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Cumulus: Nearly All Top Advertisers Have 'Exclude Rush Limbaugh' Orders

Verax said:
The right should have covered it respectfully, given it attention when it deserved it, and now when some actual substance comes out they could have ramped up coverage and put the heat on when it counted. They blew their credibility months ago so its just a wash now.
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You have been right on point nearly the entire time. You're most likely wasting your time, but credit to you for dismissing hyper-politics and preferring rational and common sense thinking.
 
Verax said:
Yes the Democrats are almost worthless. Congratulations you have just figured out why right-wing propaganda and control is so dangerous and harmful to our country. The biggest fraud of our lifetimes was orchestrated by the financial industry and given near perfect protection from the Republican party and the Democrats were not able to do anything to stop it.
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Given your prior posts in this thread this statement is stated without any sarcasm whatsoever, only goes to show to the extent you have drank the Democrat Kool-aid. The Dems are not pure as the driven show when it comes to these matters; they make speeches for the benefit of their base and do attempt to pass regulations (and confiscatory taxes) on the subsection of the markets that offend them (where they cannot extort or get support from) like the Petroleum Industry. Otherwise they are in bed with those sectors who shower them with money and support. The Repubs are by comparison more honest in their behavior after all they believe in either "free" markets or believe in some form of mild corporatism.
 
Bronson said:
You Left Wing zealots could always try and create a radio station to compete with Limbaugh

Oh wait ...
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Liberals aren't successful at reducing politics to entertainment. Our points are too substantive.
 
Verax said:
This is all well and good but does it really matter? The country is being pushed so far to the right that even when a Democrat gets elected we get center / center-right leadership. Look at how effective Obama has been. Almost everything even remotely "left" he has tried to do has been destroyed, watered down, repealed, obstructed.

The financial criminals have largely walked away unscathed.
The middle class has seen almost no improvement in the last five years.
We are still marching down the path of fossil fuels.

That is the effect of right-wing propaganda, its all we can do to just try and slow down the effects.
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The President is NOT a king or dictator though he has tried his very best to do so. He has not worked with Congress for the budget and at every point where he could tried to extend the power of the State against those corporations that you hate so much. I admit that he has provided a lot of tax payer funds to corporation's that are "green" and the heads of those got to pocket that money when they closed down, but some how I do not think that you are speaking against that somehow. I consider it a good thing when a president wants to consolidate so much power to the Executive Branch are thwarted including nullifying rights that Americans have had and are done as the term goes at the dead of night.

If you are so dead set against CEO's and other leading board members getting such large bonuses then one solution would be to strengthen stockholders rights and establish mechanisms for them to stop that. Further more to inhibit corruption of politicians a better solution would be term limit the members of the House. Most of the finical "criminals" have bipartisan support and must I remind you the banking industry was blackmailed by the Dems to lend to very high risk default people and then were allowed to engage in financial channary to avoid becoming insolvent.

With respect to the middle class, Obama is a member of the Rich Elite and doesn't care of the middle class. His support as much of the Dems comes from those on the government dole, and illegals that think he is the way to success for their life. The fewer middle class the better is his view.

And what is it about fossil fuels that you and the other leftists hate so much? The blue collar workers who work in it are paid very well. It contributes to the numbers of the middle class which you say you are concerned about. It takes time to transition from one type of energy to another and eventually fossil fuels will be outmoded, but until then why such vitriol to an industry that compared to say the finical sector is fairly simple and whose ceos and such are not overcompensated?
 
lizzie said:
So much for the concept of free speech.
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Please don't do that. Please don't make me defend HoJ. Advocating a boycott is perfectly legitimate and is free speech in and of itself. Limbaugh's speech is also free, but free from government censorship, not free from natural or social consequence.

Now that I've defended HoJ, I have to go take a shower... and I just took one an hour ago.
 
This is the third forum where I've seen this same post from posters using different names.

Are the Redneck Liberals going all-out to try to harm Rush? It didn't work before and it won't work again. :lamo
 
longknife said:
This is the third forum where I've seen this same post from posters using different names.

