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Another station drops Limbaugh

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 7:13 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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Defending himself against a growing ad boycott, Rush Limbaugh told his audience on Monday that the companies that have defected from his radio program have decided “they don’t want you or your business anymore.”

“So be it,” he said, reassuring his audience that the advertisers would be replaced.

Mr. Limbaugh, on his program Monday, asserted that the advertisers that had stepped away “have profited handsomely from you” in the past.

Then he said bluntly, “We’ll replace them.”

“Advertising is a business decision, it’s not a social one. Only the leftists try to use extortion, pressure, threats to silence opposing voices. We don’t do that." http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/as-advertisers-recoil
-limbaugh-says-so-be-it/



Well, advertisers are one thing and can be replaced, tho' several of them stated they wouldn't be returning, no matter what. But when stations that carry your broadcast drop you, I imagine it's pretty hard to get them back.
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A second radio station said it was dropping Rush Limbaugh's radio program Tuesday, calling the conservative host's incendiary comments last week about a law student "unacceptable."

Pittsfield, Massachusetts radio station 1420 AM WBEC, one of hundreds of stations nationwide that carry "The Rush Limbaugh Show," dropped the program from its lineup, according to station general manager Peter Barry. He said the decision was made Monday, and was based upon comments Limbaugh made last week regarding Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, "which we found unacceptable."

Now THAT can hurt his bottom line...hopefully!

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:01 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Only the leftists try to use extortion, pressure, threats to silence opposing voices. We don’t do that."



Yup. Remember how NOBODY on the right got the least bit upset at David Letterman, Bill Maher, or Ed Schultz, and threatened to boycott or demanded they be fired?

Me neither.


And all those tea-baggers with their "We came unarmed, THIS TIME!" signs weren't trying to threaten ANYONE or silence their opposition, were they?


Sure thing, Rushbo; he must be higher than usual to be uttering such pure nonsense.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:21 AM

CAVETROLL


Pittsfield, MA. Yeah, he probably lost 300-350 listeners. I'm from Massachusetts. I know it well. Pittsfield is on the left side of the state. Politically and geographically.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:34 AM

BIGDAMNNOBODY


And we needed yet another thread started about this topic because?

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:37 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


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Originally posted by BigDamnNobody:
And we needed yet another thread started about this topic because?



Niki hasn't had her RDA of Republican-bashing yet today.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:38 AM

STORYMARK


Here is a list of all of the companies that were running ads with Limpbo, updated to reflect those who have dropped him:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/03/all-advertisers-who-ar
e-sticking-limbaugh/49499
/

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:43 AM

BIGDAMNNOBODY


Interesting.
After his last maelstrom, I did not think he had any sponsors left to leave him.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:47 AM

PIZMOBEACH

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Originally posted by Geezer:
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Originally posted by BigDamnNobody:
And we needed yet another thread started about this topic because?



Niki hasn't had her RDA of Republican-bashing yet today.



Do you think most Republicans are proud that he represents them?

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:32 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
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Originally posted by Geezer:
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Originally posted by BigDamnNobody:
And we needed yet another thread started about this topic because?



Niki hasn't had her RDA of Republican-bashing yet today.



Do you think most Republicans are proud that he represents them?




More importantly, do y'all think most Republicans are proud that Rush steers the party and tells the GOP establishment what to do?

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:34 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by BigDamnNobody:
And we needed yet another thread started about this topic because?





Because it rubs you the wrong way? All the reason you've ever needed, right?

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:21 PM

OONJERAH



Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/ has some cute links =>

Bolling's Latest Theory: "On The Ropes With The Economy," Obama "Gets Mrs. Fluke To Create A Controversy"

Fox's Tantaros: Fluke "Is Supremely Radical And Part Of This Fringe Gender Mania Sect Of The University Class"

Limbaugh: "When I Slip Up Like I Did And Talk Like A Democrat, You Know That I Don't Really Think Like One"

ABC's World News Reports That "More Big Sponsors" Have Withdrawn From Limbaugh's Show Over Misogynistic Attacks

Eric Boehlert: Limbaugh And The Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown ...
It turns out that even in cases of emergency, the GOP Noise Machine has no off switch

Joris Evers for Netflix Says Limbaugh Ads Were Run In Error: "Netflix has not purchased and does not purchase
advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show. We do buy network radio advertising and have confirmed that two Netflix
spots were picked up in error as part of local news breaks during the Rush Limbaugh show. We have instructed our
advertising agency to make sure that this error will not happen again."

