
"Called 'Christian radio's definitive source for news,' (http://www.srnonline.com/srn-news.shtml) Salem also syndicates its Salem Radio Network (SRN) news to over 1,100 radio stations (http://www.srnonline.com/srn-programs.shtml) (including translators) across the country. These short broadcasts consist of one, four, and five minute news summaries at designated times during an hour and are unabashedly Christian conservative. Users of the service include Salem's own radio stations, the Bible Broadcasting Network[3] (http://www.bbnradio.org/bbn/programs_and_guide/srn_news/srn_news.htm) and the Moody Broadcasting Network[4] (http://www.mbn.org/GenMoody/ContentStore/MediaLibrary/MB1%20Current%2010-4-04.pdf) , which is owned by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago[5] (http://www.moody.edu/).
"In the lead-up to the election last year, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay were guests on SRN's 'Beyond The News Weekend Journal'. "
Salem Radio Network
"From the September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America:"
CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't -- never touches this at all.But according to Rush "we are at war with the left, and you defend your own" or words to that effect. Very nice indeed.
BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?
CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.
BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as -- abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.
CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.
BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well --
CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.
BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."
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