Are the Redneck Liberals going all-out to try to harm Rush? It didn't work before and it won't work again. :lamo
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What, other forums wouldn't discuss this also?
 
longknife said:
This is the third forum where I've seen this same post from posters using different names.

Are the Redneck Liberals going all-out to try to harm Rush? It didn't work before and it won't work again. :lamo
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On the internet you found another posting of this same story by a person with a different name, I am absolutely shocked. Or wait, could it be that I am a liberal mastermind who is secretly assaulting freedom in multiple locations at once.
 
Verax said:
On the internet you found another posting of this same story by a person with a different name, I am absolutely shocked. Or wait, could it be that I am a liberal mastermind who is secretly assaulting freedom in multiple locations at once.
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GUYS. I found another discussion of this on Yahoo forums!! This goes deeper than we thought.
 
Deuce said:
Ahh yes, the old "liberals don't have jobs" meme. Thank you for the wonderful contribution.
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Hey look, one is trying to call you now. :lol:
 
Limbaugh needs to be on a 24/7/365 network which is beamed free of charge into every home in America. They need to put him on with Beck and Hannity and O'Reilly and Malkin and Coulter and Napolitano and Stossel and any other right wing nutbag they can find who can talk in front of a mic for a few hours spouting their ideological nonsense. This would cure the nation of the disease known as right libertarianism once all are exposed to its utter insanity.
 
Verax said:
This is the kind of crap I'm talking about. When people hear this on the radio day in and day out they become mentally radicalized. No decent American thinks like this, right or left. This teeth clenched, black and white, swinging wildly at imaginary oppressors, its such a massive distraction from actual reality. It obfuscates the political environment so that actual, real, bad things slip through largely unnoticed.

Look at the Benghazi debacle. From what I can tell there is some real, troubling issues at hand. However with the buck wild frothing at the mouth response of Fox, some on this forum, talk radio, its almost impossible to discern what is actually substantial, fact. This creates a hysterical circus which muddies the proper response, because nobody knows what is even reality anymore.
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Which is why we need a diversity of news, not just liberal news. Thanks for proving our point.
 
American said:
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Hey look, one is trying to call you now. :lol:
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You realize it is numerically impossible for conservatives to hold much more than half of existing jobs, right?
 
Deuce said:
You realize it is numerically impossible for conservatives to hold much more than half of existing jobs, right?
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This brings up an interesting question.

How many people relying on social benefits vote for those who would reduce them? I will contend that there are more conservatives in the workforce than liberals. Wouldn't try to quantify it, but I see that as a probable fact.
 
Lord of Planar said:
I will contend that there are more conservatives in the workforce than liberals. Wouldn't try to quantify it, but I see that as a probable fact.
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Interesting theory. I'm assuming you're basing that on the myth that everyone who wants a "handout" is a liberal. I could be wrong, but I would say that's probably a pretty close guess. Taking your argument (or at least my belief of your argument) at face value, would you not take at face value those who are older, and thus retired, are more likely to be conservative? At that point, would it not be a wash?

My guess is the workforce is pretty much equal, in terms of political leanings.
 
Slyfox696 said:
Interesting theory. I'm assuming you're basing that on the myth that everyone who wants a "handout" is a liberal. I could be wrong, but I would say that's probably a pretty close guess. Taking your argument (or at least my belief of your argument) at face value, would you not take at face value those who are older, and thus retired, are more likely to be conservative? At that point, would it not be a wash?

My guess is the workforce is pretty much equal, in terms of political leanings.
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I admit, my thoughts are not on firm ground. People often mislabel themselves, and vote their interests. Look at how liberal republicans are becoming to gain votes in some places. liberal does not equal democrat and conservative does not equal republican.

I think if you as those who have shown themselves here as actual conservatives, they would agree with me that very few republicans politicians are actually conservative.
 
Lord of Planar said:
I admit, my thoughts are not on firm ground. People often mislabel themselves, and vote their interests.
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I agree.