That one's a relief to me. I Love NetFlix.



             

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:17 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Bolling's Latest Theory: "On The Ropes With The Economy," Obama "Gets Mrs. Fluke To Create A Controversy"



I've heard similar cockamamie "theories" put forth as well. Rappy has even hinted at it himself. I have to ask: How dumb is Rush, that he just walked right into it like this, and then KEPT ON STEPPING ON RAKES, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, FOR THREE FREAKING DAYS?!!?

That's the real question conservatives should be asking themselves: How can they possibly be led by one so blind?

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:47 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Do you think most Republicans are proud that he represents them?



Got me. The only time I notice him is when he's in the news, or Niki or someone else here posts a rant against him.

He's an entertainer, just like, say, Howard Stern. He has to say something outrageous every once in a while to keep his audience. I'd guess half the folks listening to him do so just to be shocked by the crap he says.

It is interesting when the same folks who hate him try to make him a leading Republican voice. He's as much that as Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart are leaders of the Democrats.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 2:47 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Geezer:

It is interesting when the same folks who hate him try to make him a leading Republican voice. He's as much that as Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart are leaders of the Democrats.



That would probably be a more accurate comparison if Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert had given the keynote address at the progressive's big annual meeting. Or if Senators, Representatives, or party spokespeople regularly apologized to them after not agreeing with their rants.



"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 3:24 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


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Originally posted by Kwicko:
That would probably be a more accurate comparison if Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert had given the keynote address at the progressive's big annual meeting.



True. They just hold rallies on the Mall for 200,000 with full media coverage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Stewart%E2%80%93Colbert_Rallies

And Limbaugh apparently has no corner on half-hearted apologies.

http://apologyindex.com/2008/08/01/stephen-colbert-apology-to-canton-g
eorgia.aspx


http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-06-23/entertainment/bal-jon-stew
art-apologizes-for-fox-news-lie-20110622_1_fox-news-comedian-jon-stewart-higher-standards


Still not seeing that much differnce, aside from claimed ideology.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 3:26 AM

STORYMARK


Geezer is king of the false equivalence.

Also, Rush the band just disallowed Rush the douche from using their music.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 4:40 AM

CAVETROLL


If Media Matters told me the sky was blue I'd double check before I believed them.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 4:50 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


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Originally posted by Storymark:
Geezer is king of the false equivalence.




For shame, Story! Have you no consideration for Mike's feelings?

He's very proud to be the "King of false equivalence", and works very hard to maintain his title.

That you would so cavalierly attempt, even in jest, to take away something he's so obviously earned shows, it seems to me, a lack of sensitivity.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 4:52 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


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Originally posted by Geezer:
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Do you think most Republicans are proud that he represents them?



Got me. The only time I notice him is when he's in the news, or Niki or someone else here posts a rant against him.

He's an entertainer, just like, say, Howard Stern. He has to say something outrageous every once in a while to keep his audience. I'd guess half the folks listening to him do so just to be shocked by the crap he says.

It is interesting when the same folks who hate him try to make him a leading Republican voice. He's as much that as Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart are leaders of the Democrats.



Others made the point before me - those are not the same. Howard Stern talks about midget bowling - Rush is politics and Obama bashing. I think Stewart and Colbert (who I only watch on occasion) would reject doing anything official for Democrats. They play both sides and have guests from both sides on. Right now with the long run up it makes sense that it's more about republicans and there's just more of them doing silly things - makes for good tv and this group makes it pretty easy too.
Personally, I'm shocked and a little saddened that there are so many people in the US that can actually listen to Rush for more than 5 minutes - I guess it's a matter of taste.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:48 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Ditto Pizmo. Yeah, I rag on Rush, BECAUSE he is given such power by the right and, like FauxNews, spreads lies and propaganda. Mostly because of his power, and the way he uses it to harm the American people.

Found this interesting...given he gets his paycheck from this stuff, it makes sense:
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Rush knows what he is doing. The worse conservatives do, the more important Rush becomes as leader of the ardent remnant. The better conservatives succeed, the more we become a broad national governing coalition, the more Rush will be sidelined.
But as to comparing him to Stewart or Colbert, that's hysterical. Each has a HALF-HOUR show once a day and weilds virtually NO power. In fact, I can't think of a single comedian or political satirist on the left who ever gets apologized to if someone comes down on his head...like Letterman, for example. There IS no power on the left equivalent to Limbaugh on the right. On both sides, there are myriad "entertainers" who do the same sort of stuff Limbaugh does, but none with his power.

