Did Putin get Trump's team listen to 1000's of hours of talk radio in 2014?

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If Putin and whatever the KGB morphed into wanted to undermine American democracy and standing in the world, why not use Republican talk radio? It’s been working overtime on the same objectives for 30 years.

Their goals are so similar that talk radio gods like Limbaugh have transitioned seamlessly into defending Putin vs US intelligence services. At least he’s not a commie Democrat. And he sure the hell isn’t Hillary Clinton.

In “Operation Trump” (April 3, 2016, New York Magazine), Gabriel Sherman wrote:

Throughout 2014, the three (Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, and Sam Nunberg) fed Trump strategy memos and political intelligence. “I listened to thousands of hours of talk radio, and he (Trump) was getting reports from me,” Nunberg recalled. What those reports said was that the GOP base was frothing over a handful of issues including immigration, Obamacare, and Common Core.

Was Trump smarter than the thousands of political strategists, writers, and politicians who routinely ignore talk radio? Why would he invest ‘1000’s of hours’ of high cost brain work in that effort?

For those looking for corroboration between Trump and Putin maybe there are clues there. Are Trump or any of his minions on record mentioning or hinting who may have come up with that bright idea?

Why would Trump study it?

Who could convince him to do that, to invest his time and resources in that, and for what goal?

The US Army PSYOPS Manual has high praise for radio as a propaganda tool (Psychological Operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures 12/2003 - available online). Some excerpts, via republiconradio.org:

Repetition is necessary for oral learning; therefore, key themes, phrases, or slogans should be repeated to ensure the TA (target audience) gets the desired message.

Talk radio is much better than TV, print, and internet for doing just that.

According to the PSYOPS manual, advantages of radio include:

Emotional Power: A skilled radio announcer can exert tremendous influence on the listener simply with pitch, resonance, inflection, or timing. and The emotional tone conveyed by the voice may influence the listener more than the logic of arguments.

Or, as Limbaugh would call it, "talent on loan from god".

Wide coverage: Radio programs can reach members of large and varied audiences simultaneously.

And, Since radio can reach mass TAs quickly, radio is useful for all types of PSYOPs.

Speed: Radio programs can be quickly prepared for broadcast. Speed is important when attempting to capitalize on targets of opportunity.

Perfect for spinning and distorting breaking news.

Ease of perception: Radio requires little or no effort to visualize the radio message. Illiteracy does not prevent the listener from forming his individual image as he listens.

Somehow, most Americans think a few hundred think tank-coordinated liars repeating the same talking points from a well-protected monopoly of 1200 radio stations is just another expression of free speech.

Russians observing American politics the last 30 years would recognize it as a propaganda operation.

The best part for Republicans, and Putin, is that there is still no record to read or study. It’s a perfect propaganda operation, ignored and invisible to those who it attacks.

When it comes to the role of talk radio, American political and media analysts trying to figure out what happened to our democracy might as well be studying fish without water.

The internet has been getting recognition as a major source of disinformation lately but talk radio is the only major medium with NO direct political counterpart. Talk radio blowhards can lie all they want and repeat the same lies over and over without being noticed until it hits the MSM and its too late to correct. For the same reason the effects and results of that propaganda are usually always then analyzed without considering talk radio and explained without mentioning talk radio.

When Drudge or Breitbart publish fake news only radio can spread and repeat it for weeks and years all over the red states and give it serious ongoing buzz with weight and momentum in the MSM.

The Russians wanted Trump to win and 1200 coordinated radio stations played a big part in their success. Now they will lead the defense of Putin's interference in our election.

And this morning at 9AM PT Limbaugh will again begin laying out a growing smorgasbord of prechewed excuses and rationalizations for the media and faithful Putin stooges to browse on.