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Black Radio on Obama Is Left’s Answer to Limbaugh
New York Times ^
| 27 July 2008
| Jim Rutenberg
Posted on 07/26/2008 4:24:46 PM PDT by shrinkermd
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When it comes to criticism from black radio hosts like Mr. Ballentine, Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said, John McCain believes every person is entitled to their opinion, no matter how outrageous.
To: shrinkermd
and it will have an on air life span roughly equal to the Liberals beloved “Scare America.”
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:27:38 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs to said?)
To: shrinkermd
How much did these radio hosts have to pay the Al Qaeda Times to run this advertisement?
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:29:38 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
To: shrinkermd
Since Mr. Limbaugh first flexed his tonsils two decades ago, Democrats have publicly worried about their lack of an answer to him... Just cogitate on that for a few seconds.
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:30:33 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
To: shrinkermd
All the black talk show hosts combined don’t have even 1% of Limbaugh’s audience.
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:33:04 PM PDT
by
rodguy911
(Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
To: Steely Tom
Since Mr. Limbaugh first flexed his tonsils two decades ago, Democrats have publicly worried about their lack of an answer to him... Just cogitate on that for a few seconds.
It didn't hit me the first read, but eewwww...
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:36:26 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(My marriage was everything I wish I didn't know. So why am I engaged again?)
To: shrinkermd
The premise of this seems highly suspect to me. Blacks vote 90% Democrat to begin with. Obama will energize black turnout regardless of what someone on an urban radio station says. He will probably energize turnout against him too. Race can cut both ways
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:40:06 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: Steely Tom
Urban stations can be in 08 what Rush Limbaugh delivered for conservatives a generation ago, said the Rev. Al SharptonI believe Rush went national in 1988 so that hardly explains Nixon's two terms, not to mention Ronald Reagan.
To: shrinkermd
New York Times profits = down over 80 percent
Rush Limbaugh profits = up, up and away!
Conclusion: NYT is bitter, bitter like sour grapes.
Looks good on ‘em.
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:46:40 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Obama-flakes! = Little suntanned Jimmy Carters with twice the empty rhetoric , from DNC cereals!)
To: Zevonismymuse
I believe Rush went national in 1988 so that hardly explains Nixon's two terms, not to mention Ronald Reagan.The length of a generation in the "black community" is apparently much shorter than the length of normal generations.
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:49:03 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
(I am my brother's keeper. I am not your brother's keeper.)
To: rodguy911
All the black talk show hosts combined dont have even 1% of Limbaughs audience. With all due respect, you're being overly generous.
To: shrinkermd
"..but the backing he is getting from black radio hosts could be especially helpful to his campaigns efforts to increase black turnout and raise historically low voter registration enough to change the math of presidential elections in battlegrounds and traditionally Republican states like this one..."
In other words they tout race based voting for Blacks. White radio hosts advocating something like that would be denounced.
To: shrinkermd
[This month's Ebony magazine lists Mr. Obama first among the “25 Coolest Brothers of all time,” alongside Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X.] Sen. McCain was reportedly “green with envy.”
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:52:45 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: mkjessup
NY Times is bitter and clinging to their sour grapes.
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:52:48 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Steely Tom
Personally, I’m cogitatin’ on some radio jock saying ‘Yo, dig me dawg? Word!” every 15 seconds.
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:55:50 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
To: shrinkermd
Oh give me break. More PR
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:55:56 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: Salamander
Personally, Im cogitatin on some radio jock saying Yo, dig me dawg? Word! every 15 seconds. WhaAhmSayin.
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:57:53 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
To: shrinkermd
Black radio will only succeed if it can bring in a white audience as well.
In the 1960s, a lot of walls between blacks and whites were broken down with music. Truly talented and innovative musicians crossed the color barrier, but much of that well has run dry. Today, “black” music is either entirely for black audiences, or it is a corporate sound from the music industry, stripped of innovation and treated as product.
And by becoming “wholly owned” by the political left, black America has had its agenda replaced with that of the left. Not only that, but even under the pretense that they are one in the same. So what is the black interest in $10/gal gasoline? Impoverishing blacks?
How about the left’s opposition to charter schooling and No Child Left Behind, that has shown to strongly improve the test scores of black children?
And the left’s embrace of abortion is downright murderous to blacks as a group. Were it not for abortion, would black Americans now be 15% of the population instead of 12%?
So what can black radio offer white people that will sell as well? Certainly not liberalism. Liberal radio doesn’t work because very few of any color want to listen to it. And it can’t exclusively be for a black audience, because that already exists where there is enough black audience to support it.
This leaves using either what worked, which means cultivating a new generation of talented and innovative musicians, or appealing to a conservative black audience. Selling black America conservatism as something that offers a lot more to them than liberalism.
Conservatives won’t offer black America the Moon and the stars, but they will give blacks jobs with real power, not just as figureheads, and real success, not just handouts and scraps. And conservatives won’t stand in their way if they want to reach the Moon and the stars themselves.
To: pnh102
How much did these radio hosts have to pay the Al Qaeda Times to run this advertisement? I'd imagine that Soros left "a little something" under Pinchy's pillow.
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posted on
07/26/2008 4:59:22 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: Steely Tom
I must now ax you to stop making me laugh.
My ribs hurt.....:))
[Yo?]
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posted on
07/26/2008 5:00:56 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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