Ah, here, a "A Conservative's Lament":
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March 3, 2009. So Michael Steele predictably has apologized to entertainer Rush Limbaugh for his comments to entertainer D.L. Hughley over the weekend. No word on whether Steele is now willing to concede that Limbaugh is in fact the de facto leader of the party (even if Steele is the de jure leader).

A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as "losers." With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence—exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix to our philosophy and our party. And we're cooperating! Those images of crowds of CPACers cheering Rush's every rancorous word—we'll be seeing them rebroadcast for a long time.

Which brought to mind another way of measuring the power of Limbaugh: Is there anyone on the left who could so quickly cow Kaine or other elected Democratic officials in the way that Limbaugh has Steele?

I don't think there is. We ask in Public Opinion today whether Limbaugh is the Michael Moore of the right, but if Kaine got into a fight with Moore, can you imagine him doing a 180 within days and publicly self-flagellating for stepping out of line? Suppose Kaine or another prominent Democrat dissed Markos Moulitsas and the DailyKos crowd. Does anyone think that Markos has the juice to force what Josh Marshall aptly calls Maoist self-criticism from defiant party leaders? Could Keith Olbermann? Rachel Maddow?

We can quibble about whether Limbaugh "leads" the Republican Party, but know this: He currently has a role in American politics that is unmatched by anyone else on either side of the political spectrum. And Republicans should carefully consider whether they want that sort of power vested in one unaccountable person. (And whether they could do anything about it anyway.) http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/03/03/stee
le-republicans-bow-to-limbaugh--is-there-a-rush-of-the-left
, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) made headlines when he criticized Rush Limbaugh for hammering Republican leadership for their pliability on massive Democratic spending plans. He scoffed at the idea that Rush provides leadership, telling Politico that Rush and other commentators were merely “living well” and not having to worry about what was best for the party. Today, Gingrey is singing another tune entirely, attempting to clear up the “misunderstanding”:
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Regardless of what yesterday’s headline may have read, I never told Rush to back off. I regret and apologize for the fact that my comments have offended and upset my fellow conservatives—that was not my intent.
.....
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, and other conservative giants are the voices of the conservative movement’s conscience. Everyday, millions and millions of Americans—myself included—turn on their radios and televisions to listen to what they have to say, and we are inspired by their words and by their determination. http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/28/gingrey-to-rush-im-sorry-so-sorr
y/
2009 presented Limbaugh with a "Defender of the Constitution" award. The presenter stated, "The only way we will be successful is if we listen to Rush Limbaugh!"

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It's not only conservatives who are listening to Limbaugh, it's also the Republican party in particular. In the party's case, however, the members are both attentive and fearful. Consider the recent apology of Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele (shown above with Limbaugh). In an interview that aired Saturday night, Steele told CNN's D.L. Hughley, "Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh — his whole thing is entertainment. He has this incendiary — yes, it's ugly.”

Limbaugh lambasted Steele: “So I am an entertainer and I have 20 million listeners because of my great song and dance routine. Michael Steele, you are head of the Republican National Committee. You are not head of the Republican party. Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the Republican National Committee…and when you call them asking for money, they hang up on you."

Steele then backed down: "“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. …There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.” http://www.theliberalcurmudgeon.com/2009/03/republicans-kowtow-to-part
y-boss-rush.html
else outside politics do we know who can do this:
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In an UNPRECEDENTED move, Speaker John, “Orange Julius” Bohener caves to Limbaugh’s call to refuse the President’s request to hold a joint session to deliver his jobs plan Wednesday, September 7.

“What he (BOEHNER) oughta do is say ‘no’ and offer September 6th, September the 8th, September the 9th, September the 10th…whatever, but he doesn’t get September the 7th. He should do this. It’s very simple. He says to the president, ‘you did not consult me before you publicly issued the date. You were obviously trying to disrupt the plans at the Reagan Library. You’re going to have to learn that if you really want to work together as you repeatedly claim, Mr. President, I’m gonna show you how it’s done. Here are the dates that you can have.” http://3chicspolitico.com/2011/09/01/rush-limbaugh-leader-of-the-repub
lican-party-tells-speaker-john-boehner-to-put-the-president-in-his-place-where-are-the-jobs/
, all the articles are from the left; because the right would NEVER admit it...if they did, Rush would go after them and they'd have to apologize. Nobody ever said he wasn't reeeely good at what he does; here's an example:
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Rush was on some kind of rant. He began by saying Obama’s approval ratings had declined to 45%. The reason, he said, was that the left had become dissatisfied. Limbaugh never took the next step, however, of saying WHY the left was dissatisfied. Instead, he shifted in mid-paragraph to an anecdote about being picked up at the airport in Boston at 3 AM and having the driver strike up a conversation about the heat.