I think if you as those who have shown themselves here as actual conservatives, they would agree with me that very few republicans politicians are actually conservative.
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I'll agree completely that many, if not most, Republicans are not conservative (though political spectrums belonging to a country are not absolute, but rather relative), but I would still argue that, assuming roughly half the country belongs to one side or another, there really isn't much of a difference between conservatives and liberals in the workforce.
 
Obama Tells Harvey Weinstein, Justin Timberlake to Blame Rush Limbaugh - Elspeth Reeve - The Atlantic Wire

President Obama told donors like Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake (who was wearing hipster glasses), and Tommy Hilfiger that Washington gridlock is pretty much Rush Limbaugh's fault on Monday evening at a fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein's house in New York's Greenwich Village
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This is why Rush will never go off the air. All he does is talk about his opinions, on the radio. Obama presides over an entire country. Yet Rush manages to make Obama think Rush is in charge.
 
jonny5 said:
This is why Rush will never go off the air. All he does is talk about his opinions, on the radio. Obama presides over an entire country. Yet Rush manages to make Obama think Rush is in charge.
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Limbaugh has oodles of rent free space in Obama's warped little brain. He's a great advertising vehicle for Limbaugh.

In that vein, Obama's deceitful behavior will drive more folks to listen to Rush.
 
Someone should check if Limbaugh sponsors are getting audited more than should be probable, and if the IRS is playing favorites since Obama admitted that Rush is his primary nemesis. ;)
 
Lord of Planar said:
This brings up an interesting question.

How many people relying on social benefits vote for those who would reduce them? I will contend that there are more conservatives in the workforce than liberals. Wouldn't try to quantify it, but I see that as a probable fact.
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Conservatives often get this idea that they're the ones who always work, or something. Numbers get thrown their way that seem to support the idea, numbers about how many people collect these "entitlements," how many don't pay federal income taxes, etc.

What they don't usually consider is that these numbers are usually wildly inflated. They'll include things like mortgage tax credits in "entitlements." (keeping in mind that this is a dirty word to a conservative) So, every home owner is this leech on society, or something. Of that 47% who don't pay federal incomes most either pay FICA taxes or are retired seniors. Or deployed combat troops count under that listing too. Tell us more about how those guys can't be convinced to take responsibility for themselves, Mr Romney!

So, to answer the question, the issue is that there are a ton of people who don't realize that they are in this group of so-called leeches that Republicans denounce so strongly. There are a ton of working people who pay no net federal income taxes but vote Republican. Married couple, three children, ~$30k income? You don't pay federal income taxes.

In fact, nearly half of people who receive some sort of federal aid say they haven't. Keep your government hands off my medicare! The only moral entitlement is my entitlement. I collect unemployment because I lost my job, it wasn't my fault, it was the economy! It's all those other people who are the lazy ones.

You'd be shocked at how easily people condemn behavior in others that they themselves participate in. When people vote Republican because they want to stop abuse of entitlements, they aren't putting themselves in that group.
 
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Deuce. I come from a humble background myself. I also associate with lots of people who vote democrat because of the fear republicans will take away their subsidies. Hard to change my mind from what I see of other people. It isn't the complete reason by any means, but it makes a substantial enough difference for small voting margins in elections.
 
Deuce said:
Turns out I'm not very familiar with archaic mob justice. "Just wow," indeed. What a failing in my personal character.
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You've just been schooled by one of the educated of Kerrville, Texas. Have you ever been to Kerrville, Texas? :lamo:lamo
 
PirateMk1 said:
Ok if you say so. The news networks would kill for Glen Becks numbers, let alone Rushes.
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It's not the same audience. News networks attract average Americans. Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck attract the fringe right-wing voter. Also, it is the same people who watch these nuts. It isn't a different audience between these kooks, they all appeal to the same low wattage voter.
 
Grant said:
No, it's just getting started.

How do you respond "respectfully" when the President of the United States is shown to be a damned liar?
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How did you deal with it when it was the Bush administration? Did it bother you then?
 
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