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Thursday, December 26, 2013 5:43 PM
WHOZIT
Thursday, December 26, 2013 7:17 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Thursday, December 26, 2013 7:28 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Liberal Commercial Talk Radio Disappears in NY, LA, SF in 2014 *Only NPR is left. * But NPR...that's not even "Leftist ", is it ? I mean, it's suppose to be non partisan, neutral and middle of the road, right ? ROFLMAO!! Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts. " AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
Friday, December 27, 2013 8:17 AM
M52NICKERSON
DALEK!
Friday, December 27, 2013 8:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by M52NICKERSON: NPR get the vaste majority of the money to operate from donations. Also folks the lean to the left want a netrual media, we want facts not spin. The right likes its echo chamber in which it can ignore facts. That is why right wing talk radio and Fox news is so popular. I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.
Friday, December 27, 2013 9:54 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:Ever wonder why the right wing continues to dominate talk radio, even as it loses elections? Vertical integration: Precisely what the federal government has moved to ban in the television and movie industries with anti-trust actions. But the radio business has gotten a free pass. Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates righties Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Dr. Laura, among others, is owned by the nation's largest radio-station conglomerate, Clear Channel. Clear Channel, thanks to FCC deregulation, was allowed to gobble up over 1000 radio stations -- including 16 of the most powerful, (lower-case) clear-channel AM stations in major markets. Today, Clear Channel either owns or programs most of the nation's 58 strongest, 50,000-watt AM radio stations, liberally stocking them with right-wing talk shows. Among them: Los Angeles' KFI, New York's WABC, Detroit's WJR, Denver's KOA, Portland's KEX, and Chicago's WLS. Yes, Clear Channel does own liberal Air America stations. But none of them is a 50,000-watt "blowtorch." Instead, Clear Channel puts shows like Thom Hartmann's on its smaller, 5,000-and 10,000-watt "sticks" (antennas). Clear Channel is more than a corporate name. It's also a radio descriptor: A clear-channel radio station is a powerful, 50,000-watt signal with interference-free nightly coverage 750 miles from its city. Clear Channel owns 17 of those coveted licenses, and its Premiere supplies much of the programming to many of the rest. There are only one or two 50,000-watt stations carrying Air America's -- or any -- liberal shows. Wherever Clear Channel owns a big AM radio station and other smaller ones, it always puts Premiere's Hannity, Rush, et al on its biggest signal. This puts liberal stations at a big disadvantage in virtually all large markets -- where the real radio money is. "The prevailing assumption right now in talk radio," one talk programmer told me. "Is that you won't lose money on conservative talk. That could change, but it'll take time." In the large metropolitan areas where Clear Channel owns station "clusters" -- usually five or more stations -- their sales force concentrates mostly on selling ads for the big, usually right-wing stations. "If you can sell a 60-second spot for $200 on the big conservative station, or the same spot for $20 on the 5,000-watt liberal station, which one would YOU sell?" a radio sales vet told me during this investigation. Ka ching. "You need a dedicated sales force for the Air America stations to succeed financially - one that sells ads only for that station." There's no doubt San Antonio-based Clear Channel prefers pushing Premiere's largely conservative talkers: I once endured right-wing CNN hack Lou "Broken Borders" Dobbs kiss Clear Channel founder Lowry Mays' butt for an hour while "interviewing" glorified billboard salesman-turned-broadcaster Mays during the keynote event at the National Association of Broadcasters' big convention in San Francisco. FDR's Justice Department took the powerful movie studios to court in the 1930's in a major antitrust case to stop them from both supplying product to -- and owning -- movie theatres. In the 1970's, the FCC imposed rules to stop vertical integration by the then-Big Three TV networks: It banned them from owning the shows they aired in prime time. (The so-called "fin-syn" rules). But radio has gotten a free pass from legal action by the government. Which is the big reason why Premiere and its powerful owner Clear Channel have a stranglehold today on talk radio.
Friday, December 27, 2013 2:28 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by M52NICKERSON: NPR get the vaste majority of the money to operate from donations. Also folks the lean to the left want a netrual media, we want facts not spin. The right likes its echo chamber in which it can ignore facts. That is why right wing talk radio and Fox news is so popular. I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man. It's funny that you actually believe that to be true.
Friday, December 27, 2013 11:51 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2013 12:30 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Saturday, December 28, 2013 3:41 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2013 4:20 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Actually, "Rush Limbaugh is a blue pill addict" IS a fact. Just like alcoholics, addicts never stop being addicts...just non-using addicts (if that's what Rush is), like non-drinking alcoholics. Just struck me as amusing.
Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:57 AM
Sunday, December 29, 2013 9:05 AM
Monday, December 30, 2013 9:19 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: 1kiki - your post is a clear sign that all you're here to do is just argue. Sorry, homie not playin' that game.
Monday, December 30, 2013 9:46 AM
Monday, December 30, 2013 10:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by M52NICKERSON: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: 1kiki - your post is a clear sign that all you're here to do is just argue. Sorry, homie not playin' that game. You play that game all the time. You troll constantly posting things you have no intention of discusing and than bait people into insulting you with your unwillingness to engage in intelligent conversation.
Monday, December 30, 2013 10:35 AM
BYTEMITE
Quote:That's the myth that they tell you, to keep you coming back for treatment. Sure, anyone CAN become physically dependent on something, but if his body his no longer craving Oxycontin, then he's no longer an " addict ". And so what if he's using drugs or not ? What's that to you or anyone ? He's not hurting anyone , is he ? His body, his choice, right ?
Monday, December 30, 2013 11:05 AM
Monday, December 30, 2013 11:40 AM
Quote:Taking joy in claiming Rush is still and addict is like pointing to a amputee and laughing " You don't have your legs! ha ha ha ! " It's the lowest form of inhumanity there is, to be honest.
Monday, December 30, 2013 12:57 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: I bait folks into insulting me, which otherwise they'd NEVER have done on their own ? Really ?
Quote:Originally posted by M52NICKERSON: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Nope. not proven wrong. Dismissing my point as you disparage me = ad hominem. These tedious , pointless little side arguments of the Left are classic Saul Alinky distractions. " Play the man, not the ball ", is often used in sports, meaning go after the opponent and don't bother w/ the actual POINT of the game. People addressing your points and asking your opinion is not dismissing your points. You fail again. You have also been the one avoiding making an staments on the original topic and have not posted any examples as you said. So you want to get back on topic, do it. Give us an example of how President Obama has extended the power of the president beyond the Constitution. I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Nope. not proven wrong. Dismissing my point as you disparage me = ad hominem. These tedious , pointless little side arguments of the Left are classic Saul Alinky distractions. " Play the man, not the ball ", is often used in sports, meaning go after the opponent and don't bother w/ the actual POINT of the game.
Monday, December 30, 2013 1:26 PM
Monday, December 30, 2013 1:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Thank you, Byte, that was eloquently done and right on point. There is absolutely NO comparison to pointing to an amputee and laughing at them. Limbaugh has made a career out of denigrating others...we all remember Fluke being called a whore (and by extension, ANY woman who wanted coverage for contraceptives, which of course includes those who need it for medical problems), and has anyone forgotten him going after Michael J. Fox? He lays himself open to being called a hypocrite by his own words and deeds; to chastise others for hypocrisy is laughable, especially the way HE denigrates others right here!
Quote: I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Fox#Illness_and_activism
Monday, December 30, 2013 1:53 PM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Rush certainly has NOT " made a career out of denigrating others ",
Monday, December 30, 2013 2:36 PM
Quote:"Now people are telling me they have seen Michael J. Fox in interviews and he does appear the same way in the interviews as he does in this commercial," Limbaugh said, according to a transcript on his Web site. "All right then, I stand corrected. . . . So I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong, and I will apologize to Michael J. Fox, if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act."
Monday, December 30, 2013 2:48 PM
Quote:Well, actually, I've been erring on the side of caution — I think 'erring' is actually the right word — in that I've been medicating perhaps too much, in the sense [that] ... the symptoms ... people see in some of these interviews that I have been on are actually dyskinesia, which is a reaction to the medication. Because if I were purely symptomatic with Parkinson's symptoms, a lot of times speaking is difficult. There's a kind of a cluttering of speech and it's very difficult to sit still, to sit in one place. You know, the symptoms are different, so I'd rather kind of suffer the symptoms of dyskinesia... this kind of weaving and this kind of continuous thing is much preferable, actually, than pure Parkinson's symptoms. So that's what I generally do... I haven't had any, you know, problems with pure Parkinson's symptoms in any of these interviews, because I'll tend to just make sure that I have enough Sinemet in my system and, in some cases, too much. But to me, it's preferable. It's not representative of what I'm like in my everyday life. I get a lot of people with Parkinson's coming up to me saying, "You take too much medication." I say, Well, you sit across from Larry King and see if you want to tempt it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Fox#Illness_and_activism
Monday, December 30, 2013 2:54 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: And if you listened, you could hear a big guffaw from over here, too. What Rap wrote is a flat-out lie.