Apparently, his driver was impressed by the fact that it had been 99 degrees in Boston that day. Limbaugh asked him if that was a record. The driver admitted it was not — that Boston often reached 99 in July.

Limbaugh then went on to talk about all the other stories he had heard about the recent heat wave. He asserted that of all the cities that suffered from the heat, not one had really set a record for temperature. Instead, he informed his driver and his audience, all the records referred to the heat index. The heat index, he said, was invented in 1978, meaning it hadn’t always been there, and had been implemented in 1979. For Rush, it is an artificial standard.

He made special mention of MSNBC, where a panel including Rev.Al Sharpton and Michael Shmerconich made fun of Rush’s attempt to discredit the heat index.

Never mind that both of these people, Sharpton and Limbaugh, have bigger fish to fry than this fight. Or do they?

After listening for about fifteen minutes, I realized that the debunking the heat index argument is Limbaugh’s proxy for the issue of global warming. After all, if there were no records set in July, in a week where the media spoke constantly about heat, then global warming can’t be real either. It’s an artificial construct like the heat index.

In geometry, this kind of reasoning is known as syllogism. if A = B, and B=C, then A = C right?

By the time I got out of the car, I was both deeply respectful of Limbaugh’s ability to lead an audience into a cul-de-sac by just raising his voice and using the inflections commonly associated with reasonable argument, and appalled at how deft all this right wing talk has become. There’s no way even Rachel Maddow with her Rhodes Scholarship can touch this. It is the finely honed rhetoric of religion, in which a reasonable argument is often constructed on a strange (to me) premise. http://www.businessinsider.com/why-boehner-consults-limbaugh-2011-7, even making a joke out of it, Limbaugh himself admits it:
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El Rushbo LOOKS ASKANCE at efforts by a gaggle of GOP big shots to “rebrand” their troubled party. Limbaugh says, in effect: Rebranding? We don’t need no stinking rebranding! I am the brand! http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/05/04/rush-limbaugh-remind
s-republican-leaders-that-hes-running-the-party
/

From Rush's own mouth in 2009:
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LIMBAUGH: They think we have a relentless machine that's constantly pounding them. We do actually -- me!" http://mediamatters.org/limbaughwire/2009/05/04#0025 of these come from as far back as 2009, none from the recent debacle. He's been titular head of the Republican Party for ages, and even the Republicans know it.

There are numerous articles about how some in the Republican Party quietly don't like Rush and fear his influence over the base, but the base itself adores him, and nobody dares stand up to him lest he utilize his power to harm them. I'm not going to look for those articles because most everything on the first three pages of Google is about the recent fuss--the other stuff was easy to find via the dates, 2009, 2010, 2011.

Grover Norquits weilds almost as much power where taxes are concerned, and they're afraid to stand up to HIM as well. It's just the way it is.



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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:43 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Cue: Melodramatic villanous cackle.


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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:38 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Was that the Gulf spill? I know something like that happened then.

(I join your cackle)



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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:54 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Geezer:

He's an entertainer, just like, say, Howard Stern. He has to say something outrageous every once in a while to keep his audience. I'd guess half the folks listening to him do so just to be shocked by the crap he says.




So you'll be the first to say the same next time Maher calls Palin a "cunt" or a "twat"? You'll rush to Ed Schultz's defense for calling Laura Ingraham a right-wing talk-slut? They are just entertainers, after all.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:56 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by CaveTroll:
If Media Matters told me the sky was blue I'd double check before I believed them.




Whereas if FauxNews said it, you could pretty much bet on it being wrong!

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Thursday, March 8, 2012 4:11 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


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Originally posted by Kwicko:
So you'll be the first to say the same next time Maher calls Palin a "cunt" or a "twat"? You'll rush to Ed Schultz's defense for calling Laura Ingraham a right-wing talk-slut? They are just entertainers, after all.



Yep. I don't particularly like that kind of humor, but they all, from Maher to Limbaugh and all points in between and beyond, got the right to say such stuff. I got the right to ignore it and think less of folks who use it.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Monday, March 12, 2012 8:16 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


As of today, the exodus continues, as advertisers rush to the exits...

