Not sure I agree with the “hosts were threatened” theme.
George Noory had a number of people on his Coast to Coast show discussing Obama Eligibility. Note that Noory and Coast to Coast is owned by same company as Rush’s show. Bill Cunningham and Rusty Humphries also discussed the Birther issue. Cunningham now has his own syndicated TV talk show.....so obviously he was not harmed
The fact is that a lot of PhonyCon Liberals posing as “conservative” attacked Birthers....and gave cover to Obama. They were not forced to do so.
Mike Zullo, commander of the Cold Case Posse, confirmed that threats were made. Doug Hagmann came out with the story initially, saying that he had a signed statement by one of the talk show hosts telling how the on-air personalities were told that their careers were over and their lives and their loves ones’ lives were questionable, if they or any of their guests talked about Obama’s eligibility problem. He gave a 3-hour radio interview to Laurie Roth where he shared additional information about the evidence he has, and then he went quiet on the story. I have an inside source who says he went quiet on the story because one of his informants was killed and he was concerned for another one. I gave Mike Zullo the information from Hagmann and he confirmed that the secretary we were concerned about had fled the country in fear. He also said that he was aware of others.
I’d have to see the timing of the discussions of the eligibility issue, what was said, and the media and distribution companies, to sort out what was going on with Bill Cunningham, Rusty Humphries, and Coast to Coast. Two threats were made by the time Hagmann gave his report - one in October of 2008 and another sometime between the election and March of 2009. At some point the Alinsky plan kicked in, where rather than ignore the issue the idea was to mock it. After that, it was established that nobody was going to take the issue seriously so that isolated people who addressed it would never be able to create a big movement and would drop it. I’m thinking here of Mark Kuhner, who was able to vet the issue because he has a contract that guarantees his independence of content but dropped the issue pretty quickly when it wasn’t able to go anywhere.
The same thing happened with the courts. Once the judges had made enough kangaroo-court decisions, even people who cared about the issue deeply pretty much realized the fix was in and figured they should invest their energies elsewhere.
As I’ve said (elsewhere if not here; hard to remember what I’ve said where), 2008 was literally a coup. With the media and the judges taken out, resistance became largely futile - or at least that was the belief by a lot of people, which led to circular firing squads - where “conservatives” were too busy shooting each other down over whether it was futile and harmful to “conservatism” to try to confront the corruption of the media and courts on the 2008 coup.
I believe if we’re willing to overlook a coup of that magnitude, then we’ve just kissed the country good-bye. And it sure does look like the country - and all its checks and balances - are slipping away right under our noses while all our efforts to stop it are..... futile. Because we already kissed the country good-bye...