Quote: Limbaugh: "He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. . . ."
Quote: Whether Fox took his meds or not isn't the issue;
Quote: it wasn't an act, and even Limbaugh had to back track later on. He was forced eventually to give one of his non-apology apologies: Quote:"Now people are telling me they have seen Michael J. Fox in interviews and he does appear the same way in the interviews as he does in this commercial," Limbaugh said, according to a transcript on his Web site. "All right then, I stand corrected. . . . So I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong, and I will apologize to Michael J. Fox, if I am wrong in characterizing his behavior on this commercial as an act."
Quote: Of course, he then immediately pivoted to a different critique: "Michael J. Fox is allowing his illness to be exploited and in the process is shilling for a Democratic politician."
Quote: Rap is quite free to write whatever lies he wants, but they won't be allowed to stand.
Quote: I gave two examples everyone remembers; there's no need to give more,
Quote: and yes, I've heard Limbaugh speak...not for long, because my stomach started churning too much to endure it. I've also read his transcripts when an issue has come up, gone directly to the transcript and often QUOTED from the transcript. Rap's blind worship of Limbaugh notwithstanding, anyone who's heard him has no doubts that everyone's fair game for his shock-jock tactics.
Monday, December 30, 2013 2:57 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Niki, you're calling Michael J Fox a liar, not me, not Rush.
Monday, December 30, 2013 3:01 PM
Quote:Originally posted by M52NICKERSON: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Niki, you're calling Michael J Fox a liar, not me, not Rush. Holy shit...what color is the sky in your world?
Monday, December 30, 2013 3:13 PM
Monday, December 30, 2013 3:57 PM
Monday, December 30, 2013 4:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's clear that Niki is afraid to know things which contradict her tightly held beliefs.
Monday, December 30, 2013 6:37 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: All I know is that anyone CAN get addicted, if they so choose to. But I find great hypocrisy in those who gleefully accuse Rush of being an addict, when I bet many of their own personal heroes and possibly friends, family members, have endured something similar. Knowing anyone CAN get addicted, I've chosen to not partake of such substances. Even so, I still believe the human mind can over come damn near anything, provided that person really wants to do so. Even if you lose a leg, or both legs, doesn't keep you from being able to run a marathon. Yeah, it's a challenge, but certainly doable. Taking joy in claiming Rush is still and addict is like pointing to a amputee and laughing " You don't have your legs! ha ha ha ! " It's the lowest form of inhumanity there is, to be honest. Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts. " AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
Monday, December 30, 2013 6:50 PM
Quote:Originally posted by M52NICKERSON: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's clear that Niki is afraid to know things which contradict her tightly held beliefs. It's clear that you are delusional. Noting Niki said would constitute calling MJF a liar.
Monday, December 30, 2013 7:00 PM
Monday, December 30, 2013 8:01 PM
MAL4PREZ
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Okay, I gotta get out of here. Rap is starting to piss me off, which rarely happens 'cuz I don't take him seriously. But what he's trying to say now is so outrageous it's unbelievable. I'M calling Michael J. Fox a liar??? Omg...
Monday, December 30, 2013 10:36 PM
Monday, December 30, 2013 11:28 PM
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 7:15 AM
FREMDFIRMA
Quote:Liberal Talk Radio...gone.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 7:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA: Quote:Liberal Talk Radio...gone. Oh gee cause maybe us Liberals aren't stupid, gullible, and infantile enough to need our opinions handed to us from on high by scumbags with an agenda, huh, how about that.
Quote: Although it does amuse me that you dumb, gullible, perfidous fucks will be first under the bus if the folks you support ever do obtain power cause yer just too goddamn stupid and gullible to leave lying around for the next tyrant to sell a bullshit story, and so off to the camps you'd go, screaming about how loyal you were the whole time, and "rewarded" EXACTLY as a traitor to the cause of all things humane fuckin DESERVES. -Frem
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:57 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by M52NICKERSON: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's clear that Niki is afraid to know things which contradict her tightly held beliefs. It's clear that you are delusional. Noting Niki said would constitute calling MJF a liar. What Rap wrote is a flat-out lie. What I wrote was the absolute truth. If Niki ( or you, or anyone else ) has a problem with MJF's admission that he didn't take his meds before appearing before Congress, then take it up with him. Not me. Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts. " AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: fucks,goddamn stupid,bullshit,fuckin.... Well said. Well spoken.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:22 AM
Quote: ...and none of that make Niki's what you claimed. You fail again.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:23 PM
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