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/12/442673/141-companies-adverti
sng-rush-limbaugh/?mobile=nc


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ThinkProgress has obtained an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks listing 96 national companies that have “specifically asked” their advertisments not be played during the Rush Limbaugh Show. Premiere is the distributor of Limbaugh’s program. The advertisers have also requested to be excluded from other right-wing hosts including Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. According to the memo, the listed companies’ advertisements should be excluded from these programs because they have been “deemed to be offensive.”
The existance of the memo was first reported over the weekend by Radio-info.com, an industry newsletter. Radio-info did not publish the full list of companies. The memo was posted website of the Traffic Directors Guild of America, an association of professionals who distribute paid advertisements to radio stations. It was quickly deleted but ThinkProgress obtained a copy from a Google snapshot of the site taken on March 9.
Previously, ThinkProgress has reported that 50 companies requested their advertising be pulled from the Rush Limbaugh show following his sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke. The publication of the memo adds an additional 91 companies to the list of companies that have dropped Limbaugh:
21st Century Insurance • Hotels.com • Rite Aid • Ace Hardware • Honda • Robitussin • Acura • IBM • Sam Adams • Advance Auto Parts • Icy Hot • Sam’s Club • Advil (All products) • Intuit/Small Business • Schiff – Digestive Advantage • Alacer/Emergen-C • Schiff – Mega Red • Allegra (all products) • Johnson & Johnson (All Brands) • Schiff – Move Free • Kohl’s • Schiff – Sustenex • Ally Bank • La Quinta • Scotts Miracle-Gro (all products) • American Express • Lifetime • Autozone • Little Caesars • Sony • Boston Beer • Lowe’s • State Farm • British Petroleum • Luxottica • Staples • Bullfrog Sunblock • Macy’s • Sterling/Kay Jared Jewelers • Caltrate • MasterCard • Subway • Centrum • McDonalds • Takeda Uloric • Chapstick • Midas • The Home Depot • Clorox (Pinesol/Homecare) • Napa Auto Parts • ThermaCare • Cortizone • National Realtor • Toyota • DeVry • NBC-TV • Discover Card • Office Depot • Twinings of London • Domino’s Pizza • Office Max • Tyson/Wright Brand Bacon • Exxon/Exxon Mobil • One Main Financial • Unisom • Farmers Insurance • United Healthcare • Ford • Orkin • U.S. Army • Outback • U. S. Postal Service • General Motors (All products -GM Certified Service • Chevy • Onstar • Cadillac • etc) • Preparation H • Visa • Gold Bond (all products • ProNutrients (all products) • Walgreens • Grainger • Progressive Insurance • Wal-Mart • Green Mountain Coffee • Prudential • Wells Fargo • Hallmark • Radio Shack • Wrigley • H&R Block • Rent-A-Center • Yahoo!




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Monday, March 12, 2012 8:35 AM

OPPYH


This is nothing new. Who cares if someone gets dropped from a station? Limabugh is terrible and should just repectfully retire.

I hate Limabugh, and I hate Imus(is he still on air?). Both right wing nuts.

I do have a lot of respect for this guy though:

He actually has a voice, and expresses important opinions. And the most shocking thing about him is that he is neither conservative, or liberal. He just uses common sense to weigh issues without being shackled to an affiliation of politics.

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70's TV FOREVER

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Monday, March 12, 2012 9:15 AM

FREMDFIRMA



I think Dee Snider oughta have his own show, if for no other reason that he really, really DOES know how to make politicians squirm.

That, and what he did to the PMRC was just so awesome you have to give him props - reducing Al Gore to damn near sputtering incoherence, insinuating that Tipper was into BDSM and had a "dirty mind".. oh man, for that ALONE the guy will always be a favorite of mine, plus, yanno, free speech, yes ?



(I do find it kind of ironic that Tippers outfit is so bloody similar to Star Trek TNG even though it hadn't even been created yet - proof she's a space cadet ? )

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Monday, March 12, 2012 4:38 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


More late-breaking news: All national advertising now suspended from Rush's show.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/12/443195/breaking-rush-limbaug
h-syndicator-suspends-national-ads-for-two-weeks
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Monday, March 12, 2012 4:46 PM

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.


Wow. It's got legs.

What do you make of it Kwicko? This is far more than I thought would happen, and I have to say ... I'm puzzled.

