KMOG: The Tea Party’s Echo Chamber
KMOG isn’t just a radio station — it’s the official megaphone of Payson’s Tea Party brigade. Whenever the Three Stooges on our town council need a little air time to spin their tales, KMOG rolls out the red carpet and cranks up the volume.
This week, Mayor Steve Otto went on the air to complain — loudly — about a cartoon of him that popped up online. Imagine that. The same man who had no issue lying about me on that very station now clutches his pearls over a silly caricature. He can dish out misinformation all day long, but the moment someone playfully sketches his royal highness? Suddenly it’s a crisis.
In our town’s game of pandering to the far-right, there’s a required dress code: cowboy hat on top, flag-themed fashion statement somewhere on the torso, and a sidearm at the ready — preferably hidden for that extra thrill of concealed patriotism. And Steve plays his part perfectly.
KMOG can keep broadcasting their outrage. The rest of us will stick to calling hypocrisy what it is.
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