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When Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking Parkinson's symptoms, Fox took the high road but others let Limbaugh know that even for shock-jocks who make it up as they go and insult for entertainment there are limits.
Kathleen Reardon: Civility: Far More Than Timidity and Nice People Being Nicer Kathleen Reardon 2011
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When Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking Parkinson's symptoms, Fox took the high road but others let Limbaugh know that even for shock-jocks who make it up as they go and insult for entertainment there are limits.
Kathleen Reardon: Civility: Far More Than Timidity and Nice People Being Nicer Kathleen Reardon 2011
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Now, there is a powerful, growing movement -- a genuine populist movement not funded by the Koch Brothers or egged on by radio shock-jocks -- that demands the American government get out of bed with corporate money.
Ben Tripp: What Are Your Demands? Ben Tripp 2011
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The answer to the contraception problem isn't lengthy "explanations" from shock-jocks like West.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009
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Both amateur and real shock-jocks circle in the cesspools of human foibles like sharks.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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Now, there is a powerful, growing movement -- a genuine populist movement not funded by the Koch Brothers or egged on by radio shock-jocks -- that demands the American government get out of bed with corporate money.
Ben Tripp: What Are Your Demands? Ben Tripp 2011
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Both amateur and real shock-jocks circle in the cesspools of human foibles like sharks.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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Is it pretty much inevitable that dirty words will migrate from the mouths of radio shock-jocks to the mouths of babes and the billboards of La Brea?
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When the FCC denied Peak's first complaint because of the shock-jocks affidavits and lack of audio evidence, he began to record the offending segment, which led to the second complaint.
Michael Rowe: KRXQ Sacramento Radio Hosts Have History of Obscenity Involving Children: FCC Report 2009
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There is no Environmental Protection Agency to measure hate pollution in national dialogue, and no mechanism in place to warn us when the poisonous rage spewed into the national consciousness by shock-jocks, poisonous television pundits, megachurch leaders, and oh-so-subtle politicians, has reached dangerously toxic levels.
Michael Rowe: Death at the Holocaust Museum and the Degradation of the American Dialogue 2009
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