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Monday, March 12, 2012 4:50 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Suspending national advertising is a dodge. Out of sight, out of mind; if people don't see ads, they don't know who to call and complain to. In short order (they figure), America's short attention span will kick in, all will be forgotten and they can go back to regular advertising. End of story.

We'll see if it works out that way. But yes, even if it DOES, all this is unexpected; I kinda figured he could get away with ANYTHING.



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Monday, March 12, 2012 5:14 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


It's got more legs than you know, Kiki & Niki. It's also SPREADING, now to other right-wing talkers. Ads are being pulled from others as well, and advertisers are starting to tell stations that they don't want their ads running on certain shows.

It seems that some sort of tipping point is being reached, and enough people are finally starting to reach out and tell advertisers "We're sick of this crap."

I saw the analysis Niki refers to as well, and that's probably pretty accurate: they're trying to cool things down and get the heat off their few remaining advertisers a bit. So the answer is to keep the heat on, and turn it on the local advertisers as well.

"If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to" is how the Operative put it, I believe.

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Monday, March 12, 2012 5:19 PM

OONJERAH



    If the election were tomorrow, I'd expect Obama to get at least 80% of the women's vote.
    But even without Limbaugh's scandal, he'd have it in the bag.



             

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Monday, March 12, 2012 5:34 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Oonjerah:

    If the election were tomorrow, I'd expect Obama to get at least 80% of the women's vote.
    But even without Limbaugh's scandal, he'd have it in the bag.




The competition is certainly doing their level worst to make it easy for him. If I were making a commercial to woo women voters to the Obama camp, I'd just play the audio of Rush's tirade(s) about Ms. Fluke, and keep that playing over the running text graphic detailing the various measures the GOP has backed, from defining rape down, to dismissing rape victims in favor of calling them "accusers", to trying to outlaw birth control in some states, and then show Romney, Santorum, and Newt giving their various takes on these issues.




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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:02 AM

FREMDFIRMA



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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:11 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yeah, Mike, I heard about that too. Will be interesting to see if it goes anywhere or not. Would also be fascinating if it turned out to be the PUBLIC who caused the tipping point...it's all gotten so out of hand, on so many levels, that all the pundits are shaking their heads, trying to figure out what the HELL the GOP is doing, and most of all, WHY!

(I like the visual your commercial brings up in my head. You should suggest it to the DNC, hee, hee, hee!)

It mystifies me, too. I can't figure out if the right has so lost touch with reality that they think their incredible overreach since 2010 can go on and on ad infinitum, they think they can do an about face, come the general, and everyone will forget (which might actually be TRUE, horrors!), or there's something going on we don't know about. SURELY they can't actually believe their base can get them elected...? 'Cuz that'll be about all that's left if they keep this up...Hispanics, Blacks, Women, count 'em all out if this keeps up.

Frem...I LOVE it:

(Didn't come out, tho' in your post)

I'm stealing it. Trade you with or maybe



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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:03 AM

FREMDFIRMA


That's actually my "Evil Gloating" icon, shorthand for it anyways - I happened to be accidently privy to some internal advertiser discussion regarding the matter, which is when I posted that 5-to-3 odds, cause they really were talking about dropping the bastard entire, at least temporarily.
This seems a compromise which must have come out of those discussions, but it remains to be seen if the public can push enough to tip matters over, which if Rush can't keep his bloody mouth shut (anyone care to take bets on that? ) becomes a real possibility.

We will see.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:36 PM

OONJERAH


Rage Against the Machine to Rush Limbaugh: 'Stop Using Our Music in Your Right-Wing Clown Show' March 9

Tom Morello demands that radio host drop Rage tunes => http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rage-against-the-machine-to-rus
h-limbaugh-stop-using-our-music-in-your-right-wing-clown-show-20120309?link=mostpopular3


             

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 4:02 PM

FREMDFIRMA



I'd pay good money to see Morello corner Limberger for just five minutes, I would...

-F

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:35 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Rage Against the Machine to Rush Limbaugh: 'Stop Using Our Music in Your Right-Wing Clown Show' March 9

Tom Morello demands that radio host drop Rage tunes => http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rage-against-the-machine-to-rus
h-limbaugh-stop-using-our-music-in-your-right-wing-clown-show-20120309?link=mostpopular3


             





Yuppers. Rush (the band) and Peter Gabriel have also issued cease and desist letters.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:37 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

I'd pay good money to see Morello corner Limberger for just five minutes, I would...

-F




T'would likely be even more entertaining that a Palin-Obama "debate". (See how many here get that